Nasreddin was cutting a branch off a tree in his garden While he was sawing another man passed in the street He stopped and said ‘Excuse me but if you continue to saw that branch like that you will fall down with it’.

He said this because Nasreddin was sitting on the branch and cutting it at a place between himself and the trunk of the tree Nasreddin said nothing He thought ‘This is some foolish person who has no work to do and goes about telling other people what to do and what not to do’.

The man continued on his way Of course after a few minutes the branch fell and Nasreddin fell with it ‘My God!’ he cried ‘That man knows the future!’ and he ran after him to ask how long he was going to live But the man had gone.

1:What was Nasreddin doing at the beginning of this story?
2:Who passed in the street?
3:What did the man say?
4:Why did he say this?
5:What did Nasreddin say?
6:What did he think?
7:What did the other man do then?
8:What happened after a few minutes?
9:What did Nasreddin say then?
10:What did he do?
11:Why did he do this?
12:Did he find the man?
13:Why not?