PENGUIN ACTIVE READING
Teacher Support Programme
Newspaper Chase
While reading
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1 Answer the questions.
a Does Harry go to the art gallery at breakfast
time?
b How can Harry see the painting in the dark?
c Is the painting expensive?
d Does Harry think the painting is very good?
e Harry leaves the art gallery. Where does he
take the painting?
f Where in the house does he put the painting?
g How much does Harry want for the painting?
2 Talk with a friend.
Is the blue glass vase important in the story?
Why (not)?
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3 Think about your answer to Activity 2.
Were you right?
4 These sentences are wrong. Write them again
and make them right.
a Janey recycles newspapers every day.
b Janey sees a newspaper under Harrys chair.
c Janey puts old newspapers into a black box.
d Harry doesnt see the truck.
e There arent many newspapers in the truck.
f Harrys newspaper is very old.
5 Talk with a friend.
a Can Harry find his newspaper?
b Does Janey know Harry is a thief?
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6 These sentences are wrong. Write them again
and make them right.
a Janey sees a piece of glass in the truck.
b Janey phones her mother.
c The men in the recycling truck are happy.
d The policemen arrive late.
e Janey can buy a house with the reward.
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7 Look at the cover of the book again.
a Whos the man in the picture?
b Why is the newspaper important?
After reading
8 Whos who? Write Harry (H), Janey (J),
Janeys mother (M).
a is a thief.
b has a rooming house.
c has a room in a rooming house.
d breaks a glass vase.
e recycles.
f s last name is Black.
g talks to the truck men.
h is very young.
9 With a friend, make a new cover for the book.
Make a list of things. Then draw or paint the
cover.
10 Choose a new name for the story.
11 Work with a friend.
Choose one of the pictures in the book and talk
about it to your friend. Dont show the picture.
Can your friend find the picture?
12 Can you remember the story?
Look at the pictures and tell the story to a
friend. Make mistakes. Your friend must say it
right.
13 Work with a friend. Answer these questions.
You get a one thousand pounds reward.
a How much is that in your money?
b What do you want to buy?
c Who can you help?
14 Work with a friend. Look at all the pictures in
the book.
What are Harry, Janey, Mrs Allen, the truck men
and the policemen saying?
15 Work with a friend. Write 8 sentences about
Janey and Harry.
Then give them to your friend. Are they right?
Your friend must write the right sentences.
Newspaper Chase - Activity worksheet of
PENGUIN ACTIVE READING
Teacher Support Programme
Newspaper Chase
Pages 17
1 Write the right word(s) in the sentences. There is
one extra word.
frame art gallery thief vase
dollar million painting
a Harry goes to an .
b He is a .
c He wants a .
d Its very expensive. Its a dollars.
e He doesnt want the .
f He breaks a glass .
2 Are these right (3) or wrong (7)?
a c Harry works for a newspaper.
b c Harry goes to an art gallery in the afternoon.
c c Harry wants the glass vase.
d c The glass vase is one million dollars.
e c Harry takes the vase to his room.
f c Harry reads the newspaper at home.
g c Harry puts the newspaper under his bed.
h c Janeys mother recycles.
i c Janey sees the photo of the painting.
j c Harry phones a friend.
3 Circle the correct word.
a The painting is in a vase / frame / box.
b Harry lives in a rooming house / an apartment / a
small room.
c Janeys bottles are in a box / in a newspaper / under a
bed.
d Recycling men drive a car / truck / bus.
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6 Are these right (3) or wrong (7)?
a c Janey recycles every day.
b c Janey sees Harrys newspaper in her bedroom.
c c Janeys box is black.
d c There are a lot of newspapers in the truck.
e c Harrys newspaper is a week old.
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7 Complete with the right words: Janey, The police,
The truck men.
a sees the glass in Harrys shoe.
b are angry.
c phones the police.
d find the painting in the truck.
e receives a reward.
8 What happens first? Number the sentences, 15.
a c Janey goes into the house.
b c Janey asks Harry about the glass in his shoe.
c c The truck men watch Harry.
d c The police arrive.
e c Janey remembers the photo of the vase.
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4 What happens first? Number the sentences.
a c Janey puts old newspapers into a black recycling
box.
b c Harry sees the truck.
c c Janey looks for newspapers.
d c The recycling truck arrives.
e c Harry looks for his newspaper.
5 Complete with the right verb. There is one extra
verb.
chases jumps looks for finds puts
a Janey the newspapers in a box.
b Janey newspapers on Fridays.
c Harry into the truck.
d Harry after the recycling truck.
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