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Each
activity is designed to encourage comprehension, thinking, and personal
expression, while exploring the emotions and lessons found in this story.
These activities are specially created for students with an A2 level of English, following a simple and accessible approach to language learning.
💫The Little Prince – Chapter 8 (The Flower)💫
I soon
learned to know this flower better. On the little prince's planet the flowers
had always been very simple. They had only one ring of petals; they took up no
room at all; they were a trouble to nobody. One morning they would appear in
the grass, and by night they would have faded peacefully away. But one day,
from a seed blown from no one knew where, a new flower had come up; and the
little prince had watched very closely over this small sprout which was not
like any other small sprouts on his planet. It might, you see, have been a new
kind of baobab.
The shrub
soon stopped growing, and began to get ready to produce a flower. The little
prince, who was present at the first appearance of a huge bud, felt at once
that some sort of miraculous apparition must emerge from it. But the flower was
not satisfied to complete the preparations for her beauty in the shelter of her
green chamber. She chose her colors with the greatest care. She dressed herself
slowly. She adjusted her petals one by one. She did not wish to go out into the
world all rumpled, like the field poppies. It was only in the full radiance of
her beauty that she wished to appear. Oh, yes! She was a coquettish creature!
And her mysterious adornment lasted for days and days.
Then one
morning, exactly at sunrise, she suddenly showed herself.
And, after
working with all this painstaking precision, she yawned and said: "Ah! I
am scarcely awake. I beg that you will excuse me. My petals are still all
disarranged . . ."
But the
little prince could not restrain his admiration: "Oh! How beautiful you
are!"
"Am I
not?" the flower responded, sweetly. "And I was born at the same
moment as the sun . . ."
The little
prince could guess easily enough that she was not any too modest--but how
moving--and exciting--she was!
"I
think it is time for breakfast," she added an instant later. "If you
would have the kindness to think of my needs--"
And the
little prince, completely abashed, went to look for a sprinkling-can of fresh
water. So, he tended the flower.
So, too,
she began very quickly to torment him with her vanity--which was, if the truth
be known, a little difficult to deal with. One day, for instance, when she was
speaking of her four thorns, she said to the little prince: "Let the
tigers come with their claws!"
"There
are no tigers on my planet," the little prince objected. "And,
anyway, tigers do not eat weeds."
"I am
not a weed," the flower replied, sweetly.
"Please
excuse me . . ."
"I am
not at all afraid of tigers," she went on, "but I have a horror of
drafts. I suppose you wouldn't have a screen for me?"
"A
horror of drafts--that is bad luck, for a plant," remarked the little
prince, and added to himself, "This flower is a very complex creature . .
."
"At
night I want you to put me under a glass globe. It is very cold where you live.
In the place I came from- -"
But she
interrupted herself at that point. She had come in the form of a seed. She
could not have known anything of any other worlds. Embarrassed over having let
herself be caught on the verge of such a naïve untruth, she coughed two or
three times, in order to put the little prince in the wrong.
"The
screen?"
"I was
just going to look for it when you spoke to me . . ."
Then she
forced her cough a little more so that he should suffer from remorse just the
same.
So the
little prince, in spite of all the good will that was inseparable from his
love, had soon come to doubt her. He had taken seriously words which were
without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
"I
ought not to have listened to her," he confided to me one day. "One
never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and
breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to
take pleasure in all her grace. This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much,
should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity."
And he
continued his confidences:
"The
fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged
by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I
ought never to have run away from her . . . I ought to have guessed all the
affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so
inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her . . ."
💫Reading Activity💫
Instructions:
After reading the chapter, answer the following
True or False
The rose loved the wind.
The rose wanted protection.
The prince understood the rose from the beginning.
The rose never lied.
The prince was sad when he left.
Vocabulary Match
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Proud | ___ a) Sad and alone |
| Difficult | ___ b) Not easy to deal with |
| Lied | ___ c) Said something untrue |
| Lonely | ___ d) Feeling very good |
Instructions:
Answer the following comprehension questions according to the text:
1. What does the Little Prince take care of on his planet?
- A) A tree
- B) A flower
- C) A bird
2. How does the flower describe herself?
- A) Ugly
- B) The only one of her kind
- C) Very small
3. What does the flower ask the Little Prince to do?
- A) Sing to her
- B) Protect her and give her water
- C) Take her to another planet
4. Why does the Little Prince feel sad sometimes?
- A) Because the flower is proud and he doesn’t always understand her.
- B) Because the flower never talks to him.
- C) Because the flower is weak.
5. What does the Little Prince do before he leaves his planet?
- A) He takes the flower with him.
- B) He cleans his volcanoes and waters the flower.
- C) He builds a house for the flower.
6. What does the flower say at the end?
- A) "I need more water."
- B) "I am strong. I can take care of myself."
- C) "Please don’t leave."
💫Writing Activity💫
Instructions:
Write a short paragraph (5–8 sentences) about how the Little Prince feels about the flower. Use the past tense and simple adjectives.
Instructions:
Fill-in-the-Blank Version:
-The Little Prince had a flower on his ____.
-The flower was very ____ and ____.
-He ____ (like/love) the flower very much.
-Sometimes the flower was ___, but also a little _____.
-The Little Prince ____ to the flower every day.
-He wanted to ____ care of her.
-He felt ____ when he looked at the flower.
-The flower was very ____ to him.
Useful Vocabulary:
beautiful – proud – special – shy – love – talk – important – take care of – happy – strange – planet
💫Write your answers to each activity in the comments!💫
Esther Acosta Bernal
Andrea Sofía Balderas Calderón
Aura Valeria Hernández Pérez
