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Reading & Writing Worksheet

Cambridge YLE: Movers Reading & Writing

This worksheet includes activities to practise for Cambridge Young
Learners English: Movers Reading & Writing.

1 Complete the sentences. Use some words from the box.

quiet big new bad ugly good small

beautiful tired sad happy angry

A small
Lusmore lived in a .................................................... village.
B The fairies had .................................................... ears.
C Lusmore was a .................................................... man.
D Inside the hill was a .................................................... palace.
E Jack’s singing was loud and .................................................... .
F Lusmore had nice, .................................................... clothes.
G The fairies were .................................................... with Jack.
H Lusmore yawned because he was .................................................... .
I Lusmore was .................................................... because he had no hump.

2 Choose words from the box in Exercise 1 and write the opposites.

A big small
....................................................

B good ....................................................

C ugly ....................................................

D sad ....................................................

E quiet ....................................................

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3 Look at the pictures. Are the sentences true or false?

T F
A Lusmore was happy because people
said good things about him. 4

B It was dark. Lusmore was tired

and sad.

C Lusmore had ugly clothes.

He was angry.

D The fairies were surprised with

Jack. They made his hump smaller.

E Fairies are good for bad people;

and bad for good people

4 Change the sentences in Exercise 3 to make them true.

5 Choose the correct word.

nicer louder bigger smaller sadder happier

A Lusmore was a .................................................... man than Jack Madden.

B The fairies made Lusmore’s hump .................................................... .
C Jack’s singing was .................................................... than Lusmore’s singing.
D The fairies made Jack Madden’s hump .................................................... .
E Lusmore was .................................................... when the fairy took away his hump.

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6 Lusmore is talking to his friend. Choose the best answers.

A Friend: Did you go to the market Lusmore?

Lusmore: 1 No, I didn’t.
2 Yes, and I was tired on the way home.
3 Yes, and I was angry on the way home

B Friend: What did you do?

Lusmore: 1 It was dark so I yawned.
2 I was sad so I put my head on the ground.
3 I was tired so I put my head on my hands.

C Friend: What happened next?

Lusmore: 1 I heard people singing!
2 I saw people singing!
3 I saw people dancing!

D Friend: Who were they?

Lusmore: 1 They were good people.
2 They were fairies.
3 They were big people.

E Friend: What did you do?
Lusmore: 1 I sang Monday, Tuesday
2 I sang Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
3 I sang Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

F Friend: What did the fairies do?

Lusmore: 1 They played beautiful music on harps and flutes.
2 They played ugly music on fiddles and harps.
3 They played beautiful music on mirrors and candles.

G Friend: Then what happened?

Lusmore: 1 One fairy said something bad to another fairy.
2 One fairy said ‘You haven’t got a hump now.’
3 One fairy said ‘This is all a dream.’

H Friend: How do you feel?

Lusmore 1 I’m the angriest man in Ireland.
2 I’m saddest man in Ireland.
3 I‘m happiest man in Ireland.

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7 Say the conversation with a friend.

8 Solve the jumbled words and complete the story about Lusmore.

The Story of
Lusmore
Lusmore lived in a small Lusmore sang too. A window
village
A ................................ in Ireland. in the hill opened and
He always had a B ................................ G ................................ came out. They

in his hat. He had a hump on played beautiful music on harps

his C ................................ One morning
Lusmore walked home from
the D ................................ in town.
He was tired. He closed his
E ................................ and put his head
on the ground. He heard
F ................................ singing.
and H ................................ and fiddles.
When Lusmore woke up he said
‘It was all a J ................................ .’
But he touched his head.
He didn’t have a hump. He was
the H ................................ man in Ireland.

A F l e o e p p
l i v a g l e
B r f e o l w G r f i s i a e
C k a c b H t s u f l e
D k r t e a m I a m r d e
E y e e s J i p h s a p e t

8 Can you find three mistakes in the story? Underline them.

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