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The
Skateboarder
Christine Lindop
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Illustrated
Christine lindop
by Pete Smith
France and Spain before settling in Great Britain. She has written
or adapted more than thirty
Screw and Green P/anet in the Dominoes series. In her free time
she likes reading, watching films, and making mosaie. She is not
a skateboarder,
skatepark, and her favourite sports are rugby and Formula One.
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Contents
Story Characters
Before Reading
_
Activities
vi
No skateboard
.
oo
.......
. . . .. . .
.4
Activities
~
Hannah
Justin
Owen
... 8
11
Activities
15
Upearly ..
16
Activities
24
Project B .
..26
Word Work
.28
About Dominoes
Michael's mother
..23
...........
.. 31
Grammar.
Michael
. .. 20
Project A
Evan
.. 19
. .. 12
Activities
Hannah's mother
First steps .
Activities
.34
Chapter J - No skateboard
BEFORE READING
1 Hannah wants to be a skateboarder. In the story, all of these people help her.
What do they do?
Owen
Justin
Michael
Evan
Match these sentences with the pictures and write the names.
c
d
e
f
2 In this story, two people learn to do new things. Who are they?
What do they learn to do?
Ii---pe",,_n
_I_learn_s
to "._
skatepark a
place where
people can
skateboard
school students
learn here
skateboard a
board with little
wheels that can
move fast; to go on
a skateboard
cousin the son
(or daughter) of
your mother's (or
father's) sister (or
brother)
READING CHECK
Hannah
thinks.
'1
Hannah
coming.
True False
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
GUESS WHAT
What happens in the next chapter? Tick two boxes in a, b and c.
a For her birthday, Hannah has
lOa
skateboard.
2 O a school bag.
3 O something to wear.
b Hannah's older brother Evan ..
1 O laughs at her.
fall off 10
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O laughs at Owen.
2 O falls off her skateboard.
3 O leavesthe skatepark.
1
pl.1( la a different
plac ; wh n you
move suddenly
from one place to
a different place
birthday the
day when
someone is a
year older
maybe
u.
perhaps
3
very
dumb
stupid
'OK! Let's
go,' Justin
begin skateboarding.
says.
The
two
cousins
somebody laughs.
very bad
GUESS WHAT
What happens in the next chapter? Tick the boxes.
b Hannah.
a Justin
1
his family.
c A baby boy . ,
O is learning to walk.
2 O is learning to speak.
1
skateboard again.
7
The next day, [ustin stays at home with his family. But
Hannah walks past the skatepark. A lot of people are
doing tricks.
'1 can't skateboard there now,' Hannah thinks. She
watches Owen on his skateboard. He goes up in the
air and comes down again.
'He's awesome,' Hannah thinks. And I'm awful.'
She leaves the skatepark, and begins to walk home
through the park.
The sun is hot. Hannah sits down on one of the park
benches. The sun is in her eyes. So she closes them.
grass it is green;
gardens and fields
have a lot of it on
the ground
baby a very
young child
try to begin to
do something
that you can't
do very well
step when you
move from one
foot to the other
fall down to go
down suddenly
onto the ground
clap to hit your
hands together to
show that you like
something
Hannah
watches
Michael
READING CHECK
Match the characters from Chapter 3 with the sentences.
Justin
a
Michael
Michael's mother
Hannah
e
d
Owen
..............
,,--
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. says,'Try aqain'
claps his hands.
9
h
GUESS WHAT
What happens in the next chapter? Tick the boxes.
Ves
No
c She finds no cars in the parking lot when she visits it.
O
O
O
O
O
O
d When she first tries jumping, she falls off her skateboard.
e A woman on a bicycle laughs at Hannah.
f
10
O
O
O
O
alone with
nobody
block a number
of buildings
together with
streets all
round them
parking lot
people leave their
cars here
13
READING CHECK
Correct the mistakes in the sentences.
o.\oY\e
a Hannah wants to do skateboard practice wi.t:h REr fl iel rd5:
b There are no cars in the parking lot before half past five.
GUESS WHAT
What happens in the next chapter? Tick three sentences.
