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A. How much did you understand?

The right order of these sentences is 3, 2, 1

"My darling, you are a big girl now. Soon we must find a husband for you."

"Jahiti, you must go with your sister," he said. "You must find a husband, too."

"That stupid Jahiti!" she thought. "I don't want to find a husband for her."

The right order of these sentences is 5, 6, 4

Jahiti was sad. "No one will talk to me," she thought. "My dress is old and dirty."

There was a handsome young man at the market, too. He was with his friends. He saw Jahiti, and he fell in love with her.

The young man wanted to talk to Jahiti, but her sister was angry.

The right order of these sentences is 8, 7, 9

Now Jahiti was wearing her sister's beautiful white dress, and she wore her sister's gold necklace round her neck.

They sang, "Here comes the girl that we like best, not the ugly girl, in the dirty dress!"

"I want to come your house and make you my bride."

The right order of these sentences is 11, 12, 10

"Listen, daughter. Take your sister to the forest. Cut branches from the trees to make a place for a bride."

"Jahiti!" she called out. "Come down from the tree, you lazy girl! My mother is calling you!"

She picked up her pot and hurried to the river. But her feet slipped on the laga bark, and she fell into the water.

B. Who said these sentences, and who were they speaking to?

1. "Where is my daughter? Where is my dear Jahiti?"
   Jahiti's father is speaking to his wife.
2. "Eat, husband. Drink, my dear. Jahiti will come. She will soon be here."
   Jahiti's stepmother is speaking to her husband.
3. "Tell my father to drink and eat. He has lost Jahiti, his daughter sweet."
   Jahiti is speaking to her stepmother.
4. "I will not drink, I will not eat! I want Jahiti, my daughter sweet."
   Jahiti's father is speaking to his wife.
5. "Your daughter cannot come home," they told him. "You must forget her."
   The village girls are speaking to Jahiti's father.

C. Weak, thin, stronger, fatter

1. "I am growing weak and thin here in the river," said Jahiti. "Bring me some food.
2. Now Jahiti was growing stronger and fatter. 
3. “Every day I take her my food. She eats it, and she is growing stronger but now I am thin and weak. "

D. Instructions

1. "Kill a bull."
2. "Cut up the meat."
3. "Bring a big piece to the river."
4. "Throw it in."