Reading

One day I found a small bag from the ship with seeds1 in it. I decided to use it for my gunpowder so I emptied it outside my house. It rained a lot and about a month later I saw some young plants…

Reading

A few weeks later it was Muff Potter’s trial.1 Everyone in St Petersburg talked about it and Tom and Huck were worried. “Tom,” said Huck, “did you tell anyone about… that?” “No, of course…

I’m hungry!

Vocabulary (PET)

Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. Both Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward: 2000-1887 and William Morris’s News from Nowhere share several ideas. They are both set the…

Reported speech (I)

Reported Speech ‘He said that Christmas was a humbug.’ Fred is telling other people what his uncle said, so this is a reported statement. Look at these sentences. We can see that the tense of the…

Reading

Swanson ordered Amy and Claire to stay in his office while he organised his officers. Judge Macintosh, Lisa’s father, was already on a plane with the money. Everybody seemed to be busy, doing…

Humour - Go back to the text

A lot of the humour in Part Three comes from seeing how the Ghost makes very careful plans to frighten the Americans... but they make very careful plans themselves! It is now like a war, and the Otis…

In Fair Verona - In Fair Verona

In 2000, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) made Verona a World Heritage Site. This means that UNESCO chose this city of about 270,000 people in the north east…

Practico competencias

Coloca en su sitio:

¿Qué palabra„ forman esta„ sílaba„? Rodea su imagen en la ilustración: ¿Quién está tomando una bebida poco saludable? Di un alimento que proviene del campo y otro que venga del mar. La…