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Skills Skills

Reading

3
1 Read the questions and circle T (True) or F (False) for Dear Mr Gower,
the sentences below. I did my Maths homework and I
I haven’t got my homework because… left it on the kitchen table ready to
put in my bag with my books. I was
Dear Mr Reed,
I started to write my English essay, I was writing going up the stairs when the wind
the first paragraph when the phone rang. It was my started to blow and, by the time, I
grandmother who wanted me to buy some medicine got downstairs again my homework
from the chemist’s. I went out on my bike and I got the wasn’t there. I looked everywhere
medicine but, as I was riding to her house, a dog came and so did my father but we
out of a garden and barked at me, and I fell off my bike. couldn’t find it anywhere. There
Then I had to walk to her house and back home because wasn’t time to do it again.
the wheel was bent. So I didn’t have time to finish my
homework. I’m very sorry, Mary
Len
Dear Mr Smith,
Dear Mr Smith,
Dear Miss Austen, Last night, while I was reading the chapter you told us
The History homework wasn’t difficult, to read, I felt this sudden pain in the front of my head. It
and I wrote my longest essay, probably made me feel dizzy and, for a few minutes, I couldn’t see
my best, but we have this dog called clearly. Then it went away, but I had a bad headache, so
Criminal because he’s so naughty
and he ate my homework. It was at I went to lie down and went to sleep for a while. When I
breakfast today. I was getting ready woke up, my head felt better but it was getting late and
to go to school and there wasn’t time my mum said I couldn’t stay up reading, so I couldn't read
to do it again. the chapter and answer the questions.
But please give me my marks for my Sally
essay because it really was good.
Mark

1 Len was riding his bike to the chemist's when the dog barked at him. T / F
2 He fell off his bike. T / F
3 He didn’t finish his homework. T / F

4 Mary did her Maths homework. T / F
5 She put it in her bag. T / F
6 Mark says he wrote a long essay for History. T / F
7 His dog ate his homework. T / F
8 Sally didn’t read the chapter because she had a headache. T / F
9 She read the chapter after she woke up. T / F

Writing

4
1 Invent a really unusual excuse and write a note to your teacher explaining why you haven’t
got your homework.

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