Question

Read the text and guess the meaning of these words and phrases. Check your answers with your teacher or a dictionary: to crawl, narrow ledge, to fear the worst, to repay. Answer the questions: 1) Why was the dog a problem? 2)What did Leif see when he walked into the bedroom? 3) How did the dog rescue the girl? 4) Who had the 'lucky escape'? Va roooog!!! Dau coroana!!!

Answer 1

1) The dog was a problem because he was growing too big and he was a danger to the Stevensons”s daughter. 2) Leif noticed that the window was opened . He saw that Mariette was crowling near the narrow ledge outside and Stig was following her along the ledge . 3) The dog rescued the girl by taking the little girl”s trousers in his teeth and walking slowly backwards along the ledge while carring the child . 4)Mariette had a lucky escape.