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ESL WorksheetsRICE WITHOUT RAIN, Minfong Ho
2. What do the shoes on Ned’s doorstep reveal about their wearers?
5. On pages 126-127, Ned helps Sri prepare a speech that she will give at the land-rent rally. We learn that she will refer to:
Write Jinda’s speech. (Aim to use simple yet powerful language.) You may start like this:
Brothers and sisters, I come from Maekung, a small village near Chiengmai that has endured a three-year drought. This year’s rice harvest is barely enough to feed a family for two months. Malnutrition is widespread: my own sister’s child died from kwashiorkor just two months ago.
We are farmers and the land is everything to us. All my life I have watched my father …