Speaking - free time

Alice has her adventures in Wonderland on a sunny afternoon. She is sitting by the river with her sister. Tell your partner about your favourite activities on a sunny afternoon in the summer. Where do…

Reading

That night we all had dinner with Peter Wilks’s good friends. After dinner, I quietly went upstairs to the King’s room. I knew the bag of money was in there somewhere. I felt bad that the King and…

Demonstrative pronouns

In Chapter Two, we saw this sentence: This was the sign from God. The demonstrative pronouns are: this, that, these and those. This and these refer to things close to you. That and those refer to things…

Project Vampire

Project Vampire

King Richard, the Lionheart - King Richard, the Lionheart

King Richard was born in Oxford on 8th September 1157. He was the third son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was also called the Lionheart because of his great courage. Richard was tall,…

Reading

One day I found a small bag from the ship with seeds1 in it. I decided to use it for my gunpowder so I emptied it outside my house. It rained a lot and about a month later I saw some young plants…

I’m hungry!

The Times of Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë was born at a time of great change in Britain. Although she died at the young age of thirty-nine, she lived through the reigns of four monarchs. The last of these was Queen Victoria,…

Reported speech (I)

Reported Speech ‘He said that Christmas was a humbug.’ Fred is telling other people what his uncle said, so this is a reported statement. Look at these sentences. We can see that the tense of the…

Humour - Go back to the text

A lot of the humour in Part Three comes from seeing how the Ghost makes very careful plans to frighten the Americans... but they make very careful plans themselves! It is now like a war, and the Otis…