One normal day Mrs. Giraffe was at home watching television when they ran a commercial that she loves with a very catchy song, Mrs. Giraffe named Lucy is about to sing her song she felt her throat hurt a lot, so she decided she had to go visit Doctor Dog named Josef.
That same day in the afternoon, Mrs. Giraffe arrives at the Doctor Dog office and there is a long queue of patients in front of her, so she has to sit down and wait for her turn, after 30 minutes from her arrival it is Mrs. Giraffe's turn. and says to the Doctor, - How are you Doctor? I come here because I have not been able to sing my favorite song because when trying to do it my throat hurt a lot and I come for you to examine me and prescribe something! - Immediately the Dog Doctor is about to examine his patient but at that moment he She realizes that since Mrs. Giraffe has a very high neck, it is impossible to reach her.
-Nurse Betty, please bring me the ladder- says the Doctor to the nurse cat, - I'll immediately bring it to you Doctor! - he answers.
The Doctor gets on the ladder up to Mrs. Giraffe and examines her throat and says -If my dear Lucy has a very sore throat, you are going to need many pills with Lemon! - I will immediately bring them to her, says the Nurse! - and runs to the next room to look for the pills, after a while the Doctor and Mrs. Giraffe notice that Betty the nurse takes longer than normal and they decide to go look for her, when they arrive at the site they get Betty sticking the pills one with the other and the Doctor says - Betty, what are you doing? - Doctor, you told me I needed pills in a lot! - At that moment both the Doctor and Mrs. Giraffe laughed a lot and the nurse had misunderstood, the Doctor had said pills with Lemon !.
After laughing so much and laughing, Mrs. Giraffe says to the Dog Doctor-! I think the only thing I needed was to laugh a lot so that my throat was relieved Doctor, I will not need those pills, thank you very much! -.
Mrs. Giraffe returned home very happy and without any pain and began to watch television and sing that commercial that she liked so much since she did not have any kind of pain.
Comprehension Questions:
1.-What was Mrs. Giraffe doing when she felt pain?
2.-What hurt Mrs. Giraffe?
3.- What was Mrs. Giraffe's name?
4.- What species was the Doctor and what was his name?
5.-What species was the nurse and what was her name?
6.-What was the first thing the Doctor asked the nurse because he was not enough for Mrs. Giraffe?
7.-What was the second thing that the Doctor asked the nurse?
8.-What did the nurse understand that the Doctor had asked for?
9.- What was the remedy that Mrs. Giraffe took to relieve her throat?
10.- When you got home, what did Mrs. Giraffe do?
Reading objectives:
At the end of the story, the children must know how to identify the characters, establish what are the values involved in the plot and answer all the questions from the understanding.
Established for children between 4 and 5th Grade of Primary.
Activity duration time: Between 25 and 30 minutes
