Instituto Comercial de Osorno Miss Marcia Väsquez

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Worksheet

There was a mean boss in a factory. The boss liked to watch the workers. He wanted the workers to work hard. One morning the boss came to the factory at nine o’clock. A man was drinking coffee. The boss came back at nine thirty. The man was still drinking coffee. The boss was angry. “How much do you make a week?” he asked the man. “Three hundred dollars”, the man said. The boss gave the man three hundred dollars. “Take the money and get out of here, you are fired!”, he said. Then the boss asked another worker. “What was that man’s job?” “He doesn’t work here”, the worker said. “He came to pick up a package”.

I. Which of the following sentences is the best one to summarize

the story you read above? Put a tick ( ) next to the correct one.

1. ___ The story is about the boss of a factory, who saw a man drinking

coffee at 9.00.

2. ___The story is about a boss who lost a lot of money because he made

a silly mistake.

3. ___ The story tells us about a boss who fired a man who lost $300.

4. ___ The story is about a man who won $300 because he was in the

wrong place at the right time.

II. Choose the best (1) and the worst (2) titles for the story.

1. ___ The lazy worker. 4. ___ The poor and the rich.

2. ___ $300 for nothing. 5. ___ The bossy boss.

3. ___ Money lost in a factory. 6. ___ The man who won

$300.

III. Write if the following sentences are true (T) or false (F). Correct

the false ones.

1. ____ the story is told by the boss of the factory.

2. ____ the story is told by a narrator.

3. ____ the worker is the main character of the story.

4. ____ there are three characters in the story.

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5. ____ the characters in the story are: the boss, a secretary and a

worker.

6. ____ the story takes place in a school.

7. ____ the story happened in the afternoon.

IV. What do the following expressions mean?

1. The expression “get out of here” means:

a) come into a place. b) travel to a place. c) go away from a place.

2. The verb “pick up” means.

a) To get something b) to collect something c) to improve

something.

3. The verb “come back” means:

a) To return to a place. b) to look at someone. c) to wait for

something.

4. The expression “you are fired” means:

a) To hire someone to work for you. c) to make someone leave

his/her job

b) To ask someone a question.

V. Complete the following summary cube with information from the

text.

Write the following information.

Side 1. Who? Side 4. When?

Side 2. What? Side 5. Why?

Side 3. Where? Side 6. How?

Summary cube