Sharing at the Market
Listen to a story and understand cause and effect.
🎯 What You'll Learn
You will learn about cause and effect — understanding why things happen in a story.
🌟 Let's Start
Sometimes one thing makes another thing happen. If you drop a glass, it breaks. Dropping the glass is the cause. The glass breaking is the effect. Let us find causes and effects in a story.
📚 The Story
Tunde and his big sister Yemi were selling oranges at the market for their mother. They had a big basket with fifty oranges.
An old woman came by. She looked tired and hungry. "Please, I have no money, but I am very thirsty," she said. Yemi felt sorry for her and gave her two oranges for free. Because Yemi was kind, the old woman smiled and thanked her many times.
Later, a young boy tripped and knocked over their basket. Many oranges rolled onto the ground. Because the oranges fell, some of them got bruised and dirty. Tunde was upset.
But then, other traders nearby came to help. They picked up the oranges and cleaned them. One trader even gave Tunde five extra oranges from her own basket. Because Yemi had been kind earlier, the traders wanted to be kind too.
At the end of the day, Tunde and Yemi had sold all their oranges. They went home happy.
🎮 Let's Practice
- Cause: Yemi gave the old woman oranges. Effect: What happened?
- Cause: The boy tripped and knocked the basket. Effect: What happened?
- Why did the other traders help Tunde and Yemi?
Click to see answers
- The old woman felt happy and thanked Yemi.
- The oranges rolled onto the ground and some got bruised.
- The traders helped because they saw that Yemi was kind, and they wanted to be kind too.
💡 Remember
Cause is WHY something happens. Effect is WHAT happens. Ask yourself: "Why did this happen?" to find the cause, and "What happened next?" to find the effect.