Session 23

 

13th March 2024 

rainy, cool 

Wednesday 

scaly = cu solzi / solzos 

scale = solz 

scales = cantar 

whiskers = mustati ( de animalut ) / perciuni 

wire = sarma 

wiry = sarmos 

tough = dur / aspru 

to snore (ed) =  a sforai 

to tiptoe (ed) = a merge in varful picioarelor 

trail = urma continua si lunga 

track = urma 

to poke (ed) =  a tasni / a iesi in afara 

to gleam (ed) = a straluci 

fiery = fioros 

ought to / should = ar trebui ( sfaturi )

to unclench (ed) = a da drumul la stransoare 

hazel tree = alun 

boulder = bolovan 

sly = viclean 

hazard = pericol 

ASK QUESTIONS FROM THE STORY 

1. How did the Gruffalo describe the Big Bad Mouse?

The Big Bad Mouse had a scaly tale, his eyes looked like pools of fire, his whiskers were tougher than wire and he was teribly strong.

2.Why did the Gruffalo's child go to find the mouse?

The Gruffalo's child went to the deep dark wood to find the mouse because he was bored.

3. Who was the first creature that the Gruffalo's child met?

 The first creature that the Gruffalo's child met was a snake.

4.What did the Gruffalo's child say in the wood's?

The Gruffalo's child said he wasn't scared.

HONEYCOM 

Patrick -2

Rares -1 

Teo -4

Ilaria -6

Homework 

B) Fill in the blanks with the SIMPLE PAST of the verbs in brackets:

Last Saturday my father …. took…. (take) my friends and me to the circus. We …SAW……(see)

lots of things. My father ………BOUGHT…………. (buy) us some popcorn and orange juice. We

………ATE……………. (eat) the popcorn and …………DRANK……………… (drink) the orange juice.

We ……………LAUGHED……….. (laugh) at the funny clowns. There …………WAS………. (be) a lion-tamer.

The lions ………DID…………… (do) tricks; they ………………JUMPED………… (jump) through hoops. A girl ………………RODE………. (ride) an elephant around the ring. We all ……………HAD…… (have)

a wonderful time.

C) Write what Jean DID or DIDN’T do yesterday:

go shopping ( - ) ………… Jean didn’t go shopping yesterday. …………….

clean the house ( + ) ……………………JEAN  CLEANED ……………………………

feed the cat ( + ) .…………………………JEAN FED…………………

telephone Mary ( - ) …………………………JEAN DIDN'T TELEPHONE …………

watch a film on TV ( - ) ……………JEAN DIDN'T WATCH ………………………

visit her grandparents ( + ) ………JEAN VISITED ………………………………

take them a cake ( + ) ………………JEAN TOOK .........................……

D) Fill in the blanks with the PAST form of the verbs:

break swim have make sit write

spend buy drink lose wash

Benjamin Franklin …… was born ….. (be born) in Boston in 1706. He ………WAS…… (be) the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He ……WENT……(go ) to school only one year. He ………BEGAN…… (begin) to work when he was twelve. At the age of fourteen he ………DECIDED  (decide) to be a writer. He ………COPIED ………….

(copy) the great stories of famous writers and later he ……BECAME …… (become) the best known writer in his time.

When he …………WAS ……….. (be) seventeen, he ……LEFT… (leave) Boston and

…… (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He

…GOT……… (get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and ………RETIRED . (retire)

from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he ………SPENT…. (spend) the next forty years for his government. He …PLAYED……. (play) an important role in the founding of the USA.

Franklin WAS…… (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He ……DREW…. (draw)

electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He ……WROTE…… (write) one of the first text books on electricity. He ……INVENTED……… (invent) a simple lightning rod and many other practical tools. He …MADE… (make) a study of water and ……………………DISCOVERED ….

(discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even …………INVENTED… (invent) bifocal glasses when he was seventy-eight and …NEEDED………… (need) them himself.

Franklin ………DID……… (do) all these things and many more because he ……………BELIEVED .………

(believe) he ……………COULD…………… (can).