THE ENCHANTED SOLDIER

Chapter 1

1.       What did students use to do to pay for their studies?

2.       Why did people call poor students “sopistas”?

3.       What was Don Vincent like?

4.       What did Don Vincent find on the ground?

5.       What did he used to do in the summer holidays?

6.       Did he like Granada?

7.       Who were at the Avellano Fountain?

8.       What was the young maiden like? 

9.       What did he do to call her attention?

Chapter 2

1.       Who were the pair that Don Vincent saw at the Avellano Fountain?

2.       Where did they live? 

3.       What did Don Vincent do to see her again?

4.       What did people use to do on the eve of St John? .

5.       What did Don Vincent see in the bridge?

6.       What was strange about that man?

Chapter 3

1.       Who was the soldier?

2.       Where did they go together?

3.       What happened when the soldier hit the ground three times?

4.       How long did he live in that room?

5.       How often does the soldier become a free man?

6.       What was his mission in the vault?

7.       Why did the Muslim trick the soldier?

8.       What did the spell the Muslim put on him consist of?

9.       When did that happen?

10.   Why can Don Vincent see the soldier?

Chapter 4

1.       What was there in the dark area of the room?

2.       What did the soldier promise to Don Vincent?

3.       How could Don Vincent break the spell?

Chapter 5

1.       Why did Father Thomas want to help the enchanted soldier?

2.       Why did Emmeline want to help the soldier?

3.       Why was so difficult for the priest to break the spell?

4.       How did Don Vincent open the vault under the tower?

5.       How did Emmeline open the lock of the chest?

Chapter 6

1.       Why couldn´t they take the jewels with them?

2.       Why couldn´t they go back inside the tower?

3.       Was the soldier free from the spell?

4.       What happened to Don Vincent and Emmeline?

THE MOOR´S LEGACY

Chapter 1

1-What was Peregil´s job? 

2-What did he buy to make his work easier?

3-Who did his donkey carry down to the town?

4-Why did his wife get furious?

5-What did the Muslim give Peregil before dying?

6-Where did Peregil and his wife hide the body?

7-What was Peregil´s wife like?

Chapter 2

1-Who told the Mayor about the dead body in Peregil´s house?

2-Peregil and his wife were brought to court, were they found “guilty” or “innocent”?

3-Why did the Mayor take Peregil´s donkey?

4-What was there inside the box?

5-What  was the Arabic writing on the parchment?

6-Where did Peregil and the Muslim shop owner decide to go?

7-Why did they want to go there? 

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Chapter 3

1. What was the name of the Alhambra Tower where they found the treasure?
2. The treasure was in an underground room. How did they get there?
3. What did the Muslim warn Peregil?
4. Did he follow the advice?
5. How did the Mayor know about the jewels?

Chapter 4

1. What was the Muslim´s plan to please the Mayor?
2. Who went there?
3. Who went down first?
4. What did the Muslim when the three avaricious men descended?
5. Where did the Muslim and Peregil go after dividing the treasure?
6. How did Peregil´s wife change?

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Episode 1

1-When and where does the story take place?

2-Who does he live with Axel? 

3-What does Otto do?

4-What do they find in an old book?

5-Who wrote the note?

6-Does Otto want to go to Iceland?

7-Does Axel want to go?

8-What does Grauben tells him to do?

Episode 2

1-Where do Axel and his uncle professor Otto arrive?

2-Who do they meet there?

3-Where do the get to after a week of travelling?

4-Who is nervous? Axel Why?

 Episode 3

1-Who gets nervous for climbing down for so long?

2-Who stays calm?

3-What do they find at the bottom of the crater?

4-How do they know which is the right one?

Episode 4

1-Where do they enter after they reach the bottom of the shaft?

2-What do they find after making a hole in the rock?

3-What happens to Axel?

Episode 5

1-What do the professor and Axel discover?

2-What does Hans build a raft for? 

3-What do they find in the sea?

Episode 6

1-What do they find after the monsters´ fight?

2-How long does the storm last? 

Episode 7

1-Who rescues the Professor and Axel?

2-How do they know they are back where they started? 

3-Who wants to try again? 

4-Who wants to go back?

