Spark 2 ESO Resource 2

Resource Activities

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h_____.

Vocabulary 1

Ann is of m _ _ _ _ _ She is o _ _ . She has got c _ _ _ _ hair.

Complete the missing words for each person’s physical description.

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Helen is t _ _ _ and

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t _ _ _ . She has got

Jim is h _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and very well-b _ _ _ _.

l _ _ _ hair and f _ _ _

He has got dark hair

lips.

and a b _ _ nose.

Grammar 2

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Bill is s _ _ _ _ and

Write the verbs in brackets in the  past simple .

p____. He has got

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Genghis Khan ................... .......... ................ ....... (create)

s_______

the Great Mongolian Empire about 800

f _ _ _ hair.

years ago. 2

Elizabeth I ................... ......... ................... ............ ... (not/die) in 1533. She .................. ......... ........... (die) in (die) in 1603.

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William Wallace ................... .......... .................. ................. ........ (fight) against (fight) against England.

4

According to an Irish legend, Finn MacCool .................................... (build)

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Match the adjectives to the

the Giant’s Causeway. Causeway.

people.

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Alexander the Great .................. ........ ................... ............ ... (become) king (become) king at the age of twenty.

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funny

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hardworking

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honest

4

lazy

5

brave

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Greg never wants to do anything.

b

Mary always tells us the best jokes.

c

Mike has got two jobs and takes night Ms Clark never tells lies.

e

Bill is a firefighter firefig hter and his job is

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Helen lives in Cowper Street, just past/along the past/along the library.

4

Sally ran into/down the into/down the stairs to open the door.

5

The teacher walked towards/through the towards/through the student.

dangerous.

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Daniel walked through/in the through/in the gate, then up the garden path.

classes. d

The children rode their bikes into/along the road towards the lake.

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Underline the correct item.

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Resource Activities

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Reading 5

Read the text and mark the statements T  (true),  (true), F  (false)  (false) or DS (doesn’t say).

Vincent van Gogh was a brilliant Dutch painter.

soon became

He was born in 1853 in the Netherlands. Van

sick. In 1889,

Gogh had many different jobs when he was

he moved to the

young. He worked in a bookshop, sold works of

countryside in

art and was a teacher. But in the end, he  Arles, in the south decided to study painting. In 1886, he went to

of France. In 1890, he

Paris to live with his brother Theo. Theo was

died at the age of 37. During his life, Van Gogh

Van Gogh’s best friend and always gave his

sold only one painting. But today, his paintings

brother money for food. In Paris, Van Gogh met

are some of the most popular and expensive

many famous painters like Monet and Gauguin,

works of art in the world. In his short life, Van

and learnt about painting from them. Van Gogh

Gogh achieved great things and people

painted day and night for many hours, he di dn’t

continue to admire his paintings today. His

eat or sleep well enough. Because of this, he

most famous work is The Starry Night  (1889).  (1889).

1

Van Gogh was a teacher when

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he was young.

.........

2

Van Gogh lived alone in Paris.

.........

3

Van Gogh’s brother was also an

Van Gogh sold many paintings when he was alive.

7

The Starry Night is Night  is Van Gogh’s most expensive expensive painting.

artist.

.........

4

Van Gogh never got married.

.........

5

Van Gogh met Monet and

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......... .........

Van Gogh painted The Starry Night a Night  a year before he died.

.........

Gauguin while he was in Arles. .........

Writing 6

Put the verbs in brackets into the  past simple . Then,

use the information to write a short

 – French painter (be)

 – 1890 his paintings popular

 – born 1840 (be)

(become) and a house in

 – 1851 art school (go)

Giverney, France (buy)

 – drawings for 10 to 20 francs (sell)

 – 1911 problems pr oblems

with his h is

eyesight (have) but to paint