Summer Homework Module 1

Butterflies

The butterfly is an insect. Butterflies are often colorful and bright. They have an interesting life cycle: they start as eggs. When they are born, they are what we call caterpillars. The caterpillars then move into a cocoon, becoming what we call chrysalis. When the insect comes out of the cocoon, we call it butterfly.

Butterflies can be found almost all over the world. There may be as many as twenty thousand different species of butterflies.

Butterflies usually eat flower nectar. Because of this, they are important to the life cycle of many flowers. Butterflies also need minerals, which they usually get from water found in dirt and sand.

I. Answer the following questions:

1- Where can we find butterflies?

_______________________________________________________________________________.

2- Name the four stages of the butterfly’s life cycle.

_______________________________________________________________________________.

3- What do butterflies eat? What do they drink?

_______________________________________________________________________________.

II. Complete the sentences. Use words from the box:

Sit down Don’t speak Open Don’t play Listen Read

1- _______________________ the door, it’s hot!

2- _______________________ video games every evening!

2

3- _______________________ the sentences in your notebook.

4- ______________________ to songs in English.

5- ______________________ on your chair!

6- ______________________ stories in English at home.

III. Choose the correct word.

1- Are you Australian / Australia?

2- My friend is from Poland / Polish.

3- Where are you from? U.S.A / American.

4- I’m from Lebanon / Lebanese

IV. Complete the questions with How much / How many:

1. ____________________________water is there in the bottle?

2.____________________________ strawberries are there?

3. ____________________________cheese is there?

4. ____________________________ peaches are there?

5. ____________________________ eggplants are there?

6. ____________________________ lettuce is there?

3

Module 2

I. Read the following text :

The Ant and the Grasshopper

On one fine summer's day, a grasshopper was hopping about in a musical mood. An ant passed

by carrying a great corn. She was taking it to her house. The grasshopper invited the ant to sit and sing

with him. But the ant refused. "I’m storing up food for winter. Why don’t you do the same?" asked

the ant. "Pooh! Why bother about winter?" said the grasshopper. "We have got enough food now."

But the Ant went on her way and continued her job. Finally, when winter came, the grasshopper found

himself dying of hunger, while he saw the ants eating corn and grain from their house. Then

the grasshopper understood that it is best to prepare for the days of necessity.

4

II. Fill in the following shapes with the right information from the text :

III. Circle the picture that means

Past simple ……………………..……………………..…………………………..……………………..……………………..……………

……..……………………..……………………..…………………..……………………..……………………..……………

……..……………………..……………………..…………………..……………………..……………………..……………

……..……………………..……………………..…………………..……………………..……………………..…………….

Characters

Setting/place

Problem Solution

……………………..……………………..…………………………..……………………..……………………..…………………..……………

………..……………………..…………………..……………………..………………..……………………..……………………..………………

…..……………………..……………………..…………..……………………..……………………..…………………..……………………..…

…………………..…………..……………………..……………………..…………………..……………………..……………………..…………

……..…………………..……………………..……………………..…………………..……………………..……………………..………………

………..……………………..……………………..……

……………..………………..……………………..……

………………..…………………..……………………..

……………………..……………..……………………..

……………………..…………………..………………

……..……………………..……………..………………

………..……………………..……………………..……

……………..………………..……………………..……

………………..…………………..……………………..

……………………..……………..……………………..

……………………..…………………..………………

……..……………………..……………..………………

5

1. lazy

2. gold

UIV Writing :

Look at the pictures and prompts and write the story. Use the past simple.

Last week I was at the bank.

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

- last week / I / be / at / bank

- suddenly / man / dressed in black / come in

- he / take out / gun / and / shout “Give me the money!”, to the bank teller

- he / take / money / and / run / out of / bank

- luckily / there / be / woman with / huge dog / outside / bank

- when / man / see / it / he / be / terrified / and / he / not can / move

- so / security guard / grab / gun from / hand

- after a while / police / come / and take / man / to / police station

6

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

___________________.

7

Module 3

I. Read me a story :

II. Match each title to its story :

a) King Midas

b) Jack and the Beanstalk

c) Snow White

d) Little Red Riding Hood

1. ____________________________

This is a story of a little girl who takes

some cake to her grandma. But her

grandma lives in the forest and on her

way the little girl meets a wolf!

The story is frightening

2. ___________________________

Jack lives with his mother. They are very

poor and decide to sell their only cow! Jack

does sell the cow, but instead of coming

home with money, he comes home with

beans!

