2 Read again and answer the questions. Why didn’t Oscar have any electricity?
2 Why couldn’t his mother work?
3 What couldn’t Oscar do without electricity?
4 What did he use to do his homework?
5 What did he do with his friend?
6 What does Oscar want to buy?
3 Imagine you had no electricity last week. Ask and answer. What couldn’t you do? What did you do instead? How did you feel?
4 Write about what you did without electricity in your notebook. Last spring, there was a bad storm near my town.
We didn’t have any
electricity/gas for a week.
We had
wind power/gas and
water/paper ,
but things were difficult without
gas/electricity .
Mom
could/couldn’t work because she
could/couldn’t use her computer or send
emails/letters . I was bored because I
couldn’t/shouldn’t watch television or
play
chess/online games with my friends, and
I
could/couldn’t do my homework. I needed to
use
the Internet/a website because I had to
do a project on
communication/aluminum . Mom
said I
should/shouldn’t use an
encyclopedia/dictionary for my project. I finished that quickly, but I was still bored!
So I visited my friend, and we read an interesting
magazine/newspaper .
We read about a new
plastic/solar laptop. It doesn’t need
gas/electricity because it uses
solar/wind power.
I told Mom we
