Chinese story 九头鸟 The Bird of Nine Heads

　　1、传说，有一只鸟，长着九个头。            
Long, long ago, there was a bird that had nine heads.

2、这只鸟一得到食物，九个头都过来争抢。
When the bird got some food, the nine heads all came immediately to scramble for it.

3、九个头“呀”“呀”地叫着，都用嘴咬住食物不放。
 They cried loudly, gripping the food with their beaks. 
　　
4、九个头互相咬出了血，羽毛乱飞，还是没有把食物咽到肚子里。
All the while the bird couldn’t swallow anything, despite the fact that its nine heads pecked each other to blood and its feathers fluttered in the air.

5、一只野鸭看见了，耻笑它们说：“九张嘴吃食物，都是吃进一个肚子，你们为什么要互相争抢呢？”
A wild duck saw this and mocked them, “All you nine heads tried to do is make food into one stomach, but why do you scramble for it?”

New Words
①争抢：scramble for sth     ②咬：grip with one’s teeth/beak       ③互相：each other         ④羽毛：feather 
⑤咽：swallow     ⑥野鸭：wild duck        ⑦耻笑：mock (at), laugh at        ⑧肚子：stomach

　　Reading Comprehension
1、How many beaks did the bird in the story have?
　　(a)One      (b)Eight          (c)Nine
　　2、Which beak made food into the bird’s stomach finally?    
(a)All of them        (b)None of them       (c)Not mentioned in the story
　　3、How many stomachs did the bird have?
　　(a)One      (b)Eight          (c)Nine
　　4、What was the wild duck’s reaction to the fact that the bird’s nine heads all scrambled for the food?
　　(a)He was surprised     (b)He mocked them     (c)He was happy

　　Word Power
1.Choose the right meaning of the following words.
　　(1)争抢        　　　(a)scramble for       (b)fight over      (c)fight against
　　(2)咽        　　        (a)eat                      (b)swallow        (c)taste
(3)肚子        　　    (a)stomach             (b)face                (c) mouth/beak
　　(4)耻笑        　　    (a)smile                  (b)laughter          (c)mock (at)
　　2.Make sentences with words below.
　　(1) 九个头    食物     争抢
     　　　①      　 ②        ③
 　　　　　　　　　　　　　   　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　
(2) 把      食物     到      里      肚子
   　　　①       ② 　 ③      ④        ⑤
         　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　                     
(3) 野鸭     九头鸟      耻笑
①        　②           ③
          　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　                

　　Activity
1.Use your imagination to draw a nine-head bird according to the story.
2.Do you know what the wild duck’s meaning in the paragraph 5 is? Try to talk to your classmates what you’ve learnt from the story.