Comprehension Practice. A. Listen to the fable. State whether the sentences you hear after the text are true or false

A. Listen to the fable. State whether the sentences you hear after the text are true or false. Correct the false sentences. Do it in writing. Example:

A fox saw some nice bananas. (F). A fox saw some nice grapes.

a) “They don’t look good,” he said. (F)

b) The fox jumped and jumped. (T)

c) He didn’t want to eat the grapes. (F)

d) He jumped but he could not reach the grapes. (T)

e) The grapes were sour, not sweet and green. (F)

f) So he went away without any. (T)

g) He knew that the grapes were really very nice. (T)

h) It is silly to say that you do not want something just because you cannot have it. (T)

 

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

a) What did a fox see one day?

b) Why did he decide to eat them?

c) Why did he jump?

d) What made him think that the grapes were green?

e) What else did he say about the grapes? And why?

f) Why did he go away without any grapes?

g) What did he know?

h) What is the moral of the fable?

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

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

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

a) He just said they were sour because he could not reach them.

b) So he said, “I can see now that they are green.”

c) So he went away without any.

d) It is silly to say that you do not want something just because you cannot have it.

e) They are sour.

f) “I must try jumping for them”.

g) A fox saw some nice grapes.

h) “I do not like green grapes”.

i) Again and again he jumped but he could not reach the grapes.

j) “I don’t want them.”

k) “I want to eat them, but they are too high for me.”

l) “They look good,” he said.

m) “They are not sweet”.

n) He jumped and he jumped.

o) He knew that the grapes were really very nice.

p) “I don’t want them.”