Starter Level Worksheet

Shooting Stars
Polly Sweetnam

A Before Reading

1 Look at the picture on the front cover. Which country do you think it is? Write a list of all the things
you can see.

2 Look at the back cover. On this snake are people, things and places. Divide the snake’s
body into words.

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B While Reading

3 Look at the two lists below. On the left is a list of adjectives. On the right is a list of nouns. Read the
story and join the adjectives with the nouns. Connect one noun to each adjective. You will use some
nouns more than once.

blue hotel
white food
beautiful buildings
wonderful people
large places
expensive film star
nice sun
delicious things
interesting sea
favourite
famous
important
big
hot

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C After Reading

4 Here are Claudia Carmen and Matt Lepardi. They are practising their scene from the film. Write their
words.

Here are some useful words and phrases: hate love

kill shoot
Come here! Don’t …
1 Aargh!

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