Peter was ten, and his sister Jane was eight. They lived in the country ten kilometres from Cardiff.
One day they saw a picture of a circus in the newspaper, and Jane said to her mother, ‘There’s going to be a circus in Cardiff next week. Please take us there.
The children’s mother bought tickets, and on Saturday evening Peter and Jane and their parents went to the circus.
The tent was full of people, and after a quarter of an hour, the circus began.
A beautiful young girl came in. She put a cake in her mouth, and then a big lion came and took the cake out of her mouth.
A man in a red coat shouted to the people, ‘Who’s going to do the same for £100?’
Nobody answered. But then a funny man stood up and said, ‘All right… but first take the lion away!
A. Answer these questions.
- Where did the children and their parents go on Saturday evening?
- What did the beautiful girl do?
- What did the lion do?
- What did the man in a red coat say then?
- And what did the funny man say?
B. Which of the words in the this story mean:
- before that
- men, women and children
- said very loudly
- the one after this one
- very pretty
