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Long ago, the sun saw a large red and gold bird. It was so beautiful that the sun made him live forever.
At first the phoenix was very happy, but eventually he got tired. So he flew away and hid in the desert all alone. He cried to the sun to make him young and strong again, but the sun did not hear him.
The phoenix returned home and made a nest in a tall palm tree. He made an egg from myrrh and placed it in the nest. He cried out to the sun again. “Please, glorious sun, make me young and strong again!’ This time the sun heard him and shone its burning rays down on the Earth. The rays made the tree burst into flame and the phoenix became a big ball of fire.
When the flames died down, the tree and nest were unharmed but the phoenix had disappeared. Only a pile of ash remained. Soon the ash moved and a young phoenix emerged. It quickly grew to the size of a mature phoenix. Then it collected the ashes, placed them inside the egg and flew away with it. The phoenix placed the egg on the altar of the sun and flew back to live in the desert. Every five hundred years, when it grows old, the phoenix flies back to the old palm tree and is reborn from the ashes.
2.
Complete the table from the words in the text.
Past Tense
Heard
Cried
Emerged
Collected
Placed
Moved
cried
returned
Present Tense
Is reborn
Will cry
Will move
will return
Future Tense
Going to cry
Going to return
Going to move
Going to fly
3. Some verb tenses are irregular. They do not add -s or -es for present tense, or -ed for past tense. Some words change completely. Write irregular verbs from the text in different tenses.
Past Tense:
Saw
shone
Hear
made
became
Present Tense:
flying
Growing
Movesing
Crieing
Returning
Collecting
Future Tense:
Collect
Make
Shine
Cry
Move
Return
Grow