CUADERNILLO
CUADERNILLO
CUADERNILLO
Writing
Reading Speaking
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STORY ELEMENTS
Activity 1
Instructions: circle the correct title to the story below.
(Encierra en un círculo el titulo correcto de la siguiente historia)
A) The classroom is a good place to run B) Mary learns a lesson C) The new jogging track
Mary was the fastest runner in her school. No one could beat her in a race. She ran every
day, but one day she was running in her classroom, and she crashed with the wall, everyone
was scared because she started bleeding from her nose, her teacher took her with the school
nurse. The school nurse cured her nose, and then she talked to Mary, and explained her that
she shouldn't run in the classroom, but it was OK to run in the jogging track, because accidents
like the one that happened to her could happen again. So, from that day Mary stopped running
in the classroom, and started running on the jogging track.
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Activity 2
Instructions: Write a short story based on the drawing below, and then
complete the information. (Escribe una historia corta basada en el
siguiente dibujo, y después completa la información).
Tittle
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Activity 3
Read and analyze an anecdote's structure.
(Lee y analiza la estructura de una anécdota).
From an anecdote:
Answer the points: anecdote's elements
(Contesta los puntos siguientes de los elementos de la anécdota)
1. storyteller
2. protagonist
3. secondary characters
4. space
5. time
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Activity 4
A. Read and match.
Une el verbo en presente con su pasado.
run
a woke
buy b ate
wake
c went
eat d ran
go
e bought
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Activity 5
Sequencing
Practice
A parent or tutor should read along with the student, helping as needed.
Here are some examples. Write the number 1 in the box beside what
happened first. Write the number 2 in the box beside what happens
second. Write the number 3 in the box beside what happens third. Write the
number 4 in the box beside what happens last.
Lee las situaciones a continuación y ordénalas poniendo 1 a lo primero y
4 a lo último que sucedió. Observa el ejemplo.
1-4?
Hans took his bag of gold coins and set out to visit his mother.
Hans traded his horse for a cow, and his cow for a goose.
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3. What happened first, second, third, and fourth?
1-4?
Camel reached over a low wall, and Pig went through a low gate.
Next, Pig heard Camel, and said that being short is best.
Camel and Pig decided that both tall and short can be best.
The next year, Fox had the turnips and Bear only had the tops.
The first year, Fox had the corn and Bear only had the roots.
Finally, the Mother Crab saw that she had been foolish to tell
her son to walk straight.
Then the Mother Crab tried and tried, but she could not walk
straight forward.
The Mother Crab told her son that he should walk straig
forward.
So the Young Crab asked his mother to show him how to walk
straight forward.
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ANSWER KEY
1. 1,4,3,2
2. 2,1,4,3
3. 3,2,1,4
4. 4,3,2,1
5. 4,1,3,2
6. Accept any reasonable response,
such as, look for words like “first,”
“next,” “then,” and “finally.”
¿Qué secuenciadores puedes utilizar en la historia?
6. What clues can you use to understand the sequence of events in a story?
Activity 6
Read the following short story aloud
(Lee la siguiente historia en voz alta)
The Dog and the Shadow
It happened that a Dog had gotten a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth
to eat it in peace.
Now, on his way home he had to cross a plank lying across a running stream.
As he crossed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath.
Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat, he made up his mind to have that
also. So he reacted to the shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth the piece of
meat fell out, dropped into the water and it was never seen again.
Mouth be careful
Stream he decided
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Activity 7
Beware creek, beck, ditch
Read the sentences, paying attention to the underlined events.
Write 1 above the event that happened first, and 2 above the event
that happened second
(Lee las oraciones, prestando atención a las partes subrayadas.
Escribe 1 sobre el evento subrayado que sucedió primero y 2 sobre el evento
que sucedió despues.)
