Class: Name: Common paper n°

Date:

Instruction: You will read this text once without stopping at unknown words.

This year's winners of the National Geographic Kids magazine "Hands-On Explorer Challenge" essay and photo contest went on their once-in-a-lifetime safari in South Africa. The group of 15 kids and two teachers flew to Johannesburg on August 6 and set out on a 10-day safari to track South Africa's "big five" animals—elephant, lion, African buffalo, leopard, and rhinoceros. During the expedition, the team took photographs and kept journals of their adventure and shared them with all of us in an open blog on the new National Geographic Kids Group on imbee.com.

The expedition team also visited the Sam Nzima Primary School and met with local kids. The team had spent the previous several months holding bake sales, walkathons, and house- and pet-sitting services to help the school purchase a computer and establish an Internet connection. The new resources will not only enhance and advance the local children's education, but also provide a means for continued communication between the students.

Relive the adventure! Read the Explorer Trip blog and learn more about the Explorer Trip and our sponsors.

From http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/PeoplePlaces/Explorer-trip

COMPREHENSION

/1 point Instruction: You will tick the correct answer:

This document is:

a) a newspaper article

b) an excerpt (Fr.: extrait) from a book

c) an article from an internet site

/9 points Instruction: You will find equivalents to (in this order in the text):

someone who wins:

a competition:

which happens only once in an individual’s life:

to travel by plane:

to start:

a diary:

to stimulate:

to give:

a way:

/1 point You will fill in the blank of this summary: This text is about a group of pupils who went to South Africa after winning a _______.

/4 points You will list four things the students did before going on their trip.

EXPRESSION

/5 points You will write a page of one of the students’ diary in fifty (50) words.