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    The document summarizes the origins and history of chocolate. It discusses how the Maya first discovered and cultivated cacao trees over 600 CE. It then explains how the Aztecs later developed cacao into a spicy drink called chocolatl. Cacao beans were then used as currency and in ceremonies before the development of cocoa powder and chocolate bars in the late 1800s. The summary concludes that while chocolate can provide health benefits, too much sweetened chocolate is not good for teeth.

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    The document summarizes the origins and history of chocolate. It discusses how the Maya first discovered and cultivated cacao trees over 600 CE. It then explains how the Aztecs later developed cacao into a spicy drink called chocolatl. Cacao beans were then used as currency and in ceremonies before the development of cocoa powder and chocolate bars in the late 1800s. The summary concludes that while chocolate can provide health benefits, too much sweetened chocolate is not good for teeth.

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    Read the text below and then solve the comprehension questions that follow.

    The origins of chocolate


    Chocolate is made from cacao. The Maya of Mexico discovered cacao as long as 600 CE. They
    picked cacao from wild trees and then began to plant them especially. The Aztech people became
    powerful after the Maya.
    They were very fond of chocolatl, a drink made from roasted beans and water with hot chili to
    make it spicy. They poured the chocolatl from a great height to make it frothy! Mexicans still
    make their hot chocolate frothy today.
    Precious beans
    Cacao beans were so valuable that they were used as money. A rabbit cost ten beans and a
    pumpkin cost four. They were also used in important ceremonies and traded for clothes, jade and
    ceremonial feathers.
    A cacao tree produces between 20 and 30 pods a year. Pods from one tree would make 450grams
    of chocolate powder, about the same as a small bag of sugar. There are about 20 to 40 beans in
    each pod.
    Powder to bars.
    Soon people began to add milk to the chocolate, but it was still a drink. Then, from about 1850,
    factories began to manufacture and sell cocoa powder in tins and this led to chocolate bars.
    Mexican women used to press cocoa powder into blocks so that they could keep it. But it wasn’t
    sweet like modern chocolate bars.
    Healthy food
    Today people like chilli chocolate, just like the Aztecs, and it is a very fashionable flavour.
    Doctors say that pure chocolate is good for us, because it contains important vitamins, but only a
    little at a time! Too much sweetened chocolate can rot teeth and be fattening.

    1. Read again the text and see if the below statements are true (T) of false (F) (6 marks)
    a. Chocolate is made from cocoa _T_

    b. The Aztec people were very fond of chocolatl. _F_

    c. The pods from one cocoa tree produce 20 grams of chocolate powder. _T_

    d. Chocolatl was a drink made with sugar. _T_

    e. In 1850 factories started producing and sell cocoa powder. _F_


    f. If you eat a lot of sweet chocolate, it can rot your teeth_F_
    2. Give evidence from the text to support your answers. (14
    marks)
    a. Who were the first people to discover chocolate?
    __________________________________________________________________
    b. How long ago was chocolate discover by Maya people?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    c. How many beans of cocoa costed a rabbit and a pumpkin?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    d. What were cocoa beans used for?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    e. How much chocolate should we eat according to the doctors?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    f. What type of food do you eat on a special occasions like birthday?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    g. Why do people like chilli chocolate?
    _______________________________________________________________________

    Section 2: Grammar

    1. Preposition is a word that shows position or direction or introduces a prepositional

    phrase.

    Find and circle 5 different prepositions in the extract below. (5 marks)

    Moya sat tall, breathing in the tropical scent blowing off the Arabian sea nearby and the rich

    smells of spicy cooking. Men and women thronged the dusty road, their great shirts and

    flowing saris a shifting raining bow of colour, their chatter a mix of Bengali and Hindi

    languages. Other rich people in rickshaws whisked past, weaving between the people. Soon

    the Gandhi family driver was sprinting too.


    2. Adverbs - are words that modify and add information to a verb.

    Choose the best adverb from the box to fill in the gaps below. (5 marks)

    Hardly patiently politely loudly angrily

    a. The boy ____________ awaited for his parents to arrive.

    b. The students ____________ greeted the school principal.

    c. The baby’s mother shouted ____________ to the oys.

    d. The people in the church sang ____________.

    e. I could ___________ see where I was going it was very dark

    3. Match the main clauses to the subordinate clauses to make complex sentences. (5marks)

    A. Emily didn’t go to school a. before you go home

    B. Jack is very happy today b. If you can find them


    C. I don’t like vegetable c. I will let you know.
    D. Please talk to me d. she is sick.
    E. When I reach home e. I prefer meat.

    4. Read each sentence below to determine if it’s a simile or a metaphor. Write S for a
    simile or M for a metaphor on each line. (3marks)

    a. The bottle rolled off the table like a teardrop. ___


    b. Her hair was as soft as a spider web. ____

    c. The river flows like a stream of glass. ____


    4.1 Write one simile and one metaphor sentences of your own.

    (2marks)
    Simile _______________________________________________________________
    Metaphor _____________________________________________________________
    Section c writing. (10
    marks)
    Use your imagination to create your own poem.
    Your poem should include the figures of speech such as similes and metaphors. It must
    contain four stanzas and each must have four lines.
    _My family_
    _My family :_
    _is like a flower_
    _my family is beautiful_

    _My family as my_


    _And he is like a _
    _weight lifting machine_
    _and I love him_

    _My mom is so intelligent_


    _She is like a _
    _computer_
    _and I love her_

    _My sister is so sweetie_


    _She is like a _
    _candy_
    _and I love her_

    _The end ☺_

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