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.

a) The manger had some food in it. (F);

b) One day a dog ran into a stable and jumped into the manger. (T):

c) When the horse and cow wanted to eat their hay, the dog let them do it. (F);

d) The cow and the horse wanted to eat the hay (T);

e) It was the dog’s dinner. (F);

f) The dog didn’t let them eat the hay because it didn’t like to see somebody eat what it couldn’t eat. (T);

g) So the horse and the cow didn’t go away hungry. (F);

h) Stop others having what you don’t need. (F).

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

a) Where did a dog run into one day?

b) What is manger?

c) What was there in the manger?

d) Who came to eat the hay?

e) What did the horse and cow say when the dog didn’t let them eat the hay?

f) Why did the horse and cow have for their dinner?

a) What didn’t the dog let the horse and cow eat the hay?

b) Why did the horse and cow have to go away hungry?

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) “You don’t eat hay, so you don’t need it,” said the cow.

b) It is our dinner,” said the horse.

c) The manger had some hay in it.

d) Do not stop others having what you don’t need.

e) One day a dog ran into a stable and jumped into the manger.

f) “Because I don’t like to see you eat what I can’t eat too,” said the dog. “Go away!”

g) When the horse and cow wanted to eat their hay, the dog would not let them.

h) “Why?” asked the horse.

i) “We want the hay.

j) But the dog said, “If I can’t eat it, then I shall not let you eat it either!”

k) “Why?” asked the cow.

l) So the horse and the cow had to go away hungry.

m) It is ours.