beginners esl: star wars reading

Lesson 61 Star Wars – Episode IV – a New HopeLuke Skywalker lives with his Uncle and Aunt on a farm

on the planet Tatooine. They are farmers. Luke wants

to go to the Academy and learn to be a fighter pilot.

All his friends are at the Academy. But his Uncle

doesn’t let him go, because he has to work on the

farm. Luke buys two robots from a market. Their

names are R2D2 and C3PO. R2D2 is broken. He tries to

fix it. It shows a message from a woman. She says,

“help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope”, over and over again.

Questions:

1. What is Luke’s surname?

2. Who does he live with?

3. Where does he live?

4. What does Luke want to do?

5. What does Luke’s uncle want him to do?

6. Where does Luke buy the robots?

7. What does Luke find in R2D2?

Say and Translate:BrokeCokeJokePokeSoakStokeWoke

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Yolk

Grammar:

Break broke

Wakes Have woken

Joke Have joked

Soak Have soaked

Homework:

message fix let

market broken try

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Hope Over again

Pilot Academy only

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Lesson 62 Star Wars – Episode IV – a New Hope

Luke wonders if “Obi-Wan Kenobi” could be

Old Ben, who lives in the desert. He takes the

robots to visit Old Ben. Ben opens the

message, and learns that the Empire is

building a Death Star. R2D2 has the plans.

They have to give the plans to the Rebel Alliance, on Alderaan. Alderaan is far away.

They need a space ship.

Questions:

1. Who does Luke visit?

2. Where does Ben live?

3. What is inside R2D2?

4. What do they have to do?

5. Where do they have to go?

6. What do they need?

Say and translate:

Bat

Vat

fat

Bile

Vile

file

Ban

Van

4

fan

Berry

Very

Ferry

Grammar:

They Are, open, live, have , have to, find,

need, want, go, buy

he Is, opens, has, lives, has to, wants,finds,

goes, needs, buys

Luke __________ on a farm. Luke _____ two robots. They ______ C3PO and R2D2.

Luke ______ to go and visit Ben. They ____ to the desert. They _________ old Ben.

Old Ben ________ the message. The Death Star _____ dangerous. They

___________ take the plans to Alderaan.

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Luke goes home to his Aunty and Uncle, but they are

dead. The Imperial Storm-troopers killed them.

Luke goes back to Ben. Ben is a Jedi Knight. He is

good at fighting, and mind control. They go to a bar,

and find a pilot. The pilot’s name is Hans Solo. His

friend is Chewbacca, a Wookie. Chewbacca can understand English, but he can’t

speak English. Only Hans can understand what Chewbacca is saying.

Questions:

1. Who died?

2. Who killed them?

3. What is Ben’s job?

4. What can Ben do?

5. Who is their pilot?

Ntr: Say and translate:

Control

Country

Tantrum

Central

Entry

Introduce

Contradict

Grammar: circle the verb

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Chewbacca is a wookie.

Wookies come from the planet Kashyyk.

Wookies can’t speak English.

Wookies are very strong.

Chewbacca is Hans’ friend.

The wookie’s name is Chewbacca.

Hans can understand Chewbacca.

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Homework

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Across

1. what does R2D2 have?

3. say, talk

7. 좌우하다9. Chewbacca is Hans' __________

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.in the empire

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.brain

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.알아듣다

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Luke tries to fix R2D2 because

it is ______

Down

2. 성함4. the stormtroopers _____

Luke's family

5. Luke wants to go to the

___________

6. 단한번8. someone who flies a plane or

space ship

9. 찾아내다10

.Old Ben is good at __________

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.not alive

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a shop where you can drink

alcohol


Hans, Chewbacca, R2D2, C3PO, Luke and Ben fly

to Alderaan. But when they get there, there is

no Alderaan. The Death Star destroyed it. Their

ship is captured by the Death Star. The Death

Star looks like a small moon. Their ship is pulled

in by a tractor beam. They hide in secret compartments. When the Imperial

Stormtroopers search the ship, they kill the Stormtroopers and steal their uniform.

They pretend to be stormtroopers and go inside the Death Star.

Questions:

1. Where do they go?

2. What happened to Alderaan?

3. Who has a tractor beam?

4. What does the tractor beam pull in?

5. Where do they hide?

6. What do Luke, Hans, and Ben pretend to be?

7. Can you remember what they did with Chewbacca?

Str: Say and translate:

Street

Destroy

Strict

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Instruct

Instrument

Abstract

Strip

Stripe

String

Strand

Stroll

strudle

Grammar: looks like

Chewbacca looks like ________________

Ben looks like ______________

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The stormtrooper looks like_____________

The Death Star looks like _______________

Jabba looks like ______________

Salacious Crumb looks like _____________________

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The Ewok looks like __________________

Homework:

Answer these questions:

1. How many pencils are there in your pencil case?

2. Where are you right now?

3. Where is Joshua right now?

4. What did you have for breakfast this morning?

5. What did you have for lunch today?

6. What is your telephone number?

7. Do you have long hair?

8. Can you play the saxophone?

9. Who is James?

10. Do you have any scissors in your bag?

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Luke rescues Princess Leia. Princess Leia is the

woman in the message. Ben disables the tractor

beam so that the ship can fly away. He fights with

Darth Vader. Luke sees Darth Vader kill Ben. They

run to the ship and fly away. They go to the Rebel

Alliance. The Rebel Alliance is on the planet Yavin 4. They look at the plans. They

find a weakness in the Death Star. They send fighter pilots to attack the death star.

Luke goes too. Old Ben is with him in spirit. He helps Luke to fire the perfect shot.

The Death Star blows up. Princess Leia gives Luke, Hans and Chewbacca a medal

each.

Questions:

1. Who helps Princess Leia?

2. Who stops the tractor beam?

3. Who fights with Darth Vader?

4. Who kills Ben?

5. Who flies to Yavin 4?

6. Who lives on Yavin 4?

7. Who look at the plans?

8. Who goes to attack the death star?

9. Who gives them medals?

G: say and translate. Circle the words where “g” sounds like “j”

Message

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Get

Angel

go

Image

magazine

Gold

Greet

Orange

Bridge

general

Age

Courage

agile

Judge

Grammar: the infinitive

Underline the infinitve verb, circle the real verb

1. Luke wants to go to the Academy.

2. They send fighter pilots to attack the Death star.

3. They pay Hans Solo to be their pilot.

4. Hans helps them to hide.

5. Luke takes the robots to visit Ben.

6. Luke wants to learn to be a fighter pilot.

7. Luke tries to fix R2D2.

8. Ben helps Luke to shoot the Death Star.

9. They pretend to be stormtroopers.

10. They need a space ship to get to Alderaan.

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Homework:

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