TheSecretDiaryofAdrianMole

WORKSHEE 1 PAG 6 T PAG 28

T : E O E

A. Fill in the missing names of the characters from the story.

1 Bret Baxter told Adrian that a Bible printed in 1956 had saved his life in the First World War.
2 Pandora owns a horse named Blossom and plays netball.
3 Mr Lucas leaves her husband and takes the furniture from the house.
4 My mother leaves her husband and her son and moves to Sheffield.
5 Barry Kent hits Adrian at school and takes “protection money” from him.
6 My father talks to his car and throws a cheese sandwich at the wall.
7 Nigel owns a bike with thin wheels, a water bottle, a speedometer and a yellow saddle.
8 Grandma cooks Adrian a real Sunday dinner with gravy and Yorkshire pudding.
9 Adrian thinks his mother doesn’t know enough about vitamins.
10 Mr Lucas sends Adrian’s mother a Valentine’s card in the shape of a big elephant.

B. Complete the sentences with words from the word bank.

Which of the words are nouns? Which are verbs? Which are adjectives?

Civilized(a Eyes (n) Rude(adj) Treacle(n) Card(n) Delivered(adj

dj) )
Round(adj) Token(n Mongrel(adj) Hair(n) Complained(v) Uncivilized(a
) dj)

1. Adrian thought that Pandora’s hair was the colour of treacle

2. Adrian’s eyes and Pandora had the same colour mongrel.
3. At first, Adrian delivered the wrong newspapers to the people on his paper token.
4. The day that Adrian followed Pandora, people complained that their papers were late. But in the
end, Adrian’s boss at the newsagents’ was quite pleased with his work. The boss gave Adrian more
money and two old copies of the rude magazine Big and Bouncy.
5. Adrian’s mother arranged a meeting between Mr Lucas and her husband which was supposed to be
civilised. But when she said she was going to Sheffield with Mr Lucas, the meeting became
uncivilized.
6. Bert Baxter sent Adrian a birthday card and an out-of-date book round.

C. Fill in the blanks with the Past Continuous form of the verbs in the word bank. Then match A to
B to form sentences.

concentrate have beat deliver play watch

A B

1. Adrian was concentrating his Abba tape so loudly a. while he was delivering newspapers
on her street. 3
2. Adrian’s heart was playing so loudly b. when he, his mother and Mr Lucas
played Monopoly. 2
3. Adrian saw Pandora coming out of her house c. that he and Adrian’s mother
was having a bad time. 4
4. Adrian’s father told Adrian d. that the deaf woman next door shouted at
him. 1
5. The neighbours were watching e. while Mr Lucas and Adrian’s father
fought in the front garden. 5
6. Adrian was the only one who was beating. f. that he thought Pandora could hear it. 6
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