Manager Angela Alvano shows a Subway sandwich.
Photo by Ric Ernst, The Vancouver Sun

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun and www.wikipedia.org

Level 2

Subway restaurants are successful in B.C.
Recently, the 400^th Subway store opened in Vancouver.
The restaurant is near Rogers Arena.
An arena is an indoor sports place.
The Vancouver Canucks hockey team plays there.
It is a good place to put a Subway restaurant.
Many hockey fans are hungry before or after hockey games.
Subway stores are in 104 communities in B.C.
Subway hires about 4,000 people.

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Solly’s cinnamon buns, Vancouver
Photo courtesy of Jenn Chic, WE Vancouver

Adapted from WEVancouver

Level 2

Leah Markovitch owns Solly’s in Vancouver.
Solly’s is a bakery and deli.
The bakery makes Jewish baking.
They serve soup and sandwiches, too.
You can sit down. You can have a snack.
Or you can eat a nice lunch.

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Photo by Lori Bartsch
Cattle at North Valley Farm in Abbotsford, B.C.

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 1

Many people know the word “carpool”.
You go to work in a friend’s car.
You take a friend in your car.
You drive another child to school.
Several people ride in one car.
This is a “carpool”.

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