Reading Skills (PVIII Gym English Handbook page 118)

Read the email. Check your answers at the bottom of the page.  Good luck!

 

 

Hi Martin, The journey to Scotland was really boring.  First there was the train journey from Brighton to Victoria Station in London.  That was about an hour.  After that, I got the underground from Victoria Station to Euston Station.  That took about twenty-five minutes and it was confusing to find the correct platform.  Finally I got the train to Scotland.  It was a fast train, but the journey took nearly six hours.  It was boring!  I didn’t sleep because there were two noisy babies and their noisy parents in seats near me. 

Fiona and Robert met me at Glasgow Central Station.  Their house is fantastic.  There are six bedrooms, three bathrooms and skylights too-skylights are windows in the roof of the rooms.  Fiona and Robert are both artists and there are pictures everywhere. It’s a really cool house.

The weather here in Scotland is terrible.  Yesterday I went for a swim in the loch - that’s the Scottish word for lake – and I nearly froze! I don’t plan on doing that again.

In the evening we went to a party.  We did Scottish dancing until midnight and got very hot.  The music was a bit boring, but I still had a great time.  Everyone was very friendly and it was good exercise!  I’d like to go to another party but I’m not sure I can.

I’m going to be back in Brighton on Thursday evening. See you then.  Best Wishes,  Lucy

 

Write if the sentences are true (T) or false (F) or don’t know (DK).

1. Martin took a train from Brighton to Waterloo Station in London.   ___
2. The journey from Brighton to London was forty-five minutes.         ___
3. Lucy thought the platform change was easy.                                     ___
4. Lucy didn’t sleep on the train.                                                            ___
5. Lucy doesn’t like travelling by plane.                                                 ___
6. Fiona and Robert live in Glasgow.                                                     ___
7. They haven’t got a car.                                                                       ___
8. They are both artists.                                                                           ___
9. Glasgow is in Scotland.                                                                      ___
10. Lucy didn’t enjoy the party at all.                                                      ___
11. Lucy is going to be back in Brighton on Thursday morning.             ___

 

EXAM Practice:  Complete the sentence with any suitable word. 

1    I want _______________ see the rock concert.

2    Celia and Anthony _______________ Italian.

3    Is this _______________ book?

4    That’s _______________ desk.

5    The hotel is _______________ Iffley Road.

6    There are two _______________ in the apartment.

7    Dave _______________ a friend in Brighton.

8    I _______________ like jazz music.

9    They haven’t got _______________ ice cream.

10  The theatre is _______________ the cinema.

11  Which book are you ______________ to read?

12  What time ______________the film start?

13  I ______________ baseball once a week.

14  Neil and Paul ______________with us last night.

15  The Nile is ______________than the Thames.

16  I usually______________ TV after school.

17  We ______________do athletics in winter.

18  Are Will and Jane ______________TV?

19  Did you ______________the music?

20   ______________ you using the computer?

 

 

Exam Practice: reading skills

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1.       F

2.       F

3.       F

4.       F

5.       DS

6.       DS

7.       DS

8.       T

9.       T

10.   F

11.   F

Practice: suitable word

1.       to

2.       are

3.       your/her/his/their

4.       a/your/my/his/her/their

5.       in

6.       bedrooms

7.       has (has got)

8.       don’t

9.       any

10.   near/next to/behind

11.   going

12.   does

13.   play

14.   went/were/came

15.   longer

16.   watch

17.   often/sometimes/never

18.   watching

19.   like

20.   Are