THE BORROWERS

PLOT: 

Pod and Homily Clock and their 13-year-old daughter Arietty are "Borrowers"-little people, only 20cm. tall. They live under the floor and "borrow" things from the humans in the big house above them. The entrance t otheir home is undfer a grandfather clock -so they are called the "Clock" family. Life is comfortable, but a little boring...especially for Arietty. She wants to go into the big garden and explore. She wants to play with other children. 

Then a human boy comes to live upstairs. It's dangerous for a borrower to meet a human...but lonely Arietty wants a friend. Is it possible?

PRE-READING ACTIVITIES:

• Mention the different categories of stories (or films) you know.
• Look at the front cover of the reader and  guess what type of story it is: fact / fiction, adventure, etc. Describe what you can see. 
• Describe the characters and guess who they are:

• Choose a character,  and write some  adjectives to describe the character’s personality. You can find a list HERE and HERE.
• Find a picture in the book of:
•  a. a family having afternoon tea 
•  b. an enormous cat ;
• c. a frightened girl alone in a garden  
• Read the second paragraph on page 8. List three things you learn about the Borrowers. 
• Look at the top picture on page 10. 
• Why are the people sad? 
• Why do you think the man is climbing down the curtain on page 11? 
• Read the text above the picture on page 15. Why do you think Pod is telling Arietty this story? 
• Look at the pictures on page 16. Describe how the little girl feels in each picture. 
• Read the last two paragraphs on page 18. What do Pod and Arietty want to get? 
• Read the first 8 lines on page 22 and look at the picture. Why is Arietty frightened? 

YOU CAN FIND MORE ACTIVITIES AND LISTEN TO THE DIFFERENT CHAPTERS IN THE LINK BELOW: 

SOME and ANY

Now, try the exercises below:

1º ESO: REVISION

THERE IS, THERE ARE. PLACES IN TOWN. PLACE PREPOSITIONS

In this game you should write the missing words into the sentences to describe the picture on the right:

Look at the presentation below. Then write in your notebook the places there are and there aren't in your town.

And now, let's learn and practise the prepositions of place:

CONDITIONALS

Let's practice conditional sentences with songs!

- Listen to the songs and identify the conditional sentences in them:

1. ZERO CONDITIONAL: If + simple present / simple present

“If water freezes, it turns to ice.”

2. FIRST CONDITIONAL: If + simple present /  will + bare infinitive

“If it rains, I won’t go to the beach.”

3. SECOND CONDITIONAL: If + simple past / would + bare infinitive. (Note: “would” is often shortened to a contraction, such as I’d or she’d.)

"If I had a million dollars, I would buy you a house"

4. THIRD CONDITIONAL: If + had + past participle /  would  have + past participle. (Note: “would” and “have” are often shortened to a contraction, such as I would’ve.)

“If I had seen it, I would have told her.”

HERE you have more practice on Third Conditional.

And HERE you can practise them all.

PLACES IN TOWN

LET'S PRACTISE ...

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

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Let's practise the future tenses with our New Year Resolutions...