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Lesson 11
One good turn deserves another
The Ant and the Dove
An ant is walking by the river. He looks at the river and says to himself, “How nice and cool this water looks! I must drink some of it.” But when he is drinking, he slips into the river.
“Oh.Help!Help!” The ant cries,
A dove is sitting in the tree. She hears him and throws him a leaf, “Climb up that leaf,” she says “and you will float bank.”
The ant climbs onto the leaf, and the wind blows the leaf to the bank. And the ant is saved.
“Thank you, Dove. You’re so kind,” The ant says and runs home, “You have saved my life, and I wish I could do something for you, Goodbye!”
“Goodbye!” says the dove, “Be careful. Not to fall into the river again.”
After a few days, the dove is building her nest. And a man is raising his gun to shoot her.
The ant sees this, and runs quickly to bite the man’s leg. “Ouch! Ouch!” The man feels pained and drops his gun. The dove hears and flies away. So the man picks up his gun and leave.
The dove comes to her nest. “Thank you, my little friend,” she says, “You have saved my life.”
The little ant is so glad, because he can help the dove.
One day a little ant was walking along the bank of a stream. His foot slipped and he fell into the water. A dove was sitting on a branch of a tree over the stream pulled off a leaf and dropped it near the ant. The ant climbed on it at once and floated to the bank.
A few days after this a hunter found the dove and was going to shoot her. Just then the ant passed by and ran to the hunter and bit his foot hard. The hunter missed to shoot the dove.
Discuss
Do you think “One good turn deserves another ”(礼尚往来) is good? Why?
New words and expressions
★ turn
turn n. 1)行为, 举止
2)(帮助或损害他人的)举动、行为
Yesterday George did me a good/an ill turn.
乔治昨天做了一件对我有利/不利的事。
He is always ready to do a turn for others.
他总是乐于为他人做好事。
★deserve v.
He deserves praise.
You deserve the best.
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