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 Contents

1 Prepositional phrases: in front of, behind, near 1

Questions: Where is /are …?

2 Questions: Where do/does … live? 5

Simple present tense
Prepositions: in, on, by
Questions: How …?

3 Prepositions: in, on 9
Simple present tense

Revision 1 13

4 Preposition: in 17
Present continuous tense

5 Demonstrative pronouns: this, these, 21

that, those
‘Yes/no’ questions
Possessive ’s

6 Possessive adjectives: me, your, our, their 25

his, her

Prepositions: from, to, up, down

Revision 2 29
1
Read and learn

The apple is in front of the grapes.

The pears are near the apple.
Hmm … Where is the cat?

It is behind you!

is it? It is in front of the grapes.

Where behind the oranges.
are they? They are near the apple.
★ We say ‘Where …?’ to ask about places and positions.
★ We use ‘is’ to talk about one person, one animal or one object.
★ We use ‘are’ to talk about more than one person, one animal or
one object.
★ We use ‘in front of’, ‘behind’ and ‘near’ to talk about positions.

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in front of, behind, near

A Irene is writing about some pictures. Look at the
pictures. Complete the sentences.

behind in front of near

Lily is ________________ the tree.

Lily Sam is ________________ the tree.

Sam

2 Jack is ________________ the robot.

Maria is ________________ the robot.
Maria

3 Jack

Ben and Mandy are _____________

___________ the teddy bear.

Mandy Ben

4 Tom and David are ________________

the car. The bus is ________________
the car.

Tom
David

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Where is/are …?
A Irene and Kathy are playing a game. Complete
the questions.

1 __________________ is the girl?

She is in front of the bench.

2 ___________________ the boy?

He is behind the house.

3 ___________________ the children?

They are near the tree.

4 _____________________________________
(the cat)
It is behind the birds.

5 _ ____________________________________
(the lions)
They are near the horses.

6 _ ____________________________________
(the boy)
He is behind the man.

7 _ ____________________________________
(the monkeys)
They are in front of the tree.


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B Irene and Steve are looking at a picture. Complete

their conversations.

1 _______________________________ the lion?

It is near the bus stop.
2 _______________________________ the horses?
_____________________________________ the supermarket.
3 _ _____________________________________________________
(the pandas)
__________________________________________ the cinema.
4 _ _____________________________________________________
(the swimming pool)
________________________________________ the cake shop.
5 _ _____________________________________________________
(the cats and the dogs)
_________________________________________ the fountain.
6 _ _____________________________________________________
(the duck)
_____________________________________________ the clinic.

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Read and learn
Where do you live? I live in Causeway Bay.

How can you go to Central? I can go by bus.

Kowloon.
you I
do live in the New Territories.
they They
Where live? Sha Tin.

he He
does lives on Hong Kong Island.
she She

★ We say ‘Where …?’ to ask about location.

★ We use ‘in’ and ‘on’ to talk about location.
★ We use the simple present tense to talk about present states.

I I bus.
you You train.
we the We by
How can go to can go tram.
they library? They ferry.
he He
she She on foot.

★ We say ‘How can …?’ to ask about ways of getting to a place.

★ We use ‘by’ to talk about means of transport. We put the names of
vehicles after ‘by’, e.g., by bus.
★ We say ‘on foot’ to tell people we walk to a place.

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Where do/does … live?

A Philip is writing about his friends and teachers. Complete
his sentences.

in on

I live 1 _______ Sha Tin. Our school is 2 _______ Sha Tin, too.
I live near the school.
My friends and teachers do not live near the school. Alice
lives 3 _______ Tsim Sha Tsui. Peter and Paul live 4 _______
Lantau Island. Alan lives 5 _______ Causeway Bay. Mr Chan
and Mrs Lam are our teachers. Mr Chan lives 6 _______
Kowloon. Mrs Lam lives 7 _______ Lamma Isalnd.

B Philip meets some friends. Complete their conversation.

Philip: Hi, John! Hi, Lily!

