My holidays

Draw, colour in, circle and say.

Draw, colour in, circle and say. My family

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Listening - The text and beyond

Listen to a travel agent talking about a tour in Iceland and complete the advertisement. Regent Icelandic Tours Two tours in one! Morning: along the coast of Peninsula. Afternoon: and trekking.…

Speaking (T: Grade 5/6)

Theme – Entertainment In this part Gulliver becomes a ‘spectacle for the people’. Why do you think that he doesn’t enjoy it? Have you ever performed in front of a crowd either at school or…

Internet Project

In the original version of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift printed maps to show where the imaginary islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu were. He did this to make his book seem more realistic. At the…

Phrasal verbs

‘He could get away with it.’ Look at this sentence from Chapter Nine: ‘He could get away with it.’ To get away with something is a phrasal verb which means ‘to not suffer punishment when you…

Reading

9 October Inspector Fix was one of the detectives investigating the robbery at the Bank of England. In his years as a detective he knew only one thing for certain: all the biggest criminals looked like…

Comprehension check

Write the questions about Chapter Three in the past tense and answer them. What/Inspector Fix/need/before/he/can/arrest/Phileas Fogg? What/Inspector Fix/do/when/he/arrive/in Egypt? How/Phileas…

Reading

16. Walter Hartright’s narrative continued I was still thinking about what Pesca had told me when I walked back from his apartment that night. As I came closer to home, an idea started to form in my…