When Mulan''s father was too ill to fight in the army, his daughter, Mulan, cut off her hair and put on men''s clothes. She rode away from her village and went to the army, to become a great soldier.

This Level 4 Reader is A2 in the CEFR framework a nd supports YLE Flyers exams. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, more complex past and future tense structures, modal verbs and a wider variety of conjunctions.