inference-surprise birthday party

SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY

Flies hovered around the kitchen, looking for a suitable place to land.

Mrs Stevens carefully opened the hot oven and took out the two dozen small cakes inside. They were to be part of a surprise birthday party for her son, who would be home soon from school. After cooling the cakes by the open window, she began to decorate them with icing, cream and ‘hundreds and thousands’. Then she put them onto a large serving plate and took them to the dining table where she covered them with a brightly embroidered cloth over the cakes.

 

On the table were six cups and a similar number of knives, forks and serviettes. A birthday card with a picture on the front of a large cake with ten candles burning brightly sat at one end of the jarrah table.

 

Rain began to drip slowly down the drainpipe outside as Mrs Stevens removed her apron and hurried outside to the utility in the tin shed. Soon she was speeding down the rough and bumpy road to the bus stop. She was just in time to see a happy looking Shane waving goodbye to Mrs Johnson, the bus driver. Two minutes later he was even happier as he was joined by his unexpected guests at the dining table while Mrs Stevens began to make preparations in the kitchen for the evening meal.

 

  1. The name of the boy celebrating his birthday was? Shane 

 

  1. Why do you think the boy’s mother placed a cloth over the cakes? So the flies won’t go on it 

 

  1. This story took place at about (9, 11, 1, 4, 7) o’clock? 1oclock

 

  1. How many surprise guests were at the party?

There were six people at the party

  1. Why did Mrs Stevens open the oven carefully?so the cakes won’t break because if she did not open it careful then the cakes will break 

 

  1. How old was the boy turning on his birthday?

10

  1. lt was raining heavily on the boy’s birthday True OR False? 

false

  1. Mrs Stevens was late for the bus True OR False?

True 

  1. Write the words in the story which tell you the answer to question 8. 2 mins later 

 

  1. What did Mrs Stevens use to cool the cakes? The window

 

  1. Why did she have to cool the cakes? The window 

 

  1. How many seconds did it take to drive home from the bus stop?123

old billy

OLD BILLY – (Answer each question in the space below)

  1. In which country did Billy live? New south wales.

 

  1. What word in the story tells us that Billy lived alone? It said that an old man name bill lived all alone

 

  1. What was Billy’s cart made from? It was made from wood 

 

  1. Tommy did not like to work in his garden. True OR False? true

 

  1. What word tells us that the path to Tommy’s house was not smooth? So it say that he walk on a stony path

 

  1. How did Billy know if Tommy was home? Because the story said that it was a old brick house and there are overgrown weed and died grass and leaves 

 

  1. This story took place about (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60) years ago? 50

 

  1. How many times would Billy go to Piperidge with wood in a month? Like ones a week 

 

  1. Why couldn’t Billy take his horse and cart to Tommy’s house? Because there was a creek that covered the way to the outhere side 

 

  1. Which word tells us that Billy lived close to the town of Piperidge’â it said that he lived in a dense forest near the piperidge.