Answers to the Exercises for The Two Travellers
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A. How much did you understand?
The right order of these sentences is 1, 3, 2.
"They are your children, not mine.”
"I am a poor man. There is nothing for you in my house."
“Good. I like chicken."
The right order of these sentences is 5, 6, 4.
“ We are tired and..."
“We have no food tonight.”
"Look, here is food for all of us."
The right order of these sentences is 7, 9, 8.
“You had very little, but you wanted to share it with us."
"Those good men, our guests, have made us rich!"
“They were good spirits. God sent them to us.”
B. Who says?
Who says sentence 1? The rich man
Who says sentence 2? The rich man
Who says sentence 3? The rich man
Who says sentence 4? The travellers
Who says sentence 5? The travellers
Who says sentence 6? The poor man
Who says sentence 7? The travellers
Who says sentence 8? The poor man’s wife
Who says sentence 9? The poor man
C. Missing words
- "We don't need your food," they said.
- They took food out of their shammas and shared it.
- "We will sleep outside, beside your door," they said.
- “We will not see you again.”
- “Thank you for your goodness to us.”
- “You had very little, but you wanted to share it with us."