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The talking tree
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Follow a short story with past tense verbs.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- forest
- A large area covered with trees.
- branch
- A part of a tree that grows out from the trunk.
- village
- A very small town.
Answer key
- Deep in the forest, there was a very old tree.“Deep in the” links together.
- One day, a lost boy sat down under its branches.The t of “sat” and the d of “down” join.
- To his surprise, the tree began to speak.“To his surprise” means he did not expect it.
- It told him to follow the river back to his village.The h of “him” is weak.
- Before dark, the boy was safely home with his family.The stress falls on “safely” and “home”.