Fill in the Blanks The young King. Part 1Online version Students will first listen to the story and then complete the story with the missing words. by Manu Caravia 1 ivory nighttime poison Princess nightingale dream leather pearls shepherd artist coronation ordinary secret silk amber musician poor rubies forest sadness beautiful jade There was once an old King . He had no son to be King when he died . His people were very worried . " Who will be the next King ? " they asked . But before the King died he revealed a : his only daughter , the , had a child . In secret , she married an man and they had a son . Some people said her husband was an and some people said he was a . But his identity was a mystery and nobody knew about their secret son . When the baby was a week old , some men took him while his mother was sleeping . The Princess died immediately . Some people said for . Other people said someone gave her in a cup of wine . The men left the baby with a very family . This poor family lived in the forest and the boy became a . He looked after goats all day . The old King made an important decision : " The boy must be the new King when I die , " he said . He sent his servants into the . " Find the boy and bring him here . " The servants found the boy and brought him to the palace . When the boy arrived , he was very happy . He immediately fell in love with all the things around him . He took off his old tunic and put on his fine new clothes . Then he began to explore the castle . He ran from room to room admiring all the beautiful statues , paintings and jewels in the palace . The people of the city talked about him : " The young King spends all his time admiring statues , " they said . " Beauty and art are the most important things for him . " In fact , the young King was so fascinated with beautiful objects that he wanted more of them . He sent merchant to India to buy and . He sent men to Persia for carpets , and others to find in the north . He sent servants to look for green turquoise in the magic tombs of the Egyptian kings . The young King thought about all these things but most of all he thought about his robe . He was sixteen and it was his coronation day the next day . He was very happy because he had a beautiful coronation robe of gold , a crown of and a scepter of . He ordered men to work night and day to prepare his coronation robes . " Search the whole world for the biggest rubies for my crown and the most beautiful pearl for my scepter , " he said . The young King was in his beautiful bedroom and he was thinking about his coronation robes . It was and he looked around him . The room was full of silver and gold , and beautiful colors . Through the window , he could smell the perfume of jasmine , he could hear a singing and he could see the moon shining . Servants arrived and put flower petals on his pillow . He was very happy . Tomorrow was his coronation day . He played beautiful music on his lute and at midnight , he closed his eyes and went to sleep . That night the young King had a .
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