THE CROOKED TREE

It was a dense forest. All trees were straight and tall. Their trunks were broad and shapely. But, there was one tree which was having a crooked and shapeless trunk. The crooked trunk tree was sad. He thought “How ugly I am! All others are straight and shapely. I alone have crooked trunk.” One day a wood-cutter came there. He looked around and said “I will cut all trees here, except that crooked tree. That is of no use to me”. He cut away all other trees. Now, the crooked tree was happy for its crookedness.

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

A grasshopper spent the summer singing and idling away his time. Meanwhile, his neighbors, a colony of ants, worked hard throughout the summer to store food for the winter. The grasshopper laughed at the ants and told them that they should enjoy the summer. The ants told the grasshopper that he should store food for the winter or he will starve when everything is frozen. When winter comes, the ants were in their nest, resting and surviving on the food that they had stored. The grasshopper came to their door, hungry and cold. He begged the ants for food and says he realized the error of his ways. The ants shared their food with him and made him promise to work hard next summer to gather and store food.

In the children's stories and cartoons in English that I read and watch, there are various kinds of moral messages. However, I found it a little difficult to understand some of the vocabulary. After finding out the meaning of all difficult vocabulary and practicing using the vocabulary in daily life, I had an interesting experience. Among them, I became able to understand the meaning of the vocabulary and better understand some sentences that use the vocabulary. And can say the vocabulary with the correct pronunciation.