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Story:

Nasreddin Hodja was resting under the shade of a tall and luscious walnut tree.
As he sat daydreaming, he noticed huge pumpkins growing on slight vines on
the ground. Then he looked up and squinted to see the tiny walnuts growing on
the magnificent tree. ‘How strange mother nature is,’ he thought, ‘to make plump
pumpkins grow on delicate vines while little walnuts have their own big and
strong tree.’

Just then, a walnut fell from above and landed with a ‘tock’ on Nasreddin’s head.
Hodja rubbed his sore head, picked up the fallen walnut, and looked high up
towards the branches of the tree. Then, he looked over thankfully at the swollen
pumpkins growing safely on the ground, saying, ‘Oh mother nature, you are wise!’

4. Now, let us see how can we write a story based on a given hint.
Hint: Amit and Bimal were friends. On a holiday they went walking into a forest,
enjoying the beauty of nature. Suddenly they saw a bear coming at them…

Story:

Amit and Bimal were friends. One day, they went walking into a forest, enjoying
the beauty of nature. Suddenly, they saw a bear coming at them. They became
frightened.

Amit, who knew how to climb trees very well, ran up to a tree and climbed up
quickly. He didn’t think of Bimal. Bimal had no idea how to climb a tree. He was at
a loss. He didn’t know what to do.

Bimal thought for a second. He’d heard animals don’t eat the dead, so he fell to
the ground and held his breath. He lay still as if dead. The bear sniffed him and
thought he was dead. So, it went on its way.

Amit asked Bimal, ‘What did the bear whisper into your ears?’
Bimal replied, ‘The bear asked me to keep away from friends like you’ …and went
on his way.

Now write stories for the following outlines, morals, hints and pictures.

1. Outline: a team of Indian scientists have sent an orange to space—the orange
reaches space—the spacecraft lands on an alien planet outside of the solar
system—somebody opens the door of the spacecraft—peels and eats half the
orange—the spacecraft comes back to earth with the half-eaten orange

2. Moral: There is no shortcut to success.

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