UNIT 2.

BOOK REVIEWS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LESSON 1 Reading survey

Vocabulary: Book genres

Grammar: Present Simple

LESSON 2 Egghead
Vocabulary:

- Time words: year, BC, AM...

- Prepositions of time: at- in - on

- School vocabulary: school, playground, lunch time, school assembly, essay

- Adjectives to describe people

Grammar: past simple/word order

Connectors: first, second, then, finally, in conclusion...

Punctuation marks

LESSON 3 Book Review

Vocabulary: Book review- title, author, plot, setting, opinion...

Grammar: ing/ed adjectives

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READING SURVEY

Let´s just talk about BOOKS

1. Where and when do you read most?

Before going to bed I most reading at on holidays in car's dad
At the weekend
Whenever I have time
On holidays
In the bath
In bed
Other

2. Do you have a favourite type of book? Yes. My favorite type of book is horror.

ROMANCE COMEDY
SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE
TRAVEL HORROR
BIOGRAPHY FAIRY TALES
MYSTERY THRILLERS
DIARIES

3. Are you reading a book now?

or
Have you just finished one? Yes. I finished one and its calles "el pequeño
Title? libro de la ansiedad"

4. Do you have a favourite book? Which one?

Yes I do. My favorite book is Rengu

5. What does reading mean to you?

In your notebook write about your reading. AT LEAST 20 words

Reading for me is a litle bored but if I stay a litle long time reading the are interesing.

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READING AND ME

I read _____________________________________.
in bed at night

I love/ like/ prefer/ hate reading

I like horror reading.
________________________________.

At the moment I am reading a book called

____________________________.
el pequeño libro de la ansiedad

I have some favourite books and one of them is

Rengu
_________________________”.

For me reading sometimes means

interesing and funny
___________________________________

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Before we start reading the book…

THE COVER
A. Answer the following questions:

1. “Is the cover important? Why? Yes. Because it gives an idea of what the book is about

2. What do you find on the cover? Some pictures, the writer and the title

3. What does this cover tell you about the story inside? Of bullying and friendship

4. Is it a story about the present? How do you know? Yes. Because they cause some people
bullying persons
5. Look at the back of the book. What can we find there?

6. What do we call the story of the life of somebody? They called biography.

B. Read ANA’S TIMELINE and make and complete it with notes about the events.
Guess what happened to her 3 years ago, last year……

Family won the

I was born moved spelling bee

First day of school New baby Got a new cat

arrived

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TIME PREPOSITIONS

1. Write the correct preposition.

_ On
_ _ _ Monday _ on
_ _ _ Easter
__ in _ _ July _in_ _ _ 15th May
_In_ _ _ the evening _ on _ _ _ my birthday
_At_ _ _ lunchtime _in_ _ _ the future
_In_ _ _ 2007 _at_ _ _ the same time
th
_in_ _ _ 18 century _on _ _ _ present
_at_ _ _ the weekend _ at
_ _ _ winter
_in_ _ _ two months _ on _ _ _ Sundays
_on_ _ _ Friday afternoon
__ on_ _ Christmas Day
_at_ _ _ the age of five
_ _ _ 1st September 1994
_ in

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2. Complete the sentences with the correct preposition.

1. I always get up _ _ at_ _ 7 o’clock _ on
_ _ _ weekdays and _ _at_ _ 9 o’clock _ at_ _ _ the
weekends.
2. Both my little brother and I were born _ _ in _ _ the same month. His birthday is _ _on_ _
10th April and I was born _on _ _ _ 30th.
3. _at_ _ _ the moment we are practising prepositions of time.
4. In England it often rains _in_ _ _ spring.
5. My father is a doctor and he sometimes works _at_ _ _ night.
6. Our neighbours moved in next door _in_ _ _ 1998.
7. My grandma started learning English _at _ _ _ the age of 40.
8. _in_ _ _ the past people didn’t travel so much.
9. James proposed to Linda _at_ _ _ sunset. It was very romantic.
10. We usually go rollerblading _in_ _ _ Saturday morning.
11. Brenda has lunch _ at _ _ _ noon.
12. I go to school _in_ _ _ the morning, I do my homework _on _ _ _ the afternoon, I watch TV
_ at
_ _ _ the evening and I sleep _in_ _ _ night.
13. We have Maths _in_ _ _ Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
14. My parents got married _ _ in_ _ 26 th December _ on_ _ _ 1982.
15. Vicky will be back _ _ in_ _ a minute.
16. Where were you _ in _ _ _ the evening of January 2 nd?
17. We all left _ _at_ _ the same time.

