One winter's day when the sun was shining you could hear the......... of great activity.

What you could hear was the ants who were......... drying grain.

Sensibly as all ants do, they had ......... the grain during the summer.

Their plan was to eat this ......... during the winter.

They were so ......... in their work that they didn't notice a grasshopper.

The grasshopper was so weak he was practically ......... because he hadn't eaten for ages.

He saw the ants and......... them with all the strength he could find to let him have a little food.

The ants shook their heads at him and asked him why he hadn't......... up food in the summer.

The poor grasshopper......... he had spent the whole summer enjoying himself singing and dancing.

All the ants laughed and said in that case he would have to dance ......... to bed in the winter.