1. Friendship Happiness Being Hardworking

2. Efe has got a diary. He writes his good memories in this diary every day. He always brings it to the school in order not to forget anything.

3. At the school, his teacher praised him and he became very happy. He wrote this event in his diary. Then he went to the school garden.

4. His deskmate Toprak was curious about his diary and read it without permisson. When Efe came to the classroom, Toprak made fun of him and told to his other classmates. Efe got upset and shy.

5. At that moment, the teacher came and asked them what happened. The students told the situation. The teacher said “ This behaviour is very bad and unrespectful. This diary is special for him. Toprak, apologize to Efe please.”

6. Toprak understood his mistake and apologize for his behaviour. They became good friends again and Toprak understood that friendship is always very important.

7. There is a girl named Ece. She is a very selfish girl. She doesn’t love anyone and have any friends. She doesn’t know how to make a new friend. So she gets boring alone and gets angry.

8. One day, a new neighbour moves to their next door. Their daughter’s name is Ayşe. Ayşe wants to know every child in the neighbourhood and she goes to Ece’s house to meet her.

9. Ece gets surprise, but becomes very happy. After that they become very close friends. They always be together during their bad and good days. They never lie to each other. Ece understands friendship’s meaning very well thanks to Ayşe.

10. Swallow and sparrow became close friends. They started walking around in together. Other swallows said nothing at the beginning about this circumstance. However, the things changed when the swallow started bringing the sparrow to its nest. Nest of the swallow was under the eaves of an empty wooden house and there were many nests of swallow next to it. Going there from and thereto made swallows disturbed.

11. Swallows held a meeting and they appointed a spokesman. This spokesman told about this circumstance with it in a suitable time and said it not to bring this sparrow to its nest.

12. Although the swallow showed some obstinacy, it finally was obliged to obey by this requirement. One night the sparrow suddenly wakened while it was sleeping. Tree on which it built up its nest among its branches was swinging. It flied away and had a look-see round the environment. Thereupon, it recognised that it was an earthquake.

13. Its close friend, the swallow, came to its mind. It arrived at its nest and it weakened its close friend. It said the swallow to weaken other swallows and the wooden house may be fallen onto the ground. The swallow fulfilled what it said. Once the last swallow flied away there, the wooden house was fallen onto the ground. Later, swallows set up new nests under eaves of another house and they did make no rejection for the sparrow to go from and to the nest of the swallow for the reason that they were owed their life to it.

14. Ahmet’s mother and father were poor. They were living in a small house with only one room. Since his father’s lungs were ill, he compulsorily retired. Ahmet finished primary school in difficulty by selling pretzel out of school time. Later by the help of his neighbour he started to work in a restaurant to do the washing up. Ahmet had taken the first step to realize his dreams.

15. He had met the wonderful meals which he formerly used to see behind the restaurant windows. Now he had full three courses a day. He had kept Uncle Veli, who was cooking in the restaurant, observing. He would learn cooking from him and he would be a cook himself, too but Ahmet would work not in somebody else’s restaurant but in his own one.

16. Ahmet opened a restaurant in the city centre after he had done his military service. Because his meals were very delicious, the restaurant was full of customers. He was earning well. Sometimes poor people used to come to the restaurant and eat free meal.

17. The waiters working in the restaurant and the customers couldn’t find any sense of Ahmet’s going and leaving two plates of meals to an empty table during lunch times. How would they know that they were Ahmet’s present to his mother and father, whom the poverty had finished years ago? They also wouldn’t be able to hear that while putting the plates on the table Ahmet was murmuring “you aren’t going stay hungry any more from now on mummy and daddy. Have your meals and get yourself very full.”

18. Once upon a time there was a poor man. He was a thief. He stole people’s money, but he wasn’t happy and he didn’t want to be a thief. One day, he thought to be a good man because nobody loved him. He said “If I find a job, I can be happy.” Then he found a job and understood that working and earning his own money is the greatest happiness in the world.

19. The first day when I went to school, I learned that my class had been changed. In my new class nobody knew me and they thought that I was a lazy student. They behaved me unkindly. I was very upset and couldn’t get used to my new classmates. I decided to be the best student among my new friends and I studied every day.

20. I got high marks. They realized the situation and we became good friends. They congratulated me and I became very happy. I understood my father’s words very well “If you study hard, you win!”

21. Once upon a time there was a boy named Keloğlan. He was living with his old and poor mother. One day, he went to fishing. He hoped to eat fish at lunch. After a while, he caught a very big fish. It was so bright and beautiful. While cleaning the fish, he saw a bowl in its stomach. He became very happy. He wanted to wash the bowl and the fish. He filled up the bowl with water.

22. While emptying it, water turned into gold. Keloğlan got surprised. He tried it again and again. He thought it was a magic bowl. He ran to the home to tell her mother. They filled up the bowl with water and got golds. He collected the golds and became very rich. After a while, Keloğlan had a palace built and moved there with his mother. He became richer than the king. He had a lot of helpers in the palace. He bought what he wanted. He ate the most beautiful food. He became a very spoiled person. He didn’t like anyone. He spent too much money.

23. His mother advised and said “Don’t behave badly to people, don’t spend too much money.” He said “I have the magic bowl. I can do whatever I want.” Because of his behaviours, nobody likes Keloğlan. Every day he got more ambitious and people said “When he was poor, he was a better person. We don’t like him anymore.”

24. Keloğlan went to near the river to get gold again. While filling the bowl with water, he dropped it into the river. He tried to catch it, he also dropped into the river. He couldn’t swim and he was rescued hardly. At this moment, thiefs stole his golds. He went back to palace and cried. He told the event to his mother. She said

25. Don’t worry. It wasn’t your own bowl. It changed your behaviours. You found it, but you didn’t earn it by working. If you get a thing without working, you lose it at the end. He thought his mother was right. After that day, he never thought the magic bowl and he worked hard to earn his own money.