Activity 16: Individual

Instruction:
 Pick one story bellow / You can pick your favorite narrative story instead (send me the text)
 Practice reading it
 Record your story with your phone (video)
 Send your video to google classroom (in announcement/pengumuman)

1. The Frog Prince

Long ago there was a king who had a beautiful daughter. He loved her very much. Everyday the
Princess would sit by the old palace well and toss a golden ball high in the air and let it drop. She loved to
play this. One day she accidentally tosses her ball too high. When it came down she could not catch it. It
fell deep into the well. The Princess began to cry. “Why are you crying?” said a voice behind her. The
Princess looks down. She saw a frog. “Oh, please, Frog”, said the princess, “I lost my ball down the well.
If you bring it back to me, I will do anything you want.” “Anything at all?” asked the frog. “Yes, anything”,
said So the frog dived into the well and gave the ball back to the princess. “I don’t want money or
property”, said a frog. “Let me live with you and be favourite friend.” The princess didi not really want to let
the frog came and live with her as her favourite friend but she was an honest princess. When she made a
promise she kept it. So the frog came back with her to the palace. One day the princess discovered that
the frog had turned into a handsome prince so they got married and live happily ever after.

2. Why Doesn’t a Bear Have a Long Tail?

One afternoon, a mouse deer was sitting in a pit, eating nuts. He heard a tiger was coming
closer and he thought the tiger was going to eat him.
The mouse deer was very scared and his heart beat so hard.
Then, an idea came to his mind and he made a loud noise of chewing nuts, saying, "Wow, how delicious
is this tiger's eye!"
He repeated it for five times.
Tiger, the king of jungle, was so scared to hear that and he moved back.
Tiger met a bear on the way and he said, "Hey, Bear. Do you hear what did the animal on the pit
over there, eating tiger's eyes?"
Bear said, "I don't know, Your Majesty,"
Tiger said, "Then let's see."
Bear replied "But I'm scared, Your Majesty"
Tiger said, "Don't worry. Let's make a deal with me. We're going to stay together, uniting our tails. If
anything happens, both of us will face it."
Tiger and Bear tied their tails and moved into the pit with full cautions because they were expecting
to see a big enemy.
The mouse deer was surprised again.
He thought quickly and yelled, "Oh, that's the glutton tiger! His father owes us a white bear, now he will
pay us with a black bear. Come on black, over here."
Bear was so surprised. "Hey, it's a Tiger's trick! He wanted to use me to pay his father's debt!"
Bear went into a panic, which also made Tiger panic because they were tied each other.
Accidentally, Tiger stepped on the Bear's tail, then jumped. Bear was beaten on the ground hard, and his
tail was cut off.
That's why Bear doesn't have long tail.
Thus the mouse deer escaped from the tiger twice.
 3. The Princess and the Bowling Ball
Once upon a time there was a Prince. And this Prince’s dad and mum somehow got it into their
royal heads that no princess would be good enough for their boy unless she could feel a pea trough one
hundred mattresses.
So it should come no surprise that the Prince had a very hard time finding a Princess. Every time
he met a nice girl, his mum and dad would pile one hundred mattresses on top of a pea and then invite
her to sleep over.
When the Princess came down for breakfast, the queen would ask, “How did you sleep dear?”.
The Princess would politely say, “Fine, thank you.”
And the King would show her to the door.
Now this went for three years. And of course nobody ever felt the pea under on hundred
mattresses .Then the Prince set up a plan. He invited a Princess to sleep over in the palace. The Prince
told her what must she said in the next morning.
When the Princess came down for breakfast the next morning, the Queen asked, “How did you
sleep, dear?”.
“This might sound odd” said the Princess. “But I think you need another mattress. I felt like I was
sleeping on a lump as big as bowling ball.”
The King and Queen were satisfied, and the Prince and The Princess were married. And
everyone lived happily, though maybe not completely honestly, ever after.