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Creative Commons BY-NC Adapted from "If the Lights Went Out" by Avan Fathurrahman and Rizqia Sadida. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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Practice Words

Two-syllable words ending in stable final syllables -le, -al, -el, or -il.

festival medieval carnivals carnival
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A joyful crowd waves Indonesian flags at a fountain monument with dramatic light beams radiating across the sky.

We love to go and see the lights in the town, but the best lights are when there is a festival on. People come in and set up lights that turn the night into day.

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A bustling nighttime town with colorful lit buildings, market stalls, food vendors, and vehicles on winding streets.

If you look out at the town at night, you see lights in all of the houses and shops. Lights mean that we can still do things after dark.

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Three-panel comic showing a boy eating dinner, yawning and stretching, then sleeping in bed at night in blue tones.

What if the lights all went out one day? It would be a very different world. You could not see well at night. You might get scared.

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Blue-tinted aerial view of a neighborhood with family at dinner, children playing with cats, and neighbors chatting on rooftops.

We would not be able to do very much at night. It would be like medieval times. We would have to live by the sun.

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A busy daytime city street scene with buildings, traffic, pedestrians crossing, and a ferris wheel visible in the distance.

The road are only safe to drive at night because we have lights to guide the way. We can see other cars and bikes. We can see where people need to cross.

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Aerial view of a busy intersection with colorful buses, cars, motorcycles, pedestrians crossing, and city buildings.

If the lights went out, the roads would be a mess. Cars would hit each other and people would get mad. You could not get far.

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A lively night fair with a glowing ferris wheel, carousel with children riding horses, food stalls, and starry sky.

Lights can bring us a lot of joy as well. It is so fun to go to a carnival at night. We can go on the rides and play games to win toys!

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A monochrome blue-tinted amusement park scene with a sad boy on a ferris wheel, carousel, and families with balloons below.

There can be no rides if the lights go out. If the power is off, it stops a lot of things from working. No more carnivals.

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A red and white striped lighthouse shines its beam across dark waters as a ferry and small rowboat pass by at night.

A lighthouse is one way that lights keep us safe. Ships need lighthouses to show them where to go. They need to keep clear of rocks.

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A frightened fisherman in a small rowboat rides a large wave as a ferry passes by in stormy dark waters near a lighthouse.

If there were no lights, a ship would not know when it needed to slow down. It might hit a small boat or run into a cliff.

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A colorful nighttime cityscape with a train, busy streets, ferris wheel, lighthouse, and buildings glowing with lights.

When you start to think about it, you see that we make use of lights a lot in our lives. If we want to have the same lifestyle as we do now, we need lights.

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Four happy children play with glow sticks and colorful lights at a nighttime celebration with studio lights in the background.

We can learn about light and how it gets to us. If we are smart with how we make and use power, we do not have to go without.

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