1 Disaster!

pool. / Claire can show her cinema ticket to the police. / Lauren
Worksheet 1: Around Pompeii was talking to someone on the phone. 3 Mick. 4 Mick probably
Using the worksheet stole the money from the bank because he can’t prove what he
• This worksheet practises words to describe the ancient world: was doing at the time. If you look closely at the picture, there
smoke, volcano, temple, columns, fountain, theatre, horse and cart, isn’t a person in the bed!
servant, statue, vase. Optional follow-up activity: Students work in pairs. They take
• Students label the pictures. Then they find the words in the word turns to mime the activities from Activity 1. Their partner says what
search and check their spelling. The words go across, down and they were doing at the time of the robbery and which character
diagonally. they are, e.g. You were talking to your friends in a café. You’re Sam.
• Students can then make their own word search to swap with a
partner. Worksheet 3: A day with my family
KEY: Activity 1: 2 vase, 3 theatre, 4 fountain, 5 volcano, Using the worksheet
6 horse and cart, 7 temple, 8 column, 9 servant, 10 statue
• This worksheet practises the use of the past continuous with
while.
a i e c d i o e h a r c • Students look at the pictures and complete the story using the
u l p s m o k e o s p i past continuous.
• Students then circle the words to complete the sentences.
c f b t b u q b r g r l KEY: Activity 1: 2 was listening, 3 was playing, 4 was dancing,
o o h y n j r o s n v m 5 were singing, 6 was cutting; Activity 2: 1 playing;
2 dancing, making; 3 washing, reading; 4 playing, eating;
f g c s g r w v e j w f 5 sleeping, listening
o k o k i l e o a z z q Optional follow-up activity: Play the Sentence memory game
using sentences in the past continuous (see Introduction).
u a l e o p q l n s j o
n b u l t s k c d t e d Worksheet 4: Which text?
t e m p l e a a c a e i Using the worksheet
• This worksheet helps students expand their knowledge of the
a f n x n r x n a t r m science behind earthquakes and statistics about them, using
i i u e w v q o r u o e key Think and learn vocabulary.
• Explain to students that they are going to make a quiz.
n v s j m a o f t e a v They have to complete the 16 prompt cards in the grid with
n p b e p n c z l w u i key numbers, words or phrases from the two texts about
earthquakes. There are three examples to get them started.
d t h e a t r e t x l d • Students first read the texts individually, then choose the
information to write on their cards. They cut their cards out
Activity 2: Students’ own answers. and shuff le them. They then read the texts again and try to
Optional follow-up activity: Play Spelling bee using the words memorise as many things about each one as possible.
from Activity 1 (see Introduction).
• In pairs, they quiz each other using their prompt cards. They
place the cards face down on the table and one student raises
Worksheet 2: What were you doing? a card and reads out what it says. Their partner then has to
say which text it’s from and what that word, phrase or number
Using the worksheet
refers to, e.g. A: Richter scale. B: Text 1 – how they measure
• This worksheet practises the past continuous.
earthquakes.
• Pre-teach stole, prove and safe (n). Students work alone to read
Optional follow-up activity: Students play Find the mistake.
the story about the stolen money, then match the sentences
They read the texts again and write four sentences about each
with the pictures.
one: two with correct information and two that are incorrect. Their
• Students think about the answers, then work with a partner to
partner has to find and correct the incorrect sentences, e.g. A: The
decide who stole the money.
epicentre is the middle of a city. B: No. The epicentre is the middle of
KEY: Activity 1: 2d, 3f, 4a, 5b, 6e; Activity 2: 1 Sam was with her the earthquake.
friends in a café. / Karl was having dinner with Eva. 2 The people
who were with others and also: John is on the CCTV film at the

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Around Pompeii
Name: ............................................
Class: .............................................

