Practicing with Fables

The Fox and the Crow

What can the image tell you about the story?

 

Now, let's start by reading the fable individually, you can choose between both resources but we recommend you read them both, in that way you will have a better perspective of the story and more details:

1. https://read.gov/aesop/027.html

2. https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/FoxCrow.shtml#:~:text=A%20Fox%20once%20saw%20a,feathers%3B%20how%20bright%20your%20eye.https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/FoxCrow.shtml#:~:text….

How about summarizing the story in the following chart, we will be doing it in groups of three, try to be as specific as possible: (you will be given a piece of cardboard and when you are done, paste it around the classroom)

The focus of the activities will be:

Vocabulary: sly, shy, branch, crow, beautiful, shiny, feather, tricky, beak, smell, fox, beautiful, proud, cheese, tree

Grammar Structures: past simple

Structure of the activities: grouping the sentences, gap filling task with the past tense form of the verbs, labelling the parts of the crow

 

So, small detailed comprehension check: Are the statements below true or false?

1. The crow sat in the middle of the tree.

2. First, the fox saw the cheese.

3. The fox first talked about the body of the crow.

4. The crow thought he had a beautiful voice.

5. The crow dropped the whole wheel of cheese.

6. The fox waved to the crow as he left.

 

How about learning a bit about simple past?

Read the story and find the simple past form of the following verbs:

• Regular verbs: smell, follow, walk, start, bow, listen, want, open, work, trick, ask
• Regular verbs with special spelling: realize, drop, like, lie
• Irregular verbs: steal, fly, sit, have, see, say, be, think, fall, eat, get

Try to complete the following chart: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NEWupHeoSIYhmrGxS-lzXWPMdDobs8Szwi7D0zr4RTg/edit?usp=sharing

Read the information, if you have any question, let us know!

Then, Test your knowledge

 

Then why don't we link the last grammar mini lesson to adjectifs...

Read the following statements and try to find the adjectif that fits the situation:

1) The fox wasn’t … . He lied to the crow.

2) The fox said that the crow was … . He had no mistakes.

3) The crow was … . He didn’t want to show his voice. He felt uncomfortable.

4) The fox was … . He was very clever and he had a great idea.

5) The fox was … of himself. He thought that he was the best.

6) The crow was … . He felt bad and he wasn’t happy at all.

List the adjectifs you found in your notebook and try to find its opposite one, share them with the partner besides you and then share them with the class...

 

 

Guys...finally...

What would you say if you were in the place of the crow? How would you feel?

How else would you get the cheese, can you come up with alternatives? We are sharing them with the class...