CLASS 5

READING COMPREHENSION – A NIGHT IN A HAUNTED HOTEL.

Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever seen a ghost? Would you like to spend a
night in Room 11 of Gosforth Hall Hotel? Why (not)?
  Answer the following questions.

1) Where is Gosforth Hall Hotel?

2) Who is Stephen Bleach?
3) What is special about Room 11?
4) What did Stephen do?
5) What couldn’t he do?
6) How did he feel before he went to the hotel?
7) Does he believe in ghosts?

ACTIVITY 2: PUT THE VERBS IN THE CORRECT TENSE: Present Simple, Present
Continuous or Past Simple

1. I ___________________ (watch) TV after lunch every day.

2. She ___________________ (go) to the cinema yesterday.
3. They___________________ (play) games at the moment.
4. We ___________________ (travel) Punta del Este last weekend.
5. They ___________________ (be) at home now. They ___________________
(do) their homework now.
6. She usually ___________________ (eat) a dessert after dinner.
7. He ___________________ (study) French in 1995.
8. My family and I ___________________ (spend) our holidays in Punta del Este
every summer.
9. We ___________________ (buy) a new car last year.
10. My mother ___________________ (cook) a chocolate cake every Sunday.

11. Nicole (get up) __________ at 11 am every morning.

12. Yesterday we (do) _________ the shopping in the morning before lunch.

13. Tommy (not have) _____________ a car when he was young.

14. She always (prepare) ___________ breakfast for her husband.

15. I (lose) __________ my wallet yesterday.

16. I (read) ____________ the newspaper at the moment.

17. They (visit) ___________ Europe three years ago.

18. Jack (listen) ____________ to music in his bedroom now. He always (listen)
_________ to music after dinner.

19. The maid (clean) ____________ the house twice a week.

20. Suzy _________________ (play) volley with her friends now.

21. I ___________ (get up) at seven o’ clock when I (be) ______ at primary
school. Nowadays, I get up later because I work in the afternoon.
22. My mother _________________ (cook) a cake for me this morning.
23. My sister ________________ (like) going dancing. Every weekend, she and
her friends __________________ (go) to a disco near my house.
24. Mary usually ______________ (pay) attention in class; but now she
_______________ (talk) with a mate.

ACTIVITY 3: Read the postcard and complete it with the corresponding tense:
simple present, present continuous or simple past.
ACTIVITY 4: WRITING A POSTCARD
Imagine you are on holiday in another town or city. Answer the following questions:

 Where did you go? Why?

 How did you travel? When did you arrive?
 Where are you staying? Describe the place.
 Are you having a good time? Why?
 What did you do yesterday? Did you do something special?
 Where are you at the moment?
 What are you doing?
 Say something about the town or city. Is it nice or not? Why?
 Say what you usually do in the evening and what are you doing these days.

Interchange the postcards and check for mistakes.

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ACTIVITY 5: Put the verbs in brackets into the PRESENT SIMPLE or PAST
SIMPLE.

ARTICLES:
A) CIRCLE THE EXTRA WORD IN EACH SENTENCE.

1. In my free time, I listen to the music, go to the cinema and play the guitar.
2. The Head gave the Class 7 permission to organise an after-school club.
3. I go to the chess club at the weekend by the bus.
4. Jenny loves the swimming and she’d like to swim the English Channel.
5. We went to the USA and saw the Grand Canyon and the Mount Rushmore.
6. You need a hobby, like playing the flute or collecting the stamps.

B) CORRECT THE SENTENCES. ADD ARTICLES WHERE NECESSARY.

1. Oscar had lot of time to start new hobbies when he was in prison.
2. I like comedies, whether they are on television or on radio.
3. James has taken up new hobby and spends whole evening making models.
4. Hang-gliding is great fun, but you need hills or even mountain nearby.
5. My hobby is drawing so when I grow up I’d like to be artist.
C) PRACTICE: USE A / AN / THE OR – TO COMPLETE THE PARAGRAPH
BELOW.

FAST FOOD ADS

(1) ________________________ fast food is probably (2) ___________________

most popular food with (3) _________________ young people all over (4)
_________________ world. There is plenty of choice about what to eat although (5)
_________________ burgers are usually (6) ___________________ first choice. (7)
________________ burgers which are served with (8) ____________________
sauce, (9) ___________________ cheeses and (10) ______________ salad on
top are favourites. In (11) _________________ most fast food restaurants, along
with (12) _________________ burger, you can get (13) ________________
enormous ice-cold drink and (14) ____________________ French fries, too.

D) ARTICLES II: COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH A/AN OR THE WHERE

NECESSARY.

