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Activity worksheets
LEVEL 2
PENGUIN READERS
Teacher Support Programme
Lost Love and Other Stories
While reading
Lost Love
1 Complete these sentences about things which
are different in the village. Use the words in
the box.
petrol  horses  fire  drink 
cook  clothes  car
a
The people in the village do not travel by 
…………… .
b 
They use …………… to travel.
c
The young man thinks the people’s 
…………… are very strange.
d
The people in the village …………… their 
food over a wood …………… .
e
They have a dark brown …………… which is 
very strong.
f
They do not know about …………… .
The Doll
2 There is something wrong in each of these
sentences. Make them right.
a 
Mr Brown lived in a big house near the centre 
of town.
    ……………………………………………….
b 
Mr Brown didn’t have many friends but he was 
never bored. 
    ……………………………………………….
c
Mr Brown thought the doll was cheap. 
    ……………………………………………….
d
The ticket man on the train didn’t like  
Mr Brown. 
    ……………………………………………….
e 
Mr Brown put the doll on the floor when he 
had his dinner. 
    ……………………………………………….
3 Finish the sentences with words from the box.
after  before  so  when
 
a 
The doll opened Mr Brown’s letters ……… 
Mr Brown had his breakfast. 
b 
The old woman on the bus was very angry 
……… somebody said ‘you stupid old thing’.
c
……… the doll smashed Mr Brown’s cups and 
plates, he decided to bury it in the garden.
d 
Mr Brown was very angry with the doll, 
……… he put it on the fire.
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The Other Man
4 Choose the best answer to each of the
questions. When you have finished, compare
your answers with those of another student.
a 
Why did the story-teller go to the little  
room? …..
1) 
Because he was bored.
2) 
Because he wanted to write a book.
3) 
Because he wanted to hide from the police.
b
Why did the story-teller like the room? …..
1) 
Because it was little.
2) 
Because it was quiet.
3) 
Because it was light.
c
Where was the story-teller when he heard a 
voice? …..
1) 
He was in the bath.
2) 
He was at his desk.
3) 
He was in bed.
d 
How was the other man different from the 
story-teller? …..
1) 
He was taller.
2) 
He had grey hair.
3) 
He had a beard.
5 Complete the sentences. Put the letters in the
right places to make words.
a 
The story-teller found a little room in 
AAUYRNJ …………… .
b 
He began to work on his book but then 
AETSRNG …………… things began to 
happen.
c 
One day, he looked in the IORRRM 
…………… and saw another man.
d 
He was afraid and thought, ‘I’ll leave 
OOOWTRRM …………… .’
e
He quickly put his EOTSLHC ……………  
in a case.
f
He saw the other man at his ESKD 
……………, with his pen in his hand.
g 
Suddenly, he heard his friend’s EIOVC 
…………… .
h 
But his friend couldn’t see him, he could only 
see the EOTRH …………… man.
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Lost Love and Other Stories
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Activity worksheets
LEVEL 2
PENGUIN READERS
Teacher Support Programme
Lost Love and Other Stories
The Charm
6 Match the beginnings (A) and endings (B) to
make sentences.
a 
A
When he was 
young, the story-
teller didn’t like …
The story-teller 
wasn’t always a 
brave man and …
People know the 
story-teller and …
The old man knew 
the story-teller was 
a soldier when …
B
1) 
they like him.
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Journey’s End
8 Complete the paragraph with words from the
box.
day  fair  football  future  hair  job
journey  newspapers  sports  ticket
  Tom Smith was sad because he wanted a  
(a) ………… but he couldn’t find one.
When he was younger, Tom was very good  
at (b) …………, and now he wanted to work  
in a (c) ………… shop. He looked in the  
(d) ………… every day, and one day he saw 
something about a (e) ………… in the park 
near his house. He walked to the park and 
bought a (f
) ………… . It was a lovely  
(g) ………… and Tom felt happy. Suddenly  
he saw a sign which said: Madame Zelda knows 
the (h) ………… . He went in and saw an old 
woman with grey (i) ………… and a kind face. 
She told him, ‘Make a (j) ………… next Friday 
and you will never arrive.’
9 Write the missing words. (The first letter is
given for each word).
  On Thursday, Tom got a (a) l………… about a 
job. It was in a (b) t………… thirty kilometres 
away. ‘I’ll have to take the (c) t…………,’ he 
thought. On the train, an old (d) m………… 
came and sat next to Tom. Tom felt sorry for the 
old man because he had a bad (e) l………… . 
Suddenly, there was a loud (f
) n………… and 
the train stopped. ‘Don’t be afraid,’ Tom told  
his new (g) f………… . He went and found  
the (h) g………… and asked him what was 
wrong. ‘There’s a large (i) t………… in front  
of the train,’ he said. The guard looked at a  
(j) m…………, and said: ‘You’ll have to get  
off the train and walk to this (k) v………… .’ 