15
Chapter 5 - Up ear1v
bruise a dark
mark on your skin
that comes after
something hits it
wall something
strong and thick
that you can go up
on a skateboard
turn to move
round
idea something
that you think
17
READING CHECK
GO sRA TIIlOAROIH~
DAy!
Io
r.ns:
_~J.,
.J
GUESS WHAT
What happens in the next chapter? Complete each sentence with the correct name.
Hannah
a
Justin
Michael
b She sees. . . . . .. .
18
Owen
, I
f
9
19
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----~
21
READING CHECK
Put the sentences in order. Number them 1-10.
a Hannah is excited
b She seesJustin
23
cmmt
Chanqes in people
1 Complete this text about Hannah with the words in the box.
She is interested
...
d) . . . . . . . .
'No more
. .. He falls
nor
Justin
be / awful to Hannah' /.
Michael
In the end
4 Write a text about your eharaeter from your notes. Use the texts in 1 and 2 to
helpyou.
25
2 Read the notes about 'World Run Day~and complete the texto
An important day
early November
streets, parks
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find it in
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.. .. and in
Why
or for
.
around the world, runners cant wait for 'World Run Day'1
3 Now find out about another world day and write about it.
World Snowboard
International
WORDWORK2
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b parking lot
c baby
d clap.
f fall down
9 bench
h grass
....bench ..
e ...
.
e park
2 Match a word or phrase from the box with the underlined words in each sentence.
awesome
awful
birthday
cousin
dumb
grades
~
2 Complete the sentences with words from Chapters 3 and 4.
d Hannah works well at school and gets good numbers from her teachers
e When Hannah falls off her skateboard, she thinks. 'This is very bad'
f The skateboard and helmet are very good presents.
9 Evan'squestions are not very good, Hannah thinks
28
WORDWORK3
GRAMMAR CHECK
1 Find words from Chapters 5 and 6 in the skateboards to match the pictures.
We use there is and there are to talk about things and people in a place.
We use there is (or there's) with a singular noun, and there are with a plural noun.
There'sa big present from her mother and father on the table.
Thereare some people at the skatepark.
Negative forms are there lsn't and there aren't.
Thereisn't a ear in the park, and there aten: any bicycles.
Complete the sentences with
....bruise ..
................
,.
.................
f At the skatepark, . . .. . . .
9
~
d
~
e
..................
~
f
. ...............
..~
.......
high
real
sure
tough
a 'Go Skateboarding Day' happens on June 21st all .. o..r.-OtA.V\d .. the world.
b Very good skateboarders can do
... tricks.
skateboarder now.
GRAMMAR
CHECK
GRAMMAR
CHECK
Possessive adjectives
We can put before, after and when clauses at the start of the sentence or at the end.
When a time clause goes first in a sentence, we put a comma (,) after it.
singular
my
we
our
After Evan comes into the kitchen, his mother goes out.
you
your
you
your
His mother goes out of the kitchen after Evan comes in.
he
his
they
their
she
her
it
its
The linker before links a later action with an earlier action; after links an earlier action
with a later action; when links two actions near in time. Often with when, the first action is
the reason for the second action.
Her
his
Its
My
Our
their
Their
idea is awesorne:
your
yetrr
she opens the present from her mother and father, Hannah opens Evan's
present to her.
Hannah thinks.
skateboardmq.
f
.
. Hannah tells her mother all about her practice, she ssys.Dont lauqh.
Everybody stops and watches
g 'Hey, Hannah,
.Justin calls his cousin, he tells her about 'Go Skateboarding Da/
e Hannah is excited
Vlhe.v:\
new
skateboard is awesorne!'
h
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level,
grammar practice.
Al Brown plays the quitar in a band with Iriends. He writes songs, too. 'Our boy
carrt live without his rnusic, his parents sayo
Bur when AI's baby sister, Lisa, arrives lrom hospital, his lile is suddenly different.
Now his mother and father have no time for him, and he has no time for school
work - or the bando
Then AI's sister is ill. And Grandad tells hrn, 'Write a song for Lisa" But why, and
how can this help?
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