Online Class Notes (Olivia)

– do you know what is a lie?

to tell people something that is not true.

– have you seen your classmates lied before?

First, we call her Sally, she didn’t do her homework but she tell teacher, teacher I do my homework but I didn’t take to school. Teacher didn’t think she said was the truth so he told her parents, the girl was very afraid. Sally cried, and teacher talk about her do not lie, we didn’t want you play with her anymore.

– what do you think about people who often lies?

I think if they often lie to me or the others, I think if someone to do something with her a long time, people don’t think you are not saying the truth. – not trusting, stop being friends.

The boy who cried wolf!

There was once a shepherd (shepherd: people who are in charge of looking after sheep) boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. To amuse (entertain, to make one happy) himself he took a great breath (e) and sang out, “Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep!”

The villagers came running up the hill to help the boy drive the wolf away. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found no wolf. The boy laughed at the sight of their angry faces.

“Don’t cry ‘wolf’, boy,” said the villagers, “when there’s no wolf!” They went grumbling (talking with anger) back down the hill.

Later, the boy sang out again, “Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!” To his naughty (opposite of good) delight, he watched the villagers run up the hill again.

When the villagers saw no wolf, they sternly (to tell someone with a very strong attitude) said, “Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don’t cry ‘wolf’ when there is no wolf!”

The boy just laughed and laughed as he watched them all trudge (walk slowly) angrily back down the hill once more.

Later, he saw a real wolf prowling (secretly walk around) about his flock (n, a flock of cows, sheep). Alarmed, he leaped (v, jumped) to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could, “Wolf! Wolf!”

But the villagers thought he was trying to fool them again, and so they didn’t come.

At sunset, everyone wondered why the shepherd boy hadn’t returned to the village with their sheep. They went up the hill to find the boy. They found him weeping (weep, verb, sobbing, crying quietly).

“There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out, ‘Wolf!’ Why didn’t you come?”

An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village.

“We’ll help you look for the lost sheep in the morning,” he said, putting his arm around the youth, “Nobody believes a liar…even when he is telling the truth!”

Vocabulary

amuse, verb, make someone happy, to amuse someone

– I was amused when my friends told me a funny story.

noun- amusement, amusement parks – Disneyland 

– I don’t like to go to amusement parks because it is too noisy and too crowded.

grumbling, v, –talk angrily or slowly

– Today’s homework is too much, I grumbled.

naughty adj, to describe a person’s behavior

– My brother is naughty, my mother will tell him to not do naughty thing!

trudge v – walk slowly and angrily

– walking home/ trudged home – after arguing with a friend, I trudged home at night.

prowl v – someone/animal prowling around

– there is a shark prowling in the sea

– there is a cat prowling around birds

flock n – a group of animals/ people

– the shepherd boy is looking after a flock of sheep

– there is a flock of cats in the garden chasing a flock of birds.

weep v – to cry quietly or to sob

– after getting yelled at, I started to weep.

– my brother weeped sadly because he couldn’t find his favorite toy.