VI.
appened.
Events are the things that happened or take place in the
story/ selection.
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE TASK I
THE STONE CUTTER
Once upon a lime there was a stone cutter. The stone cutter lived in a land
where a life of
privilege meant being powerful. Looking at his life he decided that
he was
unsatisfied with
how things were and so he set out to become the most
powerful in land
.
Looking around
his land he
wondered to himself what
is
to be powerful.
powerful thing
that there is, for it shines down on all the things and all the
things grow
Looking up he saw the sun shining down on all the
land. "
The Sun must be the most
Days later, as he shone his powerfully thing on
the land, if a simple cloud
interrupted
the
greatness.
So he became
a cloud, in fact he became the most
powerful
from each touch." So he became the sun.
storm that the world had ever seen.
the land, demonstrating that he was the most powerful. Until one day he came across a
And so he blew his rain and lightning, and resounded with thunder all over
Frustrated again, he realized that the storm was not the
most
powerful thing in the land, rather it must be the boulder. So he became
the boulder
.
boulder.
For days he sat, unmovable and impassive, demonstrating his power, until one
day, a stone cutter came and chiseled him to bits.
Comprehension questions
1. Who is the main character in the story?
2. Where do you think the story happened?
3. Why is the stone cutterr unsatisfied with his life?
4.
Did he succeed on his ambition of becoming the most powerful in the land?
5. If you were the stone cutter, would you want to become the most powerful? What would
you want to be? Why?
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