Actividades Inglés

The Sheperd’s Daughter:

1) This tale actually contains a story within a story. What is the first story, or frame, for the second
story? What is the second story, or tale, that the character in the first story tells.

Answer: The first story’s about a writter who isn’t capable to do some craft, he can’t do something
useful out of clay, wood, metal or cloth. So his grandmother encouraged him to learn solid things,
things that can be used.

The second story’s about the Prince of the Persians who fell in love with the sheperd’s daughter and
wanted to marry her, so he sent a messanger to tell her his feelings but he wanted that the prince
learned to do some labour.

The king’s son learned to make some wave straw rugs, but one day in the streets of Baghdad some
thieves and murderes took him. They killed fat mens and feeding them to the skinniers. As a method
to escape, the Prince told them that he could make weave straw rugs and they can sold them for
hundreds of gold pieces of money to the King of the Persians. So he made 3 weave straw rugs with a
secret written lenguage, the King and the sheperd’s daughter notice them and sent soldiers to
rescue their son and husband. The soldiers killed the thieves and murderers and the prince returned
to his home with his daughter and wife.

2) In paragraph 1, you learn the central conflict of the frame story. What is it?

Answer: The central conflict of the frame story is that the grandson can’t made some honorable
craft.

3) Paragraph 4 introduces the story the grandmother tells to teach her grandson a lesson. What
problem is introduced in this paragraph?

Answer: This paragraph introduced a problem where the King’s son fell in love with the sheperd’s
daughter and wanted to married her, but his father, the King of the Persians, didn’t aprove the
relationship.

4) In paragraph 5 you learn the conflict, or what thwarts the prince from archieving what he wants.
What is it?

Answer: The conflict is that the sheperd’s daughter wanted that the Prince learned some labour so
she can become his wife.

5) In paragraph 7, the conflict seems to be resolved. However, what complications arise in paragraph
9?

Answer: The complications that arise in paragraph 9 is that the prince is being held by a bunch of
thieves and murderers who wanted to kill fat mans and feeding them to the leanest prisioners.
6) How is the prince’s situation finally straightened out or resolved.

Answer: The prince’s situation resolveded when he made 3 weave straw rugs with a secret lenguage
asking for help in it. The rugs were sold to the King and he noticed that they were a work of his son,
so he told to the sheperd’s daughter and she looked the rugs and comunicted the secret message to
the King. He sent soldiers who killed the thieves and murderers, so the captives were free.

7) What has the prince learned in paragraph 10?

Answer: The prince learned that every man should know how to make some honorable labours.

8) The first story is brought to his conclusion in paragraph 12. What does the grandmother expect
the grandson to learn from her story? How is what he actually learned ironic, or the opposite, of
what she expected.

Answer: The grandmother expect the grandson to learn from her story to make some honorable
work and her grandson learned the lesson.

Directions. Answer the following questions is based on the selection you just read.

1: a

2: b

3: b

4: b

5: a

A letter:

Dear mom:

I’ve choosen you because these are hard times and specially you are a little stressed because of the
homeschooling and the quarantine.

Everything is gonna past, you have my word. The world as we know doesn’t exist anymore, so thing s
aren’t gonna be the same.

I understand you, being 24/7 with us may be a little anoying haha!

Just wanted to say: please don´t be to hard on yourself, relax, do yoga or walk the dog, just make
whatever makes you happy.

Love you, Kaia.

Will and going to:

Questions with will and going to:

1) You like writing essays. Are you going to be a journalist

2) You are a good guitar player. Are you going to play the guitar in a rock band?

3) Will we learn English on the internet in the future, in your opinion?

4) Geoff is interested in computers. Is he going to study computers at the university?

5) Will Mary pass her exams, do you think?

6) Will people watch television in the future, do you think?

7) You are learning English at school now. But are you going to use English in your job?

Circle the correct form

1) Will people live

2) Will

3) Aren’t going to

4) Are you going to

5) Won’t

6) Won’t

7) Will

8) Are going to

9) Won’t

10) Am going to

11) Will always be

Complete the sentences with phrases from the box and will or is/are going to

2) I believe that hackers will cause chaos to computers soon.

