Ejercicios de Comprensión Lectora en Inglés: Robots, Alces, Turismo Espacial y Más

Ejercicios de comprensión lectora en inglés

Robot hotel

1. In which city is the Henn-na hotel situated? In Nagasaki, Japan.

2. How many humans work at the hotel? One girl in reception, ten staff members, and everything else is robots.

3. Why doesn’t the hotel use tiresome conventional keys to unlock the guest rooms? Because they prefer to use facial recognition technology.

4. What evidence supports the view that the writer likes the hotel? That they have always been interesting robots, because they are the future.

5. Do you agree with the hotel manager that robots are the future? Yes, since they take a lot of work and it is a new way of running a business.

6. If you were the designer, what aspect of the hotel would you change? That everything were robots; that is, that there were more people and that not everything was controlled with technology, because if something fails or the light or the internet goes out, everything would stop working.

Our friend the moose

1. Where does the moose live? In North America, in a wood.

2. How do you know hunting moose is a popular pastime? Because it is a harmless and withdrawn animal and people hunt it since everyone is doing it.

3. Why do the hunters describe the moose as clever and fierce? Because it has a great ability to run, and it seems as if it were a hammock for a child, because it is big and knows where to be, and because the impression on people is scary due to its horns and its greatness.

4. How effective is the use of humour in the passage? It is not very effective, because if you are driving, it can scare you and cause an accident, so it is not as effective.

Space tourism works

1. Who is the intended audience?

2. What is the purpose of the article?

3. What is the overall tone of the article?

4. What is the purpose of using so many facts in the article?

City of the beasts

1. Find two words in the first paragraph.

2. Summarize in two lists the enjoyable and the less enjoyable aspects of the trip.

3. What impression do you get of Alex, Grandmaster, and Kate?

4. How does the writer structure the final paragraph to build up the last sentence?

5. Identify the features of this extract which show that it is from a narrative text.

First man to hike the Amazon river

1. In what way is the first paragraph typical of a newspaper article?

2. Explain two ways you can tell Stafford’s achievement was remarkable.

3. Apart from the first paragraph, identify the features of this text that are typical of a newspaper article.

Come and experience a Peru Amazon rainforest

1. Why do you think the writer uses the phrase “adventure playground”?

2. Explain three ways in which this text tries to appeal to parents.

3. What do you notice about the first and last paragraphs?