Look at these pictures and see if you can find the words in The Cook (Chapter 11)
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Short stories for EFL learners by Scott Lauder and Walter McGregor
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Picture activity for The Cook (Chapter 10)
Look again at The Cook (Chapter 10) and find the words that these photographs refer to
Picture activity for The Cook (Chapter 9)
Look at these pictures and find the words in The Cook (Chapter 9) that they refer to.
Picture activity for The Cook (Chapter 8)
Look at the pictures below and find the words that they refer to in The Cook (Chapter 9)
Picture activity for The Cook (Chapter seven)
Look again at The Cook (Chapter 7) and find the words that these pictures represent
Picture activity for The Cook (Chapter 6)
Look again at The Cook (Chapter 6) and find the words that match these pictures
Picture activity for The Cook (Chapter 5)
Look again at The Cook (Chapter 5) and find the words or phrases represented by the pictures below
Picture activity for The Cook (Chapter 4)
Find the words or phrases in The Cook (Chapter 4) that match these pictures
Comprehension for The Cook (Chapter 3)
Look again at Chapter 3 of The Cook and match the adjective with the noun to make the correct noun phrase
Picture activity for The Cook (Chapter 3)
Look again at Chapter 3 of The Cook and find the words (or phrases) to match these pictures.
Grammar for The Cook (Chapter 2)
1. When a parallel structure is used, words make a pattern because the same structure is repeated. For example, sometimes a noun is repeated: ‘My favourite cities are London, New York and Edinburgh.’ In this example, the parallel structure comes from having three nouns (London, New York and Edinburgh) repeated. Sometimes a verb (in the same tense) is repeated. For example, ‘Don’t eat and talk at the same time!’ In this case, the parallel structure comes from repeating two bare infinitives (‘eat’ and ‘talk’).
2. Look at this example from The Cook (Chapter 2) can you find examples of parallel structures?
Picture activity for The Cook (Chapter 2)
Look again at Chapter 2 of The Cook and find the words
Grammar for The Cook (Chapter 1)
1. A phrase is a group of words. It is longer than one word but shorter than a complete sentence (or paragraph). A noun phrase (NP) is a group of words around a head noun. A head noun is the most important noun in the phrase. Here are some examples.
a. The blue car didn’t stop at the red light.
=Two NPs: ‘The blue car‘ and ‘the red light‘.
The head nouns are ‘car’ and ‘light’
b. Her English teacher is from northern England.
=Two NPs: ‘Her English teacher‘ and ‘northern England‘.
The head nouns are ‘teacher’ and ‘England’
c. Sally’s cat chased her friend’s dog!
=Two NPs: ‘Sally’s cat‘ and ‘her friend’s dog‘
The head nouns are ‘cat’ and ‘dog’
2. How many NPs does this sentence have? What are they? What are the head nouns?
The book that I borrowed yesterday was from the school library.
3. Now look at this extract from The Cook (Chapter 1). Can you find some NPs?
Picture activity for The Cook (Chapter 1)
Look again at The Cook (Chapter 1) and find the words
Picture activity for The Janitor Chapter 2
Find the objects in The Janitor( Chapter 2)
Picture activity for The Janitor Chapter 1
Find these objects in The Janitor (Chapter 1)
Picture activity The Janitor Chapter 10
Find these objects in The Janitor Chapter 10
Picture activity for The Janitor (Chapter 9)
Find these objects in The Janitor (Chapter 9)
Grammar activity for The Janitor (Chapter 5)
1. Simple sentences often have one subject, one main verb and one object. For example, ‘She went home’. However, if the subject is repeated and one action follows another, we can make use of ellipsis, which means we can avoid repeating the subject when we talk about another action that the same subject does.
Instead of writing ‘She went home and she fell asleep’ (or ‘She went home. She fell asleep immediately.), we can remove the repeated subject ‘she’. As a result, the sentence becomes: She went home and fell asleep immediately
2. From The Janitor (Chapter 5) find some examples of this kind of sentence.
Grammar activity for The Janitor (Chapter 2)
1. Prepositions are usually followed by nouns or noun phrases. For example, I live in a large city.
The preposition in this sentence is ‘in‘ and the noun phrase that follows it is ‘a large city‘
We can add more information to a simple sentence by adding prepositions:
a. I saw an unusual bird.
b. In the afternoon, I saw an unusual bird.
c. In the afternoon, I saw an unusual bird beside my car.
d. In the afternoon, I saw an unusual bird on the grass beside my car.
2. Look at this extract from The Janitor (Chapter 2) and find the prepositions and nouns/noun phrases that follow them
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