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* Vocabulary
stepped ‫كثف‬ residential ‫سكني‬ exchange ‫تبادل‬ Rush off ‫إيقاف‬
‫االندفاع‬
intense ‫شديد‬ suburb ‫ضاحية‬ sweets ‫ الحلوبات‬dying ‫سكرات‬
‫الموت‬
customs ‫تقليد‬ junior ‫األصغر‬ rub ‫حك‬ headline ‫عنوان‬
‫رئيسي‬
tarmac ‫ طريق‬Complaints ‫الشكاوى‬ weaken ‫أضعف‬ remind ‫نبه‬
‫أسفلت‬
luxuries ‫ الكماليات‬smoothnes ‫نعومة‬ otherwise ‫وإال‬ urgently ‫عاجل‬
s
existed ‫ موجودة‬Persia ‫ بالد فارس‬Valuable ‫قيم‬ clutching ‫يمسك‬
thoughtfully ‫مدروس‬ Mysterious ‫غامض‬ treasure ‫كنز‬ plead ‫تضرع‬

Main Points :

 Mr. and Mrs. Williams ( Sarah) arrived in an African country 's airport.
 Mr. Mugambo booked (‫ )حجز‬a room for them at a hotel.
 Mr. Mugambo introduced his wife " Onga" to them .
 Two wives( Sarah and Onga) started to make friendship .
 Sarah began to tell Onga the story of her life .
 Sarah lived in a quiet big city with her parents.
 Sarah had a special friendship with her neighbor Granny Hicks .
 Before Hicks ' departure ‫رحيل‬, Sarah was given a silver chain with a blue
stone .
 Hicks' husband gave her this as a wishing stone.
 The wishing stone come from Persia .
 The power of stone weakens if the owner makes many wishes.
 Sarah watched a programme on TV about famine ‫ مجاعة‬in an African
country and children were dying of hunger.
 Sarah begged ‫ توسلت‬to her father to let her watch the program.

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  Sarah clutched the wishing stone to help those miserable children.

QUESTIONS WITH MODEL ANSWERS

1- What was the weather like when Mr. & Mrs. Williams arrived at the airport?
The heat was intense and they felt heat of the ground through the soles of their shoes.
2- How did the airport building seem poor?
There was no air-conditioning: only fans.
3- Who was waiting for Mr. & Mrs. Williams?
Mr. Mugambo.
4 -How did Mr. Mugambo help the Williams ?
1- He booked them a room in a hotel.
2- He waited for them at the air port and took their passports and hurried them
through immigration and customs.
3- He drove them in his Mercedes.
5- Mr. Williams and his wife are used to ………………
Travelling.
6- How was the road between the airport and the city?
It was a dusty tarmac road.
7-why was that trip important to Mrs. Williams?
Because she had always wanted to help children in Africa.
8- Describe Mr. Mugambo's wife?
A young woman dressed attractively in native costumes ‫المالبس الشعبية‬
9- Onga asked Mrs. Williams to remember that ………………………..
They are still a poor country that doesn't have all the luxuries she is used to.
10-Why would Mrs. Williams and Onga enjoy spending some time together?
Because Mr. Williams and Mr. Mugambo will be spending a lot of time together talking
business.
11- What did Onga say about her city?
* She said that the city is very small: not like London, Paris or Rome.
* Mrs. Williams perhaps didn't know her country existed until she arrived.

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* It is so small and unimportant.
12- How was Onga's country very poor?
It doesn't have the luxuries.
13- Who was Sarah?
She is Mrs. William when she was very little girl.
14- When did Sarah know about Onga's country?
A long time ago, when she was a very little girl.
15- Where did Sarah (Mrs. William) live?
In a quiet residential ‫ سكنية‬suburb ‫ ضاحية‬of a large city.
16- With whom did Sarah live?
She lived with her father and mother.
17- What was Sarah's father?
He was an ordinary manger for a company in the city center.
18- What was Sarah's mother?
She was an ordinary housewife.
19- What was the extraordinary‫ غير عادي‬thing about Sarah?
That was her special friendship with Granny Hicks, who lived next door.
20- Who was Granny Hicks?
She wasn't Sarah's real grandmother, but Sarah liked to think of her as granny.
21- Why did Sarah's mother complain ‫?تشكى‬
She complained that Sarah spent too much time next door.
22- Sarah didn't care about ………………………….
Her mother's complaints.
23- Why did Sarah like to visit Granny Hicks?
1- Granny Hicks was never too busy to see Sarah.
2- There were always things to talk about, questions to be asked and answered , secrets
to be exchanged and promises to be made.
3- There were also cakes and sweets to be eaten.
24-Why was Sarah dismayed?