Tom helped the old man off the train and carried 
his (l) c………… to the village. The old man 
saw Tom’s sad (m) f………… and asked him: 
‘What’s wrong?’ Tom told him and the old man 
said: ‘I’ve got lots of sports shops in different  
(n) t………… . You’re the right (o) p………… 
for the job in my new shop.’ Tom said: ‘This is 
the best (p) d………… of my life, not the 
worst.’
b 
2) 
he felt his coat.
c 
d 
e 
The story-teller 
never laughs at shy 
people because …
f 
The story-teller had 
6) 
talking to other 
to fight because …
people.
3) 
he remembers when 
he was shy.
4) 
there was a war 
between his 
country and 
another country.
5) 
sometimes he was 
very afraid.
7 Put the sentences in the right order to make
the story.
a 
c 
The leader of the soldiers falls to the 
ground.
b 
c 
The story-teller helps the old man to cross 
the road.
c 
c 
The soldiers take the bridge.
d 
c 
The old man gives the story-teller a small 
charm.
e 
c 
The story-teller takes the leader to a better 
place.
f 
c 
The story-teller goes to war.
g 
c 
The story-teller goes to town.
h 
c 
The soldiers follow the story-teller.
i 
c 
The story-teller puts the charm in his coat.
j 
c 
The story-teller loses the charm.
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Lost Love and Other Stories
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Progress test
LEVEL 2
PENGUIN READERS
Teacher Support Programme
Lost Love and Other Stories
1 In which story do the following things happen?
Lost Love The Doll The Other Man
The Charm Journey’s End
a
………… A lonely man dies in a fire in his garden.
b 
………… A shy man finds out that he is a brave 
man.
c 
………… Strange things happen when a writer 
goes to a small room.
d 
………… A young man wants to go back in time.
e 
………… A man finds a job when a tree falls in 
front of a train.
2 Nine things are wrong in the following summary.
Make them right.
(a) The
Doll is a story about a man called Mr Smith.
(b) One very cold day, the man walked home from 
work. (c) He looked in the window of a big shop  
(d) and saw a doll with a happy face. (e) The man 
bought the doll for five pounds. (f
) The man put 
the doll under his arm and got on the bus. (g) The 
ticket man on the bus was very friendly. (h) When he 
got home, the man put the doll on the chair and had 
dinner. (i) The next day, the man found the doll on 
the table. (j) Then he found the doll had read all his 
letters.
3 These sentences come from Lost
Love. Complete
each sentence with one word from the list.
birds  early  flowers  girl  lost  stopped
a 
The country was very pretty in the ………… 
morning.
b 
I heard the ………… in the trees.
c 
And then my car ………… suddenly.
d 
I was ………… in the country.
e 
And then I saw the ………… .
f
She walked down the road, with ………… in her 
hand.
4 Are these sentences right (3) or wrong (7)?
a 
The village in Lost
Love existed one hundred  
c
years ago. 
b 
The man in The
Doll was very lonely. 
c
c 
The writer in The
Other Man falls in love  
c 
with a girl called Mary. 
d 
The story-teller in Lost
Love wants to live  
c
in the future. 
e
The old man on the train in Journey’s
End  
c
has a bad leg. 
f 
The old man in The
Charm has bad ears. 
c
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g 
The young man in Journey’s
End is happy at  
the end of the story. 
h 
The doll is not destroyed by the fire. 
5 Which of the following things happen in the
stories? Answer ‘yes’ (Y) or ‘no’ (N).
a 
A young man falls in love with a girl called  
Mary. 
b
A man tells the story of a village destroyed  
in the French Revolution. 
c 
A writer decides to write a book about the war. 
d 
A man is kind to an old woman on the bus. 
e 
An old man gives a young man a job. 
f 
A brave man leads his soldiers to take a bridge. 
g 
A horse falls in front of a train. 
h
A woman buys a charm from an old soldier. 
6 Match A and B.
a 
b 
c 
d 
e 
A
The young man didn’t 
have any petrol, so
Mr Brown was lonely 
and bored, so
The old man wanted 
to help the soldier, so
Tom wanted a job in 
a sports shop, so
The writer wanted to 
finish his book, so
1) 
2) 
3) 
4) 
5) 
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
B
he found a little 
room.
he looked in the 
newspapers every day.
he had to find a town 
and buy some.
he decided to buy a 
doll.
he gave him 
something to keep 
him safe.
7 Complete these sentences with the correct words
in italics.
a 
In Lost
Love, Mary’s village appears every ten /
twenty years.
b 
Mary wants the story-teller to go because she is 
bored / afraid.
c 
Mr Brown thought the doll looked beautiful
/ ugly.
d 
Mr Brown took the doll home on the bus
/ train.
e 
The story-teller in The
Charm was a soldier / writer.
f 
The soldiers in The
Charm take a village / bridge.
g 
The story-teller in The
Other Man is a soldier /
writer.
h 
The other man is taller
than / the same size as
the story-teller.
i
Tom Smith wanted a job in
a sports shop /
as a train driver.
j 
Madame Zelda was right
/ wrong about the future 
for Tom.
c Pearson Education Limited 2008
Lost Love and Other Stories
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