READER WORKSHEET

Read and answer these questions:

1. Whose birthday is it today? ________________________________

2. Why doesn’t anybody say “Happy Birthday” to him? ________________________________

3. Why did he move there two weeks ago? ________________________________

4. Why doesn’t he want to make new friends now? ________________________________

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Answer these questions:

1. Does Alex like his computer teacher? ________________________________

2. Does he have any brothers or sisters? ________________________________

3. Do his parents have a lot of money? ________________________________

4. Is Alex happy to know that his parents are in an important meeting? _________________________

5. Does he like his present? ________________________________

6. Does he sing a happy song? Who wrote it? ________________________________

LOVE - SATURDAY - HOMEWORK - WINDOW - SCHOOL - DINNER - SONG - ANGRY

It was _____________________ so Alex didn’t have to go

to_____________________. He had some _____________________ to do

and then he was going to play the guitar and write a new

______________. His parents had work to do, but his mother suggested

having a birthday _____________ together. Alex had breakfast and

started playing a song by an American singer, a _______________ song.

When his mother asked him to play in his room, he was disappointed because he wanted her to listen to him.

He was _______________, but he went to his room, opened the ___________________ and started playing again.

FILL IN THE BLANKS USING THE SIMPLE PAST OR THE PAST CONTINUOUS OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS:

When Alex __________________ (finish) the song, he _______________ (hear)

clapping from outside. At first, he __________________ (think) it was his

mother, but there was nobody in the yard. He __________ (close) the

window and _________________ (take) some homework from his backpack,

but he _______________ (not – can) concentrate: he ____________________

(think) about that clapping. He ____________ (sit) at his laptop. He

_________________ (watch) videos when his mom ___________________ (call) him. He _____________ (say) there

was somebody there for him. He ___________________ (go) downstairs. He ____________________ (feel) sick. He

________________ (meet) a beautiful girl who _________________________ (smile) at him. She ____________________

(explain) that she _________________ (live) next door. She _________________ (tell) him that he was an amazing

guitar player, and that she ____________________ (want) to learn to play the guitar. Then she _________________

(ask) him if he __________________ (can) teach her. He ___________________ (answer) that he wasn’t a teacher

but she ___________________ (not – mind) because she _________________ (can) watch him while he
__________________ (play). She __________________ (want) to start that night, but Alex __________________

(remember) his birthday dinner party. She __________________ (ask) him for his phone number so that she could

text him later.

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1. Bella was going to be at Alex’s house in 30 minutes for her first guitar lesson. ______

2. Alex was feeling happy and excited. ______

3. He invited her into his house when she arrived. ______

4. She didn’t talk much. ______

5. She asked to see his new guitar. ______

6. Alex gave her his new guitar. ______

7. First, he showed her three chords, but it was too much for Bella. ______

8. Fifteen minutes later, Bella can play three chords. ______

9. Bella thought Alex was not a good teacher. ______

10. Alex told her that she was doing it very well. ______

11. Alex started playing the guitar when he was 5 years old and never stopped. ______
 12. They watched an old music video together. ______

13. Alex really liked Fly. ______

14. Bella told Alex that he was different when he talked about music. ______

15. Bella told him she wanted to upload a video of her playing the guitar. ______

16. Bella and Alex liked the same music. ______

17. They were going to have another lesson the next day. ______

ANSWER

1. What did Bella and Alex do every day? __________________________________________

3. What did Bella ask Alex to do one day? __________________________________________

4. Which song did Alex play? How did he feel, playing for Bella? _________________________________________

5. What did Bella ask Alex to play next? __________________________________________

6. Why did she want to record a video? __________________________________________

7. What did Alex start writing after Bella left? __________________________________________

8. Why was Bella so excited the next day? __________________________________________

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Match the sentences halves. Re-write them.

1. While Alex was walking to school, when a boy said he had seen his video.

2. When he arrived at school, and some boys were waiting for him outside. They
were watching his video and they liked it.
3. He was walking into the classroom lots of good comments.

4. Alex wanted to leave school now he understood that Bella only wanted to help
him.
5. He was leaving the classroom Bella didn’t text him back.

6. His video had 624 likes and when he saw her at the door.

7. He felt really bad because he got a link to his video on VideoSpace from Bella.

8. One of the boys invited him to play ran out of his bedroom.

9. He texted Bella to say he was sorry, but the guitar at the youth club the next day.
 10. Then he remembered she had kept looking at his phone because he was waiting for
Bella’s answer.
11. While he was having dinner, Alex people were looking at him and talking.

12. He was going to Bella’s house to talk to her Bella kissed him.

13. They were talking about his songs and the soccer practice until half past 6.
youth club when

14. He was so afraid that he couldn’t kiss her and never come back.
back so she

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ANSWER

1. Why was Alex feeling so sad? _______________________________________________

2. What did his mother say about moving again? _______________________________________________

3. How did his mother think he should say “Sorry” to Bella? _____________________________________________

4. What did Alex do? _______________________________________________

5. What did his mother think about the song? How did Alex feel now?

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FILL IN THE BLANKS USING WORDS FROM THE BOX

SICK - BELLA - GUITAR - SINGING - CLAPPING - SMILING - YOUTH CLUB - LEAVE - KISSED - DEDICATED

Alex was at the _________________________ and he was feeling ________________. He looked for __________ but

she wasn’t there. Everybody was ___________________when Alex stood in

front of them. He wanted to ________________, but he couldn’t, so he

started _____________________. Suddenly, he saw Bella and she was

______________________. He __________________ the next song to her. In

the end, he put his ________________down, walked towards Bella and

________________her.