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    This document provides vocabulary terms for common movie and book genres including animated, action, autobiography, romance, children's books, science fiction, and comedy. It also includes a matching activity connecting different genres to example sentences. There is a section on adjectives used to describe genres such as boring, funny, inspirational, interesting, and sad. Finally, there are exercises on past simple verbs and a short reading about author Edgar Allan Poe.

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    This document provides vocabulary terms for common movie and book genres including animated, action, autobiography, romance, children's books, science fiction, and comedy. It also includes a matching activity connecting different genres to example sentences. There is a section on adjectives used to describe genres such as boring, funny, inspirational, interesting, and sad. Finally, there are exercises on past simple verbs and a short reading about author Edgar Allan Poe.

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    Unit

    Vocabulary Movie and Book Cenres


    Label the movie and book genres.

    animated

    E
    2 Match the sentences.

    o. Do you like action movies?


    1. Do you read

    autobiographies?
    UYes, I do. I'm reading I Am Malala
    right now.
    0No,I don't. They are too violent for me.
    2. Who is your favorite
    JStephenie Meyer is my favorite.
    romance book author?
    The Twilight series is really good.
    3. What were your favorite
    UI watch them every weekend. It's my
    children's books?
    favorite movie genre.
    4. How often do you watch
    UThe Hobbit! J.R.R. Tolkien is a great aut
    science-fiction movies?
    UI liked fairy tales, such as Cinderella
    5. What was the last comedy
    and
    Little Red Riding Hood.
    movie you saw?
    UI saw Fun with The Spencers
    6. What is your favorite yesterddy
    It was
    fantasy book? really funny!
    Adjectives

    Complete the sentences using the


    adjectives.
    boring funny inspirational interesting Sad
    sad
    O. Inspirational books make readers
    want to change their
    1. movies can make
    lives, or even the worid.
    people asleep at the movie theater.
    fall
    2 books capture readers' attention.
    It is difficult to stop
    reading them.
    3 movies can make people cry.
    4. movies usually make people feel happy. They laugh a lot.

    Grammar- Past Simple


    Categorize the verbs.

    cry like love.play tartstudy work


    Verb Verb endingin e
    want wanted create created

    Regular Verbs
    in Past
    Verb ending in vowel + y Verb endingin consonant+ y
    try tried
    staystayed

    2 Read and circle the correct verbs.

    1IIIIIIITI 147
    andtalher
    payed to vist my
    When I was ttle, Kikec)/ he alnayscrAshed/
    storyteler and
    expert and
    DaVd. He is an bved the stories,
    adventure
    stories. I I lughed
    Created his Own Sometimes
    new ore.
    wOanted/worked a
    GAbiGys cried.
    sometimes I created/ write or dctate
    ond
    my grandpa to /
    Yesterday I
    asked/worked
    When they pubish
    He sad
    the computer.
    IS stories on Grandpa David & me
    my book, you
    get 50%
    study
    nit the table.
    and write them in
    verbs
    Circle the irregular write
    start study visit
    meet see
    make
    (gO) live
    Past
    Present went
    go

    a Complete the sentences using the past simple.


    Then circle T (True) or F (False).
    illustrations for
    o. Saint-Exupéry made (make) the
    The Little Prince.
    (T)F
    Africa
    1. Roald Dahl (meet) Saint-Exupéry in
    T F
    and they became friends.

    2. Dahl and Saint-Exupéry (live) in Europe and


    TF
    in America.
    (go) on a mission in his plane
    3. Dahl
    TF
    and disappeared.
    T F
    4. Roald Dahl (create) The Gremlins.
    5.Saint-Exupéry (write) The Little Prince in
    TF
    250 languages.

    Review
    1 Correct the sentences using the past simple.
    o. My family and I seed a great movie last night.
    My family and I saw a great movie last night.
    148 1. It were about zombies that live in an Italian city.

    2. A scientist finded a medicine that make the zombies sleepy.

    3. The special effects where really scary. I want to close my eyeS.


    R e a d i n g 9
    Edgar Allan Poe

    Arthe American
    writer Edgar Allan
    Poewrote mystery and horor

    stories. He was born in Boston,in


    the US, in 1809. After his mother
    died, he was adopted by a nice
    family. "Allan was the name of his
    adoptive parents.

    People call Poe "The Father of


    because
    theDetective Story"
    of
    hestarted this genre stories.
    and
    He worked for magazines
    he wrote many
    newspapers, and a raven

    and poems. Poe died


    shortstories
    conditions: he was in
    inmysterious
    another man's clothes

    that.
    sentences
    with When or After
    Complete the mother died, he
    was adopted.
    Edgar's Poe.
    1.
    his name was Edgar Allan
    2. old.
    he was 40 years
    he died,
    3 149

    Writing Also use Then.

    write about Edgar


    Allan Poe.
    In your notebook,

    1809-born
    adopted
    1812 mother died,
    1926 t o university
    married cousin
    Virginia
    1836 famous poem
    Raven":
    "The
    1845 published
    1849 died
    his motherdied,.
    tdgarAllan Poe was
    born in 1809. When

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