The Yellow King held a competition each year to name animals of the zodiac. The rat pushed the cat into the lake and finished first, while the ox was second. The tiger arrived third by swimming. Later, the rabbit, dragon, snake, and horse arrived in fourth through seventh place respectively. The goat, monkey, hen, dog, and pig rounded out the competition in eighth through twelfth place.

1. The Yellow king

2. Hi! This is a competition! Ready, steady… go !!! Was upon a time….a Chinese King called “The Yellow King”. He decided to do a competition in order to give every year a name of an animal.

3. The ox, the cat and the rat went first. But during the way….

4. The rat pushed the cat to the lake and…later….

5. The rat jumped out, he was first! The ox looked amazed…and he was second.

6. 1. 2 .

7. 3. Later, the tiger arrived swimming. He was the third one.

9. 4. Then, the rabbit came jumping. He was the fourth one.

10. 5. In the fifth place came the dragon.

11. The King asked the dragon: “You can fly! , Why are you so late?” He said: “ well, it was rainning….”

12. “ “ And I waited until it was sunny” “ I don´t like water!”

13. The snake and the horse came together but the snake jumped and become sixth and the horse, he looked angrily, seventh.

14. 6. 7.

15. 8. 9. 10. Afterwards, the goat, the monkey and the hen arrived.

17. 11. The dog was almost the last one, the 11th because he stopped for having a bath.

18. 12. The pig was the last one, the 12th because he was very hungry and stopped for eating some corn.

20. 2007 1995 1991 PIG 12 2006 1994 1990 DOG 11 2005 1993 1981 HEN 10 2004 1992 1980 MONKEY 9 2003 1991 1979 GOAT 8 2002 1990 1978 HORSE 7 2001 1989 1977 SNAKE 6 2012 2000 1988 1976 DRAGON 5 2011 1999 1987 1975 RABBIT 4 2010 1998 1986 1974 TIGER 3 2009 1997 1985 1973 OX 2 2008 1996 1984 1972 RAT 1

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