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Reading Comprehension: Mrs Brown’s Busy Mornings

Read the following passage and then complete the task below:
Mrs Brown is a very busy lady. She took her
children to school and now she is doing the
housework. She has three young children, so
she has lots to do every morning, while they
are at school. She washed all the dirty dishes,
cooked lunch and mopped the kitchen floor.
She scrubbed the bathroom and put all the
dirty clothes in the washing mashine. Now, she
is downstairs hoovering the carpet, dusting the tables and wiping the
windows. She also has to water the plants and take all the rubbish out.
Mrs Brown looked at the clock and she only had an hour before she has
to pick up her son from nursery. She quickly took the clean clothes out
of the dryer, folded them and did the ironing. She finished just in time
to put her boots and coat on to fethch her son. As she left, she noticed
the grass in the front garden needed mowing, but she wasn’t going to do
that! Her husnand Tom is going mowe the lawn at the weekend.

Answer the following in full sentences:

1.Who is very busy? _____________________________________________________________
2.Where is she now? _______________________________________________________
3.What did she do first? ____________________________________________________
4.What did she mop? _______________________________________________________
5.What did she scrub? _____________________________________________________
6.What did she wipe? ______________________________________________________
7.What did she do with the clean clothes? _____________________________________
8.Who did she have to pick up? _______________________________________________
9.What needed mowing? ____________________________________________________
10.Who was going to do that? ________________________________________________

Discussion: Do you like household chores? Yes, why? No, why?