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Warm Up

Look at the picture and answer the questions.

• Where is the girl sitting?

• What is the girl doing?

• How do you think the dog is

feeling?

• What is the dog doing?

• Does the dog look happy?

Reading Skills

Once there lived in Rome a very cruel man. He had a number of slaves. The
slaves had to do a lot of hardwork for their master. One of them named

Androcles was a poor, young man. The master

not only made him work very hard but

also treated him very badly. Androcles

could bear it no longer. One day, he ran

away and hid in a
Why did Androcles run
cave in the forest. away from his master?
That night, a lion

entered the cave. It was groaning in pain.

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