AERIOL JOSH A.
SALMORO
Grade 7 – Everlasting
HOME READING REPORT
I. Title: The Three Wishes
Author: A tale from Sweden
II. Settings
Place: lust forest
Time: one day morning
III. Characters and their role:
Woodcutter – a hard worker that cut down trees and a good man
Wife – a housewife who wasted the second wish
Wood nymph – lived in an oak tree and granted the couple the three
wishes
IV. Difficult words with their meaning (at least 15 words)
1. berated – to scold or condemn
2. century – a period of 100 years
3. crazed – behaving in a wild or strange way
4. exhausted – very tired
5. foolish – lacking good sense; not wise
6. jewels – a precious stone
7. nymph – spirit of nature that form a young woman; a fairy
8. oak – tree or shrub that produces acorns as fruit
9. pleaded – ask for something for someone
10.sausage – seasoned ground meat put into a thin edible tube
11. supper – evening meal
12. surprised – feeling amazed
13. thrive – to grow or develop
14. wishes – feel or express a strong desire or hope
15. woodcutter – a person who cuts down trees or branches
V. Question
1. What is the story all about?
- It is all about a couple given a chance to have three wishes, but
they only wasted it.
2. What is the problem in the story?
- As they wasted the wishes, the wife foolishly wish for a sausage
would hang from the ends of her husband’s nose.
3. How is the problem solved?
- Instead wishes for golds, jewels, and farms, they wished that the
sausage to come off the husband’s nose.
4. How is the story end?
- They used the third wish to come off sausage of her husband’s
nose and it did. They never did get any golds or jewels, but they
did have enough food to eat that night.
5. What important lessons have you learned?
- If ever meet a wood nymph and granted three wishes, don’t waste
it like the couple did. And “Think before you talk.”
6. Would you recommend the story to others? Why?
- Yes, because it has a moral lesson to learned to and enjoyable to
read a fantasy story just like some bedtime stories.
VI. Summary
A woodcutter and his wife are poor and lived a simple life and often they
went hungry. As the woodcutter cut the trees down, a nymph suddenly showed
pleading not to cut her home. In exchange for being a good man, the wood
nymph granted him three wishes.
As they eat dinner, the man sighed and wished for a long sausage, and
they were surprised. He told his wife all about the nymph he encountered at the
forest. But the wife quite angry since her husband wasted just one wish. So, she
wished the sausage would hang from the end of her husband’s nose. As soon
she spoke, the sausage moved to the man’s nose. Now because of the wife’s
foolish words, the couple had just one wish left.
They discussed their options. They could still wish for golds but, if they
did it, the sausage would have a sausage hanging off his nose for the rest of his
life. They both wished for the sausage to come off the man’s nose. They never
did get any golds, but they did have enough to eat that night for dinner.
