Right
now, I would like to share to you all about one of the interesting ways
to learn English for kids, for children at elementary school in Indonesia. The
children will be very interested in story telling. This story I gained from you
tube video and I had downloaded and now I will offer to you all. You can read
the story while you listen to and watch the video. The video has an English
subtitles so you can easily know the excat story by reading it as you watch. I
suggest you to use this video to improve your students’ ability in listening
comprehension. This title of the story is Turtle
Flute, a brazilian folktale.
Once upon a time, on the
bank of a river, turtle played her flute. When turtle played, lions, elephants,
butterflies, snakes and monkeys dance to turtle’s music. One day, a man heard
turtle’s music
“Ahh..” he thought.
“That must be turtle
making music. Turtle would taste very good right now.”
So he called out :
“turtle! Show me your beautiful flute.”
Turtle slowly walked to
the door and held out her flute. But the moment the man saw turtle, He grabbed
her by the neck and began to run. Turtle tried to cry for help, but she
couldn’t make a sound. She closed her eyes, holding tightly to her flute for
good luck. When the man reached her hut, he put turtle into a cage and shut it.
Then he turned to his children :
“don’t let turtle out of
her cage.” And off he went to the field.
The children began to
play outside. Turtle sat very still inside her cage, thinking about the
father’s word. She began to play a sweet tune on her flute, and the children
ran to the cage.
“Is that you playing,
turtle?” they asked. Their eyes wide with wonder.
“Yes,” Turtle said.
She kept on playing for
she could see the children were delighted. At last she stopped.
“I can dance even better
than I can play,” She said. “Would you like to see?”
“Oh, please!” the little
boy cried.
“I’ll show you how to dance and play at the
same time, “said turtle. “But you must open the cage. There is no room in
here.” So, the little boy opened the cage and turtle began to dance and play.
The children laughed and clapped their hands, for never had they seen such a
wonderful thing. Then, turtle stopped.
“Don’t stop!” the
children cried.
“oh,” turtle groaned. “My
legs are stiff. If I could walk just a little bit to loosen them..”
“Don’t go too far,” The
little girl cautioned. “Come right back.”
“Never fear,” said
turtle. “You wait right here.” Turtle crawled off toward the jungle. The moment
she was out of sight. She raced all the way back to her house. Nobody ever
found turtle again. But to this day, if you strain your ear, you can hear the
sweet sound of a flute in the forest.
Source : http://www.bookbox.com
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