11154 why rabbits have short tails

A little rabbit lives in a small house in the wood. His name is Bunny. He usually sits in the grass
near his house
One day he sees the red Fox . Bunny asks her, “Where are you going , Mrs Fox?” I am going to
the town. I want to buy a new red tail.”
“Where you can buy tails, Mrs. Fox?”
“There is a Tail Shop in town. There are elephants’ tails, dogs’ tails foxes’ tails and many other
tails.”
“Oh, please, Mrs Fox, buy a tail for me too. Look at me, I have no tail!”
“All right! Do you want a rabbit’s tail?”
“Sure!”
Mrs Fox buys only one tail. Her tail is so beautiful! She forgets about Bunny. Mrs Fox runs
home to the wood. She wants to show her new tail to her friends. Bunny is waiting for Mrs Fox.
“I’m sorry”, says the Fox, “there are no tails for rabbits.”

Poor little Bunny. He is so sad. He doesn’t get a tail. A dog comes up to Bunny: “What’s the
matter? Why are you so sad? ”
“Oh,” says Bunny. “all animals have beautiful tails, but I have no tail.”
“Don’t cry! I can help you,” says the dog

He catches a cat, bites off a little piece of the cat’s tail and gives it to Bunny.


“Than you very much,” says Bunny. “Now I have a tail too, It’s very short tail, but it is a tail and
I like it very much!”
That is why rabbits have short tails.

Arrange the sentences in a logical order
1. Bunny has no tail
2. Mrs Fox forgets about Bunny
3. Mrs Fox wants to buy a new tail for herself
4. The dog catches a cat and bites a little piece off its tail

5. Bunny lives in the wood
6. A dog wants to help Bunny
7. Mrs Fox goes to town
8. Bunny asks Mrs Fox to buy a tail for him, too
9. Now Bunny has a new short tail.

Match the word with the explanation
1. a tail

1.

2. a wood

2.

a place where usually men, women and children
live
to go to the shop and give money for a thing you
want to take home


3. a house

3.

not long

4. to buy

4.

the part at the back end of an animal’s body

5. a shop

5.

not happy

6. sad

6.

7. short

7.

a place where you can go and buy things you want
or need
many trees growing in one place

Write the missing words
bites, town, wood, forgets, sees tail, buy, helps
1. Bunny lives in the ___________________
2. One day he ___________ a red Fox
3. Mrs Fox goes to ______________
4. She wants to ________ a new tail
5. Bunny asks her to buy a _______ for him
6. Mrs Fox ___________ about Bunny
7. A dog ___________ Bunny

8. He ___________ off a piece of a cat’s tail.


Find ending!
1. Mrs Fox goes to the town
2. Bunny asks to buy him a
tail
3. Mrs Fox forgets about
Bunny
4. Bunny is very sad
5. A dog bites off a piece of a
cat’s tail

1. because she likes her own tail
very much
2. because she wants to buy a new
tail for herself
3. because he wants to help Bunny
4. because he has no tail
5. because Mrs Fox doesn’t buy him
a tail

Illustrate the story and tell how Bunny gets his tail!