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TESOL Greece Newsletter 103 • July-September 2009 35
A New Way of Looking at Things
A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat
by his feet.
He held up a sign which said: ‘I am blind,
please help.
’ There were only a few coins in the...
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READY-TO-USE
TESOL Greece Newsletter 103 • July-September 2009 35
A New Way of Looking at Things
A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat
by his feet.
He held up a sign which said: ‘I am blind,
please help.
’ There were only a few coins in the hat.
A man was walking by.
He took a few coins from
his pocket and dropped them into the hat.
He
then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote
some words.
He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up.
A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.
That
afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were.
The boy recognized his
footsteps and asked, ‘Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?’
The man said, ‘I only wrote the truth.
I said
what you said but in a different way.
’
What he had written was: ‘Today is a beautiful
day and I cannot see it.
’
Do you think the first sign and the second sign
were saying th
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