RC My Scary Camping Experience Reading Comprehension Exercises - 126616 [PDF]

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My scary camping Put the correct verb into the gap – and, put the verbs into the past simple tense: have, open, scream, join, poke, look, go, say, tell, not recognize, point, come, dream, wake When I was a young boy, I 1. __________the Scouts. One summer, we went camping. We 2. __________ to Ardnamurchan in Scotland. It is wild country, with lots of forest and wonderful beaches. There were no villages for miles and miles. There were two scout masters and twenty of us. It was exciting and fun. One night, I went to sleep as usual. Then a strange man 3. _________ his head in my tent. He 4. __________ scary! His hair was long and dirty. His eyes were wide and bloodshot. His clothes were ragged and hanging off him. I 5. __________ the man; he was not one of our group. I could not understand where he had come from. He 6. __________ nothing, but he beckoned for me to follow him. Then, he 7. __________ up to the mountains. He 8. __________ his mouth and gave a blood-curdling scream! I did, too. I 9. __________ loudly and then… I 10. __________ up! It was a bad dream. But my scream woke everybody up. One of the scout masters 11. __________ and three or four boys. They asked me what happened. When I 12. __________ them about my dream, their faces went pale. It turned out that that night, everyone 13. _______ the same dream – with a small difference. They all 14. __________ that the strange man had come into my tent. I never went camping again.



Answer the questions in full sentences: 1) When did this incident happen? ___________________________________________ 2) Where did they go? ___________________________________________________ 3) What is it like in Ardnamurchan? __________________________________________ 4) How many people went on the trip? ________________________________________ 5) Who poked his head into the boy’s tent? ____________________________________ 6) What did the stranger look like? __________________________________________ 7) Where did the strange man point? _________________________________________ 8) Why did everyone wake up? ______________________________________________ 9) Who came to check the boy after his dream? _________________________________ 10)What happened, when he told the group about his dream? _______________________ 11) What did all the others dream? ___________________________________________ 12)How many times did he go camping after that incident? _________________________



When I was a young boy, I joined the Scouts. We went to Ardnamurchan in Scotland. It is wild country, lots of forest and wonderful beaches. There were no villages for miles and miles. There were two scout masters and twenty of us. It was exciting and fun. One night, I went to sleep as usual. Then a strange man poked his head in my tent. He looked scary! His hair was long and dirty. His eyes were wide and bloodshot. His clothes were ragged and hanging off him. I did not recognise the man. I could not understand where he had come from. He said nothing, but he beckoned for me to follow him. Then, he pointed up to the mountains. He opened his mouth and gave a blood-curdling scream! I did, too. I screamed so loudly and then – I woke up! It was a bad dream. But my scream woke everybody up. One of the scout masters came and three or four boys. They asked me what happened. When I told them about my dream, their faces went pale. It turned out that that night, everyone had the same dream – with a small difference. They all dreamt/dreamed that the strange man had come into my tent. I never went camping again. 1. It happened when he was a boy (one summer). 2. They went to Scotland 3. It is wild country. 4. Twenty two people went 5. A strange man poked his head in the boy’s tent 6. He looked scary – long, dirty hair etc 7. He pointed up at the mountains 8. They woke up because the boy screamed loudly. 9. The scout master came, and some of the boys. 10. Their faces paled/went pale. 11. They dreamt/dreamed the same thing – except that the strange man went into the boy’s tent, not theirs. 12. None. Never. He never went camping again.