Comprehension Practice. A. Listen to the fable. Write downyour answers to the following questions revealing the plot of the fable.

A. Listen to the fable. Write downyour answers to the following questions revealing the plot of the fable.

1) What did a fir tree say to a bramble bush one day?

2) Where did the conversation take place?

3) Which words describe the beauty of the fir tree?

4) What made the bramble bush very unhappy?

5) Who came up the hill next day?

6) What was the purpose of their appearance on the hilltop?

7) Why did the men decide to chop down the fir tree?

8) What did the fir tree cry as it started to fall?

9) What is said in the moral of the fable?

B. Listen to the text, divide it into communicative blocks, entitle them.

C. Listen to the fable, find the logical centre of each communicative block and of the whole text. Write them down.

D. Listen to the jumbled sentences and put them in the right order to complete the fable.

a) You are small, ugly and untidy.

b) But next day some men carrying axes came up the hill.

c) People who are too proud may be sorry later.

d) I wish I were a bramble bush, then the men would not have cut me down.

e) They wanted to use it to make a new house.

f) This made the bramble bush very unhappy because he knew the fir tree was right.

g) Look at me, I am tall, strong, graceful and very beautiful.

h) One day, on a hilltop, a fir tree said to a bramble bush.

i) What good are you?

j) They started to chop down the fir tree.

k) “Oh dear!” cried the fir tree, as it started to fall.

 

Written Practice

A. Find in the fable 1) the adjectives and adverbsdescribing appearance and states; give their degrees of comparison; 2) the nouns used in plural, write them down in singular.

B. Find in the fable the reason the fir tree felt sorry it was not a bramble bush.

C. Comment on the moral describing the proud fir tree. Express your attitude towards arrogance. Do it in writing.

D. Write down your own story, which proves the moral of the fable.