This project and its actions were made possible due to co-financing by the European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals Holes by Louis Sachar True or false Subject(s):English Age group(s):12–14 Topic:English literature EAL Nexus resource Licence information | This resource is free to use for educational purposes. © British Council 2015 Source | This resource was originally developed by Charlotte Hurley and has been adapted by EAL Nexus.

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Camp Green Lake is a fun place to be.

The campers like the Warden.

Stanley’s father is a teacher.

A yellow-spotted lizard will kill you when it bites you.

Stanley Yelnats stole Clyde Livingston’s trainers.

Mr Pendanski is the boys’ mother.

Mr Sir eats sunflower seeds because he has given up smoking.

There is a curse on Stanley’s family.

Kissin’ Kate Barlow killed Stanley’s great- grandfather.

The boys at Camp Green Lake wear a yellow uniform.

It rains all the time at Camp Green Lake.

The boys must dig a hole every day.

Clyde Livingston is a famous baseball player.

Elya Yelnats broke his promise to Madame Zeroni.

Stanley becomes stronger at Camp Green Lake.

Everything in the ‘wreck’ room is broken.

Stanley is bullied at school.

Mr Pendanski thinks that Zero is very clever.

X-Ray finds a gold tube in his hole.

The boys are always thirsty.

Stanley is the slowest digger at Camp Green Lake.

Stanley teaches Zero maths.

There is rattlesnake venom in the Warden’s nail polish.

Stanley’s great- grandfather survived on God’s thumb.

The mountain is called ‘God’s Thumb’ because it looks like a thumb.

Katherine Barlow sold onions.

Trout Walker was the poorest man in the town of Green Lake.

Mary-Lou was almost fifty years old.

Onions can cure illness.

Trout Walker hated Sam.

Trout Walker and Linda Miller knew where the ‘loot’ was.

No one cares about Hector Zeroni.

Stanley runs away from Camp Green Lake.

Sploosh makes Zero very ill.

Stanley carries Zero up the mountain.

The boys survive by eating apples at the top of the mountain.

Zero’s mother is dead.

Stanley and Zero find the loot in a hole.

The lizards don’t bite Stanley or Zero because they have onion juice in their blood.

The suitcase in the hole belongs to the Warden.

Zero can read the label on the suitcase.

Stanley and Zero are allowed to leave Camp Green Lake.

Stanley’s father invents a way to recycle old trainers.

Inside Stanley’s great-grandfather’s suitcase there are jewels and nothing else.

Zero hires a private detective and finds his mother.

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