A frog was looking for a pond but none of the farm animals knew where to find one. They asked a cow, dog, cat, and elephant if they knew of any ponds nearby. The elephant said in his country, elephants sing and it makes it rain, forming ponds. He sang terribly and it started raining, forming a large pond. Though the frog found water, the farm animals were left with headaches from the elephant's awful singing for months.

1. A frog without a pond
by
Casimiro Román Carnero

2. NEW VOCABULARY
• Frog: Rana
• Without: Sin
• Pond: Charca, estanque
• Farm: Granja
• Snail: Caracol
• Prairie: Pradera
• Rain: Llover, lluvia
• Bone: Hueso
• Shut Up: Cállate
• Fatty: Gordinflón
• Boring: Aburrido
• Cloudy: Nublado

3. Once upon a time in a farm not too far, there were
a cow, a dog, a cat and an elephant…
A snail lived in the grass on the prairie…
That year had no rain at all…

4. One day a frog came looking for a pond
Excuse me, Mr. Snail: Do you know
where is a pond?

5. I don’t know, but let’s ask the other animals.

6. Then, they went to ask the other animals:
Do you know where is a pond?

7. I don’t know. But I know a place where there are
lots of bones. Do you like bones?
Have you ever seen a frog eating bones?

8. Excuse me, but in my country…

9. Do you know where is a pond, Mr. Cat?
I don’t know. Cats hate water!

10. Excuse me, but in my country…

11. Do you know where is a pond, Ms. Cow?
I don’t know. What a boring conversation!

12. Excuse me, but in my country…

13. Hey! Let’s listen to Mr. Elephant.
He has lived in other countries and
he could help us to solve the problem.

14. In my country, the elephants sing a song
and immediately the sky clouds over
and it starts to rain.

15. Then, the Elephant began to sing so, so, so bad
that suddenly black clouds appeared so full of
water that when it rained, a big pond appeared
in the lower part of the prairie.

16. In the end getting a pond wasn’t so hard…
But poor animals in the farm… They had a
headache for months! What a horrible singer!

17. That’s all folks