Episode 8

1-Who repairs the raft?

2-What do they see?

3-Whose is the knife?

4-What do they find on a cave wall?  

Episode 9

1-What do they use to blow up the rock that is blocking the way into the cave?

2-What does the explosion cause?

3-How are they carried inside the cave?

Episode 10

1-Why do they end up running for their lives from the erupting volcano?

2-What do they find at the bottom of the volcano?

3-In what country are they now? 

4-Did they make it to the centre of the Earth?

CATHY´S DREAMS

Chapter 1

Where does Cathy live?

Where did her parents adopt her from?

What is her hobby?

What does Cathy dream about?

What dream does she remember most vividly?

Chapter 2

Why did her mother start to be worried?

Where did she go the day after Christmas?

Who did she go with?

What was her daydream about?

Chapter 3

1. Did the tsunami occur in Cornwall?
2. What was the people´s reaction when Cathy shouted?
3. What are tsunamis?
4. What caused them? 
5. Which countries did the tsunami hit?
6. What were consequences of the tsunami?
7. What was Cathy´s reaction whe she saw the news on tv?
8. Do Cathy´s parents believe her?
9. According to Cathy´s mother, how could she dream about a tsunami that happened so far away?

Chapter 4

1. What was the biology class about?
2. How can identical twins adopted by different families have the same interests and behave identically?
3. Can identical twins read each other´s thoughts?
4. What does Cathy believe?
5. What did the director of the orphanage tell her mother?

Chapter 5

1. How did Cathy feel when her mother told her about the trip to Sri Lanka?
2. Why did they want to go there?
3. Who was Matau?
4. What did he told them about the orphanage?

Chapter 6

1. What happened to the children´s orphanage?
2. What was there instead of the children´s orphanage?
3. Where were the workers taking the baby elephants?
4. Cathy saw a group of school children, what did she think about them? 

Chapter 7

1. Could they find the director of the orphanage? 
2. Who was the director?
3. What was she like? 
4. Did Mrs Numa remember twins at the orphanage? 

Chapter 8

1. Who took them to the hotel?
2. Where was the hotel? 
3. What was the landscape like?
4. Does Cathy like Sri LanKa?
5. What does Sri Lanka mean? 
6. Why do they speak English in Sri Lanka?
7. Which place had Cathy seen in her dreams?
8. Who worked at the hotel?
9. What was Liyoni Janghiś job? 
10. Matau drove Cathy and her mother to the couple´s house. A woman spoke to Cathy´s mother, did they have any children?
11. Why does Cathy put her hand on her mumś arm?
12. Was that girl her twin sister?
13. How did Cathy feel?

Chapter 9

1. Why was Cathy disappointed?
2. What does Cathyś mother think about Sri Lanka?
3. Where did Matau drive them?
4. What was there in Lion's Rock?
5. Why was Matau surprised?
6. What else did she see in her dreams?
7. Why didn't her mother climb to the mountain? 
8. What did she see at the top?
9. Where did they go after Lionś Rock?
10. What did they see there?
11. What did the worker explain to them? 
12. What did her mother want to do after the visit?

Chapter 10

1. Where did Matau drive them?
2. Who were outside the hotel?
3. Was the beach similar to Cornwall beaches?
4. What did she find in the beach?
5. What was it like?
6. What did she remember?
7. Who did she meet there?
8. What were they talking about?
9. When did the tsunami happened? 
10. What did the train hit?
11. What does the boy give her?

Chapter 11

Where were they?

What did Cathy want to eat?

Who did C. see coming out of the kitchen?

What was she like?

Who did she see inside the kitchen?

Who were the people inside the restaurant? 

Were they biological or adoptive parents of Sukeena?

When was Sukeena adopted?

What is the explanation for the dream of Lionś Rock?

What happened to Sukeena the day of the tsunami?

Chapter 12

Where does Sukeena spend the rest of the summer?

Had Sukeena dreams about Cathyś life?

How did they keep in contact?

What were their plans for the next summer?

What happens with Cathyś dreams?

