End of Year Reading 11-B form

 Text 1      Read the article. 

 Europe is full of minority language speakers. Some, such as the Basques, Catalans, Welsh and Corsicans, are large groups and well known all over the world. Others are less well known. Here are a few you might not have heard about.

The Walloons live in the southern half of Belgium in an area called Wallonia. Everyone from Wallonia is a Walloon. However, they don’t all speak the Walloon language. The majority of the population speak French. Others speak other minority languages such as Picard or Lorraine. Walloon itself is now almost a dead language with only 10 percent of the population speaking it as their first language. Most of the speakers are old people, and when they die, Walloon probably won't exist in Wallonia. However, it is also the first language in a few villages in northern France and it may survive there.

   The area of northern Poland near Gdansk is home to the Kashubians. About 300,000 people call themselves Kashubian and speak Kashubian. Poland also has another minority language in the south of the country: Silesian. Some words in Kashubian and Silesian are the same in Polish and Poles can understand both languages. So are Kashubian and Silesian actually different languages or a form of Polish? Different people have different opinions, but the Kashubians and Silesians agree that they have got their own language and that this language is definitely not Polish. A much smaller group of people are the Grikos of Italy. There are about 40,000 Grikos in total and they live in two different parts of southern Italy. One group live in the far south-west, near the island of Sicily, while the other group live in the far south-east, on the Adriatic coast. Their roots are in the Greek communities who lived in the area thousands of years ago. About 20,000 of these people speak Griko as their first language. Unfortunately, most of them are older people; the younger generation want to speak Italian. However, even the Italian speakers are proud of their Griko roots, and the Griko people celebrate their culture every year with a night of singing and dancing in the town of Melpignano.

Are the statements true (T) or false (F)?

1 Not everyone from Wallonia is a Walloon. _____

2 Walloon is spoken only in Belgium. _____

3 Kashubian is the only minority language in Poland. _____

4 Kashubian is similar to Polish. _____

5 The Griko people don’t all live near each other. _____

6 Not many young people speak Griko. _____

Text 2 Read the text 

Children, work and the law

Are you still at school? ¹________ Before you do, read this leaflet to find out what you can and can’t do.

First of all, there are some jobs that you are free to do at any age. ²________These include working for friends and neighbours, babysitting and any work experience organised by your school. If this is the kind of job you want to do, you don’t have to read any further.

³________ If you are under thirteen, you are not legally allowed to work at all, not even part-time. If you are between thirteen and sixteen years old, or if you are still at school in Year Eleven or below, a person needs a special licence to employ you.

The most popular job for children is the paper round.

⁴________ Unfortunately, recent changes to the law have made this more difficult: school children can’t start working until 7 a.m. In fact, on school days and Sundays you can only work two hours a day and you must finish work by 7 p.m. If you are thirteen or fourteen, you may work for a total of five hours on a Saturday, and if you are fifteen or sixteen, you can work for eight hours. ⁵________

 There are also some jobs that you can’t do at all. These include the following:

·  working in many factories

·  working in construction

·  working with transport

·  working in restaurants where alcohol is served

Apart from paper rounds, most school children work in shops or fast food restaurants that don’t serve alcohol.

Special note for sixteen-year-olds:

If you are sixteen and have finished Year Eleven at school, you may leave school and find a full-time job. 6________ In both cases, you are now free to work more hours and in more places than thirteen–sixteen-year-olds in Year Eleven or below. However, if you are sixteen and still in Year Eleven, you and your employer must follow the rules above.

Choose the correct sentence for the gap

1________ Before you do, read this leaflet to find out what you can and can’t do.

Are you still at school? ¹________ Before you do, read this leaflet to find out what you can and can’t do.

First of all, there are some jobs that you are free to do at any age. ²________These include working for friends and neighbours, babysitting and any work experience organised by your school. If this is the kind of job you want to do, you don’t have to read any further.

³________ If you are under thirteen, you are not legally allowed to work at all, not even part-time. If you are between thirteen and sixteen years old, or if you are still at school in Year Eleven or below, a person needs a special licence to employ you.

The most popular job for children is the paper round.

