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Specific Information Questions
Part 3
"When" and "Where" Questions
A.
Read the text below and answer the questions that follow.
Sara lives on Gordon Street and her grandfather lives on Pinsker Street. Sometimes they take a walk together
on Hertzl street. On Saturdays, they often sit and
talk in the park there.
(From "English Courseware" RAMA)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1) Where does Sara live?
a. On Gordon Street.
b. On Pinker Street.
c. On Hertzl Street.
2) When do Sara and her grandfather take a walk on Hertzl Street? _____
3) When do they often sit and talk in the park? ______
B.
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Dana and Ofer had a good time at Shoshi's birthday party on Friday. They ate chocolate cake. They played with their friends. They left at 6 o'clock.
(From "English Courseware" RAMA)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1) Where did they go on Friday? ______
2) Where did they eat the chocolate cake? ______
3) When did they leave the birthday party? ______
C.
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There are many fine collections in the museum. There are glass, coin and many other kinds of collections. They come from many parts of the world.
(From "English Courseware" RAMA)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1) Where are many fine collections? ______
2) Where do they come from? ______
D.
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David and Edna live in Haifa. He works in a bank and she is a teacher. She moved to Haifa from Netania after she got married.
(From "English Courseware" RAMA)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1) Where do David and Edna live? ______
2) When did she move to Haifa? ______
3) Where does David work? ______
4) Where does Edna work? ______
E.
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Dorit is in hospital. On Monday, Eli is going to see her there.
They are going to have a long talk before he goes home.
(From "English Courseware" RAMA)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1) Where is Eli going to see Dorit?
a. In the hospital
b. At school
c. At home.
2) When are they going to have a long talk? ______
3) Where is Dorit? ______
4) When is Eli going to see Dorit? ______
F.
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The Pulitzer Prize is given every year to an American writer. The prize is named after Joseph Pulitzer who came to America from Hungary in 1864.
(From "English Courseware" RAMA)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1) When is the Pulitzer Prize given? ______
2) When did he come to America? ______
G.
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In the17th century Russia, smoking was punished by death after the third offence. In Turkey, offenders were hanged with a pipe thrust through their noses.
(From Amazing Facts)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1. Where were smokers executed by hanging? ______
2. When was smoking forbidden in Russia? ______
3. Where was smoking a crime? Give TWO answers:
______
______
H.
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The Chinese have bred Pekinese dogs for over 5000 years.
(From Amazing Facts)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1. Where were Pekinese dogs bred? ______
2. When did the Chinese begin to breed these dogs? ______
I.
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The first Derby race for horses was run in 1780,and was named after its founder, the Earl of Derby.
(From Amazing Facts)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1. When was the first Derby horse race held? ______
2. Where was the first Derby horse race held? ______
J.
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Badminton was given its name by the place in which the modern game started –Badminton Hall in Avon. However, a similar game was played in China as long as 2000 B.C.
(From Amazing Facts)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1. When was this game first played? ______
2. Where was this game first played? ______
3. Where is Badminton Hall? ______
K.
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In 1972 in Utah, the United States, a man called Allan Abbott managed to reach 222 km/h on a specially designed pedal cycle .
(Form Amazing Facts)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1. When was the record set? ______
2. Where was the record set? ______
3. Where is Utah? ______
L.
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Golf is a very old game. It certainly existed under that name in 1457, when it was banned in Scotland by King James .
(From Amazing Facts)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1. Where were people forbidden to play golf? ______
2. When was golf first mentioned in records? ______
M.
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Aida, the opera by the Italian composer Verdi, was specially written for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1871. The opera is set in ancient Egypt, and was first performed at the Cairo Opera House.
(From Amazing Facts)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1. Where was the opera first shown? ______
2. Where does the action of Aida take place? ______
3. When was the Suez Canal opened? ______
N.
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For thousand of years in China, it was not nice for a girl from a rich family to have big feet. If she had big feet, no man would want to marry her. So, when the girl was two or three years old, her mother would bind her feet very tightly. The bones would break and her feet would never grow .Therefore, the rich women in China were always in pain. They could only sit or lie. This custom stopped about fifty years ago.
(From TEENS WORK IT OUT)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1. When were a girl's feet bound? ______
2. When did the custom stop? ______
O.
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The T-Shirt is really an undershirt .Years ago men wore an undershirt, under a shirt. Only men wore undershirts. A parent told a son never to show his undershirt.
Later, many companies put their names on an undershirt instead of a shirt. Soon, the undershirt was called a T-shirt and became very popular. Today men and women, boys and girls, and little children wear T- shirts. People sometimes have funny signs printed on them.
(From TEENS WORK IT OUT)
Answer the following questions according to text above.
1. Where did men wear an undershirt? ______
2. Where did companies put their names? ______
3. Where do people have funny signs printed? ______