Reading

The next morning Holmes was sitting at his desk with a big smile on his face. ‘Listen to this, Watson,’ he said reading the newspaper aloud.1 ‘Tall red house with white windows; third floor;…

The story so far

Put these sentences in order to make a summary of the story so far. Dorothy takes the magic whistle. Dorothy leaves the Munchkins to go for a long walk. Dorothy kills the Wicked Witch of the West. The…

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Famous stories about fantastic journeys

Connect to the Internet and go to www.blackcat.vicensvives.net. Insert the title or part of the title of the book into our search engine (buscador). Click on Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Click on…

Grammar (I)

Question tags We use question tags at the end of sentences, either to make questions or to provide emphasis. After a positive statement we use a negative tag. After a negative statement, we use a…

The past perfect

‘I really felt that I had come back home.’ When we are talking about the past we use the past simple. When something happened in the past before another thing, we use the past perfect for the first…

Find the mistake!

The following sentences all contain a mistake. Rewrite them correctly. Write in the name of the person who says the words above and rewrite the sentences correctly. Check by listening to the recording.…

Comprehension check (PET)

For each question choose the correct answer. None of the ships in the port could leave for Britain before The captain of the Henrietta agreed to take them to Phileas Fogg became the captain of the ship…

Summary - Go back to the text

Put these events in the right order to make a summary of Chapter Eight. They arrive in Ireland and take a train to Dublin. Phileas Fogg burns everything he can to get the ship to Ireland. When he…

Before You Read - When it is better to travel east

When it is better to travel east