Section 2 - Reading
Unit 3. Kindness and Friendship
a. You will read a story about an elephant and his friends.
Read the outline of the story and predict the elephant’s feeling.
Setting:
Time: Characters:
One day
Elephant, monkey,
Place: rabbit, frog, fox, bear
and tiger.
A forest
Problem:
Elephant's feeling: No animal wants to be
the elephant’s friend.
? upset and hearthbroken
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One day an elephant wandered
into a forest in search of friends.
He saw a monkey on a tree.
“Will you be my friend?” asked
the elephant.
“You are too big. You cannot
swing from trees like me,”
replied the arrogant monkey,
Next, the elephant met a rabbit.
He asked him to be his friend.
But the shy rabbit said, “You are Picture 2.9. An elephant and his friends
too big to play in my burrow!” tempat bersembunyi
Then the elephant met a frog.
“Will you be my friend? He asked.
“How can I?” asked the disgruntled frog.
“You are too big to leap about like me.”
He met a fox next.
“Will you be my friend?” he asked the fox.
The sly fox said, “Sorry, sir, you are too big. You can’t run as fast as I
can.”
The elephant was upset and felt heartbroken.
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The next day, the elephant saw all
the animals in the forest running
for their lives.
The elephant asked them what the
matter was.
The great bear replied, “There is
a tiger in the forest. He’s trying to
gobble us all up!”
The animals all ran away to hide.
The elephant wondered what he
could do to save everyone in the
can(V1) could(V2) forest.
Meanwhile, the tiger kept eating
up whoever he could ind.
The elephant walked up to the
tiger and said, “Please, Mr. Tiger,
do not eat up these poor animals.”
“Mind your own business!”
growled the ferocious tiger.
The elephant had no choice but to
give the tiger a hefty kick.
The frightened tiger ran for his
life.
The elephant went back into the forest to announce the good news to
everyone.
All the animals thanked the elephant.
They said, “You are very brave and just the right size to be our friend.”
Source: Elephant and Friends : Animals Stories : Short Stories ([Link])
110 English for Nusantara | untuk SMP/MTs Kelas VIII
c. Answer the following questions.
1. What did the elephant do in the forest?
he wandered to search some friends
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2. How many animals did the elephant meet in the forest on the irst
day?
4 animals
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3. How did the animals treat the elephant during that irst day?
they were rude to him
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4. What did the elephant feel when he could not make any friends on
the irst day?
he was upset and hearthbroken
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5. Why did the animals in the forest run away on the second day?
they afraid of the tiger who ate the animals he found
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6. Did the elephant run with the other animals?
no, he didn't
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7. Was the elephant afraid of the tiger?
no, he wasn't
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8. What did the elephant do?
he gave a hefty kick
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9. What happened to the elephant in the end?
he had a friends
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10. What do you think the elephant felt at the end of the story?
he was happy
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Worksheet 2.12
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Section 3 - Language Focus
Unit 3. Kindness and Friendship
Describing Characters’ Traits and Behavior in a Story
In addition to expressing characters’ feelings, adjectives like ‘shy’,
‘mean’, ‘honest’, ‘friendly’ or ‘rude’ can describe the characters’ traits
and behavior. These Adjectives help your reader understand more
about their:
• braveness (‘brave’, ‘shy’, ‘ferocious’) galak/ganas
• capacity (‘clever’, ‘foolish’)
• morality (‘honest’, ‘kind’, ‘friendly’, ‘mean’, ‘cruel’, ‘rude’,
‘sly’, ‘arrogant’). ramah pelit
kejam kasar
licik
The Adjectives also come after the past tense forms of ‘to be’ (was, were)
and the past tense forms of some verbs like become (became). See the
following examples:
a. The Ugly Duckling was shy.
b. The two grown up chickens were also mean to the Ugly Duckling.
c. All the animals in the forest became rude to the elephant.
d. The white swans were friendly and honest with the Ugly
Duckling.
Now try to do the following activities about describing the characters’
trait and behavior as well as feelings with Adjectives from the Ugly
Duckling story (Parts 1 - 3) and the Elephant and Friends story.
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