3. AIM: AT THE END OF THIS LESSON STUDENTS WILL BE
ABLE TO TALK ABOUT THEIR FAVORITE STORIES.
Objectives:
• Develop reading skills by reading a story.
- Following the punctuating rules in the box
- Putting the correct punctuation in the story
- Using the Past Simple, the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect
tense
- Making sentences analysis
- Using the correct form of verbs in the sentences
6. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
1. How do you think it will help you to understand the text?
2. Have you ever noticed the punctuation while reading?
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8. PUNCTUATION MARKS
• Full stops (.) Make you stop It was the best of times.
• Commas (,) Make you pause She is clever, healthy woman.
• Exclamation marks (!) Signal excitement or surprise Look! How nice!
• Question marks (?) signal a question Do you enjoy reading books?
• Speech marks (‘…’) show the words a character speaks ‘I’m a Queen’ she
said.
• Dashes (-) give you extra emphasis Her answer was loud and clear – No!
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9. READ A STORY AND PUT THE CORRECT
PUNCTUATION MARKS
The boat disaster
It was a sunny clear day when two brothers Jim and Ben went out
on the boat to catch some fish They jumped on the boat with fishing
roads in their hands both the brothers had been out on the boat five times
before They had no clue huge disaster about to occur the brothers were
sitting in the boat on the water when huge dark grey clouds started to
form the sky Suddenly huge drop of rain started to fall lightning lit up
the sky and loud roars of thunder boomed around them The water started
to rock the boat and the brothers kept falling off their feet The brothers11/8/2019 9
10. were very scared they were going to fall into the water they held on
hard to the boat and shut their eyes the boat kept rocking the water
kept coming The lightning kept flashing The thunder kept booming
Then all of sudden … Nothing The huge dark grey clouds left the sky
The huge drops of rain stopped falling The lightning stopped flashing
and the thunder stopped booming The boys opened their eyes and saw
that the storm was over. They were safe!
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11. CHECK YOUR ANSWERS
The boat disaster
It was a sunny, clear day when two brothers Jim and Ben went
out on the boat to catch some fish. They jumped on the boat with
fishing roads in their hands. Both the brothers had been out on the boat
five times before. They had no clue huge disaster about to occur. The
brothers were sitting in the boat on the water when huge, dark, grey
clouds started to form the sky. Suddenly, huge drop of rain started to
fall. lightning lit up the sky and loud roars of thunder boomed around
them. The water started to rock the boat and the brothers kept falling
off their feet.
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12. The brothers were very scared they were going to fall into the
water! They held on hard to the boat and shut their eyes. The boat
kept rocking. The water kept coming. The lightning kept flashing.
The lightning kept flashing. The thunder kept booming. Then all of
a sudden… Nothing. The huge, dark, grey clouds left the sky. The
huge drops of rain stopped falling. The lightning stopped flashing
and the thunder stopped booming. The boys opened their eyes and
saw that the storm was over. They were safe!
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13. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.
1. What were the two brothers called?
2. Why did the boys go out on the boat?
3. How many times had the brothers been out on the boat?
4. What started to fall from the sky?
5. Why did the boat start to rock?
6. How did the brothers feel when the boat was rocking?
7. What happened at the end of the text?
8. What would another good heading be for this text?
9. What do you like about this text?
10.What do you dislike about this text?
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14. CHECK YOUR ANSWERS
1. They were called Jim and Ben.
2. They went out on boat to catch some fish.
3.They had been out on the boat five times before,
4. Huge drops of rain started to fall.
5. Lightning lit up the sky and loud roars of thunder boomed around
them.
6. They were very scared.
7. Rain and lightning stopped. Two boys were safe.
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16. PAST SIMPLE TENSE
• We often use past tenses for story telling.
• The Past Simple tense is used to talk about past states and
actions that happened in the past.
It was a beautiful day in spring.
Past Simple(state)
• For actions which happened immediately one after the other
in the past.
We got out of village and walked up …… (actions)
Past Simple Past Simple
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17. PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
• The Past Continuous tense is used: to set the scene in a story.
The sun was shining and bird were chirping.
Past continuous Past continuous
• When a longer action (was walking) is interrupted by a short action
(heard) in past simple.
When we were walking through the forest, we heard a strange noise.
Past Continuous Past Simple
longer action shorter action
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18. PAST PERFECT TENSE
• The Past Perfect tense is used to talk about single actions
completed earlier in the past.
The night before, some of our friends and I had decided to go on
Past Perfect
a trip to the forest.
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19. SENTENCE ANALYSIS
Look back at the story and complete the following tasks.
1. Find some complete sentences in the past simple tense.
2. Identify the use of each sentence.
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20. The boat disaster
It was a sunny, clear day when two brothers Jim and Ben went out on the boat to
catch some fish. They jumped on the boat with fishing roads in their hands. Both the
brothers had been out on the boat five times before. They had no clue huge disaster
about to occur. The brothers were sitting in the boat on the water when huge, dark,
grey clouds started to form the sky. Suddenly, huge drop of rain started to fall.
lightning lit up the sky and loud roars of thunder boomed around them. The water
started to rock the boat and the brothers kept falling off their feet. The brothers were
very scared they were going to fall into the water! They held on hard to the boat and
shut their eyes. The boat kept rocking. The water kept coming. The lightning kept
flashing.
The lightning kept flashing. The thunder kept booming. Then all of a sudden…
Nothing. The huge, dark, grey clouds left the sky. The huge drops of rain stopped
falling. The lightning stopped flashing and the thunder stopped booming. The boys
opened their eyes and saw that the storm was over. They were safe!
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21. COMPLETE THE PASSAGE WITH THE
CORRECT FORM OF VERBS IN BRACKETS.
Until a few years ago, no one …(hear) of Greg Hefley, a middle
school boy, who writes illustrated stories about his personal life and
characters of the children’s book Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The writer, Jeff
Kinney …(already/ write) several comic strips, but this was the first book
that brought him a great success. He …(come) up with the idea for a
comedy book while he …(write) down ideas for it. By the time Jeff …(
sign) a multi book deal with the publisher in New York, he …(already/
release) an online version of the story on www.funbrain.com. When the
book was published in 2007, Jeff …(not imagine) it would be such a11/8/2019 21
22. tremendous success, but it quickly …(become) bestseller. While
millions of young readers in many countries ...(enjoy) his first Diary
of a Wimpy Kid book, Jeff Kinney …(think) of ideas for the next
book in this incredibly popular series.
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23. CHECK THE CORRECT ANSWER
Until a few years ago, no one heard of Greg Hefley, a middle school
boy, who writes illustrated stories about his personal life and characters of
the children’s book Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The writer, Jeff Kinney had
already written several comic strips, but this was the first book that
brought him a great success. He came up with the idea for a comedy book
while he was writing down ideas for it. By the time Jeff signed a multi
book deal with the publisher in New York, he had already released an
online version of the story on www.funbrain.com. When the book was
published in 2007, Jeff didn’t imagine it would be such
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24. a tremendous success, but it quickly became bestseller. While
millions of young readers in many countries were enjoying his first
Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, Jeff Kinney was thinking of ideas for
the next book in this incredibly popular series.
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