ESO 2: The Mysterious Circles Extra Activities

Here you have the Extra Activities on The Mysterious Circles.

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Activity I is +1

Activity II is +1

Activity III is +0.5

I. Answer to 10 of the following questions after reading the chapters. Do it individually.

Chapter 1

1.Why is Nick's village called Cornridge?

2.Who is Jo?

3.Why is Farmer Brown very strange?

4.What is Danny's special interest?

Chapter 2

5.What is there in Danny's bedroom?

6.What is Danny's problem?

Chapter 3

7.According to the magazine article, why do scientists call the strange shapes in Nebraska 'corn circles'?

8.Where was Nick going when Farmer Brown shouted at him?

9.Why were Nick's jeans torn and his T-shirt dirty?

Chapter 4

10.What's Nick's great idea?

11.Who's Bricky?

12.Why do Jo and Nick decide to wear black clothes?

Chapter 5

13.Who was the strange creature with two heads, four long thin legs and a long thin tail taht Farmer Brown saw at night?

Chapter 6

14.Why were Nick and Jo so tired?

15.What did they think of their corn circles?

Chapter 7

16.Why didn't the journalist at 'Extraterrestrial News' believe Danny?

17.Why was Danny sure it was aliens and not people who had made the corn circles?

Chapter 8

18.Why did Jo start to panic?

Chapter 9

19.Who was the tall man who arrived at Danny's house in a big black car?

20.What does the Professor's small electronic machine do?

Chapter 10

21.Who is Rachel Winter?

22.What did Farmer Brown remember?

Chapter 11

23.What were the mysterious lights that appeared above Farmer Brown's field.

II.Make 10 sentences using 10 of the following words (a word per sentence; there are 2 extra words). First, read the sample sentences on the book, so that each word is in a similar context in your sentence. Do it individually.

1.safe (pg.2)

2.to believe (pg.3)

3.upstairs (pg.4)

4.UFOs (pg.4)

5.laugh at someone (pg.5)

6.frightened (pg.7)

7.torn (pg.7)

8.to push (pg.8)

9.rope (pg.8)

10.to bark (pg.9)

11.viewers (pg.25)

12.classmates (pg.28)

III.Do the 'choose the correct pictures' activities.

1. Chapter 1, pg.3

2. Chapter 2, pg.5

3. Chapter 4, pg.8

4. Chapter 5, pg.11

5. Chapter 5, pg.13

6. Chapter 7, pg.16

7. Chapter 7, pg.18

8. Chapter 8, pg.20

9. Chapter 10, pg.25

10. Chapter 11, pg.28