3) John is been sick. His mom an dad are going to phone the doctor.

4) In fifty years’ time. I think every child in Britain will know how to use a computer.

5) We know wich holiday we want. I’m going to book the tickets.

6) In my opinion people will live on the moon some time this century.
Health page 53:

1) Look at the photos of Katy and Tom from age progression software. In wich photos they look older
b or c? Why do you think they look older?

Answer: They both look older in c pictures, Katy looks so much older beacuse she´s a smoker, Tom
looks older because he took to much sun.

3) I’ve never a bad illness or accident

I’ve sometimes have a cold/ cough/ headache/ sore throat/ tempeture.

I occasionally have diarrhoea/ earache/ flu/ hayfever/ stomachache/ toothache.

I really need to eat less junk food. I really need to eat more fuit/ vegetable. I really need to do more
exercice. I really need to stop smoking/ sunbathe less/ watch less tv.

Will, may and be going to page 56:

1) Look at the photos (a-d). How do these things affect our health?

Answer: Consuming too much antiobiotics may cause you stomachache or disease.

Polution affects your lungs

Obesity cause you a lot of problems such as diabetes

Germs may cause you to have flu.

2) Read the interview with a health expert. What are the future health problems?

The future health problems are:

• New diseases, global threats and allergies will apear.

• Diseases have come resistant to our drugs and vaccines may not work as good as they
should
• Obesity is going to cause all sorts of health problems

3) Wich of the threats do you think are the most serious? Wich can we avoid?

Answer: I think the most serious problem is the creation of new diseases. We can avoid obesity by
eating more fruits and vegetable, eating less junk food and doing more exercise.

4) Read the predictions (1-3) from the text and underline the verb forms that refer to the future.
Then match them to the uses (a-c)-

1- Bugs love high temperatures so they are going to spread faster than ever.

2- I'm sure more allergies will develop

3- Tropical diseases may move into colder regions.

Be going to= c

Will= a

May= b

Practice page 57:

6) Use expressions in brackets to write predictions for those situations.

2- Mark is very pale and has a stomachache. He’s going to be sick.

3- Peter has a cold. I’m sure he will be okay next week.

4- Carol has broken her leg. She may need an operation.

5- Alex reads a lot about medicine. He’s going to be a doctor.

6- Tess has got a cold. He will have to take antibiotics.

7) Choose the correct verb forms to complete the sentences.

2- Who knows? In ten years cancer may be easy to cure.

3- Stop eating! You are going to put on weight.

4- Infectious diseases won’t disappear. There´s no chance of that.

5- You sit in front of the computer all day you are going to have problems with your eyes.

6- I'm sure doctors will use antibiotics carefully in the future.

8) Look at the pictures (1-4). Make predictions for each situation using the correct form of will, may
and be going to

He may have a broken leg.

She’s going to have a baby.

Her hayfever is going to calm down.

I’m sure he will have a stomachache.

12) Make predictions about your life in five years time. Use the cues or your own ideas and will,
won´t or may.

Answer: I won’t have a job because university is going to be to stressfull.

I will travel a lot.

I will have good grades.

Skin matters page 54:

1) Match the statements (1-5) with the photos (a-e). Wich one do you think is false?

1- People with fair skin have a greater risk of skin cancer= e

2- Our skin has billions of microbes= a

3- We lose 4 kilograms of skin every year= c

4- Bad food like chocolate causes spots= b

5- Tattoos damage your skin= d

2) Read the magazine page quickly and match the letters (1-4) with the replies.

-1=b

-2=a

-3=d

-4= c

Confusing words:

3) Use strategies to choose the best answer to the questions.

-2= a

-3=d

-4=b

-5=d

5) Look at the pairs of words in the word builder. How do you say the words in bold in your
lenguage? Are they confusing for you. Why?

Use= usar, Wear= vestir

Actually= en realidad, Now= ahora

Food= comida, Meal= plato

Damage= dañar, Hurt= lastimar

Great= gran, Big= grande

6) Chose the correct word to complete the sentences

2- That's not Simon’s pen. Actually that’s mine.

