1. Complete the text

2. Ibn Batuta ____________ in 1304. 1304 - 1386 was born First, he __________ to go to Mecca. decided He ______ very hard and ________ a lot about Arabic language. studied learned He was very____________ but he ____ ______ home. didn’t return homesick After that he _____ to Iran and Turkey. went

3. While he ___ ____________, he _______ many wonderful places, ______ interesting people and _________ exciting stories. He ________ about all these things. Next he ________ the Himalaya mountains and ________ in India for 8 years. was travelling saw met heard wrote crossed stayed

4. Then he _________ to go to the East – to China. He ____ ____ with a fleet of boats but ______ ___ a terrible storm and all the boats ______. Ibn Batuta _____ everything except his prayer mat and 10 gold coins. He ________ China in 1344. decided set out there was lost reached sank

5. Ibn Batuta was one of the ________ Arab travellers. His books are very ____________ because they _____ us a lot about life at that time. greatest important tell