A young boy was playing with a ball in the street. He kicked it too hard, and it broke the window of a house and fell inside. A lady came to the window with the ball and shouted at the young boy, so he ran away, but he still wanted his ball back. A few minutes later he returned and knocked at the door of the house, and when the lady answered it, he said, "My father's going to come and fix your window very soon."

After a few more minutes a man came to the door with tools in his hand, so the lady let the boy take his ball away.

When the man finished fixing the window, he said to the lady, "That will cost you exactly ten dollars."

"But aren't you the father of that young boy?" the woman asked, looking surprised. "No," he answered, equally surprised. "Aren't you his mother?"

A.   Answer these questions:

1. How did the young boy lose his ball?
2. Why did he run away?
3. And why did he come back?
4. Why did the lady let him take his ball away?
5. Who did the lady think the man was who came to fix the window?
6. Who did he think the lady was?

B.   Which of these sentences are true? Write down the correct ones.

1. The young boy broke the window of his own house.
2. The young boy broke the window of someone else's house.
3. The ball went through the window.
4. The ball hit the window and fell into the lady's garden.
5. The young boy ran away because he wanted his ball back.
6. The young boy ran away because he was afraid of the lady.
7. The young boy went to find his father.
8. The young boy went to find a man who fixed windows.
9. The man who fixed the lady's window was not the boy's father.
10. The man who fixed the lady's window was the boy's father.
11. The man thought that the lady was the boy's mother.
12. The man knew that the lady wasn't the boy's mother.

C.   Write the number of the correct sentence under each picture:

1- A young boy took his ball out into the street.

2- He kicked the ball.

3- He found a man who fixed windows.

4- He went into another street.

5- It went through the window of a lady's house.

6- The boy ran away.

7- The man came and fixed the lady's window.