Natural Chinese > courses > Fun Video Lectures for Kids > Poems and Songs/诗歌(shī gē) > Lecture 2: Monkeys fishing the moon/猴子捞月亮

Part 1: Vocabulary


monkey/猴子(hóu zi)

come/来(lái)

come to/来到(lái dào)

口(kǒu):measure word

well/井(jǐng)

咦(yí ):to show surprise

inside the well/井里(jǐng lǐ )

round/圆(yuán )

be frightened/吓坏了(xià huài le)

….as soon as…/一边……一边(yī biān)

cry/喊(hǎn)

drop/掉(diào)

drop into/掉进(diào jìn)

heard/听说(tīng shuō)

after/后(hòu)

把(bǎ):preposition,+noun+verb

everybody/大家(dà jiā)

all/都(dōu)

call/叫(jiào)

fish…up/捞(lāo)

as a result/于是(yú shì)

use/用(yòng)

foot/脚(jiǎo)

branch/树枝(shù zhī)

by/用(yòng )

hang from the branch by…./用…钩住树枝(yòng ….gōu zhùshù zhī)

hang upside down/倒挂(dào guà)

from/从(cóng)

crawl/爬(pá )

crawl over/爬过去(pá guò qù)

let/让(ràng)

take hold of…/抓住…(zhuā zhù)

self/自己(zì jǐ):himself/他自己,herself/她自己,itself/它自己

just like this/就这样(jiù zhè yàng)

one after another/一个接一个(yí gè jiē yí gè )

the lowest/最下面的(zuì xià miàn)

extend/伸(shēn)

extend  hand/伸手(shēn shǒu)

extend hand to…/伸手去…(shēn shǒu qù)

break/碎(suì)

break into/碎成(suì chéng)

pieces/一片片(yī piàn piàn)

scratch/抓破(zhuā pò )

after a while/一会儿(yī huì er)

calm/平静(píng jìng)

become calm/平静了(píng jìng le)

again/又(yòu)

come up/出现(chū xiàn)

try/尝试(cháng shì)

times/次(cì)

several times/几次(jǐ cì)

still/还是(hái shì)

look up/抬头(tái tóu)

turn out to be…/原来…(yuán lái)

reflection/影子(yǐng zi)


Part 2: Reading and Reciting

        一只小猴子来到一口井边,他朝井里一看,咦!,井里有一个又大又圆的月亮。小猴子吓坏了,他一边跑一边喊:“不好了,月亮掉进井里了!”,老猴子听说后,把大家都叫过来,对他们说:“月亮掉到井里啦,我们把它捞上来吧!”。
       于是,老猴子用两只脚钩住树枝,倒挂下来,大猴子从老猴子身上爬过去,让老猴子抓住自己的两只脚,就这样,一个接一个,最下面的是小猴子,他伸手去捞月亮,可是月亮碎成了一片片,他说:“月亮被我抓破了”。
        一会儿,井水平静了,又大又圆的月亮又出现了,小猴子又尝试了几次,还是捞不到月亮。
        这时候,老猴子抬头一看,月亮还在天上,原来他们捞的是月亮的影子啊。