Practice Present Simple with readings

Students should ideally discover not only the usefulness but also the pleasure of being able to read in a second language.

The objective of this activity is to practice, activate and reinforce your skills, such as grammar, vocabulary and writing, by means of several readings.

Here you will read a text and answer some questions. Let's see how good your reading comprehension is.

 

Ana´s Job

Ana works at a school. She is the principal. She starts work every day at 7:00 am. She finishes work every day at 3:00 pm. She lives very close to the school. She walks to work every day. Her brother and sister also work at the school. But they do not live close to the bank. They drive cars to work. They start work at 9:00 am. In the school, Ana is the boss. She helps all the teachers and tells them what to do. She likes her job. She is also very good at her job. Many parents like Ana, and they say hello to her when they come to the school. Ana likes to talk to the stucents and make them feel happy. Ana really likes her job.

https://wordwall.net/play/26165/920/461

Paul and Sofia´s life 

I’ m Paul Perez. I’m a doctor. I work at a hospital. My wife, Sofia, is a teacher. She teaches Music at a college. We get up at seven o’clock every morning. Sofi sets the table, and we have breakfast. Sofia likes toast and tea, but I don’t. I eat an egg and I drink milk at breakfast. Then, we leave home at a quarter past eight. I start to work at nine o’clock. I am very busy, so I can’t have a break. At half past twelve, I have lunch at the hospital cafeteria. The food at the cafeteria is very good, so I don’t go out for lunch. Sofia returns home at three o’clock in the afternoon, and I come back at five o’clock. Afterwards, we have dinner at half past six. I watch TV in the evenings, but Sofia doesn’t. She reads a book, or she listens to music. We go to bed early after a tiring day. At weekends we go to the cinema or theatre. My wife and I like shopping, so we usually go on shopping on Saturdays. We have a holiday every August. We often go to Izmir in Turkey for holiday. I ride a bike and Sofia walks around, because she doesn’t know how to ride a bike. We like Izmir very much, so we go to there every summer.

https://wordwall.net/play/26167/860/270

Hilda and her daughter 

Hilda Martinez wants her daughter Sabrina 16, to know that she’s there anytime Sabrina needs her and that she’ll never let her down. But she works all day and Sabrina is always busy with school and her singing lessons and hanging out with her boyfriend. So, Hilda often sends Sabrina a WhatsApp message on her cell phone. ‘I ask her how she’s doing or say I love you’, says Hilda. It’s also easy for Sabrina to tell her mother where she is and when she’ll be home. But sometimes, it seems like they’re overdoing it. ‘Quit often I’m in my room and send a WhatsApp message to my mum who’s in the kitchen’, says Sabrina. ‘Texting makes it easy to avoid talking to each other face-to-face.’

https://wordwall.net/play/26181/206/840

Bibliography: 

Jennifer, E. (2008, 14 noviembre). Four Objectives of Reading in the ESL Classroom. English with Jennifer. Retrieved December 4th, 2021, from: https://englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/four-objectives-of-reading-in-the-esl-classroom/