3- I have problems with my hair so I use special shampoo and wear a hat in the summer.

4- That tattoo’s really great! It’s really artistic but is a bit big.

5- I love chinese food. We had a great meal in that new restaurant last week.

6- The sun damages the skin and sunburn hurts a lot.

7) Look at the linkers in blue in the text. Wich of these (a-c) do they do?

They order list things (B).

8) Match the pictures (a-c) with the instructions (1-3). Then use linking words from the text to order
the instructions.

First squeeze three lemons to get their juice. Second, mix it with two cups of cold water. Third, put it
in the sunburn with a sponge.

Check your progress page 63:

1) Complete the text with the correct words.

-1= in

-2= accident

-3= had

-4= bad

-5= feel

-6= to

-7= more

-8= do

-9= less

2) Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

-1= A few weeks ago Jeff was really ill but NOW he’s fine.

-2= I take a lot of vitamin pills but ACTUALLY, I don´t think they do anything.

-3= Too much sun can really DAMAGE your skin and sunburn can really HURT.

-4= I love Japanese FOOD. The best MEAL I’ve ever had was at a traditional Japanese inn.

-5= Hayfever is usually a BIG problem for me but this new medicine is GREAT.
3) Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets and the words below.

-1 Tim is at the dentist´s. He may arrive a bit late.

-2 My cousin is going to travel the world.

-3 I think people will eat less junk food in the future.

-4 It’s not going to rain. Look at the sky!

-5 She definitely won´t finish her book this evening

-6 Look! Tess is going to win the race

-7 Steve has broken his leg. He may need an operation.

-8 I’ve got a sore throat. I’m sure I’ll be okay next week.

4) Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs below.

-1 The doctor says he’s broken his finger but is not a serious break.

-2 He had an accident on his way to school yesterday.

-3 Are you taking any medicine at the moment?

-4 Does your leg hurts if I press here?

-5 You need to have an X- ray as soon as possible.

6- He had flu but he got over it very quickly.

7- I take a painkiller when I have a headache.

-8 He is bleeding badly when he broke his finger.

5) Complete the dialogue with the correct words .

Hello. What’s the illness?

I’ve got a temperature.

I see. What about a sore throat or headache?

No, I haven’t, but I’ve got earache.

Oh dear. It sounds like an ear infection. Drink lots of water and take these pills four times a day.
You’ll soon get over it.

William Shekespeare:

1) Read about Shakespeare. Wich of his plays have you seen or read?
I’ve seen “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet” and “Macbeth”.

3)

g. Claudius killed Hamlet’s father 1

e. Gertrude married Hamlet’s uncle 2

b. Hamlet spoke to his father’s ghost 3

d. Hamlet behaved stragenly and was nasty to Ophelia 4

i.Hamlet killed Polonius 5

a.Claudius put poison into Laerte’s sword 6

c. Hamlet and Laertes started to fight 7

g. Gertrude drank the wine and died 8

f. Hamlet killed Claudius 9

4) Are these true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false information.

1- Gertrude married Claudius a few month after the King Hamlet died. F

Gertrude married Claudius a few WEEKS after the King Hamlet died.

2- The ghost appeared before modnight. T

3- A snake killed Hamlet’s father. F

Claudius put poison in Hamlet´s ear and that’s what killed him

4- Hamlet never had an opportunity to kill Claudius. F

Hamlet did kill Claudius.

5- Claudius wanted to poison Gertrude. F

Claudius wanted to poison Hamlet.

5) Choose adjectives from page 25 to describe these characters: Claudius, Hamlet, Laertes,
Ophelia.

Claudius: The new King of Denmark. New stepfather of Hamlet. Ambitius.

Hamlet: indecisive but angry man. Prince of Denmark. Murderer.

Laertes: Ophelia’s brother. Fighter man.

Ophelia: Laertes’ sister. Comforting but upset.

6) Complete these sentences with words from the story. Make new words from the words in
brackets.

1- A poisonous snake didn’t kill Hamlet’s father but it was a painful death.

