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round, he hung his head and sucked his finger and tears started
to fall on his work.
“Never mind Timmy, your letter is a bit like my upside-down
cake, isn’t it? It’s the right shape. It’s just upside down. All we
have to do is turn it over. Look, we all make mistakes sometimes.
It’s how we learn. We do it wrong until we learn to do it right!”
Timmy smiled and so did we, thinking about the taste of the
delicious cherry cake and the kindness of Miss Tweedy.
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9.1. Match the words with their meanings.
a. mess up i. very tasty
b. giggle ii. fortunate
c. delicious iii. ashamed
d. embarrassed iv. to damage / make a disorder
e. lucky v. award
f. prize vi. laugh in a giddy way
9.2. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false sentences.
a. Mark’s school was in a town.
b. Miss Tweedy used to joke about Mark.
c. Miss Tweedy was a kind teacher.
d. Sarah knew about the upside-down cake.
e. Mark didn’t like the cherry cake.
f. We do things wrong until we learn to do them right.
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