Ex-Liverpool Player Pennant Hurt in Dog Attack
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Jermaine Pennant was a footballer. He played for Liverpool before.
Pennant says a dog attacked him. The dog hurt his body badly.
He needed more than 50 stitches. Doctors use stitches to close a bad cut.
The attack is called a mauling. A mauling is when an animal bites and hurts someone a lot.
Pennant was a winger in football. A winger plays on the side of the field.
He played in the Premier League. This is the top football league in England.
People do not know all the details yet. We only know Pennant needed many stitches.
Vocabulary15 words
- stitches
- small threads doctors use to close a cut
- mauling
- when an animal bites and hurts someone badly
- winger
- a football player who plays on the side of the field
- Premier League
- the top football league in England
- former
- someone who had a job before, but not now
- attack
- when someone or something hurts another person
- footballer
- a person who plays football as a job
- needed
- had to have something
- hurt
- caused pain to someone
- badly
- in a serious or bad way
- closes
- shuts or joins together
- body
- the whole physical part of a person
- played
- took part in a sport or game
- league
- a group of sports teams that play against each other
- field
- the grass area where football is played
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1. A dog attacked him 2. More than 50 3. Liverpool
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Jermaine Pennant was a _____. He played for _____ before.
Pennant says a _____ attacked him. The dog hurt his body badly.
He needed more than 50 _____. Doctors use stitches to close a bad cut.
The attack is called a _____. A mauling is when an animal bites and hurts someone a lot.
Pennant was a _____ in football. A winger plays on the side of the field.
He played in the _____. This is the top football league in England.
People do not know all the _____ yet. We only know Pennant needed many stitches.
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