Students: Erica Choque-Camila Molina

1. Read the text below and complete it with the most appropriate word to make it a comprehensible text. Write your selected
word in the space provided in the text.

JONNIE PEACOCK
CHAMPION RUNNER

When Jonnie Peacock was five, he was like most small boys from his hometown of Cambridge-he
loved to play sports.
Then suddenly his life changed when he became very sick with meningitis. Jonnie’s _____ took
him to hospital and he _____ died. The doctors saved his life,
_____ they couldn't save his right leg. _____ couldn’t run around with the other children any more
and he couldn’t play _____, his favourite sport. In fact, he couldn’t do any sports at all.
But _____ doctors gave him a new, artificial _____.
He could walk again, but he wanted to do more than that, so _____ started dancing and doing
other sports.
_____ doctors, his friends and his parents _____ all surprised that he could do _____ much.
Only 18 months after he _____ his leg, he could run, swim _____ play football again, but running
was _____ best sport.
In 2010, Jonnie started _____ practise a lot.
He wanted to GO to the London 2012 Paralympics, the Olympic Games _____ disabled athletes.
Some of the athletes _____ the Paralympics can’t walk, some can’t _____ at all or can’t see very
_____.
But in their sports, they can _____ things that most people can’t.
Jonnie won gold at the London 2012 Paralympics Games when he was only 19 years old.
He ran the 100 metres in a time of 10.90 seconds!
2. Read the text below and complete it with a word from the bank of lexi’s above. Use each word once. Write your selected word
on the space provided in the text.

1. nearly 6. he 11. parents 16. do 21. so

2. leg 7. Children 12. but 17. go 22. in
3. wanted 8. Football 13. He 18. couldn’t 23. and
4. see 9. the 14. for 19. he 24. His
5. his 10. to 15. well 20. lost 25. were

When Jonnie Peacock was five, he was like most small boys from his hometown of Cambridge-he loved
to play sports.
Then suddenly his life changed when he became very sick with meningitis. Jonnie’s _____ took him to
hospital and he _____ died. The doctors saved his life,
_____ they couldn't save his right leg. _____ couldn’t run around with the other children any more and
he couldn’t play _____, his favourite sport. In fact, he couldn’t do any sports at all.
But _____ doctors gave him a new, artificial _____.
He could walk again, but he wanted to do more than that, so _____ started dancing and doing other
sports.
_____ doctors, his friends and his parents _____ all surprised that he could do _____ much.
Only 18 months after he _____ his leg, he could run, swim _____ play football again, but running was
_____ best sport.
In 2010, Jonnie started _____ practise a lot.
He wanted to GO to the London 2012 Paralympics, the Olympic Games _____ disabled athletes.
Some of the athletes _____ the Paralympics can’t walk, some can’t _____ at all or can’t see very _____.
But in their sports, they can _____ things that most people can’t.
Jonnie won gold at the London 2012 Paralympics Games when he was only 19 years old.
He ran the 100 metres in a time of 10.90 seconds!