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In the desert, hyenas / camels take things from Ibn Battuta’s bag.
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In the town of Wasit, some of the men walk into a big fire / a lot of snakes. 
WORD WORK
1 Find ten more words from Chapter 1 in the wordsquare.
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2 Use the words from Activity 1 to complete these sentences.
a 
Ibn Battuta goes on a ………………… to the ………………… city of Makkah. 
b 
This is my ………………… Karim. He’s my father’s brother.
c 
One day I would like to ………………… across the desert by camel.
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A rich family once lived in that house. Nobody lives there now because it’s
………… ………… .
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When I went to Egypt, I visited the famous ………………… .
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Ships could see the tall ………………… in Alexandria from far away. 
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My father and mother ………………… five times every day.
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We saw a lot of smoke in the sky because there was a big ………………… .
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In the desert, there was a long ………………… with hundreds of people on camels
in it. 
GUESS WHAT
Ibn Battuta travels by ship in the next chapter. What happens? Tick one box.
Ibn Battuta …
Ibn Battuta …
a 
finishes his journey in the sea when 
the ship goes down.
b 
feels very ill because the ship goes 
up and down a lot.
c 
loses his bags when the ship 
suddenly hits a different ship.
d 
gets on the wrong ship and goes to 
the wrong country.
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where we 
all live; people live 
in lots of different 
countries in the 
world
coast
the place 
where the land is 
next to the sea
sail
to go by ship
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moves
dangerous
something that 
could kill you
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where 
something is
guide
someone 
who shows other 
people where 
to go
clothes
people 
wear these
Chapter 2 - From Makkah
 
to Chagatay 
I arrived at my uncle’s house early the next morning.
‘So where did you go on your first sea journey, Uncle?’ I 
asked.
‘Listen, and learn,’ he said, and then he told me more of
his story: 
After my first visit to Makkah, I wanted to see more of
the 
world
. So I travelled with friends to Jeddah on the Red 
Sea 
coast
, and we 
sailed
down to Yemen. For two days the 
wind
was behind us, but suddenly it changed. The sea can 
be 
dangerous
, Ahmed. One minute it’s beautifully quiet, 
and the next minute it’s dark and angry.
The wind made our little ship go up and down in the 
water, and I felt 
very
ill. When we stopped at a village on 
the coast, my friends and I got off. We finished our journey 
to the city of Aden by camel.
There we heard stories about a number of famous 
places
in East Africa. So we got on a new ship and sailed down the 
African coast. Happily, I wasn’t ill at all this time!
After we visited different East African places, we sailed 
back to South Arabia some months later. Then we wanted 
to visit Oman, so we took a ship there. But we got off it 
early because we didn’t like the sailors. This wasn’t a good 
thing to do. I understood that later!
My friend and I found a