Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Dialog

Sarah: Hey Lisa, wait up! I've wanted to have a chance to talk to you.

Lisa: Hi! What's up?

Sarah: This weekend I'm having a birthday party for Ted. I'd like you to come.

Lisa: I'd love to. When is it?

Sarah: We're having it this Saturday at 8:00 at my house. We're going to order a pizza and play some games. Then whoever wants to stay longer can hang out and watch a video.

Lisa: It sounds like a lot of fun. But now that I think about it, I promised I would do something with Nathan Saturday night.

Sarah: Well why don't you bring him along? It would be fun. Ted would really like that. I'm sure.

Lisa: Really? That would be great. Okay, I'll ask Nathan to come along. What can I bring?

Sarah: Nothing. Just bring yourselves. No presents are necessary and everything else has been planned.

True or False. (Check your understanding).

1. Sarah wants to invite Lisa to a beach party.

2. Lisa asks Sarah what is up on top of the roof.

3. It is Nathan's birthday this weekend.

4. Lisa has plans to do something with Nathan on Saturday night.

5. Sarah wants Nathan to come to the party, too.

6. Everybody is going to watch a video at Sarah's house.

7. Lisa needs to buy a present for Ted's birthday party.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Reading Text

The story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" is a story that children know well. This story centers on a beautiful and inquisitive young blonde girl who ventures one day into the home of a family of three bears.
Earlier versions of this story were quite different.
It was the heroine who differed so much, and not the family of bears. Robert Southey wrote a version of the story in 1837 entitled "Story of the Three Bears." In Southey's story, the person who entered the bears' home was not a beautiful young girl with golden hair. Instead she was an old, hungry, homeless, grey-haired woman.
Other versions followed Southey's, and in these versions, the lead character changed considerably.
In an 1849 version by Joseph Cundall, the heroine of the story had become a young girl, but her hair was not blonde. The gray-haired old woman of Southey's story no longer existed; the new heroine was a young girl named Silver-Hair in Cundall's story. By 1868, the version published in Aunt Friendly's Nursery Book had a young girl named Golden Hair. By 1904, the name had turned into Goldilocks, the name by which the character is known today.

Questions:

1. The subject of this passage is

2. In what year was the name Goldilocks used, according to the passage?

3. Which paragraph that describes versions of the story other than Southey's?


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