⁴________ Unfortunately, recent changes to the law have made this more difficult: school children can’t start working until 7 a.m. In fact, on school days and Sundays you can only work two hours a day and you must finish work by 7 p.m. If you are thirteen or fourteen, you may work for a total of five hours on a Saturday, and if you are fifteen or sixteen, you can work for eight hours. ⁵________

 There are also some jobs that you can’t do at all. These include the following:

·  working in many factories

·  working in construction

·  working with transport

·  working in restaurants where alcohol is served

Apart from paper rounds, most school children work in shops or fast food restaurants that don’t serve alcohol.

Special note for sixteen-year-olds:

If you are sixteen and have finished Year Eleven at school, you may leave school and find a full-time job. 6________ In both cases, you are now free to work more hours and in more places than thirteen–sixteen-year-olds in Year Eleven or below. However, if you are sixteen and still in Year Eleven, you and your employer must follow the rules above.

Choose the correct sentence for the gap

2________These include working for friends and neighbours, babysitting and any work experience organised by your school.

Are you still at school? ¹________ Before you do, read this leaflet to find out what you can and can’t do.

First of all, there are some jobs that you are free to do at any age. ²________These include working for friends and neighbours, babysitting and any work experience organised by your school. If this is the kind of job you want to do, you don’t have to read any further.

³________ If you are under thirteen, you are not legally allowed to work at all, not even part-time. If you are between thirteen and sixteen years old, or if you are still at school in Year Eleven or below, a person needs a special licence to employ you.

The most popular job for children is the paper round.

⁴________ Unfortunately, recent changes to the law have made this more difficult: school children can’t start working until 7 a.m. In fact, on school days and Sundays you can only work two hours a day and you must finish work by 7 p.m. If you are thirteen or fourteen, you may work for a total of five hours on a Saturday, and if you are fifteen or sixteen, you can work for eight hours. ⁵________

 There are also some jobs that you can’t do at all. These include the following:

·  working in many factories

·  working in construction

·  working with transport

·  working in restaurants where alcohol is served

Apart from paper rounds, most school children work in shops or fast food restaurants that don’t serve alcohol.

Special note for sixteen-year-olds:

If you are sixteen and have finished Year Eleven at school, you may leave school and find a full-time job. 6________ In both cases, you are now free to work more hours and in more places than thirteen–sixteen-year-olds in Year Eleven or below. However, if you are sixteen and still in Year Eleven, you and your employer must follow the rules above.

Choose the correct sentence for the gap

3________ If you are under thirteen, you are not legally allowed to work at all, not even part-time.

Are you still at school? ¹________ Before you do, read this leaflet to find out what you can and can’t do.

First of all, there are some jobs that you are free to do at any age. ²________These include working for friends and neighbours, babysitting and any work experience organised by your school. If this is the kind of job you want to do, you don’t have to read any further.

³________ If you are under thirteen, you are not legally allowed to work at all, not even part-time. If you are between thirteen and sixteen years old, or if you are still at school in Year Eleven or below, a person needs a special licence to employ you.

The most popular job for children is the paper round.

⁴________ Unfortunately, recent changes to the law have made this more difficult: school children can’t start working until 7 a.m. In fact, on school days and Sundays you can only work two hours a day and you must finish work by 7 p.m. If you are thirteen or fourteen, you may work for a total of five hours on a Saturday, and if you are fifteen or sixteen, you can work for eight hours. ⁵________

 There are also some jobs that you can’t do at all. These include the following:

·  working in many factories

·  working in construction

·  working with transport

·  working in restaurants where alcohol is served

Apart from paper rounds, most school children work in shops or fast food restaurants that don’t serve alcohol.

Special note for sixteen-year-olds:

If you are sixteen and have finished Year Eleven at school, you may leave school and find a full-time job. 6________ In both cases, you are now free to work more hours and in more places than thirteen–sixteen-year-olds in Year Eleven or below. However, if you are sixteen and still in Year Eleven, you and your employer must follow the rules above.

Choose the correct sentence for the gap

4________ Unfortunately, recent changes to the law have made this more difficult: school children can’t start working until 7 a.m.

Choose the correct sentence for the gap

If you are thirteen or fourteen, you may work for a total of five hours on a Saturday, and if you are fifteen or sixteen, you can work for eight hours. 5________

 There are also some jobs that you can’t do at all.

If you are sixteen and have finished Year Eleven at school, you may leave school and find a full-time job. 6________ In both cases, you are now free to work more hours and in more places than thirteen–sixteen-year-olds in Year Eleven or below. However, if you are sixteen and still in Year Eleven, you and your employer must follow the rules above.

Choose the correct sentence for the gap