1. Read the passage and focus on the section you have chosen.

2. Discuss with your team-mates the assumptions made by Ben and Mrs Ho.

3. Write a different post for Mrs Ho (white) and Ben (blue).

4. Be ready to present your ideas.

1. Read the passage and focus on the section you have chosen.

2. Discuss with your team-mates the assumptions made by Ben's professor, his classmates and Ben.

3. Write a different post for Ben's professor (yellow), his classmates (green) and Ben (purple).

4. Be ready to present your ideas.

I assume that Mrs Ho is fierce as she scolded Ben with a fury voice.

Ben’s classmates assume that a poor village boy cannot do well in his exams and thought that he must be very lucky.

Ben assumed that he owned his achievement purely to his own hard work at university.

Mrs Ho assumed that Ben would finish his work properly but he did not instead he only read a few pages.

Q1:Mrs Ho thought that Ben would read the first three chapters of the book and arrange the books accordingly.(Mrs Ho)

When Ben was sorting out the books that Mrs Ho had asked, he assumed that the books could be sorted by title, and he read one or two pages in addition to the title when he was supposed to read 3 chapters as instructed.

Ben’s classmate assumed that Ben had extraordinary luck to get to join the University because Ben was a poor village boy in the past.

A classmate assumed that Ben got into the university just purely because of his luck as he was a poor village boy

Q2:Ben thought that he could identify the type of book just by reading the title and he thought that he was very hardworking when he read a page or two in addition to the title.

Ben’s professor assumed that Ben’s villager teacher must have been very good as he could write such logical and persuasive essays.

Ben is very lazy as he only read the first two pages, thinking he is very hardworking.

Ben’s professor assumed that Ben had a very good village teacher because Ben’s entry test results were very impressive as they have never had an applicant who could write such a logical and persuasive essay.

A professor assumed that Ben got his fantastic entrance result because that he had a good village teacher to teach him.

Ben assumed that he had owed his achievement purely on his own hardwork. However after his professor and classmate’s assumptions, he realised that Mrs Ho had paved the way for his success.