|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Small Lucky Dog
by Rigba, Joshua
A long time ago there was a dog that lived in a forest. He was a lucky dog. One day, the dog went to a mountain to look for something to eat. Suddenly, the dog saw a wolf walking down the road. The wolf had a fat hare in its mouth. The small dog saw it.
"Woof! Woof!" the scared dog barked loudly.
The wild wolf heard this. He thought a hunter was chasing him. He threw away the hare and ran away quickly.
Then the dog went over and found the dead hare. He picked it up and took it home, and then he cooked it and had a great meal.
The Small Lucky Dog English Language Exercises བསྐྱར་སྦྱོང་།
|
A. Vocabulary. ཐ་སྙད། |
|
hare རི་ བོང་། bark སྐད་རྒྱག་པའམ་འབ་པ། wild རི་སྐྱེས་ཀྱི། hunter རྔོན་པ། |
meal ཟ་མ། ཟས། scare ཞེད་སྣང་སྐུལ་བ། a lucky dog །། a lucky person, བཀྲ་ཤིས་མི། e.g. “You lucky dog!” |
|
B. Write answers to these questions. གཤམ་གྱི་དྲི་བ་དག་ལ་ལན་འབྲི་དགོས། |
1. Where did the small dog live?
2. Where do you live?
3. Why did the wolf go to the mountain?
4. What was in the wolf’s mouth?
5. What did the wolf hear?
6. Why did the wolf run away without the rabbit?
7. What did the small dog have for dinner?
8. What is your favorite meal?
|
C. Put the proper words in the spaces below. ས་སྟོང་ནང་ལ་འོས་འཚམས་ཡིན་པ་མིང་ཚིག་བཞག |
1. Lhamo was very full after the __________ and quickly fell asleep.
2. These are ___________ mushrooms. I found them in high mountains.
3. He kills wild animals. He is a ____________.
4. I do not like snakes! They ___________ me!
5. Sorry! My dog __________ at new people.
6. There are many white ____________ that live on Minyak Gangkar Mountain.
|
D. Each of these sentences has mistakes. Write the sentences correctly and then read the text again. ཚིག་གྲུབ་འདི་ཚང་མའི་ནང་ན་ནོར་འཆུག་ཡོད། ཚིག་གྲུབ་ཡང་དག་པར་བྲིས་རྗེས་སློབ་ཚན་ཡང་བསྐྱར་ཀློག |
a. A long time ago there has a dog that lived in a forest.
b. He was lucky dog.
c. Suddenly the dog saw a wolf walked down the road.
d. The wolf had a hare fat in its mouth.
e. “Woof! Woof!” the scare dog barked loud.
f. The wild wolf heard this, He thought a hunter chasing him.
|
E. Put these words in the blanks below ཐ་སྙད་འདི་དག་གིས་གཤམ་གྱི་སྟོང་ཆ་སྐོངས།: to, away, over, up, for, and, down, in. |
A long time ago there was a dog that lived _____ a forest. He was a lucky dog. One day, the dog went ____ a mountain ____ look ____ something ____ eat. Suddenly, the dog saw a wolf walking _____ the road. The wolf had a fat hare _____ its mouth. The small dog saw it…
He thought a hunter was chasing him. He threw _____ the hare _____ ran _____ quickly.
Then the dog went _____ _____ found the dead hare. He picked it ____ _____ took it home…
|
F. Possible answers to C. དུམ་ཚན་ C ་ལ་ཕལ་ཆེར་ལན་ཐོབ་སྲིད། |
1. meal 2. wild 3. hunter 4. scare 5. barks 6. hares
Contributors ལེགས་སྐྱེས་འབུལ་མཁན།
|
Tibetan Name བོད་ཀྱི་མིང་། |
English Name དབྱིན་གྱི་མིང་། |
Contribution བྱེད་སྒོ། |
|
རིག་པ། |
Joshua |
Wrote the story. |
|
བསྟན་འཛིན། |
Tenzin Mullin |
Editorial assistance. |
|
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བཟང་པོ། |
Jon Lambert |
Made language exercises. |
Please note: The story first appeared in the 2007 KETP Yearbook, and is used with permission. The production of these English language exercises was influenced by texts including the Folktale Reader by Klu rgyal tshe ring, Klu rgyal, Sandra Benson and Kevin Stuart and Tibetan-English Folktales by Allie Thomas, Kevin Stuart, dPal ldan bKra shis and ‘Gyur med rgya mtsho.