A fable is a short story that teaches a moral lesson, often featuring anthropomorphized animals. This document provides summaries of three fables: 1) The Fox and the Grapes, where a fox fails to reach grapes and claims they are sour; 2) The Cicada and the Ant, where an ant prepares for winter while a cicada sings, then the ant denies the hungry cicada food; 3) The reason why the lion roars, where animals play a trick on the lion by putting honey on his paws, causing him to roar loudly when stung by bees. Each fable illustrates a simple moral about overcoming failure or the rewards of hard work.

1. WHAT IS A FABLE?
A Fable is a short imaginary tale that
teaches a moral or a lesson. The story
can be in prose or verse, with
dialogues. In a Fable the characters
are animals that often talk and
behave like people.

2. THE FOX AND THE GRAPES
• One day a thirsty fox is in an orchard where
she sees some branches of grapes. She thinks:
“I must have those grapes”. She jumps once,
twice, three times and again, but she cannot
reach the grapes. At last she gives up, goes
away and says: “Those grapes are very sour”.

3. 1st scene

4. 2nd scene

5. 3rd scene

6. MORAL
• Some people do just as the fox does.
When they cannot get a thing, they say
that it is not good

7. THE CICADA AND THE ANT
• The ant works all summer to get food for
winter, while the cicada sings and has a good
time. When winter comes, the cicada has no
food. One day the cicada asks the ant: ”Please,
can you give me some food? I have no food
and I’m hungry”.
• The ant answers: “ I’m sorry, I can’t. In
summer I work hard to get food while you sing
and have a good time. Now in winter I can eat
because I get food in summer. In summer you
sing, now in winter you can dance”.

8. MORAL
Who has just a good time and is lazy, has no
food! Who is busy and works hard has food!

9. The beginning and the end

10. A BATONKA LEGEND:
The reason why the lion roars
• One day the animals in the jungle decide to play a
trick to the lion because his voice is low and they
cannot hear when he is out hunting. So they put
honey on his paws while he is asleep. When he
wakes up to the stings of angry and hungry bees
his voice becomes louder and louder like a
thunder. Now the animals in the jungle can hear
the lion coming.

11. 1st scene

12. 2nd scene

13. 3rd scene

14. 4th scene