PLOT
The Selfish Giant doesn’t want children playing in his garden and so it is a desolate place of snow and ice and cold winds. When children creep in through a hole in the wall, spring comes and the giant realises his folly. He helps one little child into a tree and hopes to see him again the next day. But it is a long time before he returns, with holes in his hands and feet, to take the dying giant to heaven.
EXERCISES
1. Complete these sentences from the story of The Selfish Giant.
Use one word from the box in each case.
bird boy children day door flowers friend garden
giant hand hole spring tears trees wall winter
(a) Once there was a selfish ...
(b) He had a big ...
(c) But he didn’t want the ... to play in it.
(d) So he built a high ... around it.
(e) ... never came to the giant’s garden.
(f) It was always ... there.
(g) One morning, the giant heard a little ... singing outside his window.
(h) He looked out and saw that there was a ... in the garden wall.
(i) – and there were children in all the ....
(j) One very small ... could not climb his tree.
(k) The giant opened the ... and went out.
(I) The little boy’s eyes were full of ...
(m) The giant took the little boy carefully in his ... and put him in the tree.
(n) The tree was suddenly covered with ....
(o) From then on, the children played in the garden every ....
(p) But the giant didn’t see his first little ... again for years.
2. What happened at the end of the story?
Tell the story in pairs.
Cándida Gallardo