Subject : English Language

Term/Year : 2/2019

Worksheet No. : EProp3

Name: ____________________ Class: ____________ Date :

Answer the questions according to the text below.

“Follow me. I know a shortcut,” Danny said.

Carl held back. “I don’t think that’s a good idea,” he said. He was used to his brother looking for
easy ways to do things. Danny slept on the floor, so he didn’t have to make his bed. And now he
had found a shortcut from the store to their grandmother’s house.
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They were visiting for the Thanksgiving weekend. The block around her house was familiar. It was
just four blocks from the store, with a turn on one corner. Between the store and the house was a
junkyard. The roots from a nearby tree crawled stubbornly on the ground. The junkyard was a dirty
and disgusting place with old cars and sofas piled in heaps. There was a fence around it. But nobody
seemed to own it or to care about it.
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“Come on!” Danny said. “Don’t be chicken!” Carl hated it when he called him a chicken. But he
felt he had to keep an eye on his brother. It’s what he had been doing his whole life, even though
Danny was a year older.

They pushed aside a broken part of the fence and walked through the mud. Danny hopped onto the
springs of a discarded bed. His foot got stuck. He had to take off his shoe to free it. Then he saw
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something interesting on the ground. It looked like a silver dollar, but it turned out to be just a bottle
cap. Danny tossed a flat football to Carl. He filled his pockets with all sorts of finds. A piece of blue
glass. A soggy picture of a dog. Four pennies. While Danny studied the ground, Carl was looking
at the sky. “It’s getting late,” he said. Finally, they reached the other side. There, the fence was
strong and high. There was no way to climb over it. So, they had to run—fast—back to where they’d
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started.

1. Look at lines 1 – 5.

What were Carl and Danny doing?

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2. Between the store and the house was a junkyard. The roots from a nearby tree crawled
stubbornly on the ground. The junkyard was a dirty and disgusting place with old cars and
sofas piled in heaps. There was a fence around it. But nobody seemed to own it or to care
about it. (lines 6-9)

Identify the figurative language from the sentences above.

a) Personification:

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b) Alliteration:

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3. Tick () two true statements about Danny.

Danny is an inventive person.

Danny is a chicken.

Danny and Carl are friends.

Danny was older than Carl.

Danny sleeps on his bed every night.

4. Danny used a metaphor (where something is compared to another without using ‘like’ or

‘as’) to describe Carl in the text.

Find one example of a metaphor in the text.

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5. Write one sentence from the text that suggests Carl was more responsible than Danny.

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6. Which word in the text means “thrown away due to not being useful or wanted”?

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7. Look at lines 15-20.

What did Carl do to suggest that the boys were late?

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8. Do you think that Danny’s idea to go in the junkyard was good?

Explain your answer using your own words.

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Give a phrase from the text to support your explanation.

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9. The text is a realistic fiction. Complete the table of the features and grammar with examples

from the text.

Features/Grammar Examples

Setting 

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Characters
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Adjectives
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