25 富兰克林和暴风雨 Franklin and thunderstorm

Franklin could count by twos and tie his shoes. Sometime he slept without a night light, and he could even go down to the cellar all by himself. But one day, Franklin learned that being afraid was nothing to be ashamed of…

F: Franklin makes a move around the rose bush and passes to …

F: Franklin, he shoots!

B: He SCORES!

F: You are right on time, Bear. Let’s go. Snail wants to meet us at the bridge.

B: Okay, let’s go!

F: Let’s take the shortcut!

B: Okay!

B: Huh?!? Spiders!

F: Where?

B: YAAA! They are on me! AAAH! AAAH!

F: Hold still, Bear.

B: Ohhh …Ah! There’s one crawling on my back!!

F: it’s just a leaf. See?

B: Whew!!...Uh... Why don’t we just take the long way to the bridge?

F: I’ll move him out of the way.

B: Thanks, Franklin. Spiders give me the creeps! Eww!

B: Where’s snail?

F: I don’t know. He said he’d meet us here by …

S: Franklin! Bear!

B: Snail? Oh, there you are! What’re you…

S: HIDE!

F: What are we hiding from?

S: THAT BIG HUGE GIGANTIC…WHATEVER-IT-IS!!!

F: It’s okay. Look, it’s just a little dragonfly.

B: With a BIG shadow.

S: A big SCARY shadow.

F: It doesn’t look that scary from up here, Snail. See?

S: Thanks, Franklin.

F: Come on, Bear. We’ll race you to the soccer field!

B: Hey! No fair! It’s two against one!

B: look out, Franklin!

F: Get him, Beaver!

S: Great save, Fox!

BV: Good pass, Snail!

R: Oh.. Oh! AAAAAAHHH!!

BV: Score!

R: I’m sorry, guys! I should’ve had it.

B: You’ll stop’em next time, Rabbit.

R: I’ll try…It’s just… Well… I guess I’m kinda, you know…scared of the ball hitting me.

F: Well then, why don’t I take goal?

R: Really?

F: Sure! You’re a lot faster than me. We could use you as a forward.

R: Thanks! But… aren’t you scared of getting hit with the ball?

B: Are you kidding? Nothing scares Franklin! Not even spiders!

S: Or big spooky shadows!

B: He is fearless!

S: Yeah! He is Franklin the Fearless!

FOX: Hey, are we talking or playing?

B: Yeah. I don’t know about Franklin the Fearless, but Franklin the Goalie will never stop MY shot.

FOX: Hey! I felt a drop!

R: Aww. It’s raining.

BV: Oh, great.

F: Gee. Maybe we’d better head for home.

FOX: But we barely got started.

BV: And we were winning!

R: It’s just a sprinkle. Maybe it won’t last long.

S: I know. Why don’t we wait in the library until it stops raining?

R: Good idea!

B: Let’s go!

F: OK. Race yah!

F: Well…okay.

FOX: Hurry Franklin!

S: Oooh! Look at those clouds!

F: There’s a big storm coming.

G: Oh! Dear me! Such weather! Come on in boys.

F: I really should run for it… Uh, run for home I mean. Mom’s probably wondering where I am.

G: Oh now don’t you worry Franklin. You go on and have fun. I’ll call everyone’s parents and let them know that you’re all here safe and dry.

S: Come on Franklin. This will be a good day to do the World Atlas puzzle! It’s a thousand pieces!

FOX: Does anybody have Italy’s big toe?

BV: Where did Tasmania go? It was right here a minute ago.

R: Snail’s trying to make it fit into Hawaii!

S: Oh? Sorry…

B: Does this look like a piece of the Pacific, or Atlantic Ocean?

F: Huh? Oh.. um.. Atlantic I think… or maybe Pacific.

B: Are you feeling okay Franklin?

F: Uh…Sure! I’m fine! No problem.

B: Feeling sad ’cause our soccer game got rained out?

F: Um, yeah. That’s it.

R: I don’t blame you Franklin. I was looking forward to the game all week!

FOX: Me too! And then we only got to play for about five minutes.

BV: And we were winning!

S: Ooh…Looks like it getting worse!

F: Huh? Whoa! What happened?!

BV: The power’s gone out!

F: I don’t like this.

G: Oh, my. Stay calm children. I’ll get the lantern from the storeroom.

FOX: Kinda spooky, isn’t it?

B: Yeah! I’ve never been in a library after dark.

R: Did you hear that?

F: What is it?

S: Maybe this place is …haunted!

BV: But ghosts don’t come out in the day time.

FOX: So? It’s just as DARK as night!

BV: Oh yeah! Maybe ghosts can’t tell time!

B: They probably don’t even have wristwatches!

BV: LOOK! What is it?!?

FOX: A ghost?

B: A giant spider?

R: It’s trying to get in!

F: It’s okay you guys. It’s just the wind blowing a tree branch up against the window.

FOX: Whew! Was that ever spooky! My fur was standing on end!

BV: Yeah, we were pretty scared there for a minute!

B: But not Franklin!

BV: He’s Franklin the Fearless!

F: Aw, no I’m not.

B: Sure you are! Nothing scares you!

F: No…I’m still scared of some things.

B: Like what?

F: You guys will think it’s silly. I’d rather not…YAAAAAA!!!

ALL: Oh!

B: What?

G: Here we are…Isn’t this nice and cozy?

F: I have to go home now, Mrs. Goose!!

B: Oh?

G: Oh dear. I’m sorry Franklin, but it’s best if you stay here until this storm is over.

B: You never told me you were afraid of thunderstorms Franklin!

F: I was afraid you’d laugh at me.

B: Gee. Why would I do that? You didn’t laugh at me about being scared of spiders.

R: Or me, for being scared of the soccer ball.

S: I guess we’re all afraid of something, like big spooky shadows.

B: Or climbing up really high…

FOX: How about that tree branch tapping on the window!

R: Yeah!

B: That was a good one!

BV: We were scared silly!

S: Good thing Franklin was here!

G: I used to be frightened of thunder, too, when I was just a gosling.

F: Really?

G: So my mother told me that thunder was just the sound of cloud giants laughing up a storm!

F: Cloud giants?

G: And from then on, whenever I hear thunder and think of those cloud giants laughing, I want to laugh right along! Ho ho ho ha ha ha !

FOX: My dad says thunder is the clouds going bowling.

B: My cousin says it’s the clouds playing drum up there. And he should know. He is in grade 3.

R: And lightning is just fireflies playing tag!

BV: According to Weasel the Weather Woman’s Guide to Weather, lightning is a big spark of electricity that travels from the sky to the ground. The spark is so hot that it makes the air around it POP!

F: And THAT’S the sound of thunder?

BV: Well, Weasel should know, because she is the weather woman. But I like cloud giants going bowling and laughing up a storm better.

Me too! Yeah! Me three!

F: Hey! I think I’m not so scared of thunderstorms anymore!

G: You see! If you share your fears, your friends can help you overcome them.

F: Yeah! I guess being afraid is nothing to be afraid of! Thanks for no laughing at me you guys.

B: No problem!

FOX: Same here Franklin.

BV: Way to go.

F: Hey look! A rainbow!

BV: Isn’t it pretty?

Ooh! Wow! Neat!

G: You know, they say there’s a pot of gold buried at the end of every rainbow!

F: So that’s why the storm is over!...Those cloud giants have gone to find the pot of gold!

WORDS TIME

Lantern 灯笼

Dragonfly 蜻蜓

Rainbow 彩虹

Soccer 足球

Shadow 影子