大床和小箱子
Big or small? The cat and the box
Name: ________________ Date: ________
我家的猫，这些天很能吃，也大了很多。
爸爸说：“她很大，要睡很大的床。”他买了一个很大很贵的床。
她看了看新床，没有睡。她坐进了旁边的一个小箱子里。
妈妈说：“那个太小了！你出来！”她不出来。
第二天，她不在那个箱子里了。我们找了一个上午，在我的房间找到了她。
她在一个更小的箱子里，那是我放鞋的箱子。
我说：“你太大了，箱子太小了！”她不听，也不出来。
晚上，我们听见箱子里有小小的声音。
我们一起去看：大猫的旁边，有四只小猫！
爸爸笑了：“我说她很大，没说错吧？”
妈妈也笑了：“很大的床，她不喜欢。她要一个小小的家。”
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 猫 | māo | cat |
| 天 | tiān | heaven; God |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 能 | néng | can; to be able to |
| 吃 | chī | to eat |
| 多 | duō | many; much |
| 爸爸 | bàba | dad; father |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to say |
| 大 | dà | big; large |
| 睡 | shuì | to sleep; to go to bed |
| 买 | mǎi | to buy; to purchase |
| 贵 | guì | expensive; costly |
English (for the teacher)
Lately our cat has been eating a lot, and she has got much bigger.
Dad said, “She’s big, she needs a big bed.” He bought a very big, very expensive bed.
She looked at the new bed and didn’t sleep in it. She sat down in a little box next to it.
Mum said, “That’s too small! Come out!” She didn’t come out.
The next day, she wasn’t in that box any more. We looked all morning and found her in my room.
She was in an even smaller box, the one I keep my shoes in.
I said, “You’re too big, and the box is too small!” She didn’t listen, and she didn’t come out.
That evening, we heard tiny sounds from the box.
We all went to look: next to the big cat were four kittens!
Dad laughed. “I said she was big, didn’t I?”
Mum laughed too. “A big bed? She didn’t like it. She wanted a small, small home.”