Helen was eight years old, and one day one of her teeth began hurting. She cried in her class at school, and her teacher said kindly, ‘Why are you crying, Helen?’
‘Because one of my teeth hurts,’ answered Helen. ‘Speak to your mother about it,’ said the teacher, ‘and then go and see the dentist.’
That afternoon Helen spoke to her mother about hertooth, and her mother took her to the dentist a few dayslater. The dentist looked at the tooth and then he said to Helen, ‘It’s very bad. I’m going to take it out, and then you’re going to get a nice, new tooth next year.’ He pulledthe tooth out.
The next day Helen’s teacher asked her about the tooth. She said to her, ‘Does it still hurt, Helen?»
‘I don’t know,’ Helen answered.
‘Why don’t you know?’ the teacher said.
‘Because the dentist’s got it,’ Helen answered.
A. Answer these questions.
- What did the dentist do to Helen?
- What did her teacher ask the next day?
- What did Helen answer?
- What did the teacher ask then?
- And what did Helen answer?
B. Which words in this story mean the opposite of:
- bring
- earlier
- good
- laughed
- morning
- nastily
- old
- stopped
