Thursday, November 30, 2017

Why the Chipmunk Has Black Stripes

Rewrite this story in five sentences.

WHY THE CHIPMUNK HAS BLACK STRIPES

 Once upon a time the porcupine was made chief of the animals. He  called all the animals together for a great council.
 The animals seated themselves around a big fire. The porcupine said,  “We have a great question to decide. It is this: ‘Shall we have  daylight all the time or night all the time?’"
 All the animals began to talk at once. Some wanted one thing, some  another. The bear wanted it to be dark all the time. In his big, deep  voice he said, “Always night! Always night!”
 The little chipmunk, in a loud, high voice, said, “Day will come! Day  will come!”
 The council was held at night. While the animals were talking the sun  rose. The bear and the other night animals were angry. The chipmunk  saw the light coming, and started to run away. The angry bear ran  after him and struck him on the back with his paw.  Since then, the chipmunk has always had black stripes on his back, and  daylight always follows night.

   Fill the blank spaces:

 The chipmunk ---- black stripes.

 The porcupine said, “We ---- a question to decide.”

 The chipmunk said, “Day ---- come.”

 The bear ---- it to be dark.

 The council ---- held at night.

 The chipmunk ---- the light coming, and ---- to run away.

 The angry bear ---- him with his paw.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Reading Comprehension

Read the poem:
      Blow, wind, blow!
      And go, mill, go!
    That the miller may grind his corn;
      That the baker may take it,
      And into rolls make it,
    And send us some hot in the morn.

Write answers to the following, in complete sentences(in comment section below):
 1.What does the wind do?

 2.What does the wind do to the mill?

 3.What does the miller do to the corn?

 4.What does the baker do to the meal?

 5.becomes of the rolls?

Sunday, November 26, 2017

Fable: The Fox and the Grapes

One day a hungry fox started out to find something to eat. He saw some grapes, near the top of a tall grapevine. The fox tried to jump up and get the grapes but he could not reach them. He tried again and again, but it was of no use. As he walked away, he said, “I do not care for the grapes. They are sour.”

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Vocabulary Task


dampness
brood
intrepid
butterscotch
daredevil
lonesome
lancer
mercantile
formidable
gregarious
tithe
courtesy
umbrage
vicissitude
valediction


1.     At first, he was quite _____, as he walked along the beach looking for a place to sleep, but then he looked up at the sky shining in the sky above him, and he saw the moon coming up from behind the clouds, and it was shining on the ocean waves, making them look like silver, and it wasn’t quite so dark then.
2.     I do wish I had some place where I could go in out of ______.
3.     They saw the _____ from the steamers; they saw the unending crowd of doll-like person’s thrown up out of the ground by the new Tube Station at the south end of Hammersmith Bridge.
4.     Here’s the chance to see the classic moment when Colin Firth, playing the ______ Mr Darcy takes a plunge in the lake.
5.     Time has not granted him to embody in a permanent shape a ______ of his personal experiences and strange adventures in the three quarters of the globe.
6.     He obtained a commission in a squadron of ______ then attached to the division of General Diego Leon, and was actively engaged in several of the most important combats of the campaign.
7.     Preparing himself by previous excursions on foot, in North Africa and Algeria, he sailed from Liverpool early in December last for Ichaboe where we have already ______ establishments.
8.     The _____ traveler had received from the agents of these establishments such favourable accounts of the nations towards the interior, as also of the nature of the climate, that he has the most sanguine hopes.
9.     Then, pour strawberry, _____, and pineapple syrup over the scoops of icecream.
10.I also wish to express my gratitude to The Wide World Magazine for the ______ of permitting me to publish the narrative from its pages.
11.The trapeze artists, tight rope-walkers and ______ riders astonished them.
12.Despite his _____ intellectual abilities, he spent most of his time hanging out, staying up late, and missing classes by sleeping until noon.
13.Consider also data from an ongoing study of eighty-one _____ and salutatorians from the 1981 class in Illinois high schools.
14.It tells you nothing about how they react to the ______ of life.
15.Four-year-old Judy might seem a wallflower among her more _____ playmates.
16.I took _____ at the word “supposed”.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Vegetarian dish: ASPARAGUS SOUP

Use 1 can of asparagus, cut off the tips, and lay them aside. Cut up the stalks, cover with 4 cups of cold milk (or use half water and half milk), and let cook slowly in a double boiler for half an hour; then strain, pressing the asparagus well to extract the flavour. Return to the saucepan, add 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 tablespoon of butter, into which 1 teaspoon of flour has been made smooth, season generously with salt and pepper, add the asparagus tips, 1 cup of milk, and, just before serving, 1 tablespoon of whipped cream. A tablespoon of minced onion fried for ten minutes in butter is sometimes added to the stalks while cooking.

Read the text and find these words: 

asparagus 
mince
stalk
tip
extract
smooth
generous
boil
strain
aside

Monday, November 20, 2017

Vocabulary Task


dampness
belt
pulp
tout
lonesome
mayhem
precipice
vantage
vanguard


1.     A marked peculiarity of the class we have under consideration is that when they arrived in the country, they pushed through the ranks of the colonists, and, assuming the _____, continued at the head of the advance, first taking possession of Kentucky and Tennessee, then settling Mississipi and Missouri.
2.     These men have come in to sell the “fei”, or wild banana, which is only found on the highest and most perilous of the mountain _____.
3.     All the children had gone in by this time, as it was getting dark and rather _____.
4.     If it comes to the worst I can sleep out here on the sands, but I don’t like to do it, as the _____ will make my rheumatism worse.
5.     There are several ways to join the _____.
6.     The crowds at this point are only just starting to gather, so you can get a good _____. Point for the ham-on-the-pole.
7.     If you’re making your own way the festival, try to purchase your ticket in advance – they tend to sell out online weeks prior to the event, but you can often grab last-minute tickets from _____ in Valencia.
8.     A change of clothes is a good idea – you won’t be allowed on most buses back to Valencia if you’re covered in _____.
9.     The crazed tomato-throwers take no prisoners; cameras are seen as positive invitations to _____ the owner.

Plague Outbreak

Activity 1
Visit https://theconversation.com/plague-outbreak-where-does-it-still-exist-and-could-it-spread-87503 and read the article.
Activity 2
Find the words in the text and try to guess their meanings:
pandemic
plague
preventative
antibiotic
reactive
vector
rodent
insecticide
transmission
climatic
 Look up in the dictionary those you could not guess.