Fantastic Tales

The Wolf and the Crane

By Aesop

A Wolf had been gorging on an animal he

had killed, when suddenly a small bone in the meat stuck in his throat and he could not swallow it. He soon felt terrible pain in his throat, and ran up and down groaning and groaning and seeking for something to relieve the pain. He tried to induce every one he met to remove the bone. "I would give anything," said he, "if you would take it out." At last the Crane agreed to try, and told the Wolf to lie on his side and open his jaws as wide as he could. Then the Crane put its long neck down the Wolf's throat, and with its beak loosened the bone, till at last it got it out.

"Will you kindly give me the reward you promised?" said the Crane.

The Wolf grinned and showed his teeth and said: "Be content. You have put your head inside a Wolf's mouth and taken it out again in safety; that ought to be reward enough for you."

“Gratitude and greed go not together”.

ACTIVITIES:

1. - Answer the questions:

a) Why was complaining the wolf?

b) What was the promise of the wolf if the crane helped him?

c) Where do you believe that the situation happened?

d) Why do you think about broke a promise?

e) What did you understood of the story?

The chemist

Once upon a time, in Madrid, there was a very busy chemist store.

They sold cough syrups, painkillers and band aids for the scratches.

The pharmacist served everybody very kindly and gave good advice to maintain their health.

One day her grandmother called her from the village and asked:

-My dear, don’t you have anything to make me feel better?

-What happens, grandma? –the granddaughter asked.

The grandmother was sad because the days were gray and there was no sun.

The pharmacist searched in her big shop but she did not find any useful remedy.

Then, she searched in the big book of medicines but she did not find anything either.

But then, one day she heard of a distant, very distant place…

Where the days were always sunny, and at night, the sky was illuminated by thousands of Stars.

There, some children were born with a gift: ¡To take the happiness characteristic of their homeland wherever they went!

So that, the pharmacist and her husband went on a long trip looking for such a gift.

And since

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