Exercises · Goal 5 · Gender Equality
Isabel's Bright Ideas: exercises
Two short exercises on the book. Do them on screen or print them.
Fill the gaps
Choose the missing word for each gap. The words are in the box.
Words to use
- Abril
- Allende
- authority
- Chile
- Isabel
- Panchita
- rebel
- Thursday
Like every , calls in at the library after school and takes home a book whose author describes herself as a scared little girl full of fears. Abril closes her eyes and builds her own story about that girl: , the eldest of three children, who is inspired by the writer Isabel . One night Isabel hears her parents talking; the next morning her mother, , is crying in an armchair because Isabel's father has gone and is not coming back. Isabel has to leave her toys behind and move with her mother and brothers to her grandparents' big, dark house in . There she watches the maids working from dawn to dusk and hears that a woman without a husband has failed. Why must she help to set the table when her brothers never do? Why should girls be well-behaved and quiet? Her grandmother is shocked, and her mother even takes her to the doctor. What will Isabel do with all those questions?
Connect the dots
Join each word to its meaning. Tap a word, then tap its meaning.