Lily: Hi, Philip! 1 ____________ do you live?
Philip: I live 2 ____________ Tuen Mun. 3 _________________
you ____________?
Lily: I 4 ____________ (live) in Kowloon.
Philip: John, Fred is your friend. 5 _________________ he
____________?
John: He 6 ____________ (live) ____________ Lamma Island.
Philip: How about Nancy and Mandy? 7 _________________
they ____________?
John: They 8 ____________ (live) ____________ Tsuen Wan.
Lily: 9 _________________ George and Gary ____________?
Philip: They 10 ____________ (live) ____________ Lantau
 Island.
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by, on
A Philip asks you to help him write down how his friends
can go to different places. Look at the pictures. Complete
the sentences.

1 John can go to the zoo ___________ foot.

(the zoo)

2 Tom and Peter can go to the park _____

_____________________________________.
(the park)

3 Paul can _____________________________

_____________________________________.
(the cinema)

4 Lily can ______________________________

_____________________________________.
(the clinic)

5 Nancy can ___________________________

_____________________________________.
(Yuen Long)

6 Alan can _____________________________

_____________________________________.
(Shau Kei Wan)

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How …?
A You and your friends are in Sha Tin. You are asking
Philip how to go to different places. Complete the questions.
1 _ ____________ can I go to Kowloon Tong?
You can go by train.
2 _____________ can Peter go to Lantau Island?
He can go by taxi. Then he can go by ferry.
3 ____________________________ go to ___________________?
(Shirley, Kwun Tong)
She can go by train.
4 _____________________________________________________?
(Alice, Tsim Sha Tsui)
She can go by bus.

B Philip and his friends are in the park. Complete their

conversation.
Nancy: Philip, I live in Tsuen Wan. 1 _________________ can
I go to your home?
Philip: You can go 2 _________________ bus.
John: I live near you. I can go 3 _________________.
Philip: Yes, you’re right. Shirley, you live in
Central. You can go 4 _________________.
Shirley: Philip, Lily lives in Kowloon Tong. 5 _______________
_____________________________?
Philip: She can go 6 _________________.
John: Fred, you live on Lamma Island. 7 _________________
___________ go to Philip’s home?
Fred: I know. I can go 8 _________________.
➔
Then I can go 9 _________________.

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Read and learn

The children sing songs in the music room.

It is on the third floor.

The computer room is

ground
The tuck the on the first floor.
and are second
shop playground

I
You have lessons the classrooms.
in
We play games the playground.
They

★ We use ‘on’ to show positions.

★ We use ‘in’ to talk about places.
★ We use ‘ground’, ‘first’, ‘second’, ‘third’, ‘fourth’ and ‘fifth’ to talk
about positions in a building.
★ We use the simple present tense to talk about things we usually do.

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in, on
A Help Alice check the sentences. Tick ‘✓’ the correct sentences.
Underline the wrong words. Write the correct words on the right.
1 The art room is on the fourth floor. ✓
__________
2 The library is in the first floor. on
__________
3 The three classrooms are in the third floor. __________
4 We play games on the playground. __________
5 The tuck shop is on the ground floor. __________
6 We buy snacks on the tuck shop. __________
7 We have lunch on the classroom. __________
8 We have computer lessons in the
computer room. __________

B Alice is writing about her school. Complete the sentences

with ‘in’ and ‘on’.

There are twenty classrooms 1 _________ our school. We

have lessons 2 _________ the classrooms. We have PE
lessons 3 _________ the playground. The playground is
4 _________ the ground floor. We have computer lessons
5 _________ the computer room. It is 6 _________ the

fourth floor.
We draw pictures 7 _________ the art room. It is
8 _________ the fourth floor. We sing songs 9 _________

the music room. It is 10 _________ the second floor.

The library is 11 _________ the first floor. We read books
there. The hall is 12 _________ the first floor, too. We
watch shows there. The tuck shop is 13 _________ the
ground floor. We buy snacks there.

