Reading: Clever Border Collies and Chaser

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For the teacher: Guide students to read the text in 3 minutes, then let them complete the questions in 5 minutes. Check answers together by looking at the key words in the passage.

For the learner: First, read the short story about the dogs carefully. Next, answer each question and read the notes to check your ideas.

Clever Border Collies

Border collies come from the border between England and Scotland. They are working dogs and they herd sheep on farms. Border collies are very clever dogs. One border collie, called Chaser, knew the names of 1,022 toys. A teacher in the USA, John Pilley, taught her.

Word help:

• herd: to bring animals together and guide them in a group.

1. True or False: Border collies are working dogs.

____ True ____ False

2. True or False: Chaser was a teacher.

____ True ____ False

3. Where do border collies come from?

____ a. The border between England and Scotland ____ b. Only the USA ____ c. A farm in Canada

4. What animals do border collies herd on farms?

____ a. horses ____ b. sheep ____ c. cats

5. Who taught Chaser?

____ a. A farmer from Scotland ____ b. An English child ____ c. John Pilley

6. Complete the sentence: Border collies are very ___ dogs.

____

7. Complete the sentence: Chaser knew the names of ___ toys.

____

8. Complete the sentence with the country: John Pilley was a teacher in the ___.

____

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Clever Border Collies

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