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    The frog loves green tea and drinks 85 cups per day. When she meets a Japanese man who says the best green tea is in Japan, she wants to visit. However, she needs $4,000 for the plane ticket and rail pass. Her parents cannot afford to help. She goes to the bank, enters the safe unseen, and takes $7,462. With the money, she buys her ticket and travels to Japan. Upon arriving in Kyoto, she goes straight to a tea shop, buys 126 cups of green tea, and declares it the best tea she's ever had.

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    The frog loves green tea and drinks 85 cups per day. When she meets a Japanese man who says the best green tea is in Japan, she wants to visit. However, she needs $4,000 for the plane ticket and rail pass. Her parents cannot afford to help. She goes to the bank, enters the safe unseen, and takes $7,462. With the money, she buys her ticket and travels to Japan. Upon arriving in Kyoto, she goes straight to a tea shop, buys 126 cups of green tea, and declares it the best tea she's ever had.

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    Short Story Frog

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    The frog loves green tea and drinks 85 cups per day. When she meets a Japanese man who says the best green tea is in Japan, she wants to visit. However, she needs $4,000 for the plane ticket and rail pass. Her parents cannot afford to help. She goes to the bank, enters the safe unseen, and takes $7,462. With the money, she buys her ticket and travels to Japan. Upon arriving in Kyoto, she goes straight to a tea shop, buys 126 cups of green tea, and declares it the best tea she's ever had.

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    Reading Comprehension Activity

    Level: Beginner 6
    Teacher: Ammar DHAILI
    School year: 2012/2013
    Green Tea

    Vocabulary
    There is a frog. She lives in Austin, Texas. The
    frog really loves tea. Everyday, she drinks 85 cups of
    really: very much tea. Her favorite tea is green tea.
    Japan Rail Pass: a One day, she meets a Japanese man. The man
    train ticket for all trains tells the frog, "If you love green tea, you should go to
    in Japan
    Japan. Japan has the best green tea in the world". The
    "are you crazy": means frog is very excited. Unfortunately, she doesn't have
    "your request is
    unreasonable" any money. She needs money to buy a plane ticket to
    Japan. She wants to buy a Japan Rail Pass as well.
    give up: quit
    So she goes to her Mom. She asks her mother, "Can
    for sure: certainly,
    you please give me 4000 dollars. I want to go to Japan
    surely
    to drink green tea". Her mother says, "Are you crazy?
    why don't you: a polite
    I don't have 4000 dollars".
    suggestion

    a safe: a place to keep The frog doesn't give up. She goes to her Dad
    money and says, "Dad, can you please give me 4000 dollars. I
    gets into: enters, goes really want to go to Japan to drink green tea."Her father
    inside something says, "I want to help you, for sure, but I just don't have
    first-class: most the money. Why don't you go to the bank and get
    expensive ticket money.
    a shop: a store
    "The frog runs to the bank. She goes inside and
    ever: in all of life looks around. She sees a giant safe in the back. She
    (span), from birth until
    now
    goes to the safe. Because she is a small frog, no one
    sees her. She gets into the safe, and takes 7462 dollars.
    Then she leaves the bank. No one sees her.
    She buys a first-class ticket to Japan, and a Japan
    Rail Pass. When she arrives in Kyoto, Japan she
    immediately goes to a tea shop. She buys 126 cups of
    green tea, and drinks them all. She smiles and says,
    "That's the best tea I've ever had!"
    iSLCollective.com
    I -Comprehension
    A – Select one from the three choices below each question?

    1- What does the frog like to drink?


    a- Green tea
    b- Coffee
    c- chocolate
    2- How many cups of green tea does the frog drink everyday?
    a- 75 cups
    b- 85 cups
    c- 95 cups
    3- Why does the frog want to fly to Japan?
    a- to work
    b- to study
    c- to drink green tea
    4- How much money does the frog need to fly to Japan?
    a- 4000 $
    b- 4000 €
    c- 4000 £
    5- Where does the frog take 7462 dollars from?
    a- The bank
    b- Her mother
    c- Her father
    6- Does anybody see her when she takes the money from the safe?
    a- Yes
    b- No
    7- Where does the frog first go when she arrives to Japan?
    a- The hotel
    b- The beach
    c- to a tea shop
    8- What is your opinion about the frog?
    a- She is bad
    b- She is brave
    c- She is crazy

    iSLCollective.com
    II- Draw the frog in these situations:

    1- With the Japanese man 2- With her mom 3- With her dad

    4- In the bank 5- In the safe 5- Leaving the bank

    6- In Japan 7- In tea shop 8- Drinking tea and


    Smiling

    This activity includes an mp3 file which I could not insert in such a website. If you need the mp3 file of
    such an activity, feel free to contact me via my e-mail:
    omar-dh@live.com

    iSLCollective.com

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