七楼 · 第十八天
The Seventh Floor, Episode 18: The Storm on the Roof
Name: ________________ Date: ________
今天，七楼有了一把新椅子。到了晚上，外面风很大，又下起了大雨。宁宁在手机上问乔安：“七楼的花怎么办？”
她马上给邹爷爷打电话，打了两次，没有人接。她拿起伞就出了门。
风太大了，走路都很难。她的伞一下子就被吹坏了，她只能在雨里跑。
到了六号楼下面，她看见有两个人在等她。一个是宁宁，一个是罗师傅。
她问：“你们也来了？”
罗师傅说：“宁宁给我打了电话。他说，他一个人的话，妈妈不让他出门。”
宁宁笑了：“所以我找了一个大人。”
三个人一起跑上了六楼。邹爷爷家的门关着，叫了几次，也没有人开门。可是旁边的铁门开着，上面亮着灯。
到了七楼，雨更大了。邹爷爷一个人站在雨里，正在搬一个花盆。他的头发上、衣服上都是水，那双旧鞋上也都是土。
她大声叫他：“爷爷！”
他看见了他们：“你们来做什么？快回去！”
宁宁已经跑了过去：“我们是来帮您的！”
外面有几十个花盆，可是最重要的是那五个长出了小绿叶的花盆。她拿一个，宁宁小心地拿最小的那个，邹爷爷拿一个，罗师傅一次拿两个。那两把椅子都被风吹倒了，罗师傅又跑了回去，把它们也拿进了小房间。
她把门关上，房间里一下子安静了。大家都看着那五个花盆。小绿叶都还在，一片也没少。
宁宁大声说：“我还以为它们都被吹坏了！”
邹爷爷看着他们三个，过了一会儿，小声说：“谢谢你们。”
她记得，他说过他不会说谢谢。可是今天，她第一次听见他说了这两个字。
这时候，罗师傅说：“这儿为什么也有水？”
窗户下面的地上都是水。他把旧桌子推开，桌子后面放着一个旧铁盒子，上面又是土又是水。
她把盒子拿起来。它很轻，里面好像有很多纸。
她问：“爷爷，这是您的吗？”
邹爷爷看着那个盒子，很久没说话。最后，他说：“我每天晚上都上来，可是从来没见过它。”
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 楼 | lóu | building (with more than one story) |
| 外面 | wàimiàn | outside; out |
| 风 | fēng | wind |
| 又 | yòu | again (it already happened again); and also |
| 怎么办 | zěnmebàn | what to do; what should one do |
| 马上 | mǎshàng | right away; immediately |
| 难 | nán | difficult; hard |
| 伞 | sǎn | umbrella; parasol |
| 只能 | zhǐnéng | can only; have no choice but to |
| 的话 | dehuà | marks a condition: "if …" |
| 关 | guān | to close; to shut |
| 可是 | kěshì | but; however |
Lesson plan: 45 minutes (for the teacher)
HSK 3 · The Seventh Floor, Episode 18: The Storm on the Roof. By the end, students can read it aloud, say what it is about and use 风 and 又 in sentences of their own.
Warm-up 5 min
Write 七楼 · 第十八天 on the board. Ask what the class thinks it is about, then give the English: “The Seventh Floor, Episode 18: The Storm on the Roof”.
Key words 10 min
Teach 风 (fēng, wind), 又 (yòu, again (it already happened again); and also), 怎么办 (zěnmebàn, what to do; what should one do), 马上 (mǎshàng, right away; immediately), 难 (nán, difficult; hard), 伞 (sǎn, umbrella; parasol). Say each one, the class says it back, then ask for its meaning with the word covered. The rest are in the handout’s table.
Listen 10 min
Play it read aloud from mandarinthewild.com/library/read/the-seventh-floor-episode-18-the-storm-on-the-roof: once with the text face down, once reading along. Students tap any word there for its meaning.
Read and check 10 min
Students read it alone, then tell a partner in two sentences of Chinese what it says.
Use it 10 min
In pairs, each student writes two sentences of their own, one with 风 and one with 又, and reads one to the class.
Homework. Students read it again at home and Review its words. Put it in a free class (mandarinthewild.com/teachers/class) and you see who read it.
English (for the teacher)
Today, the seventh floor got a new chair. In the evening, the wind outside was strong, and then heavy rain began to fall. Ningning messaged Qiao An: "What about the flowers on the seventh floor?"
She called Zou Yeye straight away; she called twice, but nobody answered. She grabbed her umbrella and went out.
The wind was so strong that even walking was hard. Her umbrella was blown apart in a second, so she had to run through the rain.
When she got to the bottom of Building Six, she saw two people waiting for her. One was Ningning, and the other was Mr Luo.
She asked, "You came too?"
Mr Luo said, "Ningning phoned me. He said that if he went on his own, his mum wouldn't let him out."
Ningning grinned. "So I found myself a grown-up."
The three of them ran up to the sixth floor together. Zou Yeye's door was shut, and though they called out several times, nobody opened it. But the iron door beside it was open, and a light was on upstairs.
On the seventh floor, the rain was even heavier. Zou Yeye was standing alone in the rain, moving a flower pot. His hair and clothes were soaked, and that old pair of shoes was covered in mud too.
She shouted to him, "Grandpa!"
He saw them. "What are you doing here? Go back, quick!"
Ningning had already run over. "We've come to help you!"
There were dozens of flower pots out there, but the five pots with little green leaves mattered most. She took one, Ningning carefully took the smallest, Zou Yeye took one, and Mr Luo carried two at once. Both chairs had been blown over by the wind, so Mr Luo ran back out and carried them into the little room too.
She shut the door, and suddenly the room was quiet. Everyone looked at the five flower pots. The little green leaves were all still there, not a single one lost.
Ningning said loudly, "I thought the wind had wrecked them all!"
Zou Yeye looked at the three of them, and after a moment he said quietly, "Thank you."
She remembered him saying that he couldn't say thank you. But today, for the first time, she heard him say those two words.
Just then, Mr Luo said, "Why is there water in here too?"
The floor under the window was covered in water. He pushed the old table aside, and behind it sat an old tin box, covered in mud and water.
She picked up the box. It was light, and there seemed to be a lot of paper inside.
She asked, "Grandpa, is this yours?"
Zou Yeye looked at the box and said nothing for a long time. At last he said, "I come up here every night, but I've never seen it before."