Celebrity scandal and Anne Frank
Level 1
Elementary
Pronunciation: Key sounds
5
The title of the report was ‘Read Up, Fed Up’. The word read can be pronounced
/riːd/
, in the infinitive, or
/red/
like the past tense. Which do you think it is here?
Here are some more words from the article. Put them in the columns for their vowel sound.
Language and understanding: Comparatives
4
Look at the list of most loved reads, and mark the sentences True (T) or False (F).
1. Teenagers like Harry Potter more than Georgia Nicolson.
2. They like Anne Frank’s diary less than Georgia’s.
3. They don’t like CS Lewis as much as Anthony Horowitz.
4. They like fan fiction as much as their own blogs.
5. They like online computer game cheats more than film scripts.
6. They don’t like Bliss magazine as much as online song lyrics.
Now write true sentences about the list of most hated reads.
Example: Teenagers hate homework more than Shakespeare.
7. The Financial Times / The Beano
8. encyclopedias /
dictionaries
9. maps and directions / homework
10. Music (scores) /
the Harry Potter series
11. Anything in another language / books set by schoolteachers
make eight cheat fed name heat many say said set
teenagers helped web teens media any Shakespeare pleased
/eɪ/ as in
play
/iː/ as in
see
/e/ as in
red
/eɪ/ as in
play
/iː/ as in
see
/e/ as in
red
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