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1.2. Ask your teacher.

a. In which country is the platypus found?

b. Is it a mammal or bird?

c. Does it lay eggs or deliver babies?

d. Is it a herbivore or carnivore animal?

1.3. Now say aloud:

a. The world is the common garden of many types of
plants and animals.

b. We should always be in time.

c. We should not make a joke of people with a different

look.
2 Reading Time

Read the story and do the activities.

platypuS playS tricKS

Before the dawn of time, all the animals looked the same.
Normally this was fine, but some of the cheekier animals liked to

play tricks on Mother Earth and pretended to be other animals.

Since they looked exactly the same, even Mother Earth who

had created them could not tell the difference. In order to fix
this problem, she decided to make each different animal look

different, so they couldn’t swap identities.

Now, there were some animals who liked flying through the

air, or climbing trees more than anything, but not Platypus. He
liked swimming.

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