Soccer Ball
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents A Special Present.
内容 特别礼物
4 No Game.
4 无游戏.
5 Stuck!
5个!
8 My Sister’s Memory.
8"我姐姐的记忆".
9 Lucky.
9幸运。
14 David’s Project.
14 大卫计划.
17 Glossary.
17 词汇表。
20 A Special Present “David, it’s time for breakfast,” Mrs.
20 特别礼物 " David,该吃早餐了 " 。
Motangi called.
莫坦吉打电话来
“There’s a birthday present for you to open.”
" 有个生日礼物给你打开。 “
David ran into the kitchen and saw a shiny new soccer ball on the table.
大卫跑入厨房,看到桌上有一颗闪亮的新足球.
He smiled and started jumping up and down with excitement.
他笑了一笑,开始兴奋地上下跳起.
“Can I take the ball to school with me, please?”
“请让我带球去学校好吗? “
asked David.
问大卫。
“Of course,” Mrs.
“当然,”
Motangi said.
莫坦吉说.
“But you need to be careful with your first real soccer ball.”
“但是,你必须小心对待第一个真正的足球。 “
At school, David immediately put his soccer ball under his desk.
在学校,大卫立刻将他的足球球放入他的桌子下.
During the morning lessons, he kept quietly tapping the ball with his foot to make sure it was still there.
在上午的课上,他一直用脚悄悄地敲打球来保证球还在那里.
Finally, it was recess time.
最后,现在是休会时间。
David grabbed the ball and quickly ran outside.
大卫抓住了球,迅速跑出门外.
He dribbled the ball across the field to a group of students.
他把球打穿了球场给一群学生.
Soccer was David’s favorite sport.
足球是大卫最喜欢的运动。
Since he had arrived in the United States and started school two months ago, he had played soccer every day during recess.
由于他两个月前已经抵达美国并开始上学,他在休学期间每天都会踢足球.
Recess was always his favorite time because he didn’t have to speak English, a language that was still fairly new to him.
他最爱的时光是休息,
When he played soccer, he could forget that he felt like an alien at this new school.
当他踢足球时,他可以忘记他觉得自己是这个新学校的外星人.
No Game “Look!”
无游戏“ 看! ”
called David.
叫大卫
“I got a new soccer ball.
“我得到了一个新的足球。
We can use it for our game today.”
我们今天可以用它来比赛 “
The other students exchanged glances and just stared at David.
其他学生相视相见,只相视大卫.
These were the most words David had ever spoken to them.
这是大卫对他们说过的最多的一句话
“We don’t need your ball,” said a tall boy, Jacob.
我们不需要你的球,
“We already have one.”
“我们已经有一个。 “
Jacob kicked David’s ball with all his might.
雅各尽了全力踢了大卫的球.
The ball soared over the school’s high fence, bounced once, and landed in the back of a passing pickup truck.
球飞过学校高高的栅栏,
“Goal!”
“目标!”
screamed the other kids, jumping up and down and slapping Jacob on the back.
尖叫着其他孩子,上下跳起并拍打雅各的背.
David watched in horror as the pickup truck drove out of sight, taking his new soccer ball with it.
大卫惊恐地看着皮卡车驶出视线,带着他的新足球.
What would his mother say?
他妈妈会怎么说?
David’s eyes were as wide as saucers.
大卫的眼睛和酱汁一样宽.
As the reality of losing his new soccer ball sank in, David felt tears coming.
随着失去他的新足球的现实沉入水中,大卫感到眼泪来袭.
He couldn’t let his classmates, especially Jacob, see him crying, so he turned and sprinted into the classroom.
他无法让同学, 尤其是Jacob看到哭声,
David’s teacher, Mrs.
大卫的老师,夫人.
Marquez, followed him inside.
马尔克斯,跟着他进去。
She found him hiding behind the writing center with tears streaming down his face.
她发现他躲在写作中心后面,脸上流着泪水。
“What happened, David?”
" 发生了什么事,大卫? “
Mrs.
夫人,请原谅
Marquez asked gently.
马尔克斯轻轻地问道.
“ Are you all right?”
“...... 你没事吧? “
“My ball.
“我的球。
I lost my new ball,” cried David.
我失去了我的新球,”
“I’ve never had a real soccer ball before, and now it’s gone.”
「我以前从未有过真正的足球, “
Mrs.
夫人,请原谅
Marquez replied, “I know it’s difficult to lose something.
Marquez回答说, “我知道很难失去一些东西。
It’s even harder when you’re at a new school in an entirely different country and continent.
在一个完全不同的国家和大陆,
I think the students would understand how you feel if you told them about your life in Africa.”
我想学生会理解你的感受 如果你告诉他们你在非洲的生活。 “
“I don’t think they care,” said David.
大卫说,
“We’ll see,” said Mrs.
