Discuss in pairs: a) Why is Jack sleeping? b) Why do you think his mother lets him sleep all day? c) Why is Jack sad at the end of the episode? d) What do you think will happen in the next episode?

Jack is sleeping because he is tired.

His mother lets him sleep all day because she knows that he needs to rest.

Jack is sad because he has sold the cow and has no money.

I think Jack will discover that the beans are magic and that a giant beanstalk will grow.