ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

 

KIDNAPPED

AN INTRODUCTION TO SCOTLAND

KIDNAPPED

WONDER

 

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

READING COMPREHENSION: THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW

A. Look at the picture above.  

1. What can you see?  Describe it.  

2.  Do you know any scary stories?  Describe what happens in the story.

3.  Do you know the story that we are going to read? 

B. Now read the story and complete the activities.

C.  VOCABULARY

Can you see the highlighted words in the story.  Write down the meanings of these words in your own language. 

D.  Answer the questions.

CHAPTER 1

1.  Is Ichabod a good person?  Why?

2.  Where does Ichabod live?

3.  What does he do to make extra money?

4.  What are his favourite stories about?

5.  Where does Ichabod like reading?

CHAPTER 2

1.  Who is Ichabod in love with? 

2. Why does Ichabod love her?  Give at least two reasons.

3. Who is Brom van Brunt?

4.  Why is Brom angry with Ichabod?

5.  Why does Baltus Van Tassel go to the school to talk to Ichabod?

6.   Is Gunpowder a good horse?  Explain why?

CHAPTER 3

1. Who does Baltus Van Tassel invite to his party?

2. How is Brom's horse different to Ichabod's horse?

3.  Why do you think Ichabod isn't happy to see Brom?

4.  Is Ichabod enjoying the party?  Explain your answer.

5.  Why is Ichabod happy when someone starts playing music?

6.  What ghost story does Brom tell?  Mention some details from the story.

7.  Why do you think Ichabod leaves Van Tassel's house "quickly and quietly"?

8.  When Ichabod goes home, there is something or someone behind him.  What or who do you think it is?

9.  How does Ichabod feel?  Explain your answer.

10.  What do you think will happen next?

CHAPTER 4

1. How does Ichabod know that the ghost is following him?

2.  Why can't Ichabod sing to make himself feel brave?

3.  Where is the ghost's head?

4.  Why does Ichabod go across the bridge?

5.  What does the ghost do with its head?

6.  What happens to Ichabod, the Headless Horseman and Gunpowder?

7. What do people find near the bridge?

8.  Why do you think Brom laughs when they talk about the pumpkin?

9.  Did you like the story?  Why or why not?

10.  Who do you think the Headless Horseman is?  Explain your answer. 

Watch the video.  Which places can you see in the town?

YEAR 1: READING COMPREHENSION - Monkey Puzzle

A.  Look at the picture.  Which animals can you see?

B. Watch the videos, sing the songs and do the actions.

Let's go to the zoo

The animal song

Yes, you can!

C.  Watch the video and learn the parts of the body.

D.  Watch the episode of Peppa Pig about the zoo.  What animals are in this episode?

E.  Look at the animals.  Say the words.  What's your favourite animal.

Click on  ZOO ANIMALS

F. Read the story and answer the questions.  Write the answers in your notebook.

1. Which animals are in the story?  

2. Which animal has got a problem?

3. What's the problem?

4. Which animal helps?

5. What parts of the body are in the story?

YEAR 2: READING COMPREHENSION - The Very Hungry Caterpillar

A. Look at the picture.  What food can you see?  Do you know the words in English?

B. Watch the video below and count to 30.

COUNT FROM 1 TO 30

C.  Watch the videos about food and sing the songs.

1. WHAT FOOD DO YOU LIKE?

2. WHAT FOOD DO YOU LIKE?

3. WHAT FOOD DO YOU LIKE?

D.  Learn the words for some fruits and vegetables.

THE FRUIT SONG

THE VEGETABLE SONG

E.  Watch the video about food.  Which words do you know or remember?

FOOD WITH STEVE AND MAGGIE

F.  Can you remember some words for food?  Play the games.

1. HANGMAN GAME: FOOD

2. MATCHING GAME: FOOD

3. MEMORY GAME: FOOD

G.  Review the days of the week with the video below.

A STORY

H. Watch the video about a caterpillar.

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR

I.  Read the story and answer the questions in your notebook.

1.  What animal is in the story?

2.  What does he eat on Monday?

3.  What does he eat on Tuesday?

4.  What does he eat on Wednesday?

5.  What does he eat on Thursday?

6.  What does he eat on Friday?

7.  What doesn't he eat on Saturday: chocolate cake, an ice cream cone, a pickle, Swiss cheese, salami, a mango, a lollipop, cherry pie, one sausage, a cupcake and some watermelon?

8.  When does the caterpillar eat one, green leaf?

9.  Where is the caterpillar for two weeks (14 days)?

10. What animal is the caterpillar at the end of the story?

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YEAR 4: READING COMPREHENSION - Winnie the Witch

A.  What can you see in the picture?  Describe it.

B. Read the story.  

C. Write the words under the pictures.

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D.  Read the story again.  Answer the questions.

1.  What's the name of the witch?

2.  What's the name of her cat?

3.  What colour is the witch's house?

4.  What colour is the cat?

5.  What colour is the cat's eyes?

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YEAR 6: READING COMPREHENSION - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

READING COMPREHENSION:

 THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW

A. Look at the picture above.  

1. What can you see?  Describe it.  

2.  Do you know any scary stories?  Describe what happens in the story.

3.  Do you know the story that we are going to read? 

B. Now read the story and complete the activities.

C.  VOCABULARY

Can you see the highlighted words in the story.  Write down the meanings of these words in your own language. 