“我们等着瞧,”夫人说。
Marquez.
马尔克斯。
“Tomorrow I want you to bring in a few drawings, photos, or special objects to show us what your life was like in Africa.”
明天我要你带几幅画、相片或特殊物品, “
Stuck!
粘着!
Later that day, David sat down at the kitchen table to draw a few pictures.
那天晚些时候, 大卫坐在厨房桌子上画几张照片.
He was staring at the paper when his older sister, Ruth, arrived home from high school.
当他姐姐露丝从高中回家时,他正盯着报纸.
“Help me, Ruth!”
“帮帮我,露丝!”
David called out.
大卫呼出.
“I don’t know what to draw.
我不知道该画什么。
I’m supposed to explain how my life here is different from my life in Africa.”
我本该解释我在这里的生活与在非洲的生活有何不同。 “
“It’s like comparing melons to bananas,” Ruth said, smiling.
“这就像把瓜子比作香蕉一样,
My Sister’s Memory “For one thing,” Ruth explained.
我姐姐的记忆 “有一件事,”露丝解释说。
“Here, in America, we live in a big brick apartment building in a city.
“在美国,我们住在一个城市的一幢大砖公寓楼。
In Africa, we lived in a one- room cement block house in the Tongogara refugee camp in Zimbabwe.”
在非洲,我们住在津巴布韦Tongogara难民营的一个一室水泥地块房屋中。 “
“How can I explain what a refugee camp is to my classmates?”
“我如何向同学解释难民营是什么? “
asked David.
问大卫。
Ruth answered, “T ell them that a refugee camp is a place that protects people who have to leave their homes because of war.
Ruth回答说,“告诉他们,难民营是一个保护因战争而不得不离开家园的人的地方。
Y ou were born in the camp, but I was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
汝等生于所出所出所出所出所出所出所出所出所出所出所出所出所出.
W e left our village in the Congo and traveled to the camp because of the fighting.
We离开我们在刚果的村庄,因战斗而去营地。
It was too dangerous to stay, and many of us left the village at the same time.”
留下太危险了,我们许多人同时离开村庄。 “
“Our family was lucky to make it to the camp,” said Ruth.
Ruth说,“我们一家幸运地来到了营地。”
“We walked many miles to find a bus to take us to Zambia.
“我们走了很多英里寻找一辆公共汽车载我们去赞比亚。
There we found a friend to drive us to Zimbabwe.”
我们找到一个朋友开车去津巴布韦 “
“I remember our home at the camp and how we slept on blankets on the floor,” said David.
David说,“我记得我们在营地的家,以及我们如何睡在地上被毯子上。”
“Mother hung a sheet from the ceiling to divide the house into two sleeping areas and a kitchen area.”
“母亲从天花板上吊起一张被单,将房子分为两个入睡区和一个厨房区。 “
“Yes, that sheet was as colorful as a beautiful sunset,” recalled Ruth.
“是的,那张被子和美丽的日落一样多彩”,Ruth回忆说。
“W e had a couple of lightbulbs hanging on either side of the sheet, but the electricity hardly ever worked.
“We有几道灯泡挂在床单的两边,但电源几乎无法工作。
We had one sink, but we couldn’t drink the brown water that dripped from it.
我们有一个水槽,
Do you remember when the frog popped out of the faucet and jumped out of the sink?”
你还记得青蛙从水龙头跳出 从水槽跳出吗? “
David laughed, “That was funny!
大卫笑了 “这很有趣!
My friends and I tried to catch many frogs.
我的朋友和我试图抓住许多青蛙。
I miss my friends.”
我想念我的朋友们。 “
“I miss my friends, too,” said Ruth.
露丝说:“我也想念我的朋友。”
“I wonder if they are still in the camp.
“我不知道他们是否还在营地。
What else do you remember that was different?”
你还记得还有什么不同吗? “
“I know my soccer ball was different,” David said.
David说,“我知道我的足球不一样。”
“Do you remember the soccer ball that my friends and I made out of lots of plastic bags tied together with string?
“你还记得我的朋友和我用许多用绳子捆绑的塑料袋所制造的足球吗?
That’s the only ball we had, but we still had fun playing soccer in the dusty dirt fields at the camp.”
我们只有这个球, “
David paused for a moment.
大卫暂停了一会儿
“Sometimes I wish we still lived there,” he said.
他说,“有时我希望我们仍住在那里。”
Lucky “We had some good times, but the camp was not an easy place to live,” explained Ruth.
幸运的是,“我们有过一些美好的时光,但营地并不是一个容易住的地方,”露丝解释说。
“Our parents didn’t have work, and sometimes we didn’t have enough food.
我们的父母没有工作,
We usually only had rice and beans to eat.”
我们通常只吃米和豆子。 “
“I never want to eat rice and beans again!”
