10921 short story

A CONVERSATION :
Laura is at the airport. She waits for her flight. Her flight is to Berlin, and it is 4 hours
away. Laura walks around the airport and looks at the shops. She has a nice time.
After an hour she wants to visit the bathroom. She searches for it, but she doesn't find
it.
"Where is the bathroom?" she asks herself.
She looks and looks but she can't find it. She starts asking people where it is.
Laura: "Excuse me sir, could you please tell me where is the bathroom?"
Man: "You mean the restroom, right?"
Laura: "No, I mean the bathroom."
Man: "Well, the restroom is over there." He says and walks away.
Laura doesn't understand. She asks a lady: "Excuse me madam, could you please tell
me where is the bathroom?"
"The restroom is over there," the lady answers and walks away.
Laura is confused. "What's their problem? I need to use the bathroom and they send
me to rest?! I don't need a restroom, I need the bathroom!"
After a while Laura gives up. She feels tired of all this walking and asking. She decides
that maybe they are all right and she does need to rest.
She walks to the restroom. Now she is surprised. She realizes the restroom is actually
the name for a public bathroom!
THE END

Let us enjoy reading this one of African Stories of Friends Forever.
A mouse and a frog were friends. Every morning the frog would hop out of his pond
and go to visit his friend who lived in a hole in the side of a tree. He would return home
at noon.
The mouse delighted in his friend’s company unaware that the friend was slowly
turning into an enemy. The reason? The frog felt slighted because though he visited the
mouse everyday, the mouse on his part, had never made an attempt to visit him.
One day he felt he had been humiliated enough. When it was time for him to take leave
of the mouse, he tied one end of a string around his own leg, tied the other end to the

mouse’s tail, and hopped away, dragging the hapless mouse behind him.
The frog dived deep into the pond. The mouse tried to free himself but couldn’t, and
soon drowned. His bloated body floated to the top.
A hawk saw the mouse floating on the pond’s surface. He swooped down, and
grabbing the mouse in his talons, flew to the branch of a nearby tree. The frog, of
course, was hauled out of the water too. He desperately tried to free himself, but
couldn’t and the hawk soon put an end to his struggles.
In Africa they have a saying: ‘Don’t dig too deep a pit for your enemy, you may fall into
it yourself’.
WORK WITH THE STUDENT: TENSES AND CONDITIONALS
EXERCISES:
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If she ______ angry, she ___________________ to speak to you. (BE/REFUSE)
If I ________ you, I ____________________ their offer. (BE/ACCEPT)
If my nose _______ a little shorter, I ________________ quite pretty. (BE/BE)
If I ________ her name, I __________ tell you. (KNOW)
If I ____________ you, we ______________ both be unhapppy. (MARRY)


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They _________________ the opportunity if they __________ attention. (MISSED/PAID)

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If we ____________ at home, we _______________ her son. (STAY/SEE)
If he __________ earlier, he _________________ the flight. (ARRIVE/MISS )

If he ____________ more carefully, he ______________ the accident. (DRIVE/AVOID)
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They _____________ the book if they _________________ it. (FOUND/LOOK FOR)
If I ______________ that, he ______________________ so angry. (SAY/BE)
If they ______________ during their vacation, they ________________ the examination.
(STUDY/PASS)

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I __________________if I _____________ money. (TRAVEL/HAVE)

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If I _________ her address, I _______________ her an invitation. (FOUND/SEND)

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If you ___________ me, I __________________. (CALL/COME)