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 Date: 

Simple present tense

A Alice is writing about her friends and teachers. Complete
the sentences with the simple present tense.

1 Mr Wong ___________________ (teach)

us English.

2 C
 hildren ___________________ (play)
ball games in a playground.

3 Ivan ___________________ (read) books

in the library after school.

4 M
 y friends and I ___________________
(buy) snacks in the tuck shop at recess.

5 We ___________________ (watch) films

in a cinema.

6 We ___________________ (sing) songs in

music lessons.

7 Dave ___________________ (draw)

good pictures.

8 Tim
 ___________________ (live) on
Lamma Island. He ___________________
(have) piano lessons at home.
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 Date: 

Simple present tense, in, on

A Alice is writing about her dream school. Complete her
sentences. Then fill in the blanks in the picture.
1 _____________ my dream school, there are ten classrooms.
The classrooms are 2 _____________ the first and the second
floor. We 3 _____________ (have) lessons there.
The art room is 4 _____________ the third floor. Miss Lam
5 _____________ (teach) Visual Art there. We 6 _____________

(draw) pictures there.

My friends 7 _____________ (like) computer lessons. The
computer room is 8 _____________ the fifth floor.
9 _____________ the computer room, they 10 _____________

(learn) how to use computers.

Tom 11 _____________ (like) music. He 12 _____________ (sing)
songs 13 _____________ the music room. It is 14 _____________
the fourth floor.

5/F
15 _______________________

4/F
16 _______________________

3/F
17 _______________________

2/F
18 _______________________

1/F
classrooms
G/F
tuck shop

playground
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Revision 1 Date: ________________________

A Patrick is writing an e-mail. He asks you for help.

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words.

To: Cecilia@oupenglish.hk

From: Patrick@oupenglish.hk

Subject: My classmates

Dear Cecilia,
How 1 ___________ (be) you? I 2 ___________ (be) in
Class 2C this year. Our classmates 3 ___________ (be)
nice.
John 4 ___________ (be) my classmate. He 5 ___________
(play) ball games well. Sarah and I 6 ___________
(play) with him.
Lily likes books. She 7 ___________ (go) to the library
after school. She 8 ___________ (read) books there.
She 9 ___________ (know) many things. I always
10 ___________ (ask) her questions.

John and Lily 11 ___________ (be) my good friends.

What about you? Tell me about your friends at
school.

Yours,
Patrick

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 Date: 

B Patrick and his friends are in the park. Complete their

conversations.

how how old how many

is are can
what who where
are
1 Patrick: _______________ _______________ you, Joe?
Joe: I am fine, thank you.
Patrick: I can swim. _______________ _______________
you do?
Joe: I can sing.
2 Kelly: I want to visit my grandparents in Tsim Sha
Tsui. _______________ ______________ I go there?
Angela: You can go by train. _________________
_______________ your grandparents?
Kelly: My grandmother is 63 years old. My
grandfather is 66 years old.
3 Maggie: ______________ ______________
you see in the picture?
Henry: I can see hippos and lions.
Thomas: ______________ ______________
the hippos?
Henry: They are near the fountain.
Maggie: _______________ lions _______________ there?
Thomas: I know. There are two lions.
4 Patrick: _______________ _______________ the man in the
photo?
Angela: He is my father.
Joe: _______________ _______________
in his hand?
Angela: It is a doll.
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 Date: 

C Patrick is writing about his friends. Help him complete

the sentences.

behind in in front of near on

Maggie

Thomas Henry

Patrick
Angela Kelly John

My friends and I are 1 _________________ the playground.

John is 2 _________________ Kelly. Angela is 3 ______________
Kelly and I am 4 _________________ John. Maggie is
5 _________________ the tree. There are a lot of books
6 _________________ the bench. Thomas and Henry are
7 _________________ the fountain. They are talking.

