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Graded Reader Student Workbook: Born to Play Beginner Plus

The student workbook is designed to be used in the classroom alongside the Born to Play graded reader (Beginner Plus), part of the hugely popular Jamie Johnson series. It contains activities on: • Reading comprehension (general and specific) • Personal response to the story • Vocabulary • Grammar • Self-reflection • Discussion of real-world issues raised in the story It is aimed at reluctant readers as well as helping English as a Second Language learners build skills in reading, listening, speaking and writing.

Chapter 1

The Soccer Computer

Activity 4

a. Are these sentences true (

) or false ( )?

b. Change the false ( ) sentences. Make them true.

Talk about the story

Activity 5

You are Jamie, and you see Drake kicking and hitting the smaller boy. What do you do?

a run and tell a teacher

b kick a soccer ball at his head

c shout at him to stop

d walk away and do nothing

Jamie is

American. ____

Drake hits a tall

boy. ____

Jamie does not

kick the ball hard.

____

Drake is angry

with Jamie. ____

The ball hits

Drake on the

head. ____