Activity of text interpretation, aimed at fourth- and fifth-year elementary school students, with questions based on the text The Merchant and the Two Thieves.
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In the city of Sinda, there lived a very rich merchant. One day, he decided to go to another city to sell his wares. On the way, he encountered two men, only these men were thieves who used to steal all the travellers' goods and money. They introduced themselves as merchants and soon became friends with the rich merchant.
After traveling some distance, the merchant and the thieves came to a stopping point. There the thieves decided to rob the merchant, but one of the thieves wanted to take everything the other thief had. So he mixed poison into the other thief's food. Only the second thief also wanted to take everything from his thief partner, so he also mixed poison in the first thief's food.
When the two thieves ate the food they both died. In this way, his merchant and his goods were saved from the thieves and he also got the valuable goods that the thieves carried.
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1) What is the title of the text?
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2) How many paragraphs are there in the text?
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3) What are the characters in the story?
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4) What is the main theme of the story?
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5) What was the merchant going to do?
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6) Who did the merchant meet on the way?
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7) What happened when they reached a stopping point?
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8) What went wrong with the thieves' plan?
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9) In your opinion, what made the plan go wrong?
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10) If you were the merchant what would you have done?
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