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 \nmonkey Monkeys can be very clever animals.  \nboxI found some shoes in an old box.  \n3 Do you think most animals can seeas well as we can?  \nVocabulary  \n1 Some    wanted to find out if dogs could see colours.  \na.animalsb.scientists  \nwhen they saw this colour.The scien-tists then showed the dogs anothercolour.Again the dogs got ready toeat.The colours were all the same tothem.  \nScientists think that many-perhapsmost-animals cannot see colours.The world is black and white to them.  \n2 The dogs got ready to eat when the scientists played    to them.  \na.coloursb.music  \nTo find out if dogs could see colours,scientists gave dogs food every timethey played a certain piece of music.The dogs got ready to eat only whenthey heard this piece of music.Theydid not get ready to eat when theyheard other pieces of music.  \n3 The monkeys found their food in a    \nColours are not all the same to mon-keys,however.For example,if we putfood in a red box,and do this everyday,a monkey will always go to thered box to get the food.If we then putfood in a blue box,the monkeywon't go to it.  \na.boxb.tree  \nMain idea  \nThen the scientists gave the dogs foodevery time they showed them a cer-tain colour.The dogs got ready to eat  \nCircle the correct answer.  \nThe passage is about………………….  \n1 monkeys.  \n2 dogs.  \n3 scientists.  \n4 animals and colour.  \nLooking for detail  \nCircle the correct answer.  \n1 All colours are the same to…………  ….  \nc.scientists  \na.dogs  \nd.all animals  \nb.monkeys  \n2 Monkeys know that red and blue are……     ….  \nc.food  \na.colours  \nd.music  \nb.not the same  \n3 The scientists gave the dogs food every time they.……    …  \nc.saw the colour blue  \na.played certain music  \nb.saw the colour redd.went to a box of food  \n4 One way dogs are different from monkeys is that…     …·  \na.dogs cannot see any colours and monkeys can  \nb.monkeys cannot see any colours and dogs can  \nc.dogs can see more colours than monkeys  \nd.monkeys cannot see red and blue  \nSummary  \nWrite each letter against the correct word in the box.  \ndogs scientists colours same monkeys  \nScientists wanted to find out if animals can see different colours.They foundout that (a)cannot see any different(b).All colours are the (c)to them.Theyfound out that(d)know that red and blue are not the same.  \n## Cinderella\n\n### Pre-reading activity\n\n1 Who is the person in the story?2 What children's story do you likebest? 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