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ACTIVITIES



                     Chapters 1-6

                     Before you read

                      1  Find the words in italics in your dictionary. They are all in the
                          story.

                          a   Answer the questions.
                               What adventures are on TV? What adventures do   you

                             have?

                             What are you afraid of?

                             Do you like cats?

                             What makes you sac/?

                               When are you surprised?

                         b    Put a word on the left with a word on the right.
                                                         sick

                             aunt                            dead
                             church                             family

                             fence

                             graveyard                   police
                             medicine                    picture

                             paint                       yard
                             trial                       Sunday

                         c    Put these words in the sentences.

                             help   kill   tore (to tear)
                             The man is going to..... the animal with his knife.

                             She’s unhappy because she.......her new dress.
                              He likes to.....his mother with her work.


                     After you read

                      2  Why

                         a    is Aunt Polly angry with Tom?
                         b   do Tom and Joe want to run away?

                         c    doesn’t Becky talk to Tom?



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