1Match these words from the story with their meanings: fasting, nodded, delicious, hungry, promise.
2Arrange these events of the story in the correct order: the monkeys ate the bananas and their fasting was over; young monkeys brought delicious-looking bananas; the monkeys peeled bananas and put them in their mouths; the monkeys decided to go on a fast; the monkeys felt very hungry after they saw the bananas.
3What did the monkeys agree on?
4Why did the old monkey suggest that the young monkeys collect food?
5What made the fat monkey hungry?
6Why did the monkeys divide the bananas?
7Why did they decide to put the peeled bananas in their mouths?
8Do you fast? Why do you do that? Is it good or bad for health?
9How would you live your life if you were a bird?
10Complete these sentences with suitable endings: If I were a bird, ... If you ran fast, ... If he called me, ... If we studied carefully, ... If she asked me, ...
11Choose the five words which complete each sentence: (a) How would we keep in touch ...? (b) If she ..., ... going out with her. (c) If people ..., ... be fewer wars. (d) If you ..., ... be able to communicate.
12Rewrite the suggestions using the given beginnings: (a) If I were you, I would go to a dentist. (You should...) (b) You should report it to the police. (Why don't you...?) (c) You should take hot water. (If I were you...) (d) Why don't you ask your sister for help? (You should...)
13Rewrite these real sentences as imagined ones: (a) They don't live far from work, so they don't use public transport. (b) It isn't sunny outside, so children will not go for a walk. (c) My mother doesn't have time, so she will not cook dinner. (d) I don't have a toothache, so I will not go to the dentist. (e) He doesn't have free time, so he will not visit me. (f) I don't have a special skill for this job, so I will not get it.
14Write a short story from this outline: the mice very unhappy, the cat killed many of them, a meeting to get rid of the cat, various suggestions, no plan practicable, a young mouse suggested a bell round the cat's neck, all welcomed the proposal, an old mouse asked who would tie the bell.
15Complete the sentences with a word from this set: calculator, invented, microchips, internet, smartphones, reported, imagine, dependent. (a) Can you ... your life without computers? (b) If you have access to the ..., you can use it to google. (c) ... can store lots of information in them. (d) He has been using an old ... to do calculations. (e) Do you know who ... the computer? (f) The theft was ... in all the newspapers. (g) She has three ... children. She cares for all of them. (h) ... can also be used as small computers.
16Complete the computer timeline for 1958, the 1970s, the 1980s and 1989.
17Did people have the first computers at home? Why or why not?
18What is strange about microchips?
19What did people use computers for in the 1980s?
20Where do people share information nowadays?
21How has the use of smartphones affected human life?
22Would life be difficult if there were no mobile phones? Why?
23Make a list of suggestions for your younger brother or sister to better prepare for an examination.
24What are the three forms of an irregular verb? Give the three forms of fly, buy and forget.
25How is the sentence 'If I were you, I would see a doctor' different from 'You should see a doctor'?
26Why does the second conditional use a past tense verb when it talks about the present?