A teacher during the pandemic

Please answer all the following questions.

All the answers in each section are (or should be!) in chronological order.
Remember:
1) read the question, 2) answer the question, 3) read the question again.

1. For each of the following statements, write whether it is True or False

(don’t abbreviate to T or F). Then write down the number of the
paragraph where you have found this information. (7 marks)
a. The writer believes that a stranger to schools would feel that a school
interior resembles a bees’ nest. True (1)
b. The British government has instructed that students should restart
school all together in January. False (3)
c. The writer feels that only teaching online is ‘weird’. True (3)
d. Before the pandemic, few people had worn masks outside. True (4)
e. Teachers had been recommended to encourage students to talk to
teachers during online class. False (6)
f. Almost all the students were present online for the lessons. False (8)
g. The writer kept to the health regulations prescribed during the
pandemic. False (9)

2. Answer the following questions based on information in the text.

(6 marks: 2 marks for each question).
a. What is the difference between being ‘in’ school and being ‘at’ school?
(paragraph 1, line 1)
Being in school means listening during the lessons, learning new knowledge, being active and
studying. Being at school means to physically be located inside the school. In other words, just
staying at the school premises without being in class.
b. Why might the writer’s comment sound like a ‘football score’? (paragraph 2)
The writers comment sound like football score because all the humans around the world
has lost something during COVID. Thus, losing a goal just like in football. COVID just
scored a goal against humans by making them miserable.
c. Write in one sentence what you understand by a ‘post-apocalyptic
dystopian movie’. (paragraph 4) (1/2 mark for each word in the quotation).
Post-apocalyptic dystopian movie means, a movie about the future about a time after an
event which almost wiped out all of the humanity or distorted our planet, trying to warn
us for eventual future events.
3. Answer these questions. Write the letter for the question followed by the
Roman numeral for the answer, e.g. 4iii (3 marks)
a. Is the text i) biographical, or ii) autobiographical iii) narrative or iv)
fictional?
a) iii
b. What does BAME stand for (paragraph 9, first line)? i) Black, Asian, and
minority ethnic or ii) Black, African, Minority and Endemic, or iii) Become
A Magic Eel?
b) i
c. What kind of question is the last sentence of paragraph 7 (‘And what’s a
school without pupils?’)? i) a hypothetical question, ii) a rhetorical
question, iii) a tag question, iv) an open-ended question.
c) ii

4. What do the words below refer to in the text? (4 marks)

a. ‘it’ in paragraph 2, first line
Online teaching
b. ‘we’ in paragraph 4, second line.
Teachers, key workers and vulnerable children
c. ‘it’ in paragraph 9, first line.
COVID-19, the virus
d. ‘This’ in paragraph 9 second line.
Being at “medium risk level”

5. Find the word in paragraphs 1 to 4 of the text that best fits each of the
following meanings: (4 marks).
a) stimulated by coffee.
Caffeinated
b) never before known or experienced.
Unprecedented
c) unchanging
Abandoned
d) distorted
Warped
6. The last paragraph of the text has been omitted. It is here below, but has
six words missing. Those six words are among the eight words in the box
below. Decide which word goes where. Write the letter of the gap in the text
followed by the missing word. Two words are wrong answers. The number of
dots bears no relation to the number of letters in the answer. (6 marks)
But it’s not all doom and despair. You may not believe me, with my 13
weeks’ holiday and “early” finishes, but teachers want to be at school. We
want to teach. Covid has exposed the (a)… core…. of the education (b)…
system… but it’s also (c)…revealed….. what’s at the very (d)…nature… of
being a teacher: relationships. It’s in our (e)…descriptions……. just as much
as it is in our job (f)…C.V.…. to be there for our students when they need us.

C.V., core, descriptions, nature, disagreed,

revealed, system, vulnerabilities.