Name: _________________________________ Date: ______________________
TEST: “THE SONG FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE”
Exercise 1: Complete the texts below. In some cases the first letter is provided with no extra
help. If the first letter is not provided, then you can find the words in the box.
Characters in order of
appearance
weird – delicious – big –
brain – Patel – fleas – sat -
stomach – freckles – Jess
(There are three extra
words)
F__________: she is a girl
who lost her C__________,
called Quintilius Minimus.
Her brother is called
H__________
Their surname is
__________.
Her best friend is ________.
The girl’s __________: it
used to talk to her, especially
when she was anxious.
Bullies:
 N_______ N______, who
was a year above her at
school and was obsessed
with her.
 R__________ and
R__________.
New friend: N__________
Underbridge, who smelt
__________.
He was in her C__________
at school.
He __________ at the back
by himself.
He was __________, not fat.
MONDAY
Setting & Mood
forest – clean – quiet –
helpful – green – rude –
white – embarrassed –
expected – pictures – dirty
(There are two extra words)
P__________: this is where
the story begins.
The girl went there by
B__________.
At first, she was
W__________ about her
pet. Then, when she saw the
bullies she was
A__________ and she
started stuttering.
Then, when her new friend
showed up in the rec, she
felt __________ being alone
with him.
At the rec, the bullies were
__________ but her new
friend was __________ and
kind. He was lonely and not
liked by classmates. During a
school trip, he sat by himself
at the back of the
B__________.
Initial incident & conflict
lied – smiling – hated
– cried – chasing –
liked – Stinker
(There are two extra words)
She lost Quintilius Minimus.
The bullies showed up and
started annoying her while
she was sticking P_________
of her missing pet.
Before leaving for the first
time, the bullies took her
B__________ and threw it
away from her.
After her new friend
recovered her lost object,
the bullies returned and he
stopped __________.
The bullies told her that her
new friend was her
B__________ and called him
__________.
They started running and the
bullies started __________
them until they arrived at
the new friend’s
H__________.
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 No one liked him. It was said
that he had __________.
Mr. Underbridge: he is the
new friend’s F__________.
He invited his son’s new
friends to come inside the
house.
The girl entered her new
friend’s H__________.
The inside wasn’t what she
__________. The hallway
was __________. The walls
were __________ with
__________.
It was __________ inside
and it smelt like a
__________.
Once at home the girl made
up a story. She ________.
She told her mum a D______
had destroyed the pictures
of Quintilius Minimus she
was putting up in the rec.
In the end, the girl admitted
that she ________ her new
friend.

The girl felt curious about

some M________ she heard
while she was in the toilet.

At the girl’s house:

Her parents were really
W_______ . They had found
her B__________ with one
of the wheels bent but she
was nowhere to be seen.

Exercise 2: Read the following excerpt from the book and answer:

“…… thinks I’m his friend. What am I going to do? No one must know. I’ll die of
embarrassment”. (page 27)

a) Who says or thinks this?

_____________________________________________________________________________

b) Who is this person embarrassed of?

_____________________________________________________________________________

c) Why?

_____________________________________________________________________________

d) What is your view?

_____________________________________________________________________________