GRACE AND HER VERY HEAVY RUCKSACK

Grace loved school. She was a good student and always put her hand
up to answer questions. Her favourite teacher was Mrs Morrison. Two
weeks ago, Mrs Morrison taught a lesson on healthy eating. She told
her students to bring lots of fruit to school with them that day.
They all brought lots of different fruit: strawberries, blackberries,
pears, bananas, apples, oranges and one student even brought a mango. They peeled
and chopped the fruit and made a colourful fruit salad. They ate it instead of their
usual pudding. It was delicious – and healthy! Grace felt really good.
Grace loved to keep fit and so she walked to school and back every day.
It was quite a long walk: forty-five minutes, and Grace usually enjoyed
it. However, soon after the healthy eating lesson, she began to get pains
in her back. She blamed her rucksack - it was so heavy! It was dragging
her down! She complained to her mother. Mum asked Grace what was in
the rucksack. Then she decided to have a look. She took out – a
chemistry text book, a maths folder, a pencil case, three exercise
books, a calculator, a rainproof and then, right at the very bottom – a huge, heavy
melon! It was an ingredient for the fruit salad! That melon had stayed in Grace’s
rucksack all that time. When Grace got to school that morning, she told Mrs Morrison
and Mrs Morrison laughed out loud. And so did the rest of the class.😊
ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE AND THEN CORRECT THE FALSE ONES:

1. Grace couldn’t stand school. 6. Grace hated exercise.

2. She participated well in class.
3. She liked Mrs Morrison.
4. They prepared a fruit salad.
5. First, they ate their usual dessert and
then they had the fruit salad.
7. Grace blamed Mrs Morrison for her
back pains.
8. Grace’s mum emptied her rucksack.
9. Grace had a coat in her rucksack.
10. Mrs Morrison sympathised with Grace.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN FULL SENTENCES:

1. What sort of student was Grace?

2. When did Mrs Morrison give the lesson on healthy eating?
3. What did Mrs Morrison tell her students to bring?
4. How did Grace feel about having such a healthy dessert?
5. How long did it take Grace to walk to school?
6. What problem did she start having?
7. What did Grace’s mother do?
8. What did her mum find?
9. Why was the item in Grace’s rucksack?
How did Mrs Morrison react to Grace’s news?
10.
.0CHALLENGE: Many fruits are mentioned. How many more can you name?
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1. F. she loved it.

2. T
3. T
4. T
5. F. they had the fruit salad instead of their usual lunch
6. F – she loved it.
7. F – she blamed her rucksack
8. T
9. T – a rainproof.
10. Maybe, but it doesn’t say. She laughed, so F.

1. Grace was a good student

2. She gave the lesson two weeks ago.
3. She told them to bring fruit
4. She felt good about it
5. It took 45 minutes
6. She started getting back pain/pains in her back
7. She emptied her rucksack/had a look in her rucksack
8. She found a melon
9. Because she was going to use it in the fruit salad at school
10. She laughed out loud.

Fruits!!! Cherries, logan berries, lychees, peaches, kiwi fruit, pomegranate…………..