D.  Answer the questions.

CHAPTER 1

1.  Is Ichabod a good person?  Why?

2.  Where does Ichabod live?

3.  What does he do to make extra money?

4.  What are his favourite stories about?

5.  Where does Ichabod like reading?

CHAPTER 2

1.  Who is Ichabod in love with? 

2. Why does Ichabod love her?  Give at least two reasons.

3. Who is Brom van Brunt?

4.  Why is Brom angry with Ichabod?

5.  Why does Baltus Van Tassel go to the school to talk to Ichabod?

6.   Is Gunpowder a good horse?  Explain why?

YEAR 7 (1º ESO) - READING COMPREHENSION: HERCULES

HERCULES: READING COMPREHENSION

HERCULES

The story

Watch the video and complete the activities.

A.  What do the highlighted words in the story mean in your language?  Write them down in your notebook with their translations.

B.  Read the story and answer the questions.

CHAPTER 1

1.  Who is the protagonist?

2.  Who is his father?

3.  Why is Hera angry with the protagonist?

4.  What is Hercules good at?

5.  What isn't Hercules good at?

6.  What happens to Hercules's wife and son?

7.  What does the priestess at Delphi tell Hercules?

8.  How many tasks does King Eurystheus give Hercules?

Chapter 2

1. What is the first task?

2.  Where does Hercules have to go to perform the first task?

3.  What is the second task? 

4.  Who helps Hercules with the second task?

5.  What is the fourth task?

Chapter 3

1. Where does Hercules see the wild boar?

2.  Why does he chase the boar into the snow?

3.  Why does King Eurystheus get into a jar every time he speaks to Hercules?

4.  What work must Hercules do for King Augeas?

5.  How much time does Hercules have to do the fifth task?

6.  Is Hercules happy about doing the task?

7.  Explain how he completes the fifth task?

8.  Where must Hercules go to perform his next task?

Chapter 4

1. How do the birds kill the cows?

2.  What does Athena give Hercules?

3.  How does Hercules make the birds fly out of the trees?

4.  How does Hercules kill the birds?

5.  Why is Eurystheus angry?

6.  What must Hercules do in Crete?

7.  How does Hercules complete his task in Crete?

8.  What does Diomedes want to do?

9.  What happens to Diomedes and his men?

Chapter 5

1.  What is Hercules's task in the land of the Amazons?

2.  Who live in the country of the Amazons?

3.  Who is Hippolyta?

4.  What does Hera do to try to stop Hercules?

5.  How does Hercules complete his task?

6.  How does Princess Admete feel?

7.  Who is Geryon?

8.  What does Hercules do to Geryon?

9.  Why are the red cows a problem?

STORIES

STORY 1

WILLIAM TELL: READING COMPREHENSION

A. What do you know about William Tell?  Write down your ideas.

B.  Look at the picture.  Describe it.  Make predictions about the story you are going to read.

B. Click on the link and follow the instructions.

William-Tell-the-Story

1. Find the names of people and places.

2. List the artificial and natural landscape features.

3. Write down verbs in the third person singular form.

DYNAMITE TIMER

C. Read and listen to the story.  Compare your ideas in A with the events in the story.  What's the same?  What's different?

D. As you read the story, find words that match the definitions below.

VOCABULARY

Find the verb.

1. This is what Japanese people do when they say hello to each other.

2. To speak in a very loud voice.

3.  When your eyes focus on something.

4.  When you don't live anymore.

5.  This is what you do with a gun or a bow and arrow.

6.  This is a sound you make when something is very funny.

7.  When you move your legs very fast, you do this.

8.  When you direct a vehicle to a particular place.

9.  When you go into the air with both legs.

10.  When your body goes to the ground by accident.

E. Complete the comprehension activity.

WILLIAM-TELL-Reading-Comprehension

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STORY 2 

RIP VAN WINKLE: READING COMPREHENSION

1. Look at the picture.  Describe it.  What can you see?

2. What do you think is happening?

3. Can you make any predictions about the story you are going to read?

The story is set in the Catskills Mountains.  Where are they?

Watch the video.

THE STORY

a. Write down a list of adjectives to describe the protagonist.

b. How would you feel if you were Rip Van Winkle?  Why?

c. What's your favourite part of the story.

d. In groups prepare a theatrical presentation of the story.

e. Before you present your play, design a publicity poster.

STORY 3

HERCULES: READING COMPREHENSION

1. In one minute, write down everything you know or have heard about Hercules.

TIMER

2. Describe the picture above.  What can you see?  What is happening?

3. What do you know about Greek mythology.

4. Watch the video and compare your answers with what you see.

5. Watch the video again.  Who were they?

ZEUS

POSEIDON

HADES

APHRODITE

APOLLO

ATHENA

HERMES

HERCULES AND ODYSSEUS

6. What is a demi-god?

7. Watch the video and correct your answers.

8. READ AND COMPLETE THE QUIZ ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY.

Now you're ready to read the story.  Enjoy!