SAMPLE COMPOSITION

¡Hola, chicos!
Espero que estéis descasando y pasándolo muy bien. De cara a prepararos el writing del examen de septiembre, para cada tipo de redacción tenéis dos modelos: el que os proporciona el libro en la página que os indico y éste otro que os incluyo aquí.

-An informal email (pg 18)

-An informal email about your holiday (pg 30)

-A story (pg 44)

-An email expressing your opinion (pg 56)

-An informal email about your favourite restaurant. (pg 70)

-An email describing a celebration you attended (pg 82)

-An article providing solutions to a problem (pg 96)

1-An informal email

Dear John,

I´m a 14-year-old student in secondary school. I live in Glasgow, Scotland.

I get up at 7:30 and then I have breakfast. I catch a bus to school at 8:30. My favourite school subjects are English and Art, but I don´t really like Physics! In the afternoons, I do my homework and sometimes watch TV. In the evenings, I surf the Net or read a book. I usually go to bed at 11:00.

At the weekends, I usually go horse-riding. I like watching DVDs, too. Sometimes, I play computer games.

What about you? Write soon.

Anna

2-An informal email about your holiday

Hi Brian,

How are you? I´m writing to tell you about my sightseeing holiday in New York. I had a great time. We stayed in a beautiful three-star hotel with a view of Central Park. In the morning we went sightseeing and visited the city´s many interesting museums and art galleries. Although the weather was freezing cold and windy, we went shopping and bought lots of souvenirs. In the evening we ate out, tried all the local dishes and we also enjoyed the city´s live music venues.

The only problem I had was that the airline lost my luggage. I waited four days to get ti bak.

Well, that´s all my news.

Write back soon,

Elizabeth

3-A story

Last month, I went climbing in the mountains. The weather was freezing but I was warmly dressed.

After a couple of hours, I stopped to eat something. Suddenly, I saw a few tiny snowflakes. Then, the sky got darker and it started snowing very heavily. I started to walk back but the snow was so thick I couldn´t see in front of me. I built a snow igloo and put a red scarf on top. An hour later, I heard a helicopter.

They lowered a line with a basket and lifted me to safety. I was exhausted but very relieved.

4-An email expressing your opinion

Hi Peter,

You asked me my opinion about which sport you should choose, swimming or snowboarding. They are both challenging sports.

Swimming is a great way to keep fit and it´s not expensive. You don´t need a lot of equipment, but you may have to practise for long hours. Snowboarding is thrilling and a good form of exercise, but the equipment is very expensive. Also, it can be dangerous.

To me, both sports have good and bad points. You should choose the one you like the most. Let me know how you get on.

Ken

5-An informal email about your favourite restaurant.

Dear Jane,

I hope you´re well. I want to tell you about my favourite restaurant. It´s called Rico´s and it´s in the centre of town.

Rico´s serves fantastic seafood. My favourite dish is fish and chips. It´s fresh and delicious. There´s also a  great range of salads and desserts.

The service is excellent. The staff are very friendly, polite and fast. The atmosphere is warm and inviting and the prices are reasonable, too.

I know you love seafood, so I´m sure you´ll love it. Why don´t we go there for a meal sometime?

Write back soon,

Katy

6-An email describing a celebration you attended

Hi Rosa,

Hope you are OK. I´ve just been to the Ice Sculpture Festival in Poznañ in Poland and I thought I´d tell you all about it.

It´s an annual winter festival that takes place in February. It´s fantastic. I saw amazing snow statues and ice sculptures and I went on a giant snow slide! I also listened to live music and in the evening I tried some food. It was delicious!

I enjoyed the festival very much. It was great fun.

Don´t miss the chance to go!

Yours,

Kate

7-An article providing solutions to a problem

What´s the problem?

Water is running short! Every year millions of people die from thirst or lack of clean water. If we don´t do something to start saving it, life on Earth will disappear.

Why is it happening?

The problem is that climate change causes droughts. Crops cannot grow and people go hungry. We also pollute water supplies. This makes people get diseases and become ill.

What can we do?

We can turn off taps when we do not need them and we can take showers instead of baths. We can also catch rainwater to wash the car. If we act together, then we can make a difference!

SEGUID DISFRUTANDO DE LAS VACACIONES Y ESTUDIAD UN POQUITO CADA DÍA