Reading Activity 1 Mystery Train

 

Taken from: https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/reading-zone/a2-graded-reading/mystery-train-a2

Mystery Train

Exercise 1. Vocabulary 

Instructions: Complete the following sentences using the words from the box correctly.

dangerous	ticket	died	home	slowed
stairs	lean out	vibrating	time	see

 

1. Peter decides to go                   .

2. He needs to buy a                          to travel.

3. Claire knew that she could not walk on the train tracks, because it was________.

4. Last year some boys _________playing on the train tracks.

5. While  Claire walks on the tracks they were ______ and she could hear the loud sound.

 6. The train passed her, empty, and then __________and stopped. Where is it going? she thought.

7. Clare saw a man ___________ in the train window.

8. She didn't want to go up the ______on the train.

9. The driver tells Claire that the travel ____ will be as long as it takes her to eat the candyfloss.

10. The driver turned his face away and she couldn't ___ ___ his face.

 Exercise 2. Reading comprehension

Instructions: According to the previous reading, you have the option to choose 
if the sentence is true or false, Write T if it is true or F if it is false, in the blank space.

1. Claire is scared riding the ghost train. _______

2. Peter bought a ticket to go home.______

3. Peter walks barefoot on the train line. ______

4. At Fellside the trains ran every hour. _____

5. The train tracks vibrated as Claire walked home._____

6. The train passed by her full of people._____

7. The train conductor tells Claire: You can't walk
on the tracks.______

8. In the train there was no noise, so the
passengers traveled very well._____

9. The train began to move slowly. _____

10. Claire can't say goodbye to the train
conductor. _____
Reading exercises created by Maricel Orozco Pérez 
 
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