Add a Little Dramatic Play to Learning
Short Fables
Play Scripts in Two Versions
present tense for ESL and advanced vocabulary
THE FOX AND THE GRAPES
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Hear the Story as you read
NARRATOR
Here comes the Fox who is very hungry.
He is looking for something to eat.
FOX
Aha! A bunch of grapes! There's my lunch!
NARRATOR
The grapes are high up in a tree. The Fox jumps.
FOX
Drat! I'll try again.
NARRATOR
The Fox jumps and jumps and jumps ... without success.
FOX
I'm tired out!
NARRATOR
He is so tired and weak that he can't jump any more.
FOX
Those grapes are probably sour anyway.
I'll look somewhere else.
NARRATOR
The moral of the story: It's easy to hate what you
cannot get.
(It is easy to despise what you cannot get.)
NARRATOR
One day, Fox, who was famished, was hunting around for something to eat.
FOX
(Spying a bunch of grapes hanging from a branch)
Aha! A scrumptious bunch of grapes!
There's my lunch!
NARRATOR
Unfortunately, the grapes are beyond his reach high up in a tree.
Fox springs from the ground, but misses his juicy target.
FOX
Drat I'll try again!
NARRATOR
Fox leaps several more times (Pause as fox leaps) ... without success.
FOX
(Falling down on last jump)
That's it. I'm exhausted!
NARRATOR
He is so weary and weak that he has no energy left to jump any more.
FOX
(Dragging himself off in defeat)
Those grapes are probably sour anyway. I'll look somewhere else.
NARRATOR
The moral of the story: It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
