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1.27 Complete the poem with words from
exercise 1. Then listen and check.
THE ZEBRA
QUESTION
BY SHEL SILVERSTEIN
I asked the zebra,
Are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with habits?
Are you noisy with 2... times?
Or are you quiet with ... times?
Are you happy with ... days?
Or are you sad with 5... days?
Are you neat with some 6... ways?
Or are you sloppy with some ways?
And on and on and on and on
And on and on he went.
I'll never ask a zebra
About stripes
Again
It seems to me that Matilda can be read and useful at any age. Although, probably, children will understand it even better than adults.