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?