As far as you remember, our friends went to the attic to find the old letters to reveal the truth.
Hundreds of tiny screeching fuzzy ***** with leathery *****, long toenails and dog snouts attacked them in the *****. Have you ever seen bats? For Kudjo and Luna it was the ***** time and, of course, they got scared stiff. They didn’t ***** immobilised by fear. The wave of bats knocked them down and vanished in the ***** of the forest.
While the dogs were lying there trying to ***** what had happened, they heard a strange fluttering *****. They went inside to investigate and saw a tiny grey *****, which had got stuck between two old floorboards. Luna begged Kudjo to help the bat get out of the crack. Kudjo knew that it was ***** to take bats in your hands only with thick gloves. They looked for something like ***** in an old chest of drawers and found some big leather *****. He took the ***** carefully while Luna was making the crack ***** with a poker. One minute more and the pup would be free.
EXERCISE 2
Change the sentences using the tense in brackets:
For example,
People are afraid of bats. (Present Perfect Continuous) – People have been experiencing fear of bats for centuries.
1 The bat is making a clicking sound. (Past Continuous)
2 Some people call bats heroes of the night (Past Simple Passive)
3 People even celebrate Bat Week every last week of October. (Present Simple Passive)
4 Bats help foresters and farmers protect their crops from pests because bats can eat their body weight in insects. (Present Perfect)
5 Kudjo said that he loved bats because they can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes an hour. (Direct Speech)
EXERCISE 3
Put the verb in brackets in the correct form:
1 Kudjo was astonished when he /tell/ that bats are not blind.
2 Kudjo thought that bats /use/ the attic for hibernation before the dogs’ coming there.
3 Kudjo just /read/ that bats live in friendly colonies, share information and food and even adopt orphans.
4 When Kudjo looked at the pup, which they /rescue/, it /hang/ upside down and /eat/ some insect.
5 It /believe/ that the first bats /discover/ 65 to 100 million years ago.
EXERCISE 4
Find and correct mistakes in 4 sentences:
1 Kudjo and Luna took care of the pup, fed it with some insects and it told them the colony of bats has been living in the attic for a few months.
2 The pup helped them find the drawer where the old letters were kept.
3 Kudjo and Luna heard some voices outside. Luna’s parents had woken up and are trying to find them.
4 The dogs quickly opened the drawer and grasped a pile of letters, which were tied together with an antique box.
5 Kudjo and Luna kissed the little bat good-bye and ran downstairs, where they were looking for.
EXERCISE 5