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Let’s Begin
FOR SAMPLE ONLY
A. Discuss the following questions with your friends?

1. How far is your school from your
home?
2. Do you go to school yourself or

does anybody accompany you?
3. Do you like going to school?
Why?
4. What is the best thing about
your school?

5. How long should you travel to reach your school?
6. Is there another shorter way to your school?

Let’s Read

Read the following story.

The Way to School
Mary was seven years old. Her parents had recently moved to a
new town, and so Mary was going to a different school. It was a few

kilometers from the house which she now lived in with her parents,
but there was a school bus that went around picking up pupils every
morning and bringing them back to their homes every afternoon, and
as both of Mary’s parents had to go to work, she always went on this

bus. She had to be at a corner twenty meters from her door by half
past eight every day and the bus was usually on time, and never more
than a minute or two late.

Mary’s parents always set their alarm clock for six o’clock so that none
of them would be late. But one morning the alarm failed to go off,
and it was not until a quarter past eight that Mary’s mother suddenly

woke up, looked at the clock and said, “Whatever’s happened to that
clock?” and then hurried into Mary’s room. Mary was fast asleep, but

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