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REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA

INSTITUCION EDUCATIVA MUNICIPAL CABRERA


SECOND PERIOD - 2019
SUBJECT ENGLISH GRADE TENTH-10TH
TEACHER SILVANA YAMILE LÓPEZ M. TOPIC READING COMPREHENSION
LEARNING GOAL: To identify the information about a text by selecting the correct option according to the situation.
NAME:
1. Look at the pictures. What social problems do you think each picture represents?

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2. Read the stories. Match them with the pictures in exercise 5 and check your ideas from exercise 5.
Everyday people changing the world
3. Complete the table with information from each text:

4. Read the stories again. Answer the questions. Write full sentences and use the past simple in your
answers.
a. Why did Thulani Madondo have to work while he was still at school?____________________________________
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b. What kind of organisation did Thulani create to help poor children?_____________________________________
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c. What did Pushpa study at university?_____________________________________________________________
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d. Why did Pushpa start a children’s day centre?______________________________________________________
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e. What happened to Catalina Escobar’s son? _______________________________________________________
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f. Why did the twelve-day-old baby die? ____________________________________________________________
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5. Read the story of Chris, a sixteen-year-old boy from Toronto. Complete it with regular past simple
forms of the verbs in brackets.

6. A lot of common verbs are irregular in English. Match the infinitives with the past simple
affirmative form.

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