-2 Hamlet was full of anger for his stepfather and his mother’s behaviour filled him with hatred.

-3 Hamlet was not very decisive and he started behaving strangely.

-4 Hamlet was suspicious and thought that Claudius was listening to him and his mother.

-5 When he returned from England, Ophelia was dead but Claudius was still alive.

Lenguage review page 60:

1) Complete the descriptions with the correct words.

1- the

2- can't

3- to

4- about

5- just

6- feel

7- hurt

8- in

9- have

10- to

11- have

12- take

13- do

2) Choose the correct words to complete the dialogues

14- on

15- interesting

16- actually

17- food

18- up
19- fantastic

20- soft

21- damage

22- great

23- wear

3) Complete the text with the correct modals

24- have to

25- can´t

26- can´t

27- have to

28- not have to

29- have to

30- have to

4) Complete the hospital rules with the correct modal verbs.

31- must not

32- must

33- may

34- must

35- must not

5) Coose the correct expressions to complete the sentences.

36- may

37- is going to

38- will

39- may

40- will

6) Complete the dialogues

41- too
42- am

43- neither

44- do

7) Complete the dialogue with the correct words

45- ill

46- feel

47- hurt

48- check

49- must

50- times

Nature page 61:

1) Look at the photos (a-c). What other endangered animals do you know about in the world and
your country.

Other endangered animals that i know are the polar bear and the giraffe. And here in argentina
we have the Andean Condor.

4) 1- green spaces

2- reptiles

3- alligators

4- mosquitoes

5- definitly

6- climate change

7- water pollution

Species at war page 62:

1) Look at the photos (a-c). What do you think links these animals

Option a. People brought the to Australia.

2) Read the text and check your predictions from exercise 1. Then answer the questions

1- What problem do cane toads create in Australia. Answer: They kill other species.
2- What solution have people found to the problem and what solution has nature found?
Answer: They found a worm that attacks toad’s lungs and the nature found a solution where
snake with small heads eat smaller toads and smaller toads are less poisonous.

3) What do people do to save endangered animals in your country?

They take them to zoos where they try to reproduce them and then release them into their
natural habitat.

Future conditional page 62:

4) Read the sentences (1-2) from the text and complete the rule.

If+ present simple tense, will/may + infinitive

5) Underline the correct word in the rule below

We use Future Conditional to talk about possible/ impossible situations in the future.

Species at war page 63:

6) Complete the conditional sentences with will and the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

2- Great white sharks will disappear if overfishing continues

3- Sit still! The cat won’t come to you if you are not very quiet.

4- Animals in the Arctic will be in danger if the climate gets hotter.

5- You have to clean the aquarium. The fish may get ill if you don´t do it regularly.

7) Use the cues to make sentences with the future conditional.

2- If we use clean energy, we will save the planet

3- If the climate gets hotter, some birds will stop moving to colder regions in the summer.

4- If farmers use more chemicals many insects will die.

5- If people won’t stop killing whales, they will disappear.

8) Look at the sentences builder with before and when. Do the verbs in bold talk about the
present or the future.

The verbs in bold talk about the future.

9) Complete the sentences with when or before and the words in brackets.

2- The zoo will buy an elephant when they have more money

3- Scientists will test the new drug on animals before they give it to people

4- Before we cut down the tree we will warn the neighbours.

5- Ecologists will inform the media when they see any injured whales.

Deadly animals page 64:

1) Wich of the actions (1-6) do you think are the right things to do in the situation

3,4,5 and 6

3) Read the article again. Are the sentences true, false or is no information given?

2- F

3- T

4- T

5- F

6- T

4) Look at the words in blue in the text. Match the verbs in bold in the word builder with the
meanings

-1= c

-2= e

-3= a

-4= f

-5= b

-6= d

Deadly animals page 65:

7) Listen again and use the strategies in the skill builder to guess the meanings of the words and
expressions

-1= c
-2= b

-3= c

-4= c

-5= b

-6= a

-7= b

-8= b

8) Look at the sentences builder. What does it refer to in 1? Does it refer to anything in 2 and 3?

