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C. Answer these questions.

1. What happened at the royal banquet one day?

2. How did the king punish Mai An Tiem?
3. What did the couple do with the black seeds?

4. Why didn’t the couple initially eat the fruits that grew? How did Mai An Tiem
change his views? (Give two reasons.)

5. What did the fishermen find? What did the couple trade the fruit for?

6. How did the fruit become popular among the people living on the mainland?

Think and Answer • Critical Thinking

A. What did Mai An Tiem carve on the watermelons? Why did he throw them into the

sea? What do we come to know about him from this? Discuss.
B. Why did Mai An Tiem bring back fruits and seeds to the mainland? Do you think he

wanted to turn rich? Give reasons for what he did.

• Present continuous tense
Grammar Spot • Subject-verb agreement in past tense
• Past continuous tense
• Simple future tense

The Present Continuous Tense

Read these sentences.
1. Birds are eating fruits.

2. I am looking at the birds.
3. You are throwing the ball high.

4. She is watering the plants.

All the highlighted words are in the present continuous tense. We use the present
continuous tense to express an action that is happening at the time of speaking. For a
verb in this tense, we write: am/is/are + main verb + ing.

REMEMBER

We use the present continuous tense to refer to an action that is in progress at the time of
speaking. But when we refer to an action that takes place repeatedly or very often and is not
necessarily happening at the time of speaking, we use the simple present tense.

For example: He brushes his teeth before taking a bath.

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