Day: Oct 3, 2023

The Girl in the Denim Jacket – part 1.   Student worksheet

TRUE OR FALSE – COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS.

When you have read and studied the story, say which of these statements are true.

    1.    The writer had never taken the train at Willesden junction before.
    2.    There were a lot of people waiting for the train.
    3.    The person telling the story is 17 or 18 years old.
    4.    The story takes place in summer time.
    5.    The person telling the story felt strangely attracted by the girl.
    6.    She smiled at him, as if she recognised him.
    7.    The writer and the girl were separated in the carriage by two businessmen
    8.    Quite a lot of people had got out of the train by Wembley.
    9.    The writer sat down beside the girl.
    10.    The writer spoke to the girl before she spoke to him.

 This story contains a lot of phrasal verbs: list A contains 8 examples, list B contains 8 synonyms. Match the verbs correctly with their synonyms.

1d, 2g, 3c, 4f, 5b, 6h, 7a, 8e. 

List A
1.    was on my way
2.    had on
3.    make out
4.    keep my eyes off
5.    turn away
6.    lost sight of
7.    move up
8.    bring out

List B
a.    come towards me
b.    turn my head
c.    clearly see
d.    was going
e.    say
f.    stop looking at
g.    was wearing
h.    could not see

The Girl in the Denim Jacket – part 2.   Student worksheet

SELECT THE BEST EQUIVALENT FOR THE FOLLOWING EXPRESSIONS APPEARING IN THE TEXT:

   bring myself: (a) tell myself, (b) allow myself, (c) manage to
 holding us up: (a) helping us, (b) making us go slowly, (c) stopping us.
 What’s up?: (a) What’s finished? (b) Shut up! (c) What’s happening?
 Running you in: (a) arresting you, (b) taking you for a run, (c) sending you away.

In one typical day, my mom has meets with my dad.
For minimum, you must do a cleanup your room.
Be a carefully with this book, this is a very scarce book.
With my old friends, we are annual doing party.
Can you persuade my parents to go on a trip?
This pic is very essential for my granny.
My hairs are blend when I have slept.
I think my new hair color is much visible.
If this cloth is expensive, you can buy the other one.
The boy has individual talent, he is singing since 3 years old.
If you haven’t devised for these holidays, you can go to a party with us.
My family has a wholesale shop.

Fill in the Blanks                

1. The March of Dimes makes its annual appeal in the early spring.
   2. Oil paints blend easily to form thousands of different shades.
   3. The minimum passing mark in most schools is 65%.
   4. The producer always had her eye out for young talent.
   5. Your gifts do not tempt* me and will not persuade me to change my mind.
   6. In the cemetery, the corpse*  was visible in the bright moonlight.
   7. A typical day in Florida is full of sunshine and warm breezes.
   8. Let’s devise a plan for doing away with homework.
   9. Everyone agrees that friendship is essential for all of us.
   10. A sharp rise in wholesale prices is bound to affect the prices in our neighborhood stores.
   11. The buffalo, which once roamed the plains, is quite scarce today.
   12. Government experts told us to buy chicken without realizing how expensive it had become.

My neighbour  – whose son is dead, tall me about his son corpse.
My friend has concealed very important data for me.
Marlin says, that my new dress is so dismal.
In this winter was frigid, and all winter i was sick.ave seen the
I want to inhabit in Korea.
My feets are numb, because was very cold.
This meat is not looking good, i think it is peril.
After hard day, Amanda has recline in bad and sleeped.
I was shriek, when i has seen the lion.
The sinaster boy has incinerate this house.
Amanda thinks what she is tempt Endy, but Endy says, what he has girlfriend.
The Marlin has gotten a big wager, and now he is so happy.

Fill in the Blanks

1. The chances of my winning the election were so dismal that I decided to quit before the votes were counted.
2. I won the wager that my bachelor* friend would be married by June.
3. Kit Carson’s keen* eyesight protected him from the peril in the forest.
4. While escaping from the bank, the robbers forced the teller to recline on the floor of
their car.
5. Since the shack was vacant,* we did not expect to hear the terrible shriek which came
from it.
6. With a sinister smile, the gangster invited Martha into his Cadillac.
7. You cannot conceal the truth when you are questioned by the keen* lawyer.
8. It is said that many ghosts inhabit the old Butler house.
9. In frigid weather I always wear three or four sweaters.
10. After standing guard duty for four hours, I became completely numb.
11. As the closet was opened, the corpse fell out, frightening the janitor out of one year’s
growth.
12. With the promise of a raise in pay, my boss tried to tempt me to stay on in the job.

Was a time, when I had wanted to abandon my country.
When I was younger, I had liked the games for a keen mind.
Amanda is jealous of Bill for his good points.
Robert is a good boy, but he hasn’t a good tact.
When I am angry, can let out bad oaths.
I have many vacant notebooks.
If you want to release your dream, you have to overcome many hardships.
In other countries, people are more gallant then in Armenia.
For this day I had learned so many data.
The first day in a new school was so unaccustomed for Liliya.
My friend is 45 years ago, but he is a bachelor.
I want to qualify for my dream job.

Fill in the Blanks

1. As I looked at all the data the salesman showed me, I knew that I was getting more and more mixed up.
2. I used tact when I told my fat uncle that his extra weight made him look better.
3. When the guard saw that the cot was vacant, he realized that the prisoner had left the jail.
4. Although he took an oath on the Bible, Sal lied to the jury.
5. My aunt was so jealous of our new couch that she bought one just like it.
6. I enjoyed reading the story of the gallant man who put his cloak over a mud puddle so that the queen would not dirty her feet.
7. The loss of Claudia’s eyesight was a hardship which she learned to live with.
8. The driver was forced to abandon his car when two of the tires became flat.
9. Betty could not qualify for the Miss Teenage America Contest because she was twenty years old.
10. The blade was so keen that I cut myself in four places while shaving.
11. Unaccustomed to being kept waiting, the angry woman marched out of the store.
12. Because he was a bechelor, the movie actor was invited to many parties.

Word Detective

1. a promise that something is true    =    oath
2. sharp; eager; intense    =    keen
3. to desert; to leave without planning to come back    =   abandon
4. something that is hard to bear     =     hardship
5. to become fit   =  qualify
6. wanting what someone else has   =  jealous
7. brave; showing respect for women   =   gallant
8. a man who has not married    =   bachelor
9. facts; information    =   data
1 0. the ability to say the right thing    =   tact
11. empty; not filled   =    vacant
12. not used to something   =   unaccustomed