This can be your basis in teaching elements of short story.

1. GOOD MORNING!
“Everyday is a new beginning. Take a deep
breath, smile, and start again.”
-Sir Aldrin

3. A short story is a piece of
prose fiction that can
typically be read in a
single sitting.
FICTION: a literature or
story that is based on
imagination.

4. A
COLUMN B
a. stopping from doing an
action
b. to move in a hurry
c. to move fast
d. being wealthy or bounty
e. statement that requires deep
understanding
COLUMN A
1. prosperous
2. rush
3. quickly
4. logic
5. interrupted
UNLOCKING OF DIFFICULTIES
D
B
C
E

6. The Man with
Coconuts

7. One day, in a summer season an old
man gathered a coconuts, he was loading
his very heavy loads of coconuts to his
horse. The old man is happy because of
the prosperous day.
In his journey going home, he
met a young boy and asked how
long he travels to go home. The boy
thinks twice and observed the old
man. The old man seems in a hurry.
“ If you go slowy “ the boy said while
he looked at the cargo from the
horse, “You would come
immediately, but if you hurry up, it
will take you a day”

8. He couldn't believe of what he heard.
“How come that it will take me a day if I will
be in a rush?” This remains logic on the
old man’s mind.
The old man left and ran the horse
quickly. But the coconuts fell , so he
stopped to gathered them. Later, he ran
the horse faster to recover the time that
lost, but coconuts fell again. The old man
gets tired because the coconuts fell
multiple times.

9. The old man again once
interrupted from picking the coconuts.
He again think of what the boy said to
him. Suddenly, he got the logic. Since
the cart has too many coconuts in it.
He needs to slow down for him to get
home quickly because the coconuts
will fell many times if he will be in a
rush. So the old man picked again all
the coconuts and slowly ride the horse
until he gets home.