To Be

 To Be

I am        = I’m

You are   = You’re

We are    = We’re

He is        = He’s

She is       = She’s

They are     = They’re

 

I am Nerea. I’m ten. I’m ten years old.

I am Spanish.

I am hungry. I’m thirsty, too.

 

You are John.

Are you Spanish or American? You're American.

 

We are in class. We’re at school. We’re happy. We’re Spanish.

 

He is the tallest boy in my class. He’s taller than Cesar.

She is the tallest girl in my class. She’s very tall. She’s from France. She’s French.

 

They are the tallest kids in my class.

They are from Spain. They’re Spanish.

They are from Italy. They’re Italian.

 

Am I the teacher? No, He is the teacher.

Are you eleven years old?

Are they from England? Yes, they are from England.

Is he in your class? No, he isn’t in my class. He is nine.

 

Gangsta Granny by David Walliams

Gangsta Granny by David Walliams

 Ben thinks that his grandmother is boring. He doesn’t like to go to her house. Every Friday night, his parents take him to his grandmother’s house. He stays with his grandmother while his mother and father go dancing.

 They are crazy about dancing. Every Saturday, they watch a television program about dancing called Strictly Stars Dancing. It is a dance competition. Ben doesn’t like dancing. He wants to be a plumber. He loving plumbing, and he hates dancing and he hates staying at his grandmother’s house on Friday.

 His grandmother doesn’t have a TV. She has a lot of books in her house. She likes to play board games like Scrabble. Ben doesn’t like board games.

 Ben hates to read. He hates reading. His granny loves to read books about crime. She reads about criminals and thieves.

 His grandmother always makes cabbage soup. She thinks that Ben loves cabbage soup, but he hates cabbage soup. He doesn't eat the soup.

Ben finds a lot of expensive jewelry in a cookie tin at his granny's house. He learns that she is a thief. She steals diamonds and jewelry.

Suddenly, Ben thinks that his grandmother is very interesting. Now he likes going to her house.

 

 

The Mystery of the Missing Money

 

Rea has a lot of money. She hides the money in a box under her bed. One day Rea comes home from school and the money is missing. She looks everywhere but she can’t find the money or the box. Rea investigates the robbery.

 She looks for clues in her bedroom. She finds an English book. Rea has English class every Thursday. Her teacher is John. She asks her English teacher if it is his book.

“Is this your English book?” Rea asks her teacher.

“Yes, that is my book. Thank you,” her teacher says.

“Is that a new watch?” Rea asks her teacher. “It looks expensive. Where did you get the money to buy that expensive watch?”

 The expensive watch is another clue in the mystery. Rea thinks that her teacher is the thief.

 Her teacher says that he can’t come to class next week because he is going on holiday. He is going to Paris.

 “How can you go on holiday? It is expensive to travel to France. Why do you suddenly have so much money?” Rea asks her teacher.

Now her teacher is very nervous. He is thinking.

 “I won a lot of money in the fruit machine at the café. I won two hundred euros.”

 “That is very interesting, because my box of money is missing and I had exactly two hundred euros in the box,” Rea says.

 Rea is very angry. She knows that John is the thief. Rea calls the police. Two police officers arrive quickly.