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Clases particulares de Inglés – Emilia (02964)15 531285
The Stranger – Reading comprehension and use of English activities 1. Are they any words you don’t understand? Make a list. Try to guess the meaning from the text or look for it in the dictionary and write it next to the word. Write also the pronunciation. 2. How many characters speak in this chapter? Underline in the text their first apparition. 3. Make a list (from 5 to 8 short sentences) about the main facts of the chapter. 4. Read carefully and find a sentence as an example for each one of the verbal tenses. Then, transform it into an affirmative, negative or interrogative sentence. Affirmative Example. She has a room
Negative She didn`t have a room.
Interrogative Did she have a room?
Present Simple Present Continuous Past Simple Past Continuous Future Simple
5. Comparative and superlative adjectives. Can you find any example in the text? Make a list and transform it into the opposite. Example: The church in Woodend was the most beautiful building in the village. →the ugliest Clases particulares de Inglés – Emilia (02964)15 531285
The Stranger – Reading comprehension and use of English activities 1. Are they any words you don’t understand? Make a list. Try to guess the meaning from the text or look for it in the dictionary and write it next to the word. Write also the pronunciation. 2. How many characters speak in this chapter? Underline in the text their first apparition. 3. Make a list (from 5 to 8 short sentences) about the main facts of the chapter. 4. Read carefully and find a sentence as an example for each one of the verbal tenses. Then, transform it into an affirmative, negative or interrogative sentence. Affirmative Example. She has a room
Negative She didn`t have a room.
Interrogative Did she have a room?
Present Simple Present Continuous Past Simple Past Continuous Future Simple
5. Comparative and superlative adjectives. Can you find any example in the text? Make a list and transform it into the opposite. Example: The church in Woodend was the most beautiful building in the village. →the ugliest
Lidney
London
Woodend
Near
England
Story
Woodend
Woodend
Woodend
Big
UK
Town
Anna
Mr Smith’s house
Dave
Anna
Capital
The Corner Shop
Peter
Main Street
Dave
Mrs Harrinson’s House Woodend
Paddington Station Train
Dolls
Woodend
Night
Boxes
Sunday
October
Special Orders Room Door
Church
Mr Hart’s house The Corner Shop
Village Hall
Dave’s flat
Newspaper
Woodend
Greta Gordon
Bus
Stairs
Arthur Riseman
London
house
Films news
Word Maze: Regular and Irregular verbs Get from to want to to talk by linking all the words which transform to a regular form in the past tense. You can move vertically or horizontally but not diagonally. Start! to want
to leave
to take
to do
to go
to feel
to arrive
to think
to say
to ask
to speak
to find
to answer
to buy
to help
to work
to like
to look
to smile
to walk
to open
to make
to know
to play
to come
to see
to get
to met
to invite
to reply
to be
to tell
to ring
to have
to plan
to talk
Pronunciation: Regular verbs From the list below, place each verb in the correct column according to the correct pronunciation:
/d/
/t/
/Id/
Played – watched – waited – walked – wanted – tried – locked – invited – laughed – bored – passed – asked – tried – looked – pleased – helped – listened – arrived
Small case Young man afraid
cricket Friend football
Young Curious Clever
Tall Green eyes Dark hair
Beautiful Large car Expensive clothes
big, middle aged polite briefcase
1. Complete the crossword with the name of the main characters References: S= the stranger T= Mr Riseman’s name R= Mr Roberts real surname A= the assistant at the corner shop N= G= the super star E= the football star R= Anna’s boyfriend
S T R A N G E R
2. Put the characters in the order they appeared in the story 1. 4.
2. 5.
3. 6.
3. Which of the following adjectives correspond to each character? Tall, dark, green eyes, good-looking, rich ________________________________
Beautiful, rich, frightened, famous ____________________________
Young, engaged, poor, athletic _________________________
Young, engaged, poor, seventeen years old ___________________________________
Young, unpunctual, afraid ____________________
Middle-aged, bid, has a moustache, polite __________________________________
Can you use any of those adjectives to describe yourself? Can you think of more adjectives to describe the characters?