## Answers to the Exercises for The Bird and the Elephant

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A. How much did you understand?

The right order of the sentences is 3, 2, 1.

"I'm the most important animal of all," he said. "I don't care about you."

"Here he comes," they said to their children. "Run away! The elephant will tread on you and kill you."

"The elephant’s coming," they said to each other. "He'll knock down the trees. We must fly away!"

The right order of the sentences is 6, 4, 5.

She worked hard and soon her nest was ready. She laid six beautiful eggs in it.

There was a hole in one of them. She looked at the others. All the eggs had holes in them. The chicks were coming out.

But the chicks were hungry. They opened their beaks and cried out for food.

The right order of the sentences is 8, 9, 7.

The end of his trunk hit the bird’s nest. The nest fell out of the tree on to the ground.

He lifted his big foot and trod on them. The baby birds all died.

The elephant laughed. "Baby birds!" he said. "I don't care about baby birds.”

The right order of the sentences is 11, 10, 12.

"Yes, we want to punish him. But how can we do it? He is so big and we are so small."

They began to fly round his head and peck his eyes.

So the frogs jumped out of the river and followed the mother bird. She took them to the edge of a big cliff.

B. Sang? Sing? Song?

1. The mother bird took the frogs to the edge of a big cliff. "Sing," she said.
2. The frogs began to sing. They sang loudly.
3. The elephant heard their song. “I can hear the frogs," he thought.

C. The elephant and the mother bird.

Sentences 1 and 4 are about the mother bird.

Sentences 2 and 3 are about the elephant.