After school, my mother takes John, Maggie and me to a

fast food shop. It is 8 _________________ Kowloon Tong. Our
school is 9 _________________ Kowloon Tong, too. The fast
food shop is 10 _________________ our school. Kelly, Thomas,
Angela and Henry do not go to the fast food shop with us.
They live 11 _________________ Hong Kong Island. They go
home after school.
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 Date: 

D Look at the pictures. Help Patrick answer the questions.

1 Where is the ball?

It is __________________ the table.

2 How can you go to the library?

I can go _______________________.

3 Where is the doll?

___________________________________
___________________________________

4 Where do the children have lunch?

___________________________________
___________________________________

5 How can Doris go to the cinema?

___________________________________
___________________________________

6 Where is the music room?

___________________________________
___________________________________

7 Where is the art room?

___________________________________
___________________________________
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4
Read and learn
Hi, Mum! Where is Dad?
He is in the kitchen.
What is he doing?
He is cooking.

I am
He
is the dining room.
She
in the kitchen.
You the study.
We are
They

★ We use ‘in’ to talk about where people are.

am I I am
he He
is is making the bed.
she She
What doing? setting the table.
you You washing the dishes.
are we We are
they They

★ We use the present continuous tense to talk about things we are

doing now.
★ We use ‘am/is/are’ and add ‘ing’ to the verbs to form the present
continuous tense.
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 Date: 

in + a place
A Fiona shows you some pictures. Help her write about
them.

bathroom kitchen library music room sitting room

1 2

Lily Tom

3 Janet and John 4

Jack
5

Mum and Dad Mandy

1 Lily is _________________ the park.

2 Tom is _______________________________________________.
3 Janet and John are ___________________________________.
4 Jack is _______________________________________________.
5 ______________________________________________________
6 ______________________________________________________
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 Date: 

Present continuous tense

A Fiona asks you to help her complete the table. Fill in the
blanks with the correct form of the words.

do doing
➔ 1 ______________ make ➔ 5 ______________
clean ➔ 2 ______________ read ➔ 6 ______________
wash ➔ 3 ______________ play ➔ 7 ______________
set ➔ 4 ______________ talk ➔ 8 ______________

B Look at the pictures. Answer Fiona’s questions.

1 What is the boy doing?

He _______________________ the floor.
(sweep the floor)

2 What are the children doing?

They ________________________________
_____________________________________.
(eat jelly)

3 What is the dog doing?

______________________________________
_____________________________________
(run)

4 What are Nancy and Mandy doing?

______________________________________
_____________________________________
(swim)

5 What is Tom doing?

______________________________________
_____________________________________
(water the plants)
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 Date: 

in + a place, present continuous tense

A Look at the picture. Write about Fiona and her family
members.

brush … teeth clean the table fold the clothes

read a book sleep wash the dishes watch TV

James

Fiona
Grandma
Mum
Grandpa

Dad

1 F iona is ________ the sitting room.

She __________________________________________________.
2 James is _____________________________________________.
He __________________________________________________.
3 Fiona’s mother is _____________________________________.
She __________________________________________________.
4 Fiona’s father is ______________________________________.
He ___________________________________________________.
5 ________ the bathroom, Fiona’s grandpa _______________
______________________________________________________.
6 Fiona’s grandma is ___________________________________.
She __________________________________________________.
7 ________ the study, the cats ___________________________.
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5
Read and learn
This is your raincoat. That
Clara, are these your dolls? is Clara’s key ring.
No, they are not. Those
are Joey’s dolls. Those are Mum’s sunglasses.

this scarf? it is.

Yes,
Is that Bob’s raincoat? they are.
these Clara’s gloves? it is not.
Are No,
those sunglasses? they are not.
★ We say ‘Is this/that …?’, ‘Are these/those …?’ to ask about objects.
★ We use ‘this’ and ‘these’ to talk about things that are near us.
★ We use ‘that’ and ‘those’ to talk about things that are far from us.
★ We use ‘this’ and ‘that’ with singular nouns. We use ‘these’ and ‘those’
with plural nouns.

This Karen’s
is bag.
That my friend’s

These my friends’
are bags.
Those the children’s

★ We use ‘’s’ to tell who owns something.

