Question

Question :

The Potatoes, The Eggs and The Coffee Beans
“Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was
miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was
tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was
solved, another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and
placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed
potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the
third pot.
He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The
daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of
the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the boiled eggs out and placed
them in a bowl.
He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked.
‘Daughter, what do you see?’
‘Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,’ she hastily replied.
‘Look closer,’ he said, ‘and touch the potatoes.’ She did and noted that they
were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the
shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee.
Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
‘Father, what does this mean?’ she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced
the same adversity– the boiling water.
However, each one reacted differently.
The potato went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it
became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until
it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to
the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
‘Which are you,’ he asked his daughter. ‘When adversity knocks on your door,
how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?’

Task 1
As the focus of this lesson is ‘naming’ (i.e. use of nouns) and describing (use of
adjectives), can you list the nouns and adjectives in the story you have read ?


Task 2
Using the nouns you are familiar with from the passage given, complete the
following sentences
1. A person for whom cooking is a profession is known as a _______
2. There is a proverbial expression which says, “Don’t add fuel to the
_______”
3. This endless argument is like asking, “Which came first, the chicken or
the_____?”
4. The empowered woman doesn’t spend her life in the ______: just
cooking and cleaning _____ and pans.
5. You should be emotionally strong in times of ________

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Answer 1

Answer:

its grammar portion

Explanation:

take a book of English grammar and solve all your problems

Answer 2

Explanation:

chef

fire

egg

kitchen

struggle