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Name of the student : Year/Division : 9

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LESSON: 1
Instructions: Complete the sentences with the past perfect tense of the verbs in
brackets.
Q No Questions Marks
1 1
They went home after they __________________ (finish) their homework.

2 1
He thanked me for what I __________________ (do).

3 1
He __________________ (learn) English before he left to England.

4 1
After I __________________ (hear) the news, I hurried to see him.

5 1
My friend __________________ (not, see) me for many years when I met him last
week.
6 1
They drank small cups of tea after they __________________ (finish) dinner.

7 1
When I got there, everyone __________________ (already, go).

8 1
She told me that she __________________ (never, go) to Canada.

9 1
The results were better than I __________________ (expect).
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10 1
After he __________________ (read) the letter he burned it.
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LESSON: 2
Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Refer to

the text to check your answers when appropriate.

Chess is called the game of kings. It has been around for a long time. People have been playing it for
over 500 years. Chess is based on an even older game from India. The chess we play today is from
Europe.

Chess is a two-player game. One player uses the white pieces. The other uses the black pieces. Each
piece moves in a special way. One piece is called the king. Each player has one. The players take turns
moving their pieces. If a player lands on a piece, he or she takes it. The game ends when a player loses
his or her king. There are a few more rules, but those are the basics.

Some people think that chess is more than a game. They think that it makes the mind stronger. Good
chess players use their brains. They take their time. They think about what will happen next. These
skills are useful in life and in chess. Chess is kind of like a work out for the mind.

You don't always have lots of time to think when playing chess. There is a type of chess with short
time limits. It's called blitz chess. In blitz chess, each player gets ten minutes to use for the whole
game. Your clock runs during your turn. You hit the time clock after your move. This stops your clock.
It also starts the other player's clock. If you run out of time, you lose. Games of blitz chess are fast-
paced.
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Chess is not just for people. Computers have been playing chess since the 1970s. At first they did not
play well. They made mistakes. As time went on they grew stronger. In 1997, a computer beat the
best player in the world for the first time. It was a computer called Deep Blue. Deep Blue was big. It
took up a whole room. By 2006 a cell phone could beat the best players in the world. Chess sure has
come a long way. Don't you think so?
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Qn No Questions Marks
1 1. What is the author's purpose in writing the second paragraph? 1
a. To explain the rules of chess
b. To compare different types of games
c. To talk about game pieces
d. To persuade people to play chess
2 2. Which is not a reason that chess is a good workout for the mind according to the 1
text?
a. Good chess players think about what will happen next.
b. Good chess players take a lot of risks.
c. Good chess players take their time.
d. Good chess players use their brains.
3 3. How long have people been playing chess? 1
a. Over 100 years
b. Over 500 years
c. Over 1000 years
d. Over 5000 years
4 4. Where did the game that chess is based on come from? 1
a. Europe
b. America
c. India
d. All of these
5 5. Which best describes the main idea in the fourth paragraph? 1
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a. This paragraph argues that players should think less.

b. This paragraph explains how blitz chess is played.
c. This paragraph explains time clocks work.
d. This paragraph describes many different ways to play chess.
6 6. How does a game of chess end according to the text? 1
a. One player takes all of the other player's pieces.
b. One player makes it to the end of the board.
c. One player becomes king.
d. One player loses his or her king.
7 7. Which happened first? 1
a. Computers did not play chess well.
b. Deep Blue won an important game.
c. Cell phones got good at playing chess.
d. Deep Blue took up a whole room.
8 8. How is blitz chess different from regular chess? 1
a. Each player has two kings.
b. Players are blindfolded.
c. Players only have ten minutes to play.
d. Players start from a random position.
9 9. If it's your turn in blitz chess, what happens when you hit the clock? 1
a. Both your clock and the other person's clock keep running.
b. The other person's clock stops running and yours starts.
c. Both clocks stop running.
d. Your clock stops running and the other person's clock begins.
10 10. When did a computer first beat a strong human player in chess? 1
a. 2006
b. 1997
c. 1970
d. 1976
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Lesson 3 and 4
Part 01:
Instructions: Skim read the following text and underline all the points about how to improve
your intelligence, and how to appear more intelligent to other people. You should get 10
points. [10 marks]

How smart are you?

We often talk about how smart some people are. But what does that even mean?
And have you ever wondered if there’s a way of making yourself smarter? If so, read
on for some thoughts on what intelligence is, and for some simple ways of making
your brain work a little bit harder.

There is a popular belief that most people only use around 10% of their brains,
although this is not actually the case. And anyway, intelligence is not measured by
how much of a person’s brain they are using, but what they are using it for.

So, what does ‘being smart’ mean? If you think it means being able to do a specific
task better than you could before, then there’s very little doubt that doing
something like number puzzles will indeed help. There is also a lot of research which
demonstrates the benefits of treating your brain like any other part of your body – this
means doing plenty of exercise and having a healthy diet. For example, studies on
mice have shown that it wasn’t mentally stimulating activities which lead to the
biggest improvements – it was actually running. Rather surprisingly, another recent
study showed that making changes to your clothing might help: wearing a white lab
coat, which is typically associated with intelligent professionals such as scientists and
doctors, boosted people’s performance on certain tests.

If you simply want to give other people the impression that you are smarter than
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you actually are, then speaking confidently tends to have that effect, as does smiling
while you are talking. Psychologists will give you all sorts of other suggestions, one
of which is wearing glasses. Anotherrecent experiment even showed that people who
use a middle initial are thought to be smarter: ‘David F Clark’ was rated as more
intelligent than ‘David Clark’, while ‘David F P R Clark’ did even better.

Many researchers believe that getting smarter doesn’t just mean improving your
brainpower. Once you’re good at number puzzles, of course you can do them faster,
but does that help you in any other way? What matters more is what is known as
‘fluid intelligence’ – the general ability to manipulate information, solve problems
and come up with new ideas. And an effective way to achieve this, according to
scientists, is to do something that you’re not good at, something that you find
uncomfortably difficult.

Another question that researchers have focused on is whether technology can make
us smarter, or if it has the opposite effect instead. The answer is that it depends. What
everyone agrees on, however, is that if you use it to expose yourself to complex new
material, it will certainly help to develop your brainpower. Instead of going quickly
from one topic to another on the internet, pick one subject and go into it in depth.

What are you waiting for? Try out these tips and see how much smarter you can
appear, or even become!

Part 02: Use the points that you underlined to write a summary about how to improve your
intelligence, and how to appear more intelligent to other people. Your summary should be
about 100 words long. [10 marks]
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