Magical beans

3.__________________________

She lives with her father, who gets

married to an evil woman. She tries to kill

Snow White because she is more

beautiful than her.

This story is sad

4. ____________________________

King Midas is a very rich man. King Midas

loves gold very much. He wishes that

everything he touches changes into gold

8

UIII. Read again and answer these questions:

1- Why does Little Red Riding hood go to her grandma? Where does she live?

_________________________________________________________________________________.

2- King Midas loves gold. What does he wish?

_________________________________________________________________________________.

3- Why do Jack and his mother decide to sell the cow?

_________________________________________________________________________________.

4- Why does the evil woman want to kill Snow White?

_________________________________________________________________________________.

UIV. Writing :

What is your favourite story ? What is it about ?

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

.

USample 4

9

I. Read the text below

The Life Saver

I will always remember the day we took our dog, Stella, to the beach for the first time. Stella was eight

years old and quite a big dog. It was a sunny day, but very windy, so there weren’t many people on the

beach. Mum and Dad were there, and so was my sister Sue.

Stella was very excited. She ran up and down the beach, chasing her ball. Suddenly, Stella dropped the

ball and started to run towards some rocks in the distance. We didn’t know what was wrong so we ran

after her, shouting her name. When she got to the rocks she jumped into the sea and started swimming.

We saw a green jacket in the water and we could see that Stella wanted to get it. She took it in her teeth

and swam back to the beach.

That was when we saw that it was not just a jacket - it was a little boy! My Dad quickly carried the boy

to a dry part of the beach and helped him to breathe again. That was when the boy’s mother arrived. She

cried, but she was very happy that her little son was alive. She thanked us all - but especially Stella – for

saving her boy from drowning.

II. Answer the questions:

1. What was the weather like?

_________________________________________________________________________________.

2. What did they take to the beach for Stella to play with?

_________________________________________________________________________________.

3. Why did Stella run towards the rocks?

__________________________________________________________________________________.

4. What did they think the boy was at first?

10

_________________________________________________________________________________.

5. What did the storyteller’s dad do?

_________________________________________________________________________________.

6. Was the boy’s mother happy or sad? Why?

___________________________________________________________________________________.

III. Complete with the correct comparative or superlative form of the adjectives in brackets.

1. My friend, Andy, is the ____________________(friendly) person I know.

2. I prefer travelling by plane to travelling by train because the plane is _________________ (fast) than the train. But it’s_____________________ (expensive) than the train, too.

3. Alison’s hair is ______________________ (long) than Julie’s, but Julie is_____________________

(beautiful) than Alison.

4. Brad believes that Maths is the _____________________ (easy) subject of all.

5. What do you think is the_________________________ (dangerous) means of transport?

6. I think that the book is ____________________________ (good) than the film.

7. My computer is ___________________________________ (new) than Irina’s.

8. Mr. Collins has the ____________________________ (big) house in the neighborhood.

IV. Inspired by the story “The Life Saver”, write about an experience you had.

• Where did you go? Describe the place • What did you do? • What happened? • How did it end?

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

11

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________.

12

Module 5

I. Read the story : School starts in a week and today is the day we go shopping for school supplies!

I told mom that I didn’t need anything. I loved my backpack from last year. It had a picture of Topaz,

my favorite rock singer. It even had her autograph across the bottom of her picture. I couldn’t wait to

get it out and check my supplies. When I pulled out my backpack from the back of my closet, I was

horrified at how dirty it was. Somehow, over the summer, a strap was broken, the color was faded, and

the zipper was stuck. There was a dark spot right on Topaz’s chin and you could hardly read her

signature any more. When I looked inside, I found papers that were stuck together from an open glue

bottle. I wondered who took the cap off of my glue bottle. There was a library book I borrowed and

forgot to return. My markers had escaped from the box and the caps were mysteriously missing. My

lucky pencil was too short to write with anymore. I discovered the dark spot on Topaz’s chin was from

the cupcake I packed away from the end-of-the-year picnic. The frosting melted all over my notebooks

and scissors. I decided it was time to make my list of new school supplies.

II. Answer the following questions:

1. Why didn’t the main character think she needed new school supplies? ___________________________________________________________________________________. 2. What caused her to change her mind? ___________________________________________________________________________________. 3. What caused the dark spot on her backpack? ___________________________________________________________________________________. 4. Why couldn’t the markers be used? ___________________________________________________________________________________. 5. How do you think the cap came off the glue bottle? ___________________________________________________________________________________.

