My 1,000
Ideas
e-Book

Breaking News English

HOME  |  HELP MY SITE  |  000s MORE FREE LESSONS
 
My 1,000
Ideas
e-Book
 

HOW TO PLAY:
 1. Type in the missing verbs, gerunds, adjectival forms in the spaces (their infinitives are in bold).
 2. Click the button at the bottom to check your answers.
 3. Press the "refresh" button on your browser to play again.

shave make feel call fall want look make give set
lose name work raise call open kill cure get develop

Ex-U.S. President George H.W. Bush has his head to a 2-year-old boy better. The boy, Patrick, is the son of one of Mr Bush's bodyguards. The little boy has a blood disease leukemia. When people have treatment for leukemia, all their hair out. Bush said he to help Patrick. Mr Bush's friend said the former president, 89, now the same as Patrick. He said: "It's hard to tell them apart." Mr Bush, and his wife Barbara, also a donation to help pay for Patrick’s medical bills. There is also a special website for Patrick where people can money for his expensive treatment. The website was up by Mr Bush's other bodyguards. They also shaved their head.

Mr And Mrs Bush their second child, a daughter, to leukemia 60 years ago. The little girl, Robin, was just four years old. They hard for many years after to money for leukemia research. A special clinic the Robin Bush Child and Adolescent Clinic at a hospital in Houston, Texas in 2004. Leukemia is a kind of cancer of the blood. It used to many people, but nowadays those with the disease can get treatment at hospital. It is a lot easier to children than adults. Anyone, at any age, can leukemia. Wikipedia says that in the year 2000, around "256,000 children and adults around the world some form of leukemia, and 209,000 died from it".

 
 

NEXT ACTIVITY
(A vocabulary gap-fill activity.)

Back to the lesson page



MORE ACTIVITIES:
QUIZZES MORE QUIZZES PRINT READING SEAN'S OTHER SITES

Missing Words

No letters

Gap-Fill

Word Order

Articles Gap-Fill

Prepositions Gap-Fill

Consonants

Vowels

Missing Letters

Initals Only

Text Jumble - 15

Text Jumble - 24

No Spaces

Word Pairs

 

26-Page Handout

Two-Page Mini-Lesson

 

LISTEN

MP3

Discussion Questions

 

DICTATION

10 Sentences

Spelling (12 Words)

Speed Reading
Activities

 

650+ Discussions (13,000+ Qs)

One-Minute Listening Lessons

Famous People Lessons

Holiday & Anniversary Lessons

Sean Banville on Twitter

My Blog

Free ESL Materials

Business English Materials

Lessons On All American Presidents

Lessons On Movies - Classic & New



Copyright © 2004-2023 by Sean Banville | Links | About | Privacy Policy

 
 
SHARE THIS LESSON: E-Mail RSS