This document provides a summary of Lecture 1 from the English Story-telling Level 1 course on Aesop's fables. It introduces Aesop and his fables, then summarizes the stories of "The Fox and the Crow" and "The Goose with the Golden Egg." In "The Fox and the Crow," a fox tricks a crow into dropping its cheese by flattering it. In "The Goose with the Golden Egg," a couple kills their goose thinking it contains gold eggs inside, but find nothing. The lecture concludes by asking the student to narrate their own story and announcing another fable will be discussed tomorrow.

1. English Story-telling Level 1
Topic 1: Aesop fables
Lecture 1: Fox and the crow, Goose with the golden Egg

2. Aesop Fables
Let us learn who Aesop was and what are Aesop
Fables before we go into the story.

3. Aesop's Fables is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a
slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece
between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories
associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern
times through a number of sources.

5. Let us now read the story…
A Fox once saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in
its beak and settle on a branch of a tree.
"That's for me, as I am a Fox," said Master Reynard, and
he walked up to the foot of the tree.
"Good day, Mistress Crow," he cried. "How well you
are looking today: how glossy your feathers; how bright
your eye. I feel sure your voice must surpass that of
other birds, just as your figure does; let me hear but
one song from you that I may greet you as the Queen
of Birds."

6. The Crow lifted up her head and began to caw
her best, but the moment she opened her
mouth the piece of cheese fell to the ground,
only to be snapped up by Master Fox.
"That will do," said he. "That was all I wanted.
In exchange for your cheese I will give you a
piece of advice for the future: "Do not trust
flatterers."

7. And what did we came to know from the story?
Don’t fool other. Otherwise you will be fooled.

8. Let us now watch a video on the
story…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXzXieRaR
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10. Let us now read and listen to
this story….
A man and his wife owned a very special goose. Every day the
goose would lay a golden egg, which made the couple very rich.
"Just think," said the man's wife, "If we could have all the golden
eggs that are inside the goose, we could be richer much faster."
"You're right," said her husband, "We wouldn't have to wait for the
goose to lay her egg every day."
So, the couple killed the goose and cut her open, only to find that she
was just like every other goose. She had no golden eggs inside of her
at all, and they had no more golden eggs.
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11. Moral of the story: Too much greed results in
nothing.

12. Let us now watch a video on the
story…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFN-
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13. Activity
As we have read these two stories, now it is your
turn to narrate a story for me….any story you
like…

14. Tomorrow, we will first listen to your story and
then we will read another story from Aesop
Fable….

15. Thank You
See you Tomorrow with some more fun stories!!