13

6. What synonym for autograph is used later in the story?

___________________________________________________________________________________.

III. Read the passage then circle the correct form of the verb:

Dear Sarah,

My name’s Carla. I live/am living with my parents in a small house in Porto. I go/am going to a big

school in the center of the city. Every morning I get up/am getting up at 6:30 and catch the bus to

school. I like/am liking my school.

I’m not at school today, though, because I am ill. I write/am writing this letter to you from my bed. My

mother is downstairs. She makes/is making some tomato soup for me. I don’t like/am not liking tomato

soup, but Mum says I have to/am having to eat it. I hope I am better by the weekend because I usually

play/am playing basketball with my friends on Saturdays.

Best wishes,

Carla

IV. Write what you are going to do and what you aren’t going to do next weekend. Use the phrases in the box or your own ideas

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

visit/place

relax

sleep/a lot

go out/friends

read/book

study

14

Module 6

Food Fright

Doctors in Britain are worried because British teenagers eat lots of

crisps, sweets and fat food. Most teenagers don’t eat enough fruit or

vegetables and more than one million British school children are

overweight.

Some teenagers say that they don’t have time to eat good food, but kids

who have a poor diet often have health problems when they are older.

Americans have been familiar with fast food for a long time; it was born there. American fast food is

now a part of life far beyond the stores of The United States. McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, and Burger king

have restaurants all over the world.

No one can deny that the idea of fast food at a fair price has its place around the world. These

organizations are popular because they are pleasing a need within a particular country’s economy.

A steady diet of burgers fries and soda may seem delicious, but it won’t feed your body with vitamins

and minerals; you need to stay healthy. Fast food lacks many important nutrients.

Some parents are blaming the large number of fast food restaurants where people eat high-calorie

foods of low nutritional value.

Now doctors are giving young people books and games about a good diet. Having a healthy, well-

balanced diet can help you feel better and live longer.

I. Say if these sentences are true (T) or false (F). Always support your answer with a sentence from the text.

1- British doctors don’t care about habits of young people.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

15

2- A great percentage of British school children are fat.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

3- Fast food restaurants were born in France.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

4- Fast food restaurants are popular around the world.

____________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________.

5- To keep our body healthy we need a stable diet of burgers.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

II. Match words taken from the text with their meaning:

1. crisps a) saying that someone is the cause of something bad.

2. blaming b) British equivalent of chips.

3. pleasing c) equally good to everyone.

4. fair d) satisfying.

5. overweight e) say no

6. deny f) too fat

III. Answer the questions with complete answers:

1- Why are British doctors worried? _________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________.

16

2- Do young people normally eat vegetables and fruit? ______________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________.

3- What kind of problems can a poor diet bring? ______________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________.

4- Why do so many people go to fast food restaurants? ______________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________.

5- Who do the parents blame for their children’s overweight problems?

______________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________.

6- What should we do to have a longer and better life? ______________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________.

17

Module 7

Last year, I went horse riding with my husband, Steve. We both love sports and we were really excited.

It was a funny experience. You see, we were on the horses when there was a loud noise and they got

scared. They started running and we couldn’t stop them. I was terrified. After a while my husband fell

off his horse. Luckily, a few minutes later my horse stopped running. I got off and ran to Steve. He had a

huge bump on his head and when we saw him, he said, “I don’t think we should go horse riding again”.

Emily 31

About a month ago, I visited my grandparents and my grandfather decided to spend the weekend fishing

with me. We got ready and went to the river near their house. At first, it was fun, but after a while I got

bored. I didn’t want to scare the fish away, so I couldn’t talk, listen to music, or even move. Suddenly, I

felt something moving in the water. “A fish!” I shouted to my grandfather. Unfortunately, I was really

excited, and when I stood up I fell into the water. My grandfather couldn’t stop laughing. It was

hilarious!

Jonathan 19

I. Read the text and fill in the blanks:

1. Emily and ___________________ went horse riding last year.

2. The horses got scared because _________________________________.

3. _________________fell off his horse and got a __________________ on his head.

4. Jonathan went fishing with_________________________.

5. The __________________________ is near Jonathan’s grandparents’ house.

6. When Jonathan ___________________________, his grandfather started laughing.

18

Talking about the future:

19

Talking about the future:

20

I. Use going to or will to complete the sentences. Follow the lines to find out the chores of each person:

21