READING COMPREHENSION FOR 10°

Read the text and answer the questions about it.

WHY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU

People need to be active to be healthy. Our modern lifestyle and all the conveniences we've become used to have made us sedentary - and that's dangerous for our health. Sitting around in front of the TV or the computer, riding in the car for even a short trip to the store and using elevators instead of stairs or ramps all contribute to our inactivity. Physical inactivity is as dangerous to our health as smoking!

Add up your activities during the day in periods of at least 10 minutes each. Start slowly ... and build up. If you're already doing some light activities move up to more moderate ones. A little is good, but more is better if you want to achieve health benefits.

Scientists say accumulate 60 minutes of physical activity every day to stay healthy or improve your health. Time needed depends on effort - as you progress to moderate activities, you can cut down to thirty minutes, four days a week.

Physical activity doesn't have to be very hard to improve your health. This goal can be reached by building physical activities into your daily routine. Just add up in periods of at least ten minutes each throughout the day. After three months of regular physical activity, you will notice a difference - people often say getting started is the hardest part.

(From Handbook for Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living p. 4. Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, Ottawa, Ontario, 1998)

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
1. Why is physical activity so important for people?
2. How can you include physical activity in your life?
Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)?)

3. Smoking is less dangerous than physical inactivity.
4. You do not need more than sixty minutes a day to be fit.
Find a word or phrase in the text which, in context, is similar in meaning

5. inactive
6. fit

Choose a, b, or c, in each question below. Only one choice is correct

7. Nowadays people ...

a) are less active than in the past.
b) are more active than in the past.
c) are as sedentary as they used to be.

8. Time needed for physical activity depends on ...

a) health
b) effort
c) money

9. You can improve your health ...

a) integrating physical activity into your timetable.
b) eating less and less during short periods of time.
c) relaxing and keeping cool.

10. People say that ...

a) they do not have time for physical activity.
b) getting into physical activity is the most difficult part.
c) getting into physical activity is not so difficult.

11. Write a short composition about the topic

12. Do you practise any sport? Why?

READING COMPREHENSION FOR11º

Read the texts and answer the questions

READING 1

Carpenters
Carpenters are involved in the construction of many different types of structures such as bridges or large buildings. Some carpenters change employers each time they finish a construction job. The duties of a carpenter differ just about each time the accept employment. In most cases, carpenters work in many different locations hundred miles away each year.
Carpentry is a very strenuous outdoor profession. Carpenters endure climbing, bending, and heavy laborious work. Often they put themselves at risk of injury working with sharp tools and they work in areas where it is all too easy to fall or slip.
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:
1. Which of following may a carpenter do in a normal day of work?
a. type letters b. package and ship mail
c. answer phones d. help build a bridge

2. What is unique about a Carpenters job?
a. They do the same thing all day.
b. They something different each new job they receive.
c. They always work for the same person throughout their career.
d. They wear sandals.

3. What is one skill that would handy to have if you were a Carpenter?
a. typing b. cooking
c. wood working d. sewing

4. Write three words that describe a Carpenter:
1. _______________________________
2. _______________________________
3. _______________________________

READING 2

TIFFANY'S COOKIES
Tiffany started baking cookies when she was in fifth grade. By the time she reached seventh grade, her cookies were locally famous. All of her friends would beg her to make her famous chocolate chip cookies almost every week.
Then one day a local reporter wrote a story about her and her famous cookies. The story was later picked up by National Television news. The story talked about the number of different recipes tiffany could make and how tasty her cookies were. Upon seeing the story, Coco Cookie Company called Tiffany to see if she would sell them her famous cookie recipe.
Tiffany sold them her oatmeal raisin recipe for twenty thousand dollars and her pudding cookie recipe for fifty thousand dollars, but she refused to sell them her chocolate chip recipe. She decided to keep this recipe and start her own company. On August 2002, she started Tiffany Boom Cookies Inc.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1. When did tiffany began to bake cookies?
a. third grade b. fifth grade
c. seventh grade d. eighth grade

2. What cookie recipe was Tiffany's most famous for?
a. sugar cookies b. oatmeal cookies
c. raisin cookies d. chocolate chip cookies

3. What news story really lead to her big success?
a. local news b. county news
c. state news d. school news

4. What company purchased some of Tiffany's recipes?
a. Alpo cookies b. Bobo Cookies
c. Coco cookies d. none of these

5. How much money did Tiffany make from selling two of her recipes?
a. $20,000 b. $40,000
c. $65,000 d. $75,000

ACTIVITY ABOUT ADJECTIVES FOR 10°

ACTIVITY

A. Complete the chart with the correct forms of the adjectives.

Example: ____ - newer - _______

Answer: new - newer – the newest
1) _________- longer - _____________
2) __________- ____________ - the worst
3) modern - _ ___________ - _____________
4) ___________- __________ - the nicest
5) __________- __________ - the nearest
6) __________- __________ - the flattest
7) popular - ______________ - __________
8) ___________- happier - _____________
9) full - ___________ - ____________
10) _________- _________ - the cleverest

B. Use as … as or not as … as in the sentences below.

Example: Ben Nevis is __________ as Mont Blanc (not/high).

Answer: Ben Nevis is not as high as Mont Blanc.

1) The blue car is ____________ the red car. (fast)
2) Peter is _________________Fred. (not/tall)
3) The violin is ______________ the cello. (not/low)
4) This copy is _______________ the other one. (bad)
5) Oliver is ________________Peter. (optimistic)
6) Today it's _______________ yesterday. (not/windy)
7) The tomato soup was _______________the mushroom soup. (delicious)
8) Grapefruit juice is ________________ lemonade. (not/sweet)
9) Nick is _______________ Kevin. (brave)
10) Silver is ________________ gold. (not/heavy)

C. Complete the sentences with the comparative or superlative form

1. This computer is (new) __________ than your computer.
2. Lisa is (old) ______________ than George.
3. George is (young) _____________ than Lisa.
4. Lucy is the(young) ________________ in the class.
5. That car is (expensive) ____________ than this car.
6. That car is the (expensive)___________ in the market.
7. Your car is (fast) ____________ than this car.
8. Your car is the (fast) ________________ in the race.
9. This house is (big) _____________ than my house!
10. This house is the (big) ________________ in the neighbourhood.
11. William Shakespeare is the (famous) ____________ writer in England.
12. The elephant is (big) ______________ than the lion.
13. Sergio is (old) ___________ than Malcolm.
14. Our house is the (old) ____________ in the neighbourhood.
15. That book is (interesting) _______________ than the newspaper.
16. This cake is (delicious) _______________ than that one.
17. This is the (bad) ______________ programme in television history.
18. That picture is (clear) _________________ than this one.
19. Julia is the (beautiful)_______________ girl in the party.
20. Norman is (handsome) _____________ than Peter.