THE MERMAID

This is the Mermaid Rianna. Shes very pretty and clever. She lives in the sea,
but she also gets out on the beach to find some friends in the summer. Rianna
likes people, especially children.
In the morning she wakes up at about 7 oclock and she swims around to find
something for her breakfast. She usually has tiny fish. She, then, finds her
friends, some other mermaids and they go to the bottom of the sea to see the
sea plants, which they like very much.
They usually have lunch at about one oclock, some seaweeds, and in the
afternoon Mermaid Rianna swims out, to the beach, where she finds children
that she knows and she tells them stories of the sea.
When the sun goes out, Rianna swims back into the deep sea. Rianna is happy in
the summer, because in winter all her beach friends go to school and in the
afternoons they stay at home to do their homework.
Rianna has dinner at about eight oclock and then she goes to bed which is in the
sea.
NOW:
1. Circle all the verbs in the third person singular
2. Underline all the verbs which arent in the third person.
3. Say what other stories you know about mermaids.
4. Draw what Rianna does every day.
5. Is Riannas life interesting? Why (not)?

Rania Foka, British Council Teacher, Teacher Trainer and Co-ordinator.