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Kevin-06: The Opera House

An A2 English reading worksheet about Kevin the Koala visiting the famous Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.

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Reading Text

Episode 6: The Opera House After breakfast, Kevin walks to the harbor. The water is sparkling blue. Suddenly, he sees a very strange building. It has large white roofs. It looks like giant white orange slices! "Wow," Kevin says. "That is the most beautiful building in the world." A friendly police officer walks by. "That is the Sydney Opera House," the officer says. "It is very famous." Kevin looks to his left. He sees a huge gray bridge going across the water. "And what is that?" Kevin asks. "That is the Sydney Harbour Bridge," the officer smiles. "But we call it the Coathanger. It is the biggest steel arch bridge in Australia." Kevin takes his camera out of his bag. The bridge is taller than his eucalyptus tree. The Opera House is wider than the train station. Sydney is full of giant things! 🐨 Aussie Talk The police officer calls the bridge the "Coathanger." This is a famous nickname for the Sydney Harbour Bridge because of its curved shape! Australians love to give funny nicknames to important landmarks. 📝 Grammar Spotlight Look at these phrases: "the most beautiful building" and "the biggest bridge." These are examples of Superlative Adjectives. We use them to compare three or more things and show which one is at the extreme limit. We also see Comparative Adjectives ("taller than", "wider than") when Kevin compares just two things.

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An A2 English reading worksheet about Kevin the Koala visiting the famous Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.

Activities

Vocabulary

Items:

Label: harbor
Answer: def1
Label: sparkling
Answer: def2
Label: strange
Answer: def3
Label: famous
Answer: def4
Label: huge
Answer: def5

Definitions:

Text: An area of water next to the land where ships and boats can safely stay.
Text: Shining brightly with small flashes of light.
Text: Unusual or surprising; difficult to understand or explain.
Text: Known or recognized by many people.
Text: Extremely large in size or amount.

Fill In The Blanks:

Before: We watched the sailboats come into the
After: at sunset.
Answer: harbor
Before: The diamond ring was
After: beautifully in the sunlight.
Answer: sparkling
Before: I heard a very
After: noise coming from the old, empty house.
Answer: strange
Before: The Eiffel Tower is a very
After: landmark in Paris.
Answer: famous
Before: The elephant at the zoo was absolutely
After: .
Answer: huge

Comprehension

Questions:

Text: Kevin thinks the Opera House roofs look like orange slices.
Answer: true
Text: A bus driver tells Kevin the name of the building.
Answer: false
Text: The Sydney Harbour Bridge is also called the 'Coathanger'.
Answer: true
Text: The Opera House is smaller than the train station.
Answer: false
Text: Sydney is full of very small things.
Answer: false

Scrambled:

Text: breakfast / walks / Kevin / After / the / to / harbor
Answer: After breakfast Kevin walks to the harbor
Text: water / blue / sparkling / The / is
Answer: The water is sparkling blue
Text: sees / very / strange / a / building / He
Answer: He sees a very strange building
Text: looks / left / Kevin / his / to
Answer: Kevin looks to his left
Text: full / things / is / of / Sydney / giant
Answer: Sydney is full of giant things

Written Expression

Questions:

Text: What is the most beautiful building you have ever seen? Describe what it looks like.
Text: Does your city or country have any famous landmarks with funny nicknames? What are they?

Examples:

The most beautiful building I have seen is the Taj Mahal. It is huge and made of white marble.

Yes, in London there is a building called 'The Gherkin' because it looks like a pickle!

Critical Thinking

Title: Think and Discuss

Instructions:

Why do you think Australians call the Sydney Harbour Bridge the 'Coathanger'?
Kevin compares the bridge to his tree and the Opera House to the train station. Why is comparing things helpful when you travel to a new place?