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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?