Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Daisy and Poppy


1. Watch the video from Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom “Daisy and Poppy” and answer the questions below:
1. Where are Holly and her family going to get porridge from?
2. What did Nanny Plum teach the twins?
3. What is King Thistle afraid of?
4. Why did the flood happen again?
5. What were Nanny Plum’s first words?
6. How did Queen Thistle punish the twins?
7. What do King and Queen Thistle want Holly and her friends to do?
8. What does Fleur think about the twins?
9. What did Daisy do with Fleur?
10. Where are the twins not allowed to go?
11. What game are the children going to play?
12. How did the twins manage to get Fleur’s wand and escape?
13. Why do Ben and Barnaby think they can find the twins?
14. Who helps the boys?
15. What does Mrs. Elf want to do when she sees Daisy and Poppy?
16. How did the children find the twins?
17. Why did Daisy and Poppy stop magicking?
18. Who wasn’t turned into animals?
19. Who broke the spells?
20. Does Wise Old Elf agree that no harm was done?
21. What did Wise Old Elf do after the girls turned Nanny into a frog?
22. Why does Queen Thistle think the twins have had a busy day?
23. What are the twins dreaming about?


2. Open the brackets and put the verbs into the correct form:
1. Nanny Plum ______ (teach) Daisy and Poppy a simple porridge spell.
2. Daisy and Poppy ______ (practice) so hard.
3. My friends ______ (come) round to play.
4. ___ you (want) to hold my wand?
5. I’m sure they ____ (not mean) to turn me into a kitten.
6. What’s that noise? It ____ (come) from over there.
7. Poppy, Daisy! What ______ you _____ (do)?
8. The little darlings ____ (get) really good at magic.


3. Name and explain the usage of tenses in these sentences:
1. Today, we’ll be having porridge for breakfast.
2. We will have this porridge cleared up in a flash.
3. Oh! I see your friends have brought a little kitten along.
4. That rabbit is wearing my dad’s hat.
5. Daisy and Poppy have been doing a bit of magicking.
6. I wonder what sweet little dreams they are having.


4. Correct the mistakes if any:
1. Daisy and Poppy practice their magic this morning.
2. When I was a baby the first words I had said was “Bang!”
3. I’m helping them count. I will be very good at counting.
4. I think we’ve found my little sisters.  
5. They were turning all the elves into rabbits.
6. Barnaby and Ben, had you seen the girls?
7. They turn us all into rabbits.
8. We won’t have needed any more magic today.
9. They had had a very busy day, Your Majesty.


5. Learn the words from the video HERE
6. Translate from Russian into English:


7. Play the game to practice English tenses HERE