BROTHERS GRIMM READING COMPREHENSION 1

​Today

• Who were the Brothers Grimm?

• Understand the reading in more detail
  

Poll

How y'all feeling today?

• Righteous

• So-so

• Kaka

​So, let's see how much you know about the Brothers Grimm.

Multiple Select

The Brothers Grimm ...

• were German

• were French

• wrote for children

• wrote for adults

• wrote for adults and kids

Multiple Select

... and their stories were ...

• romantic

• usually scary

• usually had a lesson

• were not very popular

• have been translated into many languages

​Before we get going, let's just do a quick vocabulary check.

Drag and Drop

I have a good ​

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of books at home. They are ​

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books which were ​

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hundreds of years ago, and many of the books feature ​

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monsters. The ​

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are also quite hard to read because of the difficult vocabulary.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

collection

primarily

published

scary

texts

suitable

​Please put your phones down and stand up. We are about to read for the main idea.

​So what was the answer?

Multiple Choice

Qu 1

• a

• b

• c

​So what was the answer?

​Let's look at question 2

​This question requires you to work out its meaning. As a first step, it is helpful to know what kind of word "many" is.

Multiple Choice

"Many" is a(n) ...

• adjective. It gives more information about a noun, e.g. "I have many cars".

• noun. It is a thing, person or place, e.g., "I can see a many on the beach."

• adverb. It gives more information about a verb or adverb, e.g., "The boy runs many fast."

​Please put your phones down.

​Qu 2

​So we know that "many" is an adjective which gives more information about a noun.

In that case, which noun is it describing?

Multiple Choice

Qu 2

• a

• b

• c

​Qu 2

​So we know that "many" is an adjective which gives more information about a noun.

In that case, which noun is it describing?

​Please put your phones down.

​Qu 3

​Here's the strategy.
Find the paragraph where the information is located.
Cross out the wrong answers (the things which are NOT TRUE).

Multiple Choice

Where can we find the information that we need to answer the question?

• Para A

• Para B

• Para C

Multiple Select

Which statements were NOT TRUE!

• a

• b

• c

​Qu 3

​Please put your phones down.

​Qu 4

​Here's the strategy.
look at the context
substitute the choices for the target word

Hotspot

Click the context sentence which will help you work out the definition of "moral"

Multiple Choice

The context sentence is: "Work hard, be good, and listen to your parents". "Moral" probably means ...

• The interest is: "Work hard, be good, and listen to your parents."

• The story is: "Work hard, be good, and listen to your parents."

• The lesson is: "Work hard, be good, and listen to your parents."

​Please put your phones down.

​Qu 5.

Strategy
Find the paragraph where the information is located.
Delete all the statements which are NOT TRUE.

Multiple Choice

The paragraph where the information is located is ...

• Paragraph A

• Paragraph B

• Paragraph C

Multiple Choice

The answer to Qu 5 is ...

• a

• b

• c

​And almost finally ...

Think for a moment.

What was the most important thing that you learned from reading this story about the Brothers Grimm? Write two sentences. TRY NOT TO MAKE ANY GRAMMAR ERRORS.

Open Ended

What was the most important thing that you learned from reading this story about the Brothers Grimm? Write two sentences. TRY NOT TO MAKE ANY GRAMMAR ERRORS.

​And finally ...

How hard was the reading?

Poll

That reading was ...