“我再也不想吃大米和豆子了!”
laughed David.
笑了大卫
“ Also, we often couldn’t go to school,” explained Ruth.
“...... 我们经常无法上学,
“The school was far from our house, and there was no bus.
“学校离我们家很远,没有公共汽车。
It took us over an hour to walk to school, and sometimes when we arrived, there were no teachers.
我们花了一个多小时步行到学校,有时当我们到达时,没有老师.
Our parents brought us here to go to school and have a better life.”
我们的父母带我们来这里上学,过上更好的生活。 “
“Thanks for helping me remember,” David said.
David说,“谢谢你帮我记住,”
“I think I know what to take to school so the students will understand about where we came from.
“我想我知道该带什么上学,
But they might think that we are really strange,” he said worriedly.
但是他们可能认为我们真的很奇怪,
Ruth thought for a moment and then answered, “It’s important for your classmates to know that people are from different places and have had different experiences.
露丝想了一会儿,然后回答说:"你的同班同学必须知道人们来自不同的地方,有不同的经历.
It’s especially important for them to know why we feel lucky to live here.”
他们知道为什么我们觉得住在这里很幸运, “
“I don’t feel very lucky right now,” said David with a frown, thinking about his lost soccer ball.
David带着皱眉想着他失去的足球,
But after a moment, he went on, “I guess we are lucky to have electricity all the time.
但过了一会儿,他接着说,“我想我们很幸运能有电。
We are also lucky because father has a job here, so soon we can get a car and maybe a computer.
我们也很幸运 因为父亲在这里有份工作 所以很快我们就能买到车 也许还有一台电脑
I really like having a bed to sleep in and a TV to watch.
我真的很喜欢睡个床和看电视
The best part is we don’t have to eat beans anymore, and we get to eat my favorite food, foo foo, all the time.”
最好的地方是我们不用再吃豆子了, “
“Mother’s foo foo is the best!
"妈妈的花样最好!
Now you’re making me hungry,” Ruth said.
露丝说:
“Come on.
“来吧。
Let’s go to the library.
让我们去图书馆吧。
We can use the Internet on the computers there to get pictures for your presentation.”
我们可以使用互联网 在那里的计算机 获取图片 为您的演示。 “
David’s Project The next day, David brought a large box to school.
大卫项目 第二天,大卫带了个大盒子到学校去.
He told his teacher that he was ready to share about his life in Africa.
他告诉老师,他准备分享自己在非洲的生活.
First, he took out a map of Africa.
首先,他拿出了一张非洲地图。
He showed the other students where his family was from and where they had moved to.
他向其他学生展示了他的家人来自何处和他们搬到何处。
He held up pictures showing all the differences between his life in Africa and his life in America.
他举起的照片,显示了他在非洲的生活和在美国的生活的所有区别.
Finally, he pulled out of the box a ball made from plastic bags and string.
最后,他从盒子里取出一粒由塑料袋和绳子制成的球.
“What is that thing?”
“那是什么东西? “
Jacob asked.
雅各问.
“ And what’ s it for?”
“...... 为什么? “
David told his classmates how he had played soccer almost every day with this kind of ball.
大卫告诉同学他几乎每天都用这种球踢足球.
He told them how they didn’t have places to buy real soccer balls.
他告诉他们,
Another student said, “I wish I lived in Zimbabwe.
另一个学生说:“我希望我住在津巴布韦。
Then I wouldn’t have to go to school.
这样我就不会上学了。
You were so lucky.”
你很幸运 “
David explained, “No, you are all lucky to be in school.
David解释说,“不,你们都幸运地上学。
At the camp, we got to play soccer, but we didn’t have money to buy new books or games.
在营地,我们必须踢足球,但我们没有钱购买新书或游戏。
We could never leave the camp because it wasn’t safe.
因为营地不安全,
I am really happy to live here now.”
我真的很高兴 住在这里了。 “
After David’s presentation, the other students applauded, and Mrs.
大卫发言后,其他学生都赞美,夫人也赞美.
Marquez announced that it was recess time.
马尔克兹宣布现在是休庭时间.
As David was walking out the door to the playground, he felt a tap on his shoulder.
当大卫正走出通往操场的门时,他感到肩膀上有一盏自来水.
He turned and saw Jacob holding out a shiny soccer ball.
他转身看到雅各拿着一球闪亮的足球
“Here,” Jacob offered, “you can have my soccer ball.”
雅各布说:“这里,”雅各布说,“你可以拥有我的足球。 “
“Thanks,” smiled David.
“谢谢”,大卫笑了一下。
“It’s perfect!”
" 这是完美的! "
“C’mon, let’s play!”
"来吧,我们来玩吧! "
called Jacob as he raced out the door.
在雅各出门的时候,他叫了起来