Essential English Words 1 Unit 5

Essential English Words 1 Unit 5

by Waine Evans

Multiple Choice

Choose the right definition for the given word.

roll

• to rest

• to rule

• to grow

• to move by turning

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error

• a nice man

• very old

• something you do wrong

• open land

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hurt

• to disagree

• how much something cost

• from nature

• to do something that causes pain

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reside

• to relax

• to live in a place for long

• something that can be seen

• to know about something

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relax

• to keep going

• a large group of people

• to rest

• to move

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continue

• to be in the right place

• to stay

• to have

• to keep doing something

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normal

• the perfect amount

• friendly

• not strange

• different

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rare

• quiet

• not full

• interesting

• not seen often

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visible

• from nature

• easy to see

• new

• normal

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field

• open land

• to reside

• a thing

• a tool

Multiple Choice

Choose the right word for the given definition.

in a severe or harmful way

• continue

• wild 

• judgement

• badly

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the ability to form opinions or decisions

• experience

• reside

• judgement

• result

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to fit or be in the right place

• roll

• relax

• continue

• belong

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not strange or different

• normal

• visible

• uncommon

• aware

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to do something that makes you feel pain

• rare

• hurt

• error

• since

The Jackal ​and the Sun Child

​A jackal is a wild dog with a big black back. It resides in the desert. But how did the jackal get his black back? This was how it happened. One day, the jackal saw a girl. She was sitting upon a rock. She was not a normal child. She was a rare and beautiful sun child. She was bright and warm like the sun. The child saw the jackal and smiled. She said, “Jackal, I have been relaxing on this rock for too long. I must get home soon. But, I am slow and you are fast. You will likely get me home more quickly.” Then she requested, “Will you carry me home? If you do, I’ll give you a gift. This necklace belongs to me, but I will give it to you.”

​ The wild jackal agreed. So the sun child sat on the dog’s back. They started to walk. But soon, the jackal felt ill. The sun child was very hot on his back. The heat was hurting his back very badly. “I made a terrible error in judgment.” he thought. He shouldn’t have agreed to carry her. So he asked her to get off. But she did not. The jackal’s back continued to get hotter and hotter. He had to get away from the sun child. So he made a plan. First, he ran as fast as he could.

​He hoped the sun child would fall off. But she did not. So when the sun child was looking at the sky, not aware of the jackal’s next plan, he jumped into a field of flowers. As a result, the child rolled off his back. The jackal ran away. But the sun child left a mark on the jackal’s back, a visible black mark. Ever since his experience with the sun child, the jackal has had a black back.

Multiple Choice

Answer the questions.

What is the story about?

• Why the sun child has a beautiful smile

• Why a wild dog hurt a sun child

• An error that the sun child once made

• How the jackal got his visible black mark

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What kind of girl was the sun child?

• She was rare and beautiful.

• She was likely very shy.

• She was an ill child.

• Sha was a normal child.

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Why did the jackal run into the field?

• To continue his journey

• It wanted a new place to reside.

• To take a nap and relax

• To get away from the sun child

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What happened at the end of the story?

• The sun child forgot the experience.

• The sun child became aware of the jackal’s black back.

• The sun child rolled off the jackal’s back.

• The sun child has stayed upon the jackal’s back since then.

Open Ended

What did the sun child request?