朗文少儿英语 第三册小故事

Contents

Unit 1 My Activities Little Stories: The Ant and the Grasshopper

Unit 2 Family Activities Little Stories: The Two Brothers

Unit 3 City and Country Little Stories: City Mouse and Country Mouse

Unit 4 Animal Homes

Little Stories: Why the Owl Says \

Unit 5 The Weather Little Stories: Can We Go to the Beach Today

Unit 6 The Five Senses Little Stories: The Princess Can't Laugh

Unit 7 The Foods I Eat Uttle Book: The Three Wishes

Unit 8 Health Habits Little Stories: A Healthy Girl

Unit 9 TV and Movies Little Stories: TV In Two Languages

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Unit 1: Little Stories: The Ant and the Grasshopper

Ant lives next to Grasshopper. Ant says, \ Every day Ant gets up at 7:15. She finds food before school. She reads and writes. A After school she plays soccer. Ant works and works. Grasshopper doesn't like to work.

One day Grasshopper gets up at 10:00. She says, \ She gets dressed and eats breakfast. After breakfast she hops and sings and watches TV. At 11:45 she goes back to sleep.

Ant walks home at lunch. She sees Grasshopper and says,

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Ant says, \\

Grasshopper looks at Ant's food. \ Ant says, \ou hop and I sing and play.\

Grasshopper says, \ After lunch Grasshopper hops and sings and works!

Unit 2 Little Stories: The Two Brothers

In a town in the mountains there is a little family. The father is a doctor. The mother is a doctor. The two brothers in the family say, \

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The brothers say, \

The next day the two brothers go up the mountain. They find a shepherd with his sheep and he teaches them. \After they eat lunch, they go to sleep under a tree.

A horn pokes Big Brother in the arm. He jumps up and says to Little Brother, \out of here!\

They start to run down the mountain. Horns poke into them from behind. They cry. \

When they get home their mother asks, \

Big Brother says, \ \ Unit 3

Little Stories: City Mouse and Country Mouse

One day City Mouse takes a bus to the country to see his cousin. Country Mouse. He sees cows and horses in the fields. He sees ponds and fences and birds. The bus stops at a farm.

Country Mouse is waiting. \

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But soon City Mouse is not happy. \he says. \ou can live in my apartment. There's food and it's warm.\Country Mouse touches his cold nose. \es, let's go!\

The two cousins take the bus to the city. They see a restaurant, a skating rink, and a museum. Country Mouse says, \milk and cheese on a big table. City Mouse and Country Mouse are happy.

But before they can eat, a big cat comes in. The cat wants to eat them! They have to hide behind the refrigerator. Country Mouse says, \, and a cat wants to eat me! I'm going back to the country!\

Unit 4 Little Stories: Why the Owl Says \

There are many birds in the forest. Birds with red and green feathers sing in the trees. Birds with yellow and purple feathers come from the plains.

But there is one bird in the forest who has no feathers. She sits in a tree and cries and cries, \no feathers!\

The birds in the forest say, \The owl gives her a brownfeather. Soon the sad bird gets five feathers, ten feathers, twenty feathers! She laughs, \

The owl is mad. He wants to find that bird. He wants his feather. He flies out of the forest. He asks the monkey, who jumps in the jungle, \who who has my feather?\The monkey doesn't know. He asks the whale, who swims in the ocean. \who has my feather?\The whale doesn't know.

He asks the crocodile, who crawls in the river. \The crocodile doesn't know. He asks the camel, who walks in the desert, \who—who has my feather?\

To this day the owl says, \—who.\

Unit 5 Little Stories: Can We Go to the Beach Today ?

Chile is south of the equator. Canada is north of the equator. In Chile, it is summer in December. It is winter in June. But in Canada, it's the opposite. It's usually cold and snowy in December.

Do you like lo go to the beach'You can go to the beach in July in Canada. And you can go to the beach in December in Chile.

Do you like to play in the snow? Go to Canada from December to March. Go to Chile from June to August. Bring your jacket, hat, gloves, and skis!

Tropical countries are near the equator. In tropical countries, there is usually no Spring or Fall. There is a rainy season and a dry season. Go to tropical countries in the dry season. You can go in the rainy season, but don't forget your umbrella, raincoat, and boots!

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