1 Look and write the words. Then find them in the word search.
1 2

3 smoke 4

a i e c d i o e h a r c
u l p s m o k e o s p i
c f b t b u q b r g r l
o o h y n j r o s n v m
f g c s g r w v e j w f
5 o k o k i l e o a z z q 6

u a l e o p q l n s j o
n b u l t s k c d t e d
t e m p l e a a c a e i
a f n x n r x n a t r m
i i u e w v q o r u o e
n v s j m a o f t e a v
7 n p b e p n c z l w u i 8

d t h e a t r e t x l d

9 10

2 Make a new word search in your notebooks.

Vocabulary: Around Pompeii

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What were you doing?
Name: ............................................
Class: .............................................

1 Read the story and match the sentences with the pictures.

Yesterday, at 6.30 p.m.,

someone broke into
the Big City Bank and
stole £10,000 from
the safe. The police
are questioning six
people. This is what
they told the police.

1 I was talking to my friends in a café. 4 I was swimming.

2 I was watching a film at the cinema. 5 I was sleeping.
3 We were having dinner at a restaurant. 6 I was talking on the phone.

a b c

1
John Mick Sam

d e f

Claire Lauren Karl and Eva

2 Answer the questions. Then talk to your partner. Who stole the money?
1 Who was with other people? 3 Who can’t prove what they were doing?

2 Who can prove what they were doing? 4 Who stole the money from the bank?

Language focus 1: Past continuous revision

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A day with my family
Name: ............................................
Class: .............................................

1 Look and complete the story in the past continuous. Use the words from the box.
listen cut sing dance do play

1 2 3

4 5 6

Yesterday was a crazy day! While I (1) was doing my Maths homework , my friends were sending me
text messages. While I was trying to multiply 36 by 89 in my head, my eldest sister (2)
to her favourite song. How could I work in my noisy house? While my brother (3)
computer games and shouting, my mother (4) in her bedroom. While my twin sisters
(5) in the garden, my father (6) the grass. I thought, ‘That’s it.
I’ve had enough!’ I put my books in my bag, walked to the park, and finished my homework there.

2 Read and circle the correct words.

1 While my cat was washing / drinking milk, my brother was buying / playing basketball.
2 While my sister was dancing / writing to her favourite music, my cousin was watching / making
a sandwich.
3 While my father was washing / looking the car, my mother was reading / cooking a book.
4 While my dog was playing / drinking with a ball, I was eating / dancing a pizza.
5 While my grandfather was sleeping / shopping under a tree, my grandmother was laughing / listening
to the radio.

Language focus 2: Two simultaneous actions with while

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Which text?
Name: ............................................
Class: .............................................

1 Read and complete. Then cut out and play.

Earthquake facts
Text 1 Text 2
The Richter scale measures how strong an earthquake is. It The epicentre is the middle of the earthquake, and where
starts at 1 and finishes at 10. An earthquake that measures it starts from. The waves of the earthquake are strongest
5 on the Richter scale is ten times more powerful than an here, so it is very dangerous if a city or town is on top
earthquake that measures 4. Earthquakes that measure of the epicentre. Earthquakes can be ‘deep’ or ‘shallow’
1 or 2 happen all the time but we don’t really feel them. – near to or far from the surface of the Earth. When an
Earthquakes between 4 and 5 Richter are common too – we earthquake is shallow it is nearer the surface and we
can feel them but they don’t usually cause any problems. can feel it more. Earthquakes can happen at any time
Earthquakes around 6 Richter can cause serious damage and in any country. Every year there are about 500,000
to buildings and roads. Any earthquake over 7 Richter is earthquakes around the world, but people can only feel
very dangerous and can cause serious damage that could about 100,000 of those and only about 100 cause any
mean many people die. Earthquakes that are stronger real damage. Some people believe that bad, very hot or
than 7.5 Richter can also cause tsunamis, which are very very cold weather causes an earthquake, but this isn’t
large waves in the sea. These powerful waves travel very true. Most of them happen because two of the Earth’s
fast (500 miles an hour – as fast as a jet plane) and cause plates move – one moves on top of another a little bit.
terrible destruction when they arrive at the coast. Serious Sometimes the ground surface breaks along the line
earthquakes can cause the ground to move position too. where the plates meet. This is called a ‘fault’.
For example, the 8.8 Richter earthquake in Chile moved
the city Concepción about 3 metres west.

Richter scale

500,000

tsunamis

Geography: The Earth’s plates

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