A long and sad tale (1NB)

“Mine is a long and a sad tale!” said the Mouse, turning to Alice and sighing.

“It is a long tail certainly,” said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse’s tail; “but why do you call it sad?” And she kept on puzzling about it while the mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this

Now it is your turn to tell your long (and not so sad) tale. I’ll help you a bit. You just have to fill in the gaps with your own ideas. then, in class, you'll read your story out loud.

There was once a................ , named.............., whose best friend was a ...................named SaltCoat. SaltCoat came from..................., where all the....................were......................and everyone ate................. .

When SaltCoat was alone, he liked..................... with his.................... . When he was with his friens he liked.................. . SaltCoat was terribly.................... .

One.............................. day, SaltCoat was very......................... , and thought he was...................... so he put all his.........................into a.................... . He looked high and low for his friends. It turned out however, that they were.......................... . Imagine how............................... he was!

Sometimes are not what they seem.

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