Unit 8 What are you reading ?

Exercise 1 : Look and read. Choose the correct words and write them.

a secret clever gentle a character

a ghost story a pirate a clown a fairy tales

a) It's a story about ghosts that is intended to frighten you. .............................

b) This is a person in stories who lives on a boat. ....................... ......
c) This person is funny and makes you laugh. .............................
d) It’s a story that somebody says that is not true. ...............................
e) It’s a person or an animal in a book or film . ...............................
f) It’s a person who likes helping people. ...............................
g) It's a person who is intelligent and able to understand ............................
things easily or plan things well.
h) This is something that you can't tell anyone about. .............................
Exercise 2 : Read and select the best answer from the given choices.

What do you do in your (1) ............ ( free/ study) time?

- I ( likes/like) (2) ............ reading, especially fairy tales.
- Oh! What’s are you(3) ............ ( reading/reads) now?
- I’m reading (4) ............ (Snow White /Aladdin ) and the Magic Lamp. What about you? Do
you like fairy tales?
- No, I don’t. I like reading (5) ............. (fables/ghost stories). My favorite story is The Fox and
the Crow.

- What’s The Story of Thanh Giong about?

- It’s about a three-year-old boy who (6) .......... (ate/eat) a lot of rice and became big and strong.

He rode a (7) ............ ( cat/ horse ) and used bamboo to fight against the ............. (King /enemy)

- (8) ............ ( What’s / Who’s ) Thanh Giong like?

- He’s very (9) ............. ( brave /gentle)

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Exercise 3 : Read and complete the sentence.

a) What are you reading? b) ………………………………………?

I'm reading ………………………………. My sister is reading The story of Mai An

Tiem.

c) Are you reading Snow White and the Seven d) What's your favourite story?
Dwarfs?
Yes , ………………………. It's ……………………………………………..

e) What's Tam like? f) Peter likes reading comic books, especially

…………………….
She's kind and ………………

  g) What are …………………….like? h) …………………is a beautiful and gentle

princess.
They're short and hard-working.

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Exercise 4 : Odd one out.
1. a) Tam b) Cam c) Aladdin d) Character
2. a) book b) fairy tale c) comic book d) comic book
3. a) hard-working b) like c) kind d) gentle
4. a) generous b) cruel c) kind d) clever
5. a) fairy tale b) funny story c) short story d) book fair
6. a) Magic Lamp b) Snow White c) Aladdin d) Princess Jasmine
7. a) An Tiem b) Hung King c) Watermelon d) Fox
8. a) Tam b) Cinderella c) Cam d) Cam’s mother
Exercise 4 : Read and match.
1. What is Peter reading? a. She’s a cruel woman. 1-
2. What’s your favorite story? b. He’s hard-working. 2-
3. Do you like reading fairy tales? c. Because I want to watch English cartoons. 3-
4. What’s Snow White like? d. He’s reading Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. 4-
5. What are the seven Dwarfs like? e. They are short and generous. 5-
6. Why do you like English? f. It's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 6-
7. What’s Cam’s mother like? g. She’s beautiful and kind. 7-
8. What are you reading? h. No, I like comic books. 8-
9. What’s The Fox like ? i. I’m reading The Fox and the Crow. 9-
10. What’s An Tiem like? j. It’s clever. 10-
Exercise 5 : Read and complete.

Snow like reading free seven

Quan: What do you do in your …………………time?

Linda: I read a lot. I like fairy tales.

Quan: I see. What are you …………………..now?

Linda: ………… White and the ………………Dwarfs.

What about you? Do you like fairy tales?

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Quan: No, I don’t. I ………reading short stories.

Linda: What are you reading now?

Quan: I’m reading A Halloween story.

Exercise 6 : Read and tick () True or False. There is one example (0)
Mai’s favourite story

I often read fairy tales in my free time. My father buys me a lot of storybooks
on my birthday. I love reading Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs best. It’s an
interesting story. Snow White is the main character of the story . She is a
lovely princess with fair skin and blue eyes. Her stepmother – a pretty cruel
queen wants to kill Snow White because she wants to become the most
beautiful woman in the country. The helpful seven dwarfs and the Prince
saves Snow White from the Queen. Snow White lives with her prince happily.