3. Now write your OWN TIMELINE with important dates of your life. EXAMPLE- I Was

born, left school, did my first communion, went on a trip, had a birthday party…

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/

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Chapter 1: THE MONSTER HORSE

A. Listen and read chapter 1. In notebooks ss list adjectives (describing words) under
the headings:

MICHAEL ANDREW

B. In groups of 4 (Miss White, Michael, Andrew and Stephen Foster) ss practice the
conversation on page 11.

C. After-reading activities (page 18 and 19)

Chapter 2: A DAY AT SCHOOL

DICTATION

WHAT IS AN EGGHEAD?

Hello. My ___________ is Michael, but everyone calls me

egghead at __________.
It´s true, my _______________ is bigger than anyone else´s.
And my ______________ is quite _______________. So,
everyone agrees that it´s the _____________ name for me. The
other ________________ call me this name all the
______________.

• THE READING RACE

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Chapter 3: EGG AND BACON AND THE INVISIBLE BALL

A. Read the chapter, close the book and in pairs put the sentences in chronological
order in their notebooks:

a. I´ve got a real friend

b. Play with and invisible ball
c. Stop boys. No balls in the playground
d. Now we are a part of something
e. Soon we were playing football with the other boys everyday
f. The other children called us egg and bacon
g. This time with a much smaller ball
h. The PE teacher told us the ball was too dangerous
B. Highlight all the verbs in the past IN THE CHAPTER. Classify them in two columns:
REGULAR/IRREGULAR. Now write them in the infinitive next to them.

C. How do you pronounce the ending –ED in the regular verbs? Listen to the teacher
online in the following link and classify them.
http://www.grammar.cl/english/pronunciation-ed.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32SurxnE4s

• PAST SIMPLE. Past simple exercises on web page:

http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/past_simple-exercises.html

D. Page 38 exercises 1, 2 y 3. Page 39 exercise 4

Chapter 4: THE OLD MAN

A. Answer these questions:

• Why did Michael and David stop playing football?

• Why did Michael and David read stories?
• Who did Michael and David go to London with? Why did they go?
• What did Michael like about the Natural History Museum?
• How was Michael´s mum when he got home?

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B. Rewrite the text using full stops, capital letters, apostrophes, commas, colons and
speech marks.

the week passed slowly but Saturday arrived

the big day mum made me some sandwiches
and put them in my bag have a great time
said mum and put your coat on if it rains i
dont want you to get wet ok mum i said and
then i ran out of the door and dad and i drove
to david´s house it was a wonderful day david
bought me a present an aeroplane you had to
make it yourself the picture of it on the box
looked really good we visited the zoo first i
like the monkeys best but the tigers and lions
were also really interesting then we went to
hyde park let´s go on a boat i said good idea
said david.
C. DESCRIBING PICTURES. Look at the picture on page 43 and answer these
questions;

• Who are in the picture?

• Where are they? Describe the place
• What are they doing?

D. Write a list of adjectives that describe the emotions or attitude shown by every
character in the photo or describe any aspect of the photograph.

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E. BEFORE READING ACTIVITY? Read the text about London- places (page 76, 77)
and fill in the grid:

NAME DATE OF NUMBER OF IMPORTANT THINGS

OPENING VISITORS TO SEE

F. HOMEWORK. LONDON. Read about London and make notes about:

• Location-
• Roman name-
• History: important dates-
• Population-
• Weather-
• Local time-
• Transport-
• Places of interest-
• Famous celebrities-
• Famous movies filmed in London

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Chapter 5: TOM´S STORY

1.- Before reading Activity-- Listening (page 49)

2.- Copy and answer these questions

➢ What is different about the English lesson?
➢ What does Michael think of Mrs Hewitt?
➢ What did Michael learn about the old man in this chapter?
➢ What exercise did Mrs Hewitt tell the class to do?
➢ What did the class have to write about?
➢ What is special about this exercise?

3.- Exercise 3 pag 58. The word order in English.

