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TALE 1
 NAME: ________________________CYCLE: _______________ TEACHERS: ____________________DATE: ________________ TOPIC: SCHEDULE: ___________ 
The Bears' Feast
A man had come to town with two tame bears. They were very clever bears, and could climb posts and trees,dance and turn summersets and do a great many other tricks besides.One day the man was taken ill and had to stay in the house all day. He thought the bears were locked up in the barn. But the bears decided they would go for a walk by themselves. They managed to get away without beingseen and started in the direction of the schoolhouse.The children were at recess when they suddenly saw the bears. They were frightened and ran screaming into theschool-house.The bears were very tame and kind and wanted to make friends with the children, so they followed them.The children jumped on the desks screaming and crying and the teachers were frightened too.When the bears saw that they could not make friends or play they began quietly walking about the school-room.Finally they came to the dressing-room where all the dinner-pails and baskets were hanging.Smelling the food, they managed to knock some of the baskets down and then such a feast as they had!They sat on their haunches and ate sandwiches and fruit and drank milk out of the bottles just as the childrenwould do. When they had eaten enough they quietly left the school-house and trotted down the road towardhome.After the bears were gone the children became calm again and returned to their lessons.The man and the bears disappeared the next day and were never seen again.
Reading comprehension*
Read the following questions about the text and answer them properly:
1)
Who arrive to town and what did he bring with him?
2)
What kind of animal were the bears?
3)
Why did the man have to stay at home?
4)
Where were the bears?
5)
Who saw the beats and how did they feel then?
6)
What did the bears want to do with the children?
7)
What other places did the bears visit?
8)
Who did the bears spend the afternoon?
9)
Why did the boys misunderstand the bears’ intentions?
10)
What did the bears did after the feast they had?
TALE 2
 NAME: ________________________CYCLE: _______________ TEACHERS: ____________________DATE: ________________ TOPIC: SCHEDULE: ___________ 
The Bees, the Drones, and the Wasp
 
Some working bees had made their comb in the hollow trunk of an oak.The drones said, "We made that comb. It belongs to us.""You did not make that comb," replied the workers. "You know very well that you did not. We made it."The drones answered, "That comb belongs to us and we are going to have it."So the workers took the case to Judge Wasp that he might decide the matter.The workers and the drones settled down before him. "You workers and drones," said he, "are so much alike inshape and color that it is hard to tell which has been seen in the tree. But I think the matter can be justlydecided. Each party may go to a hive in which there is no honey, and build up a new comb. The one that makescomb and honey like that found in the tree is the owner of the tree comb.""All right," said the workers, "we will do it;" but the drones said, "We will have nothing to do with such a plan."So Judge Wasp said, "It is plain to see which of you made the comb. It belongs to the workers."The drones buzzed away very angry, but they were not able to harm the workers or the judge, and the workerswent back to their tree.
Reading comprehension*
Read the following questions about the text and answer them properly:1)Who made a comb in the hollow of a trunk?2)What kind of tree was is it?3)Who asked the comb for themselves?4)Did the workers and the drones work the problem out?5)Where do they go to solve their problem?6)What did the judge ask them to do?7)Did they both agree with the wasp verdicts?8)What was the final judge sentence?9)Where did the drones go?10)Why did the drones go away?
TALE 3
 NAME: ________________________CYCLE: _______________ TEACHERS: ____________________DATE: ________________ TOPIC: SCHEDULE: ___________ 
The Believing Husbands
ONCE upon a time there dwelt in the land of Erin a young man who was seeking a wife, and of all the maidensround about none pleased him as well as the only daughter of a farmer. The girl was willing and the father waswilling, and very soon they were married and went to live at the farm. By and bye the season came when theymust cut the peats and pile them up to dry, so that they might have fires in the winter. So on a fine day the girland her husband, and the father and his wife all went out upon the moor.
 
They worked hard for many hours, and at length grew hungry, so the young woman was sent home to bringthem food, and also to give the horses their dinner. When she went into the stables, she suddenly saw the heavy pack-saddle of the speckled mare just over her head, and she jumped and said to herself,"Suppose that pack-saddle were to fall and kill me, how dreadful it would be!' and she sat down just under the pack-saddle she was so much afraid of, and began to cry. Now the others out on the moor grew hungrier and hungrier."What can have become of her?" asked they, and at length the mother declared that she would wait no longer,and must go and see what had happened.As the bride was nowhere in the kitchen or the dairy, the old woman went into the stable, where she found her daughter weeping bitterly."What is the matter, my dove?" and the girl answered, between her sobs,"When I came in and saw the pack-saddle over my head, I thought how dreadful it would be if it fell and killedme," and she cried louder than before.The old woman struck her hands-together: "Ah, to think of it! If that were to be, what should I do?" and she satdown by her daughter, and they both wrung their hands and let their tears flow."Something strange must have occurred," exclaimed the old farmer on the moor, who by this time was not onlyhungry, but cross. "I must go after them.' And he went and found them in the stable."What is the matter?" asked he."Oh!" replied his wife, "when our daughter came home, did she not see the pack-saddle over her head, and shethought how dreadful it would be if it were to fall and kill her.""Ah, to think of it!' exclaimed he, striking his hands together, and he sat down beside them and wept too.As soon as night fell the young man returned full of hunger, and there they were, all crying together in thestable."What is the matter?" asked he."When thy wife came home," answered the farmer, "she saw the pack-saddle over her head, and she thoughthow dreadful it would be if it were to fall and kill her.""Well, but it didn't fall," replied the young man, and he went off to the kitchen to get some supper, leaving themto cry as long as they liked.The next morning he got up with the sun, and said to the old man and to the old woman and to his wife"Farewell : my foot shall not return to the house till I have found other three people as silly as you," and hewalked away till he came to the town, and seeing the door of a cottage standing open wide, he entered. No manwas present, but only some women spinning at their wheels."You do not belong to this town," said he."You speak truth," they answered, "nor you either?""I do not," replied he, "but is it a good place to live in?"The women looked at each other."The men of the town are so silly that we can make them believe anything we please," said they."Well, here is a gold ring," replied he, "and I will give it to the one amongst you who can make her husband believe the most impossible thing," and he left them.As soon as the first husband came home his wife said to him,"Thou art sick!""Am I?" asked he."Yes, thou art," she answered; "take off thy clothes and lie down."So he did, and when he was in his bed his wife went to him and said,"Thou art dead.""Oh, am I?' asked he."Thou art," said she; "shut thine eyes and stir neither hand nor foot."And dead he felt sure he was.Soon the second man came home, and his wife said to him:"You are not my husband!""Oh, am I not?" asked he."No, it is not you," answered she, so he went away and slept in the wood.When the third man arrived his wife gave him his supper, and after that he went to bed, just as usual. The nextmorning a boy knocked at the door, bidding him attend the burial of the man who was dead, and he was justgoing to get up when his wife stopped him."Time enough," said she, and he lay still till he heard the funeral passing the window.
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