★ We use ‘’s’ after singular nouns or people’s names, e.g., my friend’s,
Karen’s.
★ We add ‘’’ after plural nouns ending with ‘s’, e.g., boys’. We add ‘’s’
after plural nouns not ending with ‘s’, e.g., children’s.
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 Date: 

this, these
A Look at the pictures. Help Jerry write about them.

bin monkey puzzle robot toy car toy lion

1 2 3

1 _ _______________ a puzzle. ________________ robots.

2 ________________ toy lions. ____________________________
______________________________________________________
3 ______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

B Help Jerry complete the sentences. Then colour the pictures.

1 2

_ ______________ a dog. _______________ cats.

It is brown. _______________ black.
3 4

_______________ a horse. _______________ shoes.

_______________ red. _______________ orange.
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 Date: 

that, those
A Jerry is telling his brother Eric the objects in the shop.
Complete their conversation.

Jerry: Can you see the objects in the shop? 1 ______________

a bag.
Eric: Near the bag, 2 _________________ paper clips?
Jerry: No, 3 ___________________________.
Eric: 4 __________________ rulers?
Jerry: Yes, 5 ___________________. And 6 __________________
pencil boxes.
Eric: 7 _________________ a toy plane?
Jerry: Yes, 8 ___________________.
Eric: Oh, I like the toys near the toy plane. 9 ____________
__________ teddy bears!
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 Date: 

this/that, these/those
A There are a lot of objects in Jerry and Eric’s room. Look
at the picture. Complete the sentences.
2

1 Mum
Peter
4
Jacky
3
6
Tracy
John
5
Paul

1 John’s
______________________ ________________ crayons?
they are not
No, ________________. _________________________ crayons.
2 ________________________________________ dresses? (Mum)
Yes, _________________.
3 ___________________________________________ clock? (Lily)
No, ________________. _________________________________
4 __________________________________________ cap? (Jacky)
Yes, _________________.
5 _________________________________________ books? (Paul)
______________________________________________________
6 ___________________________________ toy planes? (Henry)
______________________________________________________
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6
Read and learn
Ben walks from his home The wind blows away his hat.
to the river to catch fish. He climbs up the tree to get
his hat.

I my
You your
have
We our
They a hat. It is hat.
their
He his
has her
She
★ We use ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘our’, ‘their’, ‘his’ and ‘her’ to show who owns
something.
★ We put a noun after ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘our’, ‘their’, ‘his’ and ‘her’.

from to up down

★ We use ‘from’, ‘to’, ‘up’ and ‘down’ to talk about directions.

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 Date: 

my, your, our, their, his, her

A Help Polly rewrite the sentences.
1 Jenny introduces she friends to me.
Jenny introduces _______________ friends to me.
2 The boys like them parents.
______________________________________________________
3 Do you want to have you axe back?
______________________________________________________
4 I love me sister.
______________________________________________________
5 She likes we storybooks.
______________________________________________________
6 He wants to buy him father a watch.
______________________________________________________

B Polly asks you to help her complete her story. Complete

the sentences with the correct words.

Tom and 1 ___________ friends go to the zoo. In the

zoo, there are many animals. Tom’s friends Bob and
Polly have some bananas. Karen gets 2 _____________
bananas and throws them to the monkeys. The
monkeys are happy. But Karen throws 3 _____________
watch together with the bananas. Karen is sad.
A zookeeper comes to help. He goes into the cage and
gets the watch. ‘Is this 4 ______________ watch?’ asks
the zookeeper. ‘Yes, this is 5 ______________ watch.
Thank you very much!’ says Karen.

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 Date: 

from, to
A Look at the picture. Help Polly write about the people.

