defined articles
Type in the name of the book you have read.
Type the main events of the book, classifying them in: events from the beginning, events from the middle, and events from the end of the book.
Describe the story visually. Add a representative picture for each of them.
5. I have an orange pencil
4. I will be home in an hour
3. I think a deserve an apologise
2. He’s an honest man.
1. He knows how to fly an airplane.
Articles A, An and The
In contrast to the main idea, the theme is the message, lesson or moral of the book.
Some tips to find out the theme of the book easier:
- Try to find it while you are reading. It may be stated or implied.
- Think about how the characters reacted to obstacles.
- Think about the important decisions that the characters made.
- Think about the characters growing or changing throughout the book.
Articles are the words that accompany nouns. In English the definite articles, the, and the indefinite articles, a and an are used. Let's see how they work.
Article + subject + verb + article + noun
5. The desk which you bought yesterday arrived this morning
4. The book which she was reading is on the table.
3. There is a chair next to the table.
2. There ir an elephant in the park.
1. The boys kinck a ball.
Take notes while you read the book. Write here your favorite quotes from the book.
Definite article
Take notes while you read the book. Type here the resources, books, or websites that the author mentioned and you want to check out later.
The definite article is much less frequent in English than in Spanish. Also, there is only one word in English, the, which is equivalent to all Spanish forms (el, la, los, las).
In English, the definite article is used only when one wants to specify a particular noun or group of nouns.
Prayers.
5. Julia has a blue umbrella.
4. She buys a dress
3. He buys a computer.
2. A girl walks to school
1. It’s a wide door
The main idea is what the book is mostly about.
Some tips to find out the main idea of a book easier:
- Read the title.
- Look for the text features.
- Figure out if you are reading a fiction or a non fiction book.
- Think about some examples that support this idea.
The correct use of A / an
What is the reason why the author wrote the book?
We use 'a' and 'an' in the same way, but when we use 'a' we use it in front of a consonant and 'an' when the next word begins with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u). For example: one car and the other an elephant.
What is an article?
Type the names of the book characters. Start with the main character.
Draw arrows to represent the relationship between them and if it is possible write on them what they represent for each other (if they are relatives, friends, lovers, enemies etc.)
An article is a word that follows a name, giving some basic information about that name, such as whether it is plural or singular, or whether it is a general or specific object. The articles in English are: a, an, some and the
