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READING CHECK
1 Correct ten more mistakes in the story.
Ibn Battuta travels south across the Hindukush mountains to Sijilmasa. Here he 
meets the son of a man called Al-Bushri. He once met Al-Bushri long before in 
China.
He then travels to the small 
village of Taghaza. The people 
there make interesting buildings 
from snow. But Ibn Battuta doesn’t 
stay very long in Taghaza because 
the water is very expensive there.
Next, Ibn Battuta journeys south 
across the desert with a caravan. 
One man, Ibn Ziri, leaves the 
caravan without his water bottle 
and sleeps alone under a tree. 
Then a different man plays with 
a big hyena and it puts its teeth 
into his finger. The man nearly 
dies, but in the end he loses 
only one hand, and lives.
When Ibn Battuta arrives at last in Mali, the King’s men bring him some pearls 
and some rubies. But Ibn Battuta isn’t happy about this, and he goes to speak to 
the King. The King then gives him a lot of bread.
When Ibn Battuta journeys north to Timbuktu, he suddenly gets a letter from the 
Sultan of Serendib. So he travels back to Fez. At the Sultan’s home, Ibn Battuta 
meets Ibn Juzayy – the old writer from Granada. Ibn Juzayy writes Ibn Battuta’s 
stories in a book for people to read.
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WORD WORK 
Write sentences with words from the snake.
a 
Would you like a
of this apple? It’s very good.
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b 
There are wonderful pictures of animals in this book. Look at that
!
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c 
Be careful with that knife. You don’t want to
your hand.
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