Unit 7 What have I learnt? Can Do Skills
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Read the story.
Once there were two mice who were cousins. One lived in the town, and the other in the country. One day the Town Mouse went to visit his country cousin. “How poor your house is,” he said. “My house is very fine. I have lots to eat. You must come and visit me.”
So, the Country Mouse went to visit his cousin in the town. The house was very big and there was plenty of food on the table. But when the Country Mouse began to eat, his cousin shouted, “Look out! It’s the cat.”
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Answer the questions. 1 What is the setting of this story? 2 Did the Country Mouse enjoy visiting his cousin? Why? Why not? 3 Which words from this list describe the Town Mouse?
clever lazy boastful helpful greedy angry
4 What will happen next in the story?
3 Find and write three past tense verbs in the story.
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Write these verbs in the past tense. crawl crawled play
cook make
hop bury
tell
begin
buy
5 Write three sentences about someone in your family. Say: • What this person looks like. • What kind of person he or she is. • Something this person does.
• Exercise 2: You could allow students to discuss the questions in pairs before they write the answers. Encourage them to justify their choice of words in question 3. • Use the story to assess students’ oral work. Ask them to retell the story in their own words, relating events in the correct sequence.
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