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    UNIT 2 Worksheet – Reading 1

    NAME: _____________________________________ Nr: ____________ CLASS: ____________________


    DATE: _________________________ EVALUATION: __________________________________________
    TEACHER: _____________________________________________ E.E.: ___________________________
    Worksheets — Reading

    1 Read the topic sentences of each paragraph and put the story in the correct order.
    Use the table below to record your answers. The first paragraph has already been recorded.
    1
    Other people who prefer to believe in a scientific explanation have suggested that electrical forces in the
    atmosphere caused this and other incidents.
    2
    Suddenly, a strange light seemed to be on top of the car, sucking it up off the road before dropping it
    down again.
    3
    Meanwhile, a local lorry driver following the same route as Mrs Muller confirmed that he had also seen
    the strange light in the distance.
    4
    In a state of shock, they drove to the nearest town and reported the incident to the police.
    5
    Thinking that the woman must have been so tired that she was dreaming, the police gave her a cup of
    tea hoping to calm her down.
    6
    Finally, the police agreed to inspect the car and when they did, they saw the dust, noticed the smell and
    also noticed some small dents in the roof of the car.
    7
    Feeling terrified and out of control, the family noticed a black powder seeping inside their car and smelt
    a horrible stench.
    8
    This story was quickly accepted by some people as proof that aliens existed on earth.
    9
    When she saw a light flashing on the road ahead, she slowed down thinking that it was a traffic signal
    10
    Mrs Muller and her three daughters were driving from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town in the early hours
    one morning in 1979.
    www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading/3r2-alien-story.php (abridged and adapted, November 2012)

    1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
    10

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    2 4 Classify the following words as nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs.
    3

    Worksheets — Reading
    a) unfamiliar, weird
    b) repulsive, awful
    c) smell
    d) communicated
    e) truck
    f) simultaneously
    g) way, road )
    i) accepted

    3 Find synonyms in the text for the words in 2.


    a) f)
    b) g)
    c) h)
    d) i)
    e)

    4 Now scan the story and say …


    a) who the main characters are.
    b) which country the story takes place in.
    c) where in that country the story took place.
    d) what Mrs Muller saw that made her slow down.
    e) how the main characters felt after such a disturbing incident.
    f) what did they do after their experience.
    g) what non-sceptical people believed after they heard the story.

    5 Do you like these types of stories? Why? Why not?

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