Practice About Reading Comprehension

PRACTICE ABOUT READING COMPREHENSION
Matching n° 8 - Below are descriptions of 7 different activities. Choose one activity for each
person that best matches their interests. Choose "None" if there is no match!

1 The Water Park is part of the Wessex Valley Regional Park. Fishing is permitted here
for Water Park Club members only (minimum age 18). Also for club members, there is
sailing, swimming and other water sports available as well as professional teachers.
Smitty
Howard
Milly
Steve
Mark
X None
2 The City Farm is for everyone who loves animals and wants to learn more about this
working farm in the heart of the city.There are cows, sheep and chickens, and cheese
and butter are made in the dairy. The farm is open daily. Children under 12 must come
with an adult.
Smitty
Howard
Milly
Steve
X Mark
None
3 The Local Community Sports Centre offers a variety of activities - table tennis,

snooker, indoor football and karate. It is open six days a week from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.;
a small charge is made for the use of equipment.
Smitty
Howard
Milly
X Steve
Mark
4 The Nature Club meets at weekends in the country, usually on a Sunday afternoon.

Members take part in walks and discussions. All age groups are welcome.
Smitty
Howard
Milly
Steve
Mark
X None
5 The Play Centre provides free entertainment for the under fives with indoor and outdoor
play areas. You may leave your child here for up to two hours at a time in any one day.
Smitty
Howard
X Milly
Steve
Mark
None
6 The Potter Centre is organized for retired people. It opens five days a week from 11:30
to 6:00. Cheap hot meals are provided at lunchtimes and different activities take place
every afternoon. Ther is also a monthly theatre excursion.
X Smitty
Howard
Milly
Steve
Mark
None
7 The Adventure Playground in Rowan Street was built for children up to the age of 14.
There are ropes, swings, slides and tree climbs with an adult in charge at all times.
Open during school holidays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A small charge is payable for each
child.
Smitty
X Howard
Milly
Steve
Mark
None
Smitty has retired but dislikes being with groups of people who are all elderly.
Although he is still an energetic man, he doesn't like sport; an opportunity to get
away from the city would suit him.
Howard: The summer school term has finished and Howard wants his seven-year-
old son to play somewhere safe while he is at work.
Milly wants someone to look after her three-year-old daughter for an hour twice a
week while she goes to computer classes. She has very little money.
Steve is 16 and would like to take up a new activity. He's thinking about trying
sailing or perhaps a game he can play inside during the evening.
Mark and his cousin are 13 years old. They love animals and want to be outdoors
every day but their parents are too busy to go with them.
Type word from list on the right =>

Fill ALL gaps. Press "Check Your Answers"
N°8 - 'SCHOOL TEAM'

For many young people sport is a popular part of school life and
having being taking putting
(1) in one of the school teams and playing matches is very
If As Then So
important.(2) someone is in a team it means a lot of extra practice
at on for from
and often spending a Saturday or Sunday away (3) home, as
many matches are played then.
ought is can has
It (4) also involve travelling to other towns to play against other
being staying leaving spending
school teams and then (5) on after the match for a meal or a
drink. Sometimes parents, friends or other students will travel with the
their its our w hose
team to support (6) own side.
When a school team wins a match it is the whole school which feels
but how ever and not
proud, (7) only the players. It can also mean that a school
turns makes comes becomes
(8) well-known for being good at certain sports and pupils from
up to for beside
that school may end up playing (9) national and international
old new common famous
teams so that the school has some really (10) names associated
with it.
(1) having being taking putting
(2) If As Then So
(3) at on for from
(4) ought is can has
(5) being staying leaving spending
(6) their its our whose
(7) but however and not
(8) turns makes comes becomes
(9) up to for beside

(10) old new common famous

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3 The Local Community Sports Centre offers a variety of activities - table tennis,

4 The Nature Club meets at weekends in the country, usually on a Sunday afternoon.

Type word from list on the right =>

N°8 - 'SCHOOL TEAM'

(1) having being taking putting

(3) at on for from

(4) ought is can has

(5) being staying leaving spending

(6) their its our whose

(7) but however and not

(8) turns makes comes becomes

(9) up to for beside

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