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                            Story time!




                ❖ Task 1. Vocabulary practice



               Study the words in the box below and fill in the blanks with them

               to complete the story.  Be careful with the context, Good luck.


                earth              rice               dragon          escape                good

                sea                passed             never           fell                  four




                                                The Four Dragons


                                      A Chinese folktale by Tom Daning



                       A  long  time  ago,  there  were  four  dragons  lived  in  the

               Eastern  Sea  of  China.  They  were  the  Long  Dragon,  the  Yellow


               Dragon,  the  Black  Dragon,  and  the  Pearl  Dragon.  One  day,  the

               four dragons soared from the ocean to play among the clouds.


               Suddenly the Pearl Dragon cried, “Come look at this!”



               “What’s  the  matter?”  the  other  three  dragons  asked,  and  they

               came to join their friend.



                       People had gathered on the earth below. When the dragons


               got closer, they heard that the people were praying desperately.

               An old woman with a skinny child on her back knelt down and
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