True False

0. Mai has a lot of story books.   ✔ 

1. The story is boring.    
2. Snow White has fair skin and blue eyes.    
3. The Queen is gentle and helpful.    
4. Snow White marries the Prince who saves her life from the Queen.    
Exercise 7: Read and circle.
1. Who’s the main character “ The story of Mai An Tiem ”
A . a boy Mai An Tiem B. a girl Snow White C. The fox and crow
2. What are you reading?
A. He is read Maruko B. I’m reading Doremon C. I reading Thanh Giong
3. What’s Tam like?
A. She’s clever B. He’s gentle C. She’s gentle.
4. What’s Snow White like?
A. She’s kind B. He’s hard-working C. He’s clever
5. Who’s the main character “ Aladdin and the Magic lamp ‘’
A . a boy Mai An Tiem B. Seven the dwarfs C. A boy Aladdin

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6. What’s Mai An Tiem like?
A. He’s hard-working B. He’s gentle C. She’s kind
7. What's Cinderella-like?
A. She's beautiful and kind. B. She’s clever and brave. C. He’s hard-working.
Exercise 8 : Put the words in the correct order.
1. Tam/ hard-working /girl. /is /a kind /and /
…………………………………………………………………………….

2. What/you/Tony/reading/,/are/?
…………………………………………………………………………….

3. reading/ Aladdin/He/is/ and/ the Magic Lamp./

…………………………………………………………………………….

4. are/Their/Tam/and/names/Cam/.
…………………………………………………………………………….

5. Story/Her/story/is/The/of/Tam/favorite/and/Cam/.
…………………………………………………………………………….

6. Snow White/ princess./is / gentle /a /beautiful /and /

…………………………………………………………………………….

7. clever/Aladdin/is/very/.
…………………………………………………………………………….

8. Who’s/ character/ the main /in/ Mai An Tiem?/The Story /of /

…………………………………………………………………………….

9. Do/your/you/free/read/books/in/time/?/–/do/Yes,/I/
…………………………………………………………………………….

10. reading/My/ the/sister/is/ Cinderella/ story./

…………………………………………………………………………….

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11. Do/like/you/fairy/comic/tales /or/book/?/ - I/them./both/of/ like/
…………………………………………………………………………….

12. Fox/Do/like/the/you/?/– clever/Yes,/he/because/is/.

…………………………………………………………………………….

Exercise 9 : Make questions for the underlined parts.

A) My brother is reading The Fox and the Crow.
………………………………………………………………………………
b) I'm reading Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
………………………………………………………………………………
c) The Seven Dwarfs are short and hard-working.
………………………………………………………………………………
d) My favorite fairy tale is The story of Tam and Cam.
………………………………………………………………………………
e) Her favorite story is The Tortoise and the Hare.
………………………………………………………………………………
f) The main character in The Story of Mai An Tiem is An Tiem.
………………………………………………………………………………
g) She likes reading fairy tales in her free time.
………………………………………………………………………………
h) Jimmy Kudo is clever and brave.
………………………………………………………………………………
i) Snow White is a beautiful and gentle princess.
………………………………………………………………………………
j) An Tiem is clever and generous.

………………………………………………………………………………
k) I have English four times a week.

………………………………………………………………………………

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m) My brother learns English because want to watch English cartoons on TV.

………………………………………………………………………………
n) Tony practises listening by watching cartoons on TV.

………………………………………………………………………………
Exercise 10 : Read the story. Choose a word from the box. Write the correct
word next to numbers 1–6. There is one example.
My name is Daisy. I like toys, but I like books and (1) .................best. I love stories
about men on the moon and about (2)................. who live in different countries. I
read a good story yesterday. In this story, a boy climbed a (3) .................. At the top,
there was a lot of snow. It was evening, but the boy could see the forest below him.
He (4) .................down on a rock to have a drink and to look up at all the
(5) ..................
But then he (6) ................. something that he didn’t understand. Something very big
and round flew quietly and quickly behind a cloud. What was it? The boy didn’t
know and he didn’t wait to see it again. He(7)................. home to his village because
he was very afraid.
I wasn’t afraid! I enjoyed the story a lot!

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(8) Now choose the best name

for the story. Tick one box.

A boy that Daisy knows

A film that Daisy watched

A story that Daisy liked

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