1. Answer these questions.

Whats the theme of the story? Write a short summary of the story.
Who were on the train?
How did the conversations between aunt and children start?
Why is the bachelor angry? Describe him.
Why does the aunt tell the children a story? Do they like it? Why?
Why were the children more interested in bachelors story? What makes it
special?
Why do you think the bachelor felt sorry about the woman?
Whats an improper story?
What was the bachelors secret about telling stories?
2. Match the words with the meanings.

Field / clink / aunt / politeness / bachelor / improper / take

out / bush / myrtle / housefly / story-teller / run into / unkind
/ claw / thick/ at once
A person who tells stories
An unmarried man
A common fly
A piece of land cleared of trees usually enclosed.
Extract or remove
Immediately, simultaneously
Unsympathetic or cruel
A sister of ones father or mother
Showing regard for others, in manners, speech, behaviour; courteous.
A curved pointed horny process on the end of each digit in some animals.
Any evergreen shrub
A dense woody plant, smaller than a tree.
Of relatively great extent from one surface to the other.
To make or cause to make a light and sharply ringing sound.
To encounter unexpectedly
Unsuitable for a certain use or occasion.
3. What will happen next? Write another similar story. You can start like
this: When the bachelor stepped down from the train