THE SPIDER AND HIS TWO FRIENDSA NIGERIAN STORY BY ABIMBOLA ALAO
Lesson Aims:To show awareness of the results of being greedy
Lesson Objectives:Write a story based on the originalCreate a proverb on the theme of greed
Can you be in two places at once?
REWRITING THE STORY
Your task is to write the story in your own words, adding your own details
Make sure to change:the charactersthe desirable thing that is offeredthe dilemma in which the main character
finds himselfThe lesson the main character learns
should remain the same.
PROVERBSResearch existing proverbs and then come up
with your own on the theme of greed
Some proverbs include:
“More haste, less speed.”“Don't count your chickens before they are
hatched.”“The pot calls the kettle black.”
What do you think they mean?
