1-Dictation.

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2-Write the opposites of:
Easy ____________ Up ____________ Weak ____________
Short ____________ Wet ____________ Good ____________
Front ____________ Fast ____________ Thin ____________
Heavy ____________ Hot ____________ Clean ____________
Tiny ____________ Thin ____________ Old ____________
Angry ____________ Young ____________

3-Answer these questions .

1- Why are the children sad at the beginning of the book?
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2- How do the Tornadoes players behave before Viola appears?
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3- How does Viola put the team into shape?
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4- What happens to the Werewolves at the end?
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5- Who is Barbara?___________________________________________________________________________________________________.
5-Number the sentences according to what happened in the story.
__ Barbara and her sister talk about their day at school.
__ Viola appears in the field.
__ Gloom blankets the Horace B. Smedley School.
__ Miss Nelson looks for something in her closet.
__ Coach Armstrong cracks up.
__ The players are horsing around and not practicing.
__ Everybody thinks that the players are going to loose.
__ The guys complain about all the activities that they have to do with the new coach.
__ The team gets into shape and wins.
6-Describe these characters.

Miss Swamp Miss Nelson One Tornado player

7-Explain the meaning of these phrases
1. gloom had blanketed: ____________________________________________________________________________________
2. horsing around ____________________________________________________________________________________
3. giving Coach the business ____________________________________________________________________________________
4. make mincemeat out of our team__________________________________________________________________________________
5. had cracked up ____________________________________________________________________________________
6. get the team into shape ____________________________________________________________________________________
7. rummaging around in her closet___________________________________________________________________________________
8. This is murder ____________________________________________________________________________________
9. Pipe down! ____________________________________________________________________________________
8-Put the sequences in order .Write about the story in the picture using some of these words in any order you need.

Once upon a timeFirstThenAfter that SoLater FinallyAt the end

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