LESSON 3.COMPARING NARRATIVES Comparing the same narrative storyline from different cultures

In this lesson, we are going to look at a different version of the same sort of plot, firstly to see what it
says and then to think about how it is similar and different to The Hare and the Tortoise

1. Lesson 3: Comparing narratives

2. Most Essential Learning Competencies: • Use appropriate reading strategies to meet one’s purpose (EN7RC-IV-b-10) • Cite evidence to support a general statement (EN7RC-IV-g-10.4) • React to what is asserted or expressed in a text (EN7RC-IIIe-2.1.7

3. In our last 2 lessons we read folk tales and fables which fit under the type of text known as narrative . The Hare and the Tortoise is a famous fable written in Ancient Greece by Aesop. The text we do today, The Carabao and the Shell , is very similar to The Hare and the Tortoise but was included in a book of Folk Tales from the Philippines.

4. Language Practice Here are some key words from the text that you may not know or remember. Let’s say each word together. • carabao – a domestic swamp-type water buffalo. It likes to cool itself by lying in a waterhole or a river. Carabao racing is popular in the Philippines. It is native to the Philippines. • bank – the sides of a river • determined – strong-minded, will not give up • bathe – wash or just lie around in the water

5. Reading the text The Carabao and the Shell One very hot day, when a carabao went into the river to bathe, he met a shell , and they began talking together. "You are very slow," said the carabao to the shell. "Oh, no," replied the shell. "I can beat you in a race." "Then let us try and see," said the carabao. So they went out on the bank and started to run. After the carabao had gone a long distance he stopped and called, "Shell!" And another shell lying by the river answered, "Here I am!"

6. Then the carabao, thinking that it was the same shell with which he was racing, ran on. By and by he stopped again and called, "Shell!" And another shell answered, "Here I am!" The carabao was surprised that the shell could keep up with him. But he ran on and on, and every time he stopped to call, another shell answered him. But he was determined that the shell should not beat him, so he ran until he dropped dead. [Cole, M. C. (1916/2008). The Carabao and the Shell. Philippine Folk Tales. A.C. McClurg & Co.

7. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!!!!!