K 3.1

The following passage is a summary of the film The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Type the contraction or write the contraction out in full for each of the words / pair of words that are highlighted in bold in the passage.

William Kamkwamba lives in the small village of Masitala in Malawi. When he is (1) fourteen years old, a terrible drought hits the region. The maize crops fail and people are starving. William is not (2) able to attend school anymore, because his parents can′t (3) afford the school fees. One day, when he′s (4) on a break from helping his family with chores, William discovers a tattered book in the library. It has a picture of a windmill on the cover.

Fascinated by the picture, William reads the book from cover to cover. He discovers that a windmill can make electricity and pump water. He cannot (5) believe what he is reading. “I am (6) convinced this can save our village,” he thinks to himself and decides, then and there, to build a windmill. Everyone in his village thinks that he′s (7) mad, including his own mother. But William isn′t (8) put off and perseveres until the day that his very own, hand-made windmill pumps the first water into the village of Masitala.

“You have (9) saved us,” his proud mother tells him. “We′d (10) have died without your windmill!”