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Paul Scharner reading challenge 1

The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo

Watch the clip on the Premier League website and pause the video when you are ready to answer the questions. The Premier League website will open in a new window.  

West Bromwich Albion   Paul Scharner   watch video

Complete all of the questions below, add your first name and your school number if you have one, then collect your reward. The challenge text on the right will help you find the right answers.

Challenge Text

I was homesick after a letter from my mother. Basher Beaumont had cornered me in the bootroom and smeared black shoe-polish in my hair. I had done badly in a spelling test, and Mr Carter had stood me in the corner with a book on my head all through the lesson – his favourite torture. I was more miserable than I had ever been before. I picked at the plaster in the wall, and determined there and then that I would run away.

 
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