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My name is Mia, and I am in the Animal Club at school. Every Friday, we learn about amazing animals. Today, our teacher tells us about animals and their special skills. A cheetah can run very fast. It can run faster than a car in the city! But a cheetah cannot run fast for a long time. After one minute, it is tired. A dolphin can swim very well, and it can jump high out of the water. Dolphins can also make funny sounds to talk to each other. But a dolphin cannot live on land. An eagle can see very small things from high in the sky. It can fly for many hours, too. My favorite animal is the octopus. It cannot hear well, but it can change its color! At the end of the lesson, our teacher asks us, 'What can you do?' I say, 'I can draw animals!' My friend Tom says, 'I can't draw, but I can sing very well.' Everyone in our club can do something special.

✏️ Questions

My brother ___ swim very fast. He wins many races.
Choose the correct sentence about ability.
- a) She can plays the guitar.
- b) She can play the guitar.
- c) She cans play the guitar.
- d) She can to play the guitar.
I ___ speak French, but I can speak English and Spanish.
___ your dog jump over the fence?
- a) Do
- b) Is
- c) Can
- d) Does
We ___ see the mountains from our hotel window. The view is amazing!
Look at these penguins! They ___ swim, but they can't fly.
- a) can
- b) cans
- c) can to
- d) canning
What is the Animal Club about?
- a) Learning to swim
- b) Learning about animals and their skills
- c) Learning to draw
- d) Learning to sing
What can a cheetah do?
- a) It can run very fast.
- b) It can run for a long time.
- c) It can swim well.
- d) It can fly high.
Why can't a dolphin live on land?
- a) The passage does not say why, only that it cannot.
- b) Because it is too fast
- c) Because it cannot swim
- d) Because it cannot make sounds
What does the word 'special' mean in the passage?
- a) Boring and normal
- b) Different and not ordinary
- c) Very small
- d) Very slow
Which animal cannot hear well but can change its color?
- a) The eagle
- b) The dolphin
- c) The cheetah
- d) The octopus
What can we infer about the animals in the passage?
- a) Every animal can do everything well.
- b) Each animal has something it can do and something it cannot do.
- c) All animals can fly.
- d) No animals have special skills.

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