Name: B1_.L07_P141_Reading_A
Uploaded: 2014-09-21T15:21:53.000Z
Duration: 1 min 46 s
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Relative clauses (Restrictive vs. nonrestrictive)

A fable is a short story, or folktale, which uses animals as characters

and teaches us some kind of “moral” or moral lesson.

Many people are familiar with Aesop’s Fables.

Maybe you can figure out the moral each fable is trying to teach you.

A jay that was not satisfied with his appearance

He found that on the ground were a number of feathers.

“They must have fallen from the peacocks when they were changing feathers.

I can collect and use them to decorate my body,

Then he tied the feathers to his tail and   strode with pride toward the peacocks.

But the peacocks soon discovered the jay’s trick,

“Look! On his tail are the feathers that   fell from us! He is a big cheater!”

pecked at him, and plucked away his borrowed feathers.

The jay had no choice but to go back to the other jays.

However, his companions, who had watched his behavior from   a distance, were angry at him.

They said, “Now you have learned a lesson.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

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appearance