In numer 1 it refers to the hippo. In numer 2 and 3 doesn’t refer to anything.

9) Use the cues to write sentences with it

-2 It is dangerous to meet a mother bear.

-3 It is 10 of April of 2012

4- It is difficult to learn a lenguage.

-5 It’s dark at five o’ clock.

Bees page 66:

1) Look at the photos. What do you know about bees?

I know if you annoyed them they could hurt you, they are able to pollinate and they follow their
queen.

2) Read the text. What have you learnt about bees? What other animals are useful to our
planet? Why?

I’ve learnt that the bees first appeared on earth 150 million years ago and now there are 20000
bee species around the world.

The butterflies and wasp are also useful to our planet because they also pollinate.

3) Read the sentences (1-5) from the text. Match them with the diagrams (a-e).

-2= c

-3= e

-4= a

-5= b
4) Read the rules. Wich of the nouns below do not go with many?

Honey, water, chocolate and danger

5) Look at the results of a class survey. Make sentences with all, most, many, some or none of
the.

All the students watch nature films on TV.

None of them work for an animal charity.

Most of them don’t go to the zoo.

Many of the students have a pet.

Some of the students don’t like playing with animals

Writing workshop page 67:

1) Read the brochure about a nature school. What three questions would you ask to get more
information about the courses.

How they cut down trees in the course of wood craft?

What meals they do with the plants and mushrooms in the course of wild food?

How to they catch the fishes in the course of wild food?

2) Read the letter. Wich of your questions from exercise 1 does Bruce ask?

None of them.

3) Find formal expressions in the text with these meanings (1-4).

-2= I will forward to hearing from you

-3= Dear Sir/Madam

-4= I am writing to ask information about your wood- craft course.

4) Look at the the sentence builder. Match the words in bold with the meanings (a-d)

-1= b

-2= a

-3= d

-4= c
5) Complete the sentences with another, other or the other

-2 Do I have to sleep in the tent pr is there another place to stay?

-3 You have two centres. What other courses do you have at the other nature centre in
Scotland?

-4 Have you got other nature schools outside Britain?

6) Write a letter asking for information about one of the other courses at the nature school.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to ask for information about your wild food course.

First, how to you catch the fishes and animals?

The other question is how do you cook the plants and wild mushrooms? I have 0 experience with
cooking because my mom always make my food! Third, do I have to bring any equipment?
Another question is about the animals. They are very dangerous?

I have also some practical questions. Where were your teachers trained to teach? They have
many years of experience? Another question, Do you have any nurse in case anything wrong
happens?

I look forward to hearing from you

Kaia Ruffinelli.

Check your progress page 71:

1) Complete the sentences with the correct word

-1=pollution

-2= change

-3= spaces

-4= reserves

-5= problems

-6= fishing

-7= loss

2) Complete the sentences with will and the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
 If you leave the dog alone. It won’t bite you.

I wil take the dog for a walk if you feed the cat.

If he doesn’t arrive soon, we will start without him.

I will be very angry if he lose my MP3 player.

What would you do if you don´t pass your exams?

If we go by bus, we won’t be late.

3) Replacing the underlined phrases with the correct form of the multipart verbs in the box

Run away from alligators they can’t go very far on land.

If you meet a tiger, stand still and prepare to fight back.

Stay away from bears. They don’t go near humans.

Be extremely careful if you come across a mother bear with cubs by chance.

Bears run fast and climb trees so it’s really difficult to get away from them.

If you run through bushes you can make killer bees move slow down.

4) Add it to the text where necessary.

My cousin has a pet snake and he keeps IT in a cage. I think is bad to keep IT in cages, but he looks
after very well, so I suppose it´s happy. IT was quite small when he first got IT, but now it´s grown yo
about a metre long. One day I went to his house and he said ‘That´s strange. I shut the door of the
cage last night, but IT was open this morning and the snake isn´t there!’As you can imagine, IT was
very frightening to think that this big snake was free and probably somewhere in the house. I left IT
very quickly, and didn´t returnet to IT until he’ d found.

5) Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

-1= no

-2= some

-3= none

-4= many

-5= most

-6= many

-7= most