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家里的公园

A rainy Sunday at home: the park in the living room

Name: ________________ Date: ________

星期六晚上,爸爸说:“明天,我们一起去公园!”

星期天早上,我起床一看,外边在下雨,雨很大。

我很不高兴,坐在床上,什么也不想做。

爸爸说:“没关系,今天我们在家里去公园!”

家里的花,妈妈都放到了地上。哥哥打开了房间里的灯:“看,太阳出来了!”

爸爸一边唱歌,一边在房间里“飞”:“我是一只小鸟!”

我们坐在地上,吃面包,吃水果,喝牛奶。我们还在“公园”里睡了一会儿。

下午四点,雨不下了,外边的太阳也出来了。

妈妈问:“我们去公园吗?”

我说:“不去了!我们家的公园里,有会唱歌的小鸟。”

爸爸听见了,马上又“飞”了起来。

Key words

WordPinyinMeaning
晚上wǎnshangevening; night
爸爸bàbadad; father
说shuōto speak; to say
明天míngtiāntomorrow
去qùto go
星期天xīngqītiānSunday
早上zǎoshangmorning
起床qǐchuángto get up; to get out of bed
看kànto look at; to see; to watch
外边wàibianoutside
下雨xiàyǔto rain
雨yǔrain

English (for the teacher)

On Saturday night Dad said, “Tomorrow we're all going to the park!”

On Sunday morning I got up and looked out: it was raining, and raining hard.

I was so fed up that I sat on my bed and didn't want to do anything.

Dad said, “Never mind, today we'll go to the park at home!”

Mum brought all the flowers in the house and set them on the floor. My brother switched on the lights in the room: “Look, the sun's out!”

Dad sang and “flew” around the room: “I'm a little bird!”

We sat on the floor and ate bread and fruit and drank milk. We even had a nap in the “park”.

At four in the afternoon the rain stopped, and the real sun came out.

Mum asked, “Shall we go to the park?”

I said, “Let's not! Our park has a bird that sings.”

When Dad heard that, he took off again at once.