Complete these sentences using words from the box

explain different safe bone graveyard mayor

a. Do you know the name of the ___________of your town?

b. Are there some things that are not easy to ___________?

c. How many ___________animals can you name?

d. The ___________is full of dead people.

e. This fish has a big ___________in it.

f. Put this money away somewhere that is ___________.

Find these words and phrases in the story.

another (paragraph 2) dead (paragraph 4) explain (paragraph 1) later (paragraph 2)

Now choose the right meaning.

a. in the future b. not living c. say why d. one more

Choose and write the correct word.

a. Most towns have a ___________. mayor/city

b. Dogs like eating ___________. bones/people

c. The thief could not ___________where the money came from. lie/explain

d. Most people put their money in a bank to keep it ___________. warm/safe

Looking for detail

Answer these questions about the story.

a. Where did Mrs. Pereira live?

b. What did the mayor want to do?

c. Where were the faces?

d. What couldn't Mrs. Pereira's son explain?

e. What does “It” refer to in paragraph 1?

f. Which of these is correct?

(i) The mayor dug up the floor.

(ii) The son dug up the graveyard.

(iii) Mrs. Pereira dug up the faces.

(iv) Everyone in Mrs. Pereira's family dug up the floor.

g. Why do you think the faces in the floor stopped coming?

h. In what way was the Pereira's house different from all the other houses in the village?

i. Does “They” in paragraph 4 refer to the Pereira family, the faces, or the bones?

j. Do you think the faces were the faces of the dead? Say why or why not.

Complete the following sentences. Your answers must come from the story.

a. The Pereira family lived _____________________________.

b. One day Mrs. Pereira saw _____________________________.

c. Her son could not explain _____________________________.

d. The mayor of the town _____________________________.

e. Not everyone saw the _____________________________.

f. There was an old graveyard _____________________________.

g. Some time later the faces _____________________________.

Picture comprehension

Choose the picture that shows what Mrs. Pereira saw in her kitchen. Say why you think this picture is correct.

Organizing ideas

Put these sentences into the correct order by writing the numbers 1-6 next to each letter.

a. _____The house stood on an old graveyard and there were dead bodies under the floor.

b. _____Many people in the town thought the pictures of the faces in the floor were those of dead people.

c. _____These were not painted on the floor.

d. _____In a small town in Spain, the Pereira family saw faces in their kitchen floor.

e. _____Different people saw different faces.

f. _____Mrs. Pereira dug up the faces but the faces came back.

Writing

Write sentences about the story by putting these words in the correct order.

a. 1971 a kitchen woman saw In a in floor. her face

_______________________________________________

b. her asked son it. She about

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c. him to He dig asked it she up. knew so nothing

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d. another face He came. did this but

_______________________________________________

e. Then came. more faces

_______________________________________________

f. dug Then floor. up the the Pereiras whole

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g. they Underneath found a graveyard.

_______________________________________________

h. think faces Many of were the they people the dead.

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UNIT 2

Ship of the desert

Pre-reading activity

1. Do you have camels in your country?

2. In which countries are there camels?

3. How do these animals help people?

Many people believe that the hump of a camel is full of water. They believe this is the reason that camels do not have to drink very often, but they are quite wrong. A camel's hump is not full of water. It is mostly fat. The camel's body can use the fat later when it is hungry but it does not help the camel go for a long time without drinking. A camel can do this because it does not sweat very much.

When people - and most other animals - get hot, they sweat. Sweat is mostly water from the body. Therefore, when people sweat, they lose water and soon have to drink. If they do not drink water they die. When a camel gets hot, it does not sweat very much, so it does not lose much of the water in its body. It does not need to drink very often.

There is very little water in the desert, so any animal that does not need much water is very useful for carrying people and things across the desert. Camels can travel a long way without stopping for food or water. This is why the camel is called “The Ship of the Desert”- it carries its food and water with it and it can go for a long time between towns.

People still use camels in the deserts of North Africa and in many other places.

New words

hump:They put humps on some of the roads to stop the cars going too fast.

fat: You can get fat if you eat too much food.

sweat:People sweat under their arms and on their faces when they are hot.

Main idea

Does each of these sentences say what each paragraph is about? Write T for true or F for false.

Paragraph 1 ____Although people think that the camel's hump has water in it, it has fat inside it.

Paragraph 2 ____Most animals need to sweat but the camel does not.

Paragraph 3 ____Camels never drink water.

Paragraph 4 ____People eat camel fat.

Vocabulary