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Joy English · Level B1 · Short storiesjoy-english.com

Keesh

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Follow a story with past actions and inverted sentences.

Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.

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Words to know

hunt
To chase and catch animals for food.
spear
A long stick with a sharp point.
no one but
Nobody except.

Answer key

  1. But he had died hunting for food.“Had died” is the past perfect. “Hunting for food” explains what he was doing.
  2. My mother has no one but me.“No one but me” means nobody except me.
  3. It even talked of giving him no food.“It” refers to the village council. “Talked of” means talked about.
  4. Across his shoulder was his father’s big hunting spear.The place comes first: “Across his shoulder was…”.
  5. On the third day, a great wind blew.“The third day” uses an ordinal number. “Blew” is the past of “blow”.

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