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| + | <quote> | ||
| + | #The Hare and the Tortoise | ||
| + | #A hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise. | ||
| + | #The Tortoise replied: | ||
| + | #"Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race." | ||
| + | #The Hare believed her assertion to be simply impossible and assented to the proposal; | ||
| + | #and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal. | ||
| + | #On the day appointed for the race the two started together. | ||
| + | #The Tortoise never for a moment stopped. | ||
| + | #She went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. | ||
| + | #The Hare laid down by the wayside and took a nap under a tree. | ||
| + | #At last, he woke up and ran as fast as he could, but it was too late: | ||
| + | #the Tortoise had already won the race! | ||
| + | #Slow but steady progress wins the race. | ||
| + | </quote> | ||
Revision as of 12:26, 5 September 2012
The Corpus A2 is dedicated to the development of grammars at the A2 level. It consists of 5 short texts which are adaptations of Aesop's Fables.
Text I
This text is used during the A2 workshops.
<quote>
- The Hare and the Tortoise
- A hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise.
- The Tortoise replied:
- "Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race."
- The Hare believed her assertion to be simply impossible and assented to the proposal;
- and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal.
- On the day appointed for the race the two started together.
- The Tortoise never for a moment stopped.
- She went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.
- The Hare laid down by the wayside and took a nap under a tree.
- At last, he woke up and ran as fast as he could, but it was too late:
- the Tortoise had already won the race!
- Slow but steady progress wins the race.
</quote>
