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It’s about short story writing contest. It’s £350 (over $500). Answers may vary.
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Cheung Tsai was a good-for-nothing fellow. Cheung Tsai was very careless with his father’s money and spent as much as he pleased. When old Mr Cheung found out, he did not give his son any more money. Cheung Tsai began to think of a plan. He went to his friends and borrowed money from each of them. He was very careless. Because he knew that his son borrow so much money from Chung Sai friends and he refused to paid back. It tells that we have to save our money and do not careless.
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g. a person in a book, story, etc. a. describes scene and introduces the participants of the story b. part of the story in which a problem encountered by the characters c. the part in which the characters Ànd the resolution
e. the events in a story and how they develop f. one part of the story in which the events happen in one place
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He’s a boy who is very lazy. People calls him a lazybones. After school he went straight to his room and lay down Mr Jones owned a small bakery in town Because he had only one helper, Bob. He baked a hundred loaves each morning. Bob went round on a horse-cart to deliver them. Mr Jones baked biscuits and cakes to put in his shop-window. One day Mr Jones told Tom to watch some cakes in the oven. Instead of watching the cakes, Tom fell asleep and the cakes were burnt. Mr Jones had a bad cold. The doctor said he had to stay in bed for a week. He often watch Mr Jones baking. Bob did. As the day passed, more and more people praised Tom. After a while Tom began to feel proud of himself too. Answer may vary.
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Writing The Cock and the Pearl A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shining amid the straw. Ho! ho! said he, "that’s for me." and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard? You may be a treasure," said Master Cock, to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barleycorn than a peck of pearls. "Precious things are for those that can prize them." Taken from http://www.aesopfables.com/
Answer Key
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