Oral Exercise. 1. Pronounce each word in the following list as your teacher pronounces it to you:
| can | when | what | often |
| catch | where | which | three |
| just | why | while | because |
2. Read the entire list rapidly, but speak each word distinctly and correctly.
3. Use in sentences the words in the list above.
12. More Making up of Fables
Of course you have heard the fable of the foolish little chick. That chick paid no attention to its mother's warning to stay near her. You probably remember that it boldly wandered away from her and was caught by a hawk.
Oral Exercise. 1. If there are any pupils in the class who do not know the fable of the foolish chick, some pupil who remembers it clearly should tell it to them, so that all may know it. What is the lesson of that fable?
2. Make up a short fable like the one of the careless chick and the hawk. Read the following list of ideas for such a fable. Perhaps it will help you to make up an interesting story to tell the class. Perhaps the class will wish to play your story.