Key into Evaluation

Key into Evaluation

Level Two Set T2

Evaluation requires the skills or reorganisation and inference.  Answers must come
from the information in the story. Look for keywords. Consider the writer’s intent.

Gym

My only brother was also my twin.  You would think that because we were identical
we would act the same way and like the same things.  He was born forty minutes before
me and would often remind me of the fact. Because I was keen on sport, he would also
rub me up the wrong way by raving on about how sport was boring and a big waste of
time.

“Who, little brother,” he would jeer, “needs to suffer pain unnecessarily?”

When we turned fifteen my parents surprised me with a year’s subscription to the
In-Shape Gym.  Now I was able to join Brant and Ethan each Monday and Wednesday
evening to seriously work out. When they turned up at home to pick me up Josh would
be sprawled out on the couch mindlessly watching cartoons or playing his new
PlayStation.  He would poke fun at us and say that the best way to deal with an
urge to exercise was ’to stay calm and wait until it went away.’

“Just playing sport is bad enough,” he scoffed, “but working out is over the top.
 And Tim,” he says, leaning forward and screwing up his nose, “the only reason
you would want to go there would be to attract the girls!”

So it was a surprise, when having decided to go to the gym late one Thursday
afternoon, we saw Josh come out the side door dressed in a tracksuit carrying
a sports bag in his hand.  What’s more, he crossed the road and walked straight up
to a smiling Tammy Aster - the most gorgeous girl at our school.

a.  Why did his brother refer to him as ‘little brother’?

Because he was born 40m after.

He called him his little brother because he was born 40m after.

b.  Do you think the writer was happy with his birthday present?  Why do you say that?

Yes because he got to go to the gym and work out.

Yes because he wanted to work out seriously

c.  What present do you think Tim’s brother got for his fifteenth birthday?

Tim’s brother got the PlayStation and Tim got to go to the gym.

Tim’s brother got a PlayStation because all he wanted to do is sit down and play his game.

d.  Why do you think Josh was at the gym?

I think he was a the gym because he was meeting up with a girl.

Reaction question:

Would you like to be Josh’s brother?  Why do you say that?

No because it will be confusing.

Create activity:

Find out about a gym in the local area.  How much is it to join and how old do
you have to be?

Create an advertisement for this gym.