Hi boys/girls!!!
This time I want to offer to you an activity to practice your reading skills.
Here you have a story, you need to read it carefully and then you will have to
answer the questions that you will find at the end of the post:
"Once upon a time, in a place far away there lived a donkey. He didn’t
look very smart but he was smart. He used to eat grass all the time.
He had no owner at all. One day a man called James came. Then the donkey
jumped into the bushes and made no sound at all. The donkey stared at
James.
When James was gone, the donkey still stayed in the bushes for 2
minutes because he knew that the man was going to come back. James came
back with his son Tom, to have a walk with him. When James and Tom were gone,
the donkey saw the house. But he still kept eating the grass. When the donkey
was full, he went near the house. James wife, Orla, got scared; she never saw a
donkey before. No one saw a donkey before. But that donkey had seen lots
of people before. The donkey made a donkey sound, and then Orla closed the
door because she thought that the donkey was angry.
Orla took a bucket and went to the well, from the back door. The donkey waited
near the house until she was back. She took a little while to come back.
When Orla came back she had the bucket full of water. She opened the
front door and put the bucket near the donkey.
The donkey started drinking the water. When the bucket of water was over he
went back wagging his tail. Orla said to James and Tom that “Today when
you went out for a walk. I saw a funny looking thing that made a funny
sound and I went to the well with a bucket and took some water and gave it
to the funny looking thing and he went back.” Then Tom said “Mom, maybe it was
an alien!”
Orla and James said “But everyone knows that there are no aliens.” That time
the donkey ran back to their house. Then Tom shouted “IS THAT IT MOM!”
Then Orla looked out of the window and said “YES!” Then she asked, “How
about we make that thing as a pet?” Then James and Tom said “Yes!” Then
Tom ran over to open door.Then Tom said “Mom, do we have some biscuits?” Orla
said “Yes, we do, you can feed it to the funny thing.” Then Orla gave five
biscuits to Tom.
Then the donkey made a donkey sound. Tom started laughing and said “Mom, it
makes a funny sound. Doesn’t it?”
Orla said “Yes, it does.” Then James said “I think we should give him some name.”
Tom shouted “YES!” Orla asked Tom “So what’s the name” Tom says the name
is …… hmm this is hard to think. Maybe…JAKE!” James said “Good idea!” And
they all lived happily ever after with their Jake."
1) At the beginning of the story, has the
donkey an owner?
2) What did the donkey used to eat?
3) Who was Orla?
4) Did Orla know what sort of animal was
the donkey?
5) Who gave water to the donkey?
6) Who proposed to make the donkey a pet?
7) Who proposed to call the donkey Jake?
8) Do you think that the family was happy
living with Jake?
