1-) Read The Text Quickly. What It Is About?

Homework November 28th
Ericsson Reyes
Teacher: Yasmeli Castaño
1- ) Read the text quickly. What it is about?

A) How to publish your own on book
B) A young author and her first book
C) The reason behind the increase in e-book sales
2- ) Read the text. Write the name of the people and characters
Who…
1) Is a young author? Mac Bowers
2) Move to Pennsylvania? Morgan Casey
3) Has a secret Morgan
4) Is chatty and friendly? Charlie
3- ) Read the text again and answer the questions.

1) According to the text, why are more people publishing their own books?
Because they have easier access to technology
2) When does Mac Bowers write?
She writes books at nights and in her spare time
3) When did Morgan Casey use to live?
Morgan used to live in a big city in California
4) When does Morgan meet Charlie?
On her first day at her new high school
5) How does Morgan feel when she tells Charlie her secret?
She regrets it immediately.
4- ) Answer the questions with your own opinions.

1) What do you think the Morgan´s secrets is?
Well, I imagine that she did something bad where she lived before, she could
have stolen and is running away.
2) Would you like to read this book? Why/ Why not?
Of course! Because I can see that it is fiction and it is interesting I would like to
know what the secret was.
8-) Match the books genres in the box to the correct definition.
Adventure history, Autobiography, Biography, Horror story,
Non-fiction book, Romance, Science fiction story.
1) A book a person writes about himself or herself Autobiography
2) A story that it set in the future, sometimes in space or on another planet.
Science fiction story.
3) A book about a places or events that are real Non-fiction book
4) A story about love Romance
5) A scary or frightening story that can be true or invented Horror story
6) A book about person´s life that another person writes Biography
7) A story that has dangerous, exciting, unusual and interesting events.
Adventure history
9- ) Choose two books genres from exercise 7 and 8 and write sentences
about those genres. Use the words below or your own ideas.
 I enjoy/ like/ love/ don´t like/ hate…
 My favourite… book is…
 I like/ don´t like… because…
 I would/ wouldn´t recommend… to a friend because…
I enjoy adventure story books because there I can expand my imagination.
My favourite genre of book is horror story.
I like horror history because it causes many emotions in me.
I would recommend the adventure story book to my friends because it is very
interesting.
Page 10
1- ) Complete the dialogue with present simple or present continuos form
of the verbs.
Jody: Hi Leon, it´s Jody. How are you?
Leon: Hi Jody! Good, thanks.
Jody: What are you doing (do) just now?
Leon: I´m talking (talk) to you!
Jody: Ha, ha, very funny! Are you studying (study)?
Leon: No! I´m doing (do) exercise, believe it or not!
Jody: Leon exercising, no way!
Leon: Yes, it´s true, honest! Anyway, what do you want (want)?
Jody: I´m so bored! I am sitting (sit) in my room. I am not revising (not
revise), but my parents think I am. Do you fancy (fancy) coming into town?
Leon: Yeah, sure.
Jody: Great! Let´s meet at café Spuntini in about an hour!
Leon: Cool.
Jody: See you there!
2- ) Complete the sentences with the present simple or present continuos

form of the verbs in the box.
Do/ chat get up/ leave listen/try not buy/borrow not like/love
not study/ watch
1) I get up at 7am every morning, and I always leave for school at 7:45 am.
2) My sister is listening to some very loud music at the moment. And I´m
trying to revise!
3) I don´t like horror stories, but I love adventure books.
4) They don´t study for the exam- they are watching a DVD
5) What are you doing just now? Are you chatting to your friends?
6) My best friend doesn´t buy books. He always borrows them from the
library.
3- ) Look at the pictures. Write sentences with the verbs in the box in the
present simple and the present continuos.
Cycle play read work
1- Mr Stevens usually works in an office, but today he is working in the house
2- Jim and Sal usually cycle in the city, but today they are cycling in the country
3- Kyle usually reads a newspaper, but today he is reading a book
4- Diana usually plays piano, but today she is playing guitar
4- ) Complete the dialogue with the present simple or present continuos

form of the verb in brackets.
What are you doing (do) at the moment? Are you watching (watch) TV, surfing the
internet. Chatting to your friends on Facebook? I am not doing (not do) any of those
things. I´m writing (write) a graphic novel. It is taking (take) place in an American
school, and it tells (tell) the story of a group of friends. I don´t reveal (not reveal) any
more details about the characters or the plot now. I´m drawing (draw) all the
illustrations myself, and l am publishing (publish) it myself too! Watch this space.

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Homework November 28th

1- ) Read the text quickly. What it is about?

3- ) Read the text again and answer the questions.

4- ) Answer the questions with your own opinions.

2- ) Complete the sentences with the present simple or present continuos

4- ) Complete the dialogue with the present simple or present continuos

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