Cindy

Fred's home Mark

Lily

Ben

Fred

Eva Sandy
Tom
Mark walks 1 _______________ the cinema 2 _______________
the clinic. Cindy is at the clinic. She wants to walk
3 _______________ the clinic 4 _______________ the cake

shop. Tom and Eva walk 5 ________________________________

________________________________. They want to take a bus.
Sandy walks 6 ___________________________________________.
Ben and Lily walk 7 ______________________________________
_____________________. Fred wants to watch a film. He walks
8 _______________________________________________________.
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 Date: 

from, to, up, down

A Polly is writing about the animals. Look at the picture.
Complete the sentences.

hill house river tree

1 T
 he horse goes _________________
the hill.

2 T
 he hippo walks ________________
_______________________________.

3 T
 he monkey climbs _____________
_______________________________.

4 T
 he lion runs ___________________
_______________________________.

5 T
 he dogs run ___________________
_______________________________.

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Revision 2 Date: ________________________

A Mandy and her friends are in the park. Complete their

conversations.

by in on from to up down

andy:
M Where do you live?
John: I live 1 ____________ Kowloon Tong.
Mandy: How can you go 2 ____________ the library?
John: I can go 3 ___________ the library 4 ___________ bus.
Mandy: I live near the library. I can go 5 ____________
the library 6 ____________ foot. I can walk
7 ____________ home 8 ____________ the library.

Kitty: What do you do at the weekend?

Mandy: I read 9 ____________ the library at the weekend.
What about you, John?
John: I play ball games 10 ____________ the park at the
weekend.

Kitty: I live 11 ______________ an

old building. I have to walk
12 ____________ the stairs

to go home.
John: I live 13 ______________ a new
building. I do not have to walk
14 ____________ the stairs

to go home. But my dog likes

running 15 ____________ the stairs
to go 16 _____________ the park.
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 Date: 

B Look at the picture. Help Mandy’s teddy bear complete the

sentences with ‘this’, ‘these’, ‘that’, ‘those’ and the words from
the box.

crayons dolls gloves pencil box watch

1 ___________________ is Kelly’s scarf.

2 ___________________ are Terry’s umbrellas.
3 ___________________ Fiona’s ___________________.
4 ____________________________________________
5 ____________________________________________
6 ____________________________________________
7 ____________________________________________

Fiona
George

Terry
Kelly

Keith

Daisy
Helen

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 Date: 

C Read the sentences. Help Mandy complete the sentences

by circling the correct words and filling in the blanks.

my your our their his her

 hese are (Tim’s / Lily’s / Tom’s and Polly’s)

1 T
watches. I like his watches.

2 ‘I like __________ raincoat,’ says Joey.

‘I like __________ raincoat, too,’ says Peter.
‘__________ umbrella is nice.’
‘This is not __________ umbrella,’
says Joey. ‘It is ___________
mother’s.’

3 T
 hose are Helen’s and Rosa’s dolls.
I like __________ dolls.

4 L ook at (Sally’s / John’s / Terry’s and Maggie’s)

sunglasses! They are lovely. I like their sunglasses.

5 ‘Look at Robert. __________ robot is new!’ says Mike.

‘Look at Lily. __________ teddy bear is new, too!’
says Bonnie.
‘Yes. These are __________ birthday presents,’ say Robert
and Lily.

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 Date: 

D Mandy is writing a story. Complete her story by filling

in the blanks with the correct forms of the words.

Joseph and his friends

Every day, Joseph the great lion 1 ______________ (walk)

in the forest. He 2 ____________________ (meet) his
friends there. Now Joseph 3 ____________________ (talk)
with his friends.
‘Today 4 __________________ (be) little mouse’s birthday.
I 5 ____________________ (have) a birthday gift for him,’
says Joseph.
‘Little mouse 6 ____________________ (be) not here
today,’ says Mary the horse.
‘Yes. The dogs, Amy and Bobby, 7 ____________________
(find) him now,’ says Jenny the hippo.
Joseph 8 ____________________ (go) to the town to find
little mouse.
Joseph 9 ____________________ (be) in the town. He
10 ____________________ (look) into a house now.

Little mouse 11 ____________________ (be) there. He

12____________________ (build) a small house with

cheese!

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