The Comic Book Gift

This upper-elementary English worksheet follows two friends exchanging gifts. Learners combine a short story with a picture clue, then practice two ways to say what someone gives and who receives it.

Target Vocabulary

give / gave, gift, comic book, fossil, stuffed animal

Target Language

Use give + person + thing or give + thing + to + person.

Activity

  • Read and look. Use the story and the illustration to infer Nora’s favorite animal.
  • Say it another way. Rewrite a gift sentence by moving the person after gave.
  • Fix the gift tags. Match three recipients to gifts using two clues.
  • Trade gift ideas. Ask and answer questions about who would receive each gift.
  • Write two gift sentences. Choose a gift and a recipient and express the same idea both ways.

Learning Goal

Use text and picture evidence to answer a question and describe gift exchanges using both word orders.

Suggested Textbook Matches

Textbook NameUnit Number & TitleContext / Notes
Our World Level 4, Second Edition (American English)Unit 8 · That’s Really Interesting!Full match. The gifts vocabulary and both direct and indirect object patterns appear on pp. 138–139.
Super Minds Level 4, Second Edition (British English)Unit 1 · In the museumPartial match. Page 13 practices giving someone something with the recipient before the object. The worksheet extends this to gift exchanges and the to pattern.

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Student worksheet with a watercolor of Nora holding a stuffed rabbit and Ben sitting beside a comic book.