Attention all Sec 3BCD Literature (E) students: Redo your UNSEEN PROSE questions based on Adeline Ng Ai Choo (below) and hand it in to Mr. Yeo by T1W4.2008 (Next week, first lesson).

Those without the handout, please see below. The full set of text and questions is reproduced here.


Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:


EXTRACT

“STUDENT, REFUSED ONE MARK MORE BY TEACHER, PLUNGES TO DEATH”
Adeline Ng Ai Choo, aged fourteen, plunged twelve storeys to her death, because she had asked for one more mark for her answer script in an English Language examination, and had been refused. This was what our reporter learnt from a teacher in Adeline’s school. Her body was found lying at the foot of a block of flats in Toa Payoh this morning. She had jumped from the twelfth storey from which police later recovered a pair of slippers and a handbag. A note found in the handbag addressed to her parents read, “Dearest Dad and Mum, sorry to be a disappointment to you.” A diary was also found in her bag. Adeline was an only child.”




QUESTIONS

1. What strikes you as the ONE most important feature in the above text?
2. How does the writer succeed in capturing your attention?
3. How believable is the plot? Why or why not?
4. Who has your sympathy?
5. What do you think is likely to follow afterwards? Why so?