Hi my class! Please read the material for reading I in the slides below and do the exercise it!
Exercise!
Work in pair. Read the following text carefully. Then, answer the questions!
The Ugly Duckling
One upon time, a mother duck sat
on her eggs. She felt tired of sitting on them. She just wished the eggs would
break out.
Several days later, she got her
wish. The eggs cracked and some cute little ducklings appeared. "Peep,
peep" the little ducklings cried. "Quack, quack" their mother
greeted in return.
However the largest egg had not
cracked. The mother duck sat on it for several days. Finally, it cracked and a
huge ugly duckling waddled out. The mother duck looked at him in surprise. He
was so big and very gray. He didn't look like the others at all. He was like a
turkey.
When the mother duck brought the
children to the pond for their first swimming lesson. The huge grey duckling
splashed and paddled about just as nicely as the other ducklings did.
"That is not a turkey chick. He is my very own son and quite
handsome" the mother said proudly.
However, the other animals didn't
agree. They hissed and made fun of him day by day. Even his own sisters and
brothers were very unkind. "You are very ugly" they quacked. The
little poor duckling was very unhappy. "I wish I looked like them" he
thought to himself.
One day, the ugly duckling run
away and hid in the bushes. The sad duckling lived alone through the cold and
snow winter. Finally the spring flowers began to bloom. While he was swimming
in the pond, he saw three large white swans swimming toward him. "Oh,
dear. These beautiful birds will laugh and peck me too" he said to
himself. But the swans did not attack him. Instead, they swam around him and
stroked him with their bills. As the ugly duckling bent his neck to speak to
them, he saw his reflection in the water. He could not believe his eyes.
"I am not an ugly duckling but a beautiful swam" he exclaimed.
He was very happy. From that day on,
he swam and played with his new friends and was happier than he had never been.
Let's do the exercise!
Answer the following questions
based on the text above!
1. What does the story tell us
about?
2. Why did the mother duck get
surprise when the largest egg cracked?
3. How did the largest duckling
look like?
4. Why did the ugly duckling run
and hide?
5. What is the moral message that
you get from this story?
