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Two Friends and the Dog
Once upon a time there were two friends. One was called Tashi and the other was called Dundop. One day the two friends were going through the village. Tashi said to Dundop, “If any any dogs come out from between the houses, I will help you."
Dundop replied, "I will help you too, if any dog comes out at you.’’
After a little time there was a great noise and a big dog came out from between the houses. At once Tashi ran and got up into a house. Dundop was a little big. He could not get up into the house, so he fell down at the foot of the house. He thought, “The dog will think that I am sleeping.’’
The dog came near Dundop. It put its nose down and smelled him. The dog thought that the boy was asleep, so the dog went away.
Then Tashi said, “What did the dog say to you when it put its mouth so near to your ear?’’
Dundop answered that the dog said, "Do not go with friends who run away from you when you need their help. I won’t eat you. I wish you sweet dreams."
གྲོགས་པོ་གཉིས་དང་ཁྱི་རྒན།
English Language Exercises བསྐྱར་སྦྱོང་།
1. Words and Expressions མིང་དང་ཚིག
village གྲོང་གསེབ། smell སྣ་ལམ་ནས་སབུགས་རྔུབ་པ། asleep གཉིད་ཁུག་པའི།
between བར་དུ། yak གཡག near ཉེ་སར། noise སྐད་ཅོར།
sweet dreams
2. Mark these sentences T (true) or F (false).
ཚིག་གྲུབ་འདི་དག་ལ (ཡང་དག་པར T དང་ནོར་འཁྲུ་ལ་ལ F ) རྟགས་རྒྱོབ།
a. There was a great noise and a yak came out from between the houses. T F
b. Dundop ran away from Tashi. T F
c. Dundop fell down at the foot of the house. T F
d. Dundop was asleep. T F
e. The dog ate Dundop. T F
f. The dog said, “I wish you sweet dreams.” T F
3. Choose the correct word in bold. ཡང་དག་པའི་ཐ་སྙད་ཆེ་འབྲི་དག་འདེམ་དགོས།
a. Once upon a time there had/were two friends.
b. One day the friends were going/gone through the village.
c. At once Tashi ran and got/get up into a house.
d. The dog will think that I am sleep/sleeping.
e. It put its nose down and smell/smelled him.
f. What did the dog say when it put it’s/its mouth so near to your ear?
g. I wish you sweet dream/dreams.
4. Edit the story and add punctuation and capital letters. Then check with the story.
once upon a time there were two friends one was called tashi and the other was called dundop one day the two friends were going through the village tashi said to dundop if any any dogs come out from between the houses I will help you
dundop replied I will help you too if any dog comes out at you
after a little time there was a great noise and a big dog came out from between the houses at once tashi ran and got up into a house dundop was a little big he could not get up into the house so he fell down at the foot of the house he thought the dog will think that I am sleeping
the dog came near dundop it put its nose down and smelled him the dog thought that the boy was asleep so the dog went away
then tashi said what did the dog say to you when it put its mouth so near to your ear
dundop answered that the dog said do not go with friends who run away from you when you need their help I won’t eat you I wish you sweet dreams
5. Write answers to these questions. གཤམ་གྱི་དྲི་བ་དག་ལ་ལན་འབྲི་དགོས།
a. Where were the two friends?
b. What made a great noise?
c. Why did Dundop fall down at the foot of the house?
d. Why did the dog go away?
e. Do you know any other stories about friends?
6. Answers ལན།
2. a. F b. F c. T d. F e. F
5. a. They were going through the village.
b. The dog made a great noise.
c. He fell down at the foot of the house, because he could not get up into the house.
d. Because the dog thought that the boy was asleep.
Note: 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.
List of Contributors ལེགས་སྐྱེས་འབུལ་མཁན།
Jon Lambert Helped edit English edition and made English language practice exercises, 12/2010