Hi my dear friends, today we'll see a short story with some questions and excercises for you to do after.
Hola queridos amigos, hoy veremos un cuento corto con algunas preguntas y ejercicios para que los hagáis después.
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| my photo- Ice-creams. |
THE BOY AND AN ICE CREAM
Mrs Anderson went to a big local cinema one summer afternoon. Half-way through the beautiful film there was the usual interval, so that people could buy chocolates, ice-creams and sweets.
Mrs Anderson hardly ever bought anything in the cinema but this time she was feeling hot, so she thought, "I'll have an ice-cream to cool me. I certainly need it."
Quite a lot of the audience were waiting to buy ice-creams from the girl who was selling them, so Mrs Anderson waited for her turn.
There was a small boy in front of her. When it was his turn, he offered the girl ten pence and asked for an ice-cream, but they cost twenty pence, so the girl said: "I want another ten pence, please."
The small boy put the coin back in his pocket, put his hand in another pocket, took out another ten pence coin and offered that to the girl.
Mrs Anderson was so amused that she paid the other ten pence herself!
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QUESTIONS
1.- Why did Mrs Anderson decide to have an ice-cream in the cinema?
2.- Why did she have to wait before she could buy it?
3.- Why did the girl ask the small boy for more money?
4.- What did the boy do then?
5.- Why Mrs Anderson help him?
FIND IN THE STORY A WORD WITH THE SAME MEANING THAT:
1.- big
2.- make less hot
3.- not at all frequently
4.- people in a thatre or cinema.
5.- should be able to.
COMPLETE THIS STORY. YOU WILL FIND ALL THE CORRECT WORDS IN THE STORY.
A man was boasting to a stranger about the beer in his town.
"Why is it so (1)____________?" the stranger asked. "Is it stronger than the (2) ________beer?"
"It (3)________is!" said the (4)__________ man. "I've (5)_________ found a stronger one. A friend of mine was at a cinema, and (6) _________ through the film, during the (7) ________ he went to the bar and had a few glasses of it to (8) ___________ himself, because he felt hot. Then he went into the cinema again."
"Well, and what's so wonderful about that?" asked the stranger, putting a (9) _________ down as a tip for the barman.
"When he went in again, he found that there was a different film and a different (10)__________, and when he asked one of them, he discovered that it was the next night!"
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VOCABULARY
-BOASTING ABOUT: alardear, presumir.
-THE STRANGER: el extranjero.
-AMUSED: divertido/a.
-HALF-WAY: a mitad de camino, a medias de.
-INTERVAL: intermedio.
-COIN: moneda.
SOLUTIONS
ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS
1.- She decided to have an ice-cream because she was feeling hot.
2.- She had to wait because a lot of audience were waiting to buy ice-creams too.
3.- The girl asked the boy for more money because the ice-cream cost 20 pence and the boy gave her only 10 pence.
4.- The boy put the 10 pence back into his pocket and gave the girl another ten pence coin but in fact, it was the same coin!
5..- Mrs Anderson helped him because she became very amused because of the situation!
ADVICE / CONSEJITO: Cuando tengáis que responder preguntas en Inglés, siempre tienen que estar en el mismo tiempo, es decir, si la pregunta está en pasado, la respuesta tiene que ser en pasado también,
Nunca debemos responder en distinto tiempo del que nos preguntan.
Si nos preguntan
Why? nuestra respuesta no debe empezar directamente por BECAUSE, sino que decimos una pequeña introducción y luego ya ponemos el because en medio de nuestra respuesta.
FIND IN THE STORY A WORD WITH THE SAME MEANING.
1.- large.
2.- cool.
3.- rarely.
4.- audience.
5.- could.
COMPLETE
1.- wonderful
2.- usual.
3.- certainly.
4.- local.
5.- rarely.
6.- half-way.
7.- interval.
8.- cool.
9.- coin.
10.-audience.
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HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!
SEE YOU !!!!
