Winning Words Lesson Guide (Adults) Junior Winnning Words Lesson Plan Guide | Page 9

1. What is the narrator’s name? (1 mark)
2. How old is he? (1 mark)
3. How many jobs had he held in one week? (1 mark)
4. State one way that you can tell how poor the narrator is. (1 mark)
5. What does the title mean? (1 mark)
6. How did the narrator “count his chickens”? (1 mark)
7. Name three things the narrator bought. (3 marks)
8. Define irony. (1 mark)
9. Identify the irony in this story. (2 marks)
10. Was the letter the cause of the narrator’s problems? If so, in what way? If not, what
was? (2 marks)
11. How would you describe the narrator? (1 mark)
Total: 15 marks
• Alternatively ask the students to
think of aother ways a person could “count
their chickens before they are hatched”
and discuss and devise a scenario/skit
based on this.
• Have students research, discuss and
learn other proverbs. Be sure to include
Bajan proverbs. de mortar-pestle: A
Collection of Barbadian Proverbs by G.
Addinton Forde is an excellent resource
and available as an ebook on the NCF
website.
• Have students create a short story
around a proverb or idiom from de
mortar-pestle OR any others they are
aware of.