2 1
1. By the time we got to the theater, the movie had already started.
2. Sam was exhausted because he had driven all the way from Los Angeles.
3. Hannah couldn't find her bag. Then she realized she had left it at school.
4. I didn't go to the party because I had forgotten all about it.
VOCABULARY
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Activity 9 Read and answer / Lee y contesta
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Activity 10
VOCABULARY
Look and read. (Observa y lee).
Sidney peach
rugby koala
Monterrey cricket
Canberra surfing
lilly pilly
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Activity 11
Unscramble words. (Ordena las palabras revueltas)
1. ooragnak k_a_n_g_a_r_o_o_
2. llyip llyil __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
3 eachp __ __ __ __ __
4. lowf __ __ __ __
5. ybgur __ __ __ __ __
6. okaal __ __ __ __ __
7. yendiS __ __ __ __ __ __
8. tkericc __ __ __ __ __ __ __
9. rreCanba __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
10. fingrus __ __ __ __ __ __ __
11. gleea dlo egn __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Activity 12
Read and complete the information in the correct ctegory .
(Lee y completa la información en la categoría correcta).
Example:
México
CITIES FRUITS ANIMALS SPORTS
México,D.F. bananas golden eagle soccer
Monterrey oranges wolf baseball
Lilly
peach Canberra kangaroo Sidney surfing koala rugby
pilly
Australia
CITIES FRUITS ANIMALS SPORTS
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Activity 13
In the next chart you will see some verbs in past tense, and a glossary
that will help you understand the sentences below, then change the
sentences to past tense. (En la siguiente tabla, veras algunos verbos en
tiempo pasado y un glosario que te ayudará a entender las oraciones
debajo, después cambia las oraciones a tiempo pasado).
“PAST TENSE”
VOCABULARY
Example:
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Activity 14
Read and answer the questions based in the last sentences.
(Lee y responde las preguntas, basándose en las oraciones anteriores.)
EJEMPLO:
1. Where did you go last summer? I went to Australia
2. What cities did you visit?
3. What did you eat?
4. What animals did you look at?
5. Where did you go surfing?
6. What cities did you visit in Australia?
OJO: Como este auxiliar ya hace que mi oración esté en pasado, ya no es necesario
poner mi verbo en pasado si no en su forma base (presente).
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Activity 15
Change the next sentences to past.
(Cambia las siguientes oraciones al pasado).
Example.
Se agrega didn't después del sujeto.
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Activity 16
Write the correct answer on the line.
(Escribe sobre la línea la respuesta correcta).
´´
´
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
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Activity 17
We use the modal verbs can, could and would to offer to do things
for people or to invite them to do something. We also use them to
make requests or ask permission to do something.
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Activity 18
TRAVELING THE WORLD
Imagine you will travel the world and you want to buy some
souvenirs of the countries that you'll visit…
(Imagina que tu viajarás por el mundo y quieres comprar
algunos recuerdos de los países que visitarás)…
2. An Eiffel Tower?
I could buy it in
3. A Christ Redeemer?
I could buy it in
4. A hand fan?
I could buy it in
5. A Wooden doll?
I could buy it in
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Activity 19
Look to the pictures and read the text.
(Observa las imágenes y lee el texto)
food weather
City
Tampico city is one of the most beautiful places in Mexico. The weather is very hot, ideal
to visit “Miramar” beach and eat some delicious seafood. Going with your family to the
downtown and enjoying its monuments is a wonderful experience.
Write about food, weather and popular places of your favorite place.
(Escribe acerca de la comida, el clima y los lugares más populares del
lugar que dibujaste arriba).
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Activity 20
Getting around Town
(Conociendo la ciudad)
Fill in the blanks with the correct direction from the word bank.
(Escribe en la línea la respuesta correcta del banco de palabras).
Complete the sentences using the words from the exercise above.
(Completa las oraciones usando palabras del ejercicio de arriba).
a) The Cinema is ______________ the Pharmacy.
b) The Stadium is ______________ the Gas Station
c) The Theatre is ______________ the Supermarket and the Stadium.
d) The Bank is _______________ the Street.
e) You need to_______________ to get to the hospital from the Fire House.
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