Pruebas: 3

Do you like reading? Books, comics, cartoons, magazines, newspapers, blogs?
I usually read the newspaper:the headlines, the opinions and the weather forecast. Spanish newspapers have got good reporters. I like to read the newspaper to know what is happening in the world.

Vocabulary related to newspapers:

headlines titulares
cartoons viñetas
column columna
sections secciones
reporter periodista
forecast el tiempo
ads anuncios
gossip cotilleo
publisher editor
editor redactor

Telepathy is the ability to send thoughts or ideas from one person to another without using speech or writing. Do you believe in telepathy?

On page 50 there is a strange story: Victor Samson worked for a newspaper. One day he watched an active volcano in a dream. The lava destroyed a village and a lot of people died. He wrote the story and his publisher published the story in the newspaper by mistake. Some weeks later, the dream came true.

Now read and listen to the story in your book.

Vocabulary

unusual: poco común

erupt: en erupción

below: de abajo

come true: hacerse realidad

mistake: error

several: varias

ship: barco

Past Simple

fly - flew: volar

fall - fell: caer

write - wrote: escribir

find - found: encontrar

see - saw: ver

tell - told: decir

bring - brought: traer

die - died: morir

Volcano!

On page 51 we practise Expressing and asking about past events. (Expresar y preguntar acontecimientos en el pasado). Remember that we use the auxiliary DID + Subject + Verb to make questions

Here are some interesting sites for you to practise. Have fun.

Link 1 This is a game. You have to place objects from the past and from the present in the right room. Can you do it in less than 20 seconds?
Link 2 Another game about a little red ship. Read the story and then answer the questions. You can win a million dollars!!
Link 3 Change each sentence into a yes/no question in the past tense.
Link 4 Change each sentence into a wh- question in the past tense.
Link 5, Link 6, and Link 7: three games of memory practising irregular verbs.