1. Mr Know-All
By M. Somerset-Maugham
Getting Ready for The
Summative Assessment
By Ella Ben Emanuel

2. Basic understanding: The
Characters
• Learn about the appearance and personality
of the characters on board the ship:
• Mr. Kelada
• Mr Ramsay
• Mrs Ramsay
• The Narrator
• The Doctor

3. Basic Understanding:Background
Learn the background to the characters and to
the events in the story:
Where are they from?
What do they do?
Why are they on board the ship?
What do you know about this period in
history? How does it affect the way you see
the characters?

4. Basic Understanding: The Events of
the Story
Learn the following:
What is the bet between Mr Kelada and Mr
Ramsay about?
What do we infer from the bet?

5. HOTS Questions
Think about the following questions:
What decision does Mr. Kelada make following
the bet and what does this say about his
personality?
Why is it that the narrator dislikes Mr Kelada?
What sort of a person would he have liked to
share a cabin with

6. Bridging Task
In this task you will be given some historical
information about the author or the time that
it was written and you must
a) Show how you understand that this
information is relevant to the story.
b) Show how it makes you understand the story
better.

7. Grammar and expressing yourself
Please remember
• Check your spelling – many of the words you
misspell are in the questions!
• Check your verbs- are they all in the same
tense? Did you put an ‘s’ on the third person?

8. Useful Expressions
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In my opinion
I feel that
It seems that
Not only…..but also…
It is obvious that
It appears that
 When I
compare…..to…….
 I agree/disagree
with this statement
because
 In conclusion
 Therefore

9. Good Luck!