WORD ORDER IN SENTENCES

Affirmative –
The subject + the verb + object + complements

Negative-
The subject + don’t/doesn’t/didn’t + the verb + object + complements

Interrogative-
DO/DOES/DID + THE SUBJECT + THE VERB + OBJECTS + COMPLEMENTS

4. Watch the PPT and make notes in your notebooks.

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Chapter 6: THE PRIZE

A. Your teacher will give you 5 minutes to read the chapter. Close your book.

B. Correct the mistakes in the following paragraph.

on tuesday morning i ran up the hill. i stopped to say

hello to david and then i went to school. the first
lesson was Art. i drew a street, and the hill that I walk
up every day. my picture had a lot of trees and
beautiful lakes. the sky was grey and in the distance
you could see the chair where tom sat.
the next lesson was Geography. i tried to listen to the
lesson, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the novel. I
looked out of the window. the school flag was moving
around in the rain. I like the rain. It comes from
nowhere.

C. Open book page 61 and 62 and check.

D. Activities 1, 2, 3 and 5 pages 68, 69.

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LESSON 3

Book Review

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In this lesson we are going to learn to write a BOOK REVIEW

What we usually include when writing about a book is:

• TITLE- What´s the title of your book?

• AUTHOR- Who´s the author?

• PLOT- What is the book about?

• SETTING- (where, when) Where is it set?

• CHARACTERS- Who are the main characters?

• OPINION- What did you think of it?

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• OPINION- What did you think of it?

GIVING OPINIONS. ADJECTIVES WITH –ED AND –ING

1) Read the opinions in the box. What is the person giving an opinion
about? Look at the six things in the box. Write the correct word
from the box in the chart on the right.

restaurant film book football match hotel museum

a) The food was disgusting! restaurant

b) I love being frightened by a good horror film.
c) The stadium was crowded with fans of United.
d) I was surprised by the score at the end.
e) The special effects were amazing.
f) The last chapter is very exciting.
g) I am very interested in Ancient Egypt.
h) The menu was rather disappointing.
i) The hieroglyphs were very well displayed,
j) I was bored with the first chapter.
k) I was very tired and I wanted a nice comfortable bed.
l) I had a relaxing Jacuzzi before I went to bed.

2) Read these opinions. Are they grammatically correct or

incorrect? Mark the opinions Π (=correct) or Ο (= incorrect).
a) I didn’t enjoy the party. It was very bored.
b) The ghost story was very frightening.
c) I was shocking by what she told me.
d) The children were over-excited and noisy.
e) Your holiday in South America sounds very exciting.
f) I was embarrassing when they asked me to sing.
g) It was very depressing to hear about your problems.
h) I thought the story was very confusing.

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3) Underline the correct form of the adjective in these opinions.

a) I’ve just read a very | amusing | amused | book
b) The basketball game was very | excited | exciting | because both
teams played well.
c) I couldn’t find the way to your house because your map was very |
confused |
confusing |.
d) I was | amazed | amazing | that your daughter did so well
in her Exam.
e) Please go away. You are very | annoyed | annoying |.
f) I was | shocked | shocking | when I saw the bill! It was
£54.25!
g) Are you | interested | interesting | in politics?
h) I was very | embarrassed | embarrassing | because I didn’t
understand Spanish.
i) Everybody was | amused | amusing | by her imitations of her
teachers.
j) The walk to the top of the hill was | exhausted | exhausting |.

4) Write the best adjective from the box to describe the events.
amusing disgusting satisfying annoying depressing
enchanting terrifying moving relaxing boring
a) I had a very good meal. satisfying
b) I was very angry when they didn’t answer the phone.
c) The music was very beautiful and made me feel magical.
d) The massage took away all my stress.
e) My room was dirty and made me feel sick.
f) The story was very funny and made me laugh.
g) The news was very bad so I felt unhappy.
h) The film was very long, slow and uninteresting.
i) The children cried when Bambi’s mother was killed.
j) Your story about the air crash made me feel frightened.

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1. Read the following book review and answer the following questions:

A. What’s the title of the book?

B. Who’s the author? BIOGRAPHY

C. Where is it set? SETTING (WHEN/WHERE)

D. Who are the main characters?

E. What is the book about? PLOT

F. What did you think of it? OPINION

I have read “Charlie and the chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl.

Roald Dahl was born September 13, 1916, in the United Kingdom and died in 1990.
He wrote short stories and kids' classics like 'Matilda' and 'James and the Giant Peach,'
among other famous works.
First of all, there is a picture of a man and a boy on the cover of the book.
Moreover, the main character is Charlie and the story is set in the chocolate factory
of a big town.
Next, the book is about a very poor boy who lives with his parents and
grandparents. One day he finds a golden ticket in a bar of chocolate and he is invited to
visit the chocolate factory. There he lives an exciting experience.
Finally, it is a fantasy book and I enjoyed it very much. It was amazing!

• Homework: Students write about their

summer book/favourite book

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