Remember: The Bible tells how people who built a tower with one language ended up with many, and spread over the earth.
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One language, one towerAt first, everyone on earth spoke the same language. The people settled on a wide, flat plain in the land of Shinar, between two big rivers. They made bricks of river mud and baked them hard in the fire, with sticky tar to hold them together. They wanted to build a city and a tower that reached the sky, and to make a great name for themselves, so they would not be scattered over the earth. The tower rose higher and higher. Then the Bible says God came down to see the city and the tower, and mixed up their language. The builders could no longer understand each other, so they stopped. The people spread out over the whole earth, and the place was named Babel, which means mixed up.
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At the start of the story, people spoke many different languages.
TrueFalse
2
What held the bricks together?
🟫River mud🛢️Sticky tar🪨Big stones
3
Circle everything the people used to build.
🧱Bricks of river mud🛢️Sticky tar🪨Big stones🏗️Steel cranes
4
The people settled on a wide, flat plain in the land of .
BabelEgyptShinar
5
What happened to the builders' words?
🔀They got mixed up, so the builders could not understand each other📣They got louder🗣️They all became the same
Match, order and look back
6
Join each word to what it means in the story.
1Shinar
2Babel
3tar
4scatter
Aa name that means mixed up
Bsticky stuff to hold bricks
Cto spread out in many directions
Da wide, flat land between two rivers
7
Number the story in order.
The tower goes up
The people spread out
They plan a tower
The people make bricks and tar
The words get mixed up
Everyone speaks one language
8
In that land, people built stepped towers of brick with stairs up the sides.
TrueFalse
9
Where did the people go in the end?
🗼They finished the tower and lived in it⛰️They moved into the mountains🧭They spread out in every direction
Fix it and stretch
10
Sam wrote that the builders stopped because they ran out of bricks. Fix it: they stopped because their got mixed up.
11
Write one kind thing you could do for a new friend who speaks a different language.
12
Draw the tower half built, with ladders leaning on it.
13
Which sentence gives the story's reason for the name Babel?
🗼The tower reached the sky🔥The bricks were baked🔀There the language was mixed up
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Answer key · Set A
The tower of Babel
1False At first everyone on earth spoke the same language, so everyone could understand everyone.
2Sticky tar They used bricks instead of stone, with sticky tar to hold them together.
3Bricks of river mud, Sticky tar In that land bricks were made of river mud, baked hard, and joined with tar. They carried bricks up ladders; there were no cranes.
4shinar Shinar was a wide, flat land between two big rivers.
5They got mixed up, so the builders could not understand each other The language was mixed up, and the builders could not plan or go on building.
61-D, 2-A, 3-B, 4-C Each word is explained in the story.
74, 6, 3, 2, 5, 1 One language first, then bricks, the plan, the tower, the mixed-up words, and last the spreading out.
8True The story tells us towers in that land were stepped, with stairs up the sides.
9They spread out in every direction Some went north, some south, some east and some west, each with their own words.
10language They had plenty of bricks. The mixed-up language meant they could not plan together.
11Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
13There the language was mixed up The place was named Babel, which means mixed up, because there the language was mixed up.
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