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Because Granny Hicks said she may have to leave soon.
25- Describe the wishing stone?
It was a silver chain with a blue stone.
26- How was Hicks' memory?
It was not very good.
27- How did Granny Hicks get the wishing stone?
When she was young, her husband travelled to lots of different parts of the world. He
brought many different things.
28- Where is the wishing stone from?
Maybe , Persia.
29- What did Granny Hicks ask Sarah to do with the wishing stone?
She asked her not to make too many wishes with it. Only very important wishes.
30- Why did Granny Hicks ask Sarah not to make too many wishes with the stone?
Because the power of the stone will weaken & then she can't make any wishes at all.
31- What did Sarah promise?
She promised that she wouldn't make any wishes until she was very certain.
32- Why didn't Sarah let her parents touch the stone?
Because they might rub the wishes off.
33- Where did Sarah hide the stone?
In a secret place in her room.
34- Sarah's mother asked her to make sure that ……………..
She comes back home for dinner with her father.
35- Why was Sarah unable to see Granny Hicks any more?
Because Granny Hicks moved to another house.
36- What did the wishing stone remind Sarah of?
It reminded her of Granny Hicks
37- Sarah often thought about …………………..
Making a wish to see Granny Hicks.
38- Sarah took a long time to …………………………….

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Realize that she could never see Granny Hicks again.
39- What unpleasant experience did Sarah have on evening?
There was a report about a country in Africa where there were terrible problems and
children were dying. Sarah couldn't believe the pictures she saw were real.
40- Why did Sarah's father change the programme?
He didn't want his daughter to see these pictures.
41- Why couldn't Sarah sleep that night?
Because she was thinking about those miserable children.
42- What was the headline in the newspaper on the first day?
HELP URGENTLY NEEDED.
43- What was the headline in the newspaper on the second day?
HELP TOO SLOW AND NOT ENOUGH.

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* Vocabulary
baker ‫خباز‬ cabbages ‫الكرنب‬ wrap ‫غلف‬ gasp ‫لهث‬
worth ‫قيمة‬ cauliflower ‫قرنبيط‬ threw ‫القى‬ desert ‫صحراء‬
butcher ‫جزار‬ shillings ‫شلن‬ shopkeeper ‫تاجر‬ particularly ‫خاصة‬
tears ‫دموع‬ customer ‫زبون‬ fetch ‫جلب‬ medicine ‫دواء‬
Main Points :

 Sarah thought of selling the stone to send its money for children.
 Mr. Watson, the baker, can't buy the stone as he was not rich enough.
 Mrs. Sprat, the fish shop owner , admired the stone but she couldn’t buy it.
 Mr. Tomkins, the butcher, was not wealthy enough to buy the stone.
 Mrs. Dale , the greengrocer ,didn't have enough money to buy it.
 Sarah lost hope to save African children from this starvation ‫مجاعة‬.
 Sarah decided to give up ‫ تتخلى عن‬the wishing stone.
 Sarah's father wanted the TV to stop showing this kind of picture.
 All shopkeepers decided to work together to buy the wishing stone to help
Sarah and African children.

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  They gave her a cheque worth millions to save the children.
 Those children were Onga's native people.
 Onga thanked Sarah for her sincere efforts to save her people.
44- What was Sarah's wish?
She wished she could save the children.
45- Sarah searched the newspapers ……………………….
For a headline, hoping to find good news about the children.
46- Why did Sarah think the wishing stone didn't help the children?
Maybe she was not wishing strongly enough.
Maybe the stone couldn't work such a big wish.
Maybe the stone lost its power.
47- What did Sarah think to do with the wishing stone to help the children?
As the stone was very old and valuable, she could sell it and send the money to Africa to
help the children.
48-Who was Mr. Watson?
A baker
49-Why were all shoppers unable to buy the wishing stone ?
They were not rich enough.
50-Why did Sarah's father want to send to newspaper to stop news of miserable
children?
Because his daughter was badly hurt
51-How were the shopkeepers able to buy the wishing stone?
They co-operated ‫ تعاونوا‬to buy the wishing stone.
52-How was the money useful for African children?
They could buy food, clothes and medicine
53-What was the style‫ أسلوب‬of that story?
FLASHBACK
54-What was the moral of that story?
We should think of others and help them

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 Additional questions
1-For what specific reason did Sarah accompany her husband on his business trip?
She was interested in the poor children in Africa.
2-What was Sarah's father's complaint about the newspapers and television?
They shouldn't show these kinds of pictures that can hurt the feelings of children.
3-Why did Sarah accuse Granny Hicks of being a liar?
Because she found out that the wishing stone was no good, it didn't achieve her wish about
the children.
4- Which feature of Sarah's was the same as the wishing stone?
Her eyes were blue like the colour of the wishing stone.
5-How did the shopkeepers help Sarah and the children in Africa?
They collected money and gave it to Sarah to help the children in Africa.
6- Why did Onga thank Sarah at the end of the story?
Because her cheque saved her people.
7- Why was the problem very bad in Onga's small village?
Because there was no food, no water and no medicine.
8- Who did Sarah thank at the end? Why?
She thanked the shopkeepers and granny Hicks because they helped her to save the
children.
9- Although all the shopkeepers admired the wishing stone ,…………………………
None of them had enough money to buy it.
10- Sarah couldn't see the newspaper in the morning as …………………………….
Her father hid it from her.

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