Relacionar Columnas IV LEVEL UNIT 7 I AM FLUENT IN ENGLISH Lesson 4 AVersión en línea Reading comprehension por Martha Uribe 1 What did a fisherman bring to the caliph’s palace? 2 What would happen to Ja’far if he didn’t solve it in the allotted time? 3 What happened on the third day? 4 Where had the fisherman found it? 5 What was inside the chest? 6 What did the caliph do with the chest? 7 Who was the actual murderer? 8 Who did the king ask to investigate the murder? 9 How long did the king give Ja’far to solve the mystery? 10 What did Ja’far do? his vizier, Ja’far ibn Yahya the body of a young woman who had been murdered Two men came to the palace trying to confess to the murder. in the Tigris River He would be executed. He sat alone in his room and worried. The woman’s husband. He bought it and ordered it to be pried open. three days a large, heavy chest 1 Where did he get the apple? 2 What did he do after killing his wife? 3 How did the young man react to the slave’s story? 4 What had happened to the young man’s wife? 5 What did she ask him for? 6 Where did the slave say he got the apple? 7 How long did the trip take? 8 Why did he place her body in a chest and throw in the river? 9 What did the young man see in the market a few days after his return? 10 How was his wife’s health by then? a slave carrying one of the apples. a special kind of apple that could not be found in any market or shop. She had become ill and couldn’t eat well. two weeks he hid his wife’s body in a chest and threw it into the river. from the caliph’s garden She had become too ill to eat anything. from his girlfriend, whose husband had traveled two weeks to get it from the caliph’s garden. He went home to see how many apples were missing, and upon finding that one was missing, he killed his wife in a rage. to hide his deed 1 What did the young man find upon his return? 2 How many days did he give Ja’far? 3 How did the young man feel? 4 What made finding the slave difficult? 5 What would happen if Ja’far couldn’t find the slave after three days? 6 What did he beg the caliph to do? 7 Why was the boy crying? 8 What did the caliph decide to do instead? 9 What did Ja’far decide to do? his son crying in his room. execute him He regretted what he’d done. He would be executed. accept that his fate was to die There were no clues or hints about who he was. because he had taken one of the apples to the marketplace and had it stolen by the slave after telling him the story of how his father had gotten it. to have Ja’far find the slave who had caused so much tragedy instead. three days
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