For children:
comprehension of the fable
questions about the fables for children
How many animal-characters are there in each
fable?
Why, in your opinion, there are so few of them?
In the fables you have read (mark with a x the right
answer):
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Will the hawk eat the nightingale?
(yes) (no)
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The actions take place during a long
period (yes) (no)
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The actions take place during a short
period (yes) (no)
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The author tells a short story in
order to teach something (yes) (no)
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The author tells a short story in
order to entertain (yes) (no)
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The author described the animals
scientifically (yes) (no)
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The nightingale tells the hawk he'd
better not eat him .Why?
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Why is the fox not frightened by
seeing the donkey?
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The moral is a teaching. Where, in
these two fables, do you find it, at the beginning or at the end?
Underline the part of the text expressing the moral and try to explain,
with your own words, what each fable wants to teach.
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The moral often matches a proverb.
Which proverb do you find could better characterize each fable?
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“The Hawk and the Nightingale”
We reap as we sow
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A bird in the hand is worth two in
the bush
“The Donkey in the Lion's skin and the Fox” The cowl
does not make the monk
Make hay while the sun shines