1. …………………………….. fruit you bought looked nice but I didn’t like …………………..
taste.
2. I prefer ………………………. chicken to ……………………… beef.
3. John had ………………………. orange after his meal and it was ………… juiciest one he’d
had for ages.
4. You must book ………………….. table if you want to eat at ………………………… new
Italian restaurant at ……………………. weekend.
5. Pamela actually liked …………………….. food she was given while she was in
……………………. hospital.
6. Do you know how they usually cook…………………… eggs in England?
7. …………….. lunch will be ready in half …………… hour so don’t start eating
………………….. crisps now.
8. When I was in………………… army I used to have …………………… boiled egg,
…………………. bacon, ……………….. sausages and …………………….. cup of coffee for
breakfast but now I only have ……………….. egg and ………………… glass of milk.
E) WRITE A / AN / THE / - IN EACH GAP TO COMPLETE THE TEXT.

My piano teacher is 1____________ very interesting man. He

has been teaching piano for 2___________ thirty years and
he has been playing for even longer. 3_________ piano he
has at 4___________ home is 100 years old and it is from
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_______ Russia- He says that 6___________ Russians used
to make the best pianos in the world.
We have our lessons in 7_________ afternoons and I always go there on
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___________ bus. On 9___________ winter evenings, it’s dark by the time I get
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home, nut I don’t mind because I love having _________ lessons with him.

F)
1. _________ boys like playing with cars.
2. _________ Amazon is South America’s largest river.
3. I never listen to _________ radio. In fact, I haven’t even got _________ radio.
4. What _________ amazing idea he had yesterday evening.
5. _________ rich should do more to help _________ poor.
6. My dad always liked to go to _________ school.
7. Did you see the film on _________ television or at _________ cinema?
8. There’s half _________ litre of milk left in _________ fridge.
9. _________ Uncle Norman and _________ Aunt Lydia stayed with us over the
weekend.
10.Austria was ruled by _________ Habsburgs for many centuries.
11.Dad told us to go to _________ bed at ten.
12.What’s _________ highest mountain on _________ earth?
13.I met _________ few American tourists when I was in Italy.
14._________ earth moves around _________ sun every 365 days.
15._________ Soviet Union was _________ first country to send _________ human
being into
_________ space.
16.I had to stay in _________ hospital for two weeks in order to recover.
17._________ oranges and apples have a lot of vitamins.
18.This is _________ most wonderful present I’ve ever had.
19._________ President Bush is from Texas.
20.I’m not very hungry. I had _________ big breakfast
21.Peter lives in Tokyo, _________ capital of Japan.
22.In Britain, drinking _________ tea is more common than drinking _________
coffee.
23.She is such _________ clever girl. She’s bound to go to _________ university
later on.
24.It was _________ long journey. We were at _________ sea for two months.
25._________ women are often said to be better teachers than _________ men.

GENERAL QUESTIONS
WHAT IS YOUR NAME? AND YOUR SURNAME?
ARE YOU MARRIED?
HOW OLD ARE YOU?
WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
WHAT IS YOUR ADDRESS?
WHAT IS YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER?
WHAT IS YOUR JOB? WHAT DO YOU DO?
HAVE YOU GOT BROTHERS OR SISTERS?
HAVE YOU GOT CHILDREN?
WHAT DO YOU USUALLY DO AT WEEKENDS?
DO YOU COOK?
WHAT FOOD DO YOU LIKE?
DO YOU PRACTICE ANY SPORTS? WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SPORT?
WHAT TIME DO YOU NORMALLY GET UP?
WHAT TIME DO YOU USUALLY GO TO BED?
WHAT DO YOU LIKE DOING IN YOUR FREE TIME?
DO YOU LIKE GOING TO CONCERTS?
HOW OFTEN DO YOU GO TO THE CINEMA?
HOW OFTEN DO YOU PLAY FOOTBALL / GO TO THE GYM?
WHAT DO YOU HATE DOING AT WEEKENDS?
WHERE DO YOU USUALLY GO ON HOLIDAY?
HOW OFTEN DO YOU SEE YOUR FRIENDS?
TALKING ABOUT THE PAST

WHAT TIME DID YOU GET UP YESTERDAY?

WHAT DID YOU EAT FOR LUNCH?
WHERE DID YOU GO LAST SATURDAY?
DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL YESTERDAY?
DID YOU WATCH T.V.?
WHAT TIME DID YOU GO TO BED YESTERDAY?
WHAT DID YOUR MOTHER DO IN THE MORNING?
DID YOUR FATHER GO TO WORK?