Resource Activities 2

Vocabulary Grammar
1 Match the words in the columns to 4 Write the past simple of the
form phrases. following verbs.

1 study .................. 5 go .............................

1 bruise a a plaster cast
2 take .................. 6 stop ..........................
2 sprain b a muscle 3 give .................. 7 buy ...........................
4 play .................. 8 build .........................
3 wear c your wrist

4 pull d your eye

5 Mr Smith and his family were at the
5 clean e a wound park at 2 o’clock yesterday
afternoon. Look at the picture and
the verbs/phrases below and write
2 Fill in: headache, sore throat, temperature, what each person was doing.
toothache, cough.
 listen to music  drink cola  cook lunch
1 I feel very hot; I think I have a ..................... .  play with the dog  talk on the phone
2 What really helps when you have a ...............
.................................. is a hot cup of tea with
honey and lemon.
3 John is at the dentist because he has a
dreadful ....................................................... .
4 Your .................................... sounds terrible!
Sue
Maybe you need to see a doctor.
Mrs Smith
5 Can you please bring me a painkiller for my
.................................................................... ? Mr Smith David Mary
Helen
3 Find six natural phenomena in the
grid below. 1 David .............................................................
2 Mrs Smith ......................................................
L R O N F A T I C M O
3 Sue ................................................................
I A B A L A R S H E N
4 Mr Smith ........................................................
G I S L O W N D U P I
5 Helen and Mary .............................................
H S N E O T F O R S T
T Y O A D O U G R H T
N M Q E R U P T I O N
6 Underline the correct verb tense.

I O L S A P O R C G H 1 Susan was walking/walked home when it

N E A R T H Q U A K E was starting/started to rain.
G R I M W L U O N A M 2 Helen was cooking/cooked while Tom
worked/was working in the garden.
G D R O U G H T E T A
3 Who were you waiting/did you wait for
when I was seeing/saw you?

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Reading 8 The Golden Touch is a story with a

moral. Which moral do you think fits
7 Read the text and put the sentences
the story?
in the correct place.
A he took an apple  The true value of money does not lie in
B he lost his power having it, but making good use of it.
C as it went down his throat  Sometimes we don’t realise what is most
D Midas took care of Silenus for ten days useful to us.
E to make a huge meal to celebrate  Those who want too much can lose everything.
F he granted him one wish
Writing
9 Write a story in the past tense (100-
120 words) using the plan below and
the text in Ex. 7 as a model.
Once upon a time, an old
man called Silenus got lost The Goose that Laid
and wandered into the the Golden Egg
rose garden of King Midas.
1 , before returning Characters:a farmer and his
him back to his house and wife, a goose
his son Bacchus. Bacchus was a god with Setting:a farm in the
special powers and, to thank Midas, 2 . Midas countryside
asked that everything he touched turn to gold. Events: 1 The farmer and his
Midas was impatient to try out his new power. wife work hard on their farm.
He picked up a stone and it turned to gold. Then 2
3 from a tree and it turned to gold. He was They buy a goose in a nearby town.
delighted and when he got back to his palace he 3
told his servants 4 . But as soon as he took The goose lays a golden egg.
some bread, it turned to gold before it could 4
reach his lips. His drink turned into melted gold Every day the goose lays a golden
5 . Midas became extremely hungry. His egg which they sell in the town.
daughter, feeling sorry for him, threw her arms 5
around her father, but she, too, turned into gold. Farmer and wife have money to
Midas asked Bacchus for help. Bacchus told him buy things.
to wash himself in the River Pactolus. As soon 6
as Midas stepped into the water, it turned into But farmer is greedy, wants more
gold and 6 . money, kills goose because
From then on, Midas hated wealth and didn’t  Greed can thinks it’s full
destroy whatof golden
begins eggs.
well.
want to be king. He decided to live in the 7
 Think before you do something.
countryside and play music with Pan, the god of  Those who Goose
wanthas
toonomuch
eggscan
inside. Farmer
lose
the fields, for the rest of his life. and wife must work hard again.
everything.
Ending:The moral of the story, which can be
any one of the following:
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