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One clear night an ant sat on a hill. "It's a perfect night for counting stars," she said. "I will draw a map of them."
An old ant popped out of the hill. "Are you still up?" he asked. "It's late!"
The first ant told the old ant about her map. The old ant was kind. He took a dewdrop and the sugar from a
gumdrop. "I will mix these and make a sweet drink," he said. He gave it to the ant who loved stars.
She took a sip. "This is better than a rain drop! Thank you!"
The old ant nodded. "I need to get some sleep. I will see you in the morning," he said.
Alone again, the little ant marked nine stars on her map. Her paper looked like a dot-to-dot page. "If I draw a line
from star to star," she said, "it will look like a square here. Next I can make a triangle. Here is a line of stars that
are close together." Making pictures with the stars was fun!
A moth flew down from a bush. It landed with a hop beside the ant. "You poor thing," it said. "You should be in
bed."
The ant shook her head. "I do not feel sleepy. I plan to stay up all night!"
The moth picked up the map. "What is this?" it asked.
"That is mine," said the ant. "It's a star map. Do stars stay in place or move around? I want to find out."
"Why?" the moth asked.
The ant took her map back. "I love the stars," she said. "They are small like ants."
With a shake of its head, the moth spread its brown wings and flew into the dark.
Nine weeks later the ant took her map to the hill. When the stars came out, she looked at her map. Then she looked
up. Her eyes grew big. "The shapes are still there!" she cried. "I see the square, the triangle and the line! They stay
together, and they also move across the sky. Wow!"

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Do you know all the words in orange ? Use your dictionary or the translator to help you.

Grammar - Popped and nodded are past tense - the base words are pop and nod.

1. What was the little ant drawing?

2. Where did the old ant get the sugar for the drink?

3. Besides the old ant, who was the ant's other visitor?

4. What did the ant find out about the stars?

1. What was the little ant drawing?
a map of the stars

2. Where did the old ant get the sugar for the drink?
a gumdrop

3. Besides the old ant, who was the ant's other visitor?
a moth

4. What did the ant find out about the stars?
The shapes stayed together, but they also moved across the sky.

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