Reading Comprehension

Changing of skill, try to do these two texts. The only thing you have to do is reading them (all the times that you want and answer the questions below). 

It is very easy!

Reading 1: Carly's Family.

Carly has a large family. She lives with four people. Carly also has two pets. Carly's mom is a doctor. She works at the hospital and helps people who are sick. Carly's dada works at home. He cooks for the family an drives the kids to soccer's practice. Carly has two brothers. James is ten years old and Scott is fourteen years old. Carly has two pets. Felix is a small, black cat and Peter is a large, brown dog.

Questions

1. How many people are in Carly's family?

2. Where does Carly's mom work?

3. How many brothers has Carly?

4. What does he do her father?

5. Who are Carly's pets?

6. The older brother in Carly's family is             .

Reading 2: A Special Present

Sharon wanted to buy a Christmas present for her father. Sharon's mother gave her $200 and Sharon put it in her pocket.
Next day, she went to the supermarket and looked for the best present. Suddenly, she saw it! A very beautiful and big watch, like her father liked. She came into the shop and asked for the price. The shop assistant told her it cost $175, so she didn't think it twice and bought it.
When she was coming back home, she thought in her father's face and what he would do when he opened his present.
Two days later, it was her father's birthday and, when they were at party, Sharon gave it to him. Her father was so much surprised that cried.
At the end, they had a nice birthday and since that day, Sharon's father brings the watch.



Questions

1. Who is the main character of this story?

2. What gave Sharon'mother to her?

3. How much money did Sharon take to the supermarket?

4. What did Sharon buy to her father?

5. What happened at the end?

Wh Questions

One of the most important things when you are learning English is to know how to use the Wh Questions. 

These question forms let us ask about all that we want to know about. Their answers are more than "yes" or "no".

The basic Wh Questions are:

• Who is referred to a person.

               ex: Who is? He is her son.

• Where is referred to a place.

               ex: Where do you live? I live in Madrid.

• When is referred to time, a moment.

              ex: When do yo get up? I get up at 7 every day.

• Why is referred to a reason.

              ex: Why are you studying? Because I have an exam.

• What is referred to an object, idea or action

              ex: What do you do? I am a teacher.

• How is referred to manner.

              ex: How do you do your homework? I do my homework carefully.

If you want to learn more about Wh Questions, you can see the following website here

Now, some practice!

1.          do you live? - I live in London.

2.          is that girl? - She's my sister.

3.          do you go to chool? - By bus.

4.          do banks open? - At eight o'clock.

5.          are you wearing that coat? - Because it's very cold!

6.          are you going tomorrow?

7.          are you travelling?

8.          are you crying?

9.          has broken this vase?

10.        do you feel today?

Music Activities

First Song: The Beatles - Yesterday

You are going to listen once this song. Later, you will listen it again and you will have to fill in the gaps in the text below.

The Beatles - Yesterday

Yesterday, 
All my _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ seemed so far away, 
Now it looks as though they're _ _ _ _ to stay 
Oh I believe in yesterday 

Suddenly, 
I'm not half the _ _ _  I used to be 
There's a shadow hanging over me 
Oh _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ came suddenly 

Why she had to go 
I don't know, she wouldn't say 
I said something _ _ _ _ _
now I'm long for yesterday 

Yesterday, 
_ _ _ _ was such an easy _ _ _ _ to play 
Now I need a place to hide away 
Oh I believe in yesterday 

_ _ _ she had to go 
I don't know, she wouldn't say 
I said _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ wrong 
now I'm long for yesterday 

Yesterday, 
Love was such an easy game to play 
Now I need a _ _ _ _ _ to hide away 
Oh I believe in yesterday 

When you have finished to complete the song, take a look of this video and check your answers.

Second Song: Shrek - I'm a believer

Now, let's listen another song. Just listen and try to understand.

Enjoy it!

Here you have the lyrics in English and Spanish to check what you have understood.

Pronouns

Here you have a complete chart with all the pronouns there are in English:

 - Subject Pronouns are used as the subject of a verb.

                       ex: I live in Madrid


 - Object Prononuns are used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb.

                  ex: You eat chocolate (direct object)

                  ex: They sent him a present (indirect object)


- Possessive Adjectives are used to show possession of something.

                  ex: That is her book.


 - Possessive Pronouns are used to attribute ownership to someone or something.

                  ex: Those cars are mine.


 - Reflexive Pronouns are used to refer back to the subject of the sentence.

         ex: We do the exercises ourselves.



 Let's go practice it!

1.          is watching TV (Alan)

2.          are washing the dishes (Peter and I)

3.          are 17 years old (Hannah and Lisa)

4. I can't see Mary. I can't see

5. Drink your apple juice! Drink

6. Where is          book? (I)

7.         name is Bobby (It)

8. I have a bike. It's         bike!

9. Mum and I have a flat. It's        flat

10. Sophie did the homework

11. I wrote that poem

12. My mother often talks to



If you want more information or a better explanation of pronouns (also in Spanish), click here

Meeting us

As we are new and we don't meet ourselves, you are going to introduce yourselves to the rest of the class. Listen to the Voki below and follow the instructions.

If you want to know more about how to introduce yourself (videos, activities, grammar, useful expressions...), you can visit the next page and practise more: 

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