speak Chinese by Maggie Cheng https://padlet.com/mcheng2/stories en-us 2017-02-08 00:34:49 UTC 2025-10-19 17:59:26 UTC hello@padlet.com Long, long, ago, there was a rabbit. One day, his mother and father died. He was very sad. Because there was no one in his house, he was very bored. So he started looking for food.The first day, the rabbit saw a house. The house had no one inside, so the rabbit opened the door. The rabbit saw a refrigerator. Inside was a banana. The rabbit ate the banana. After eating, the rabbit heard noises. The people in the house were back! The rabbit was scared. He ran and ran, ran and ran, ran and ran. The second day, the rabbit saw a man. The man asked, “Are you hungry?” The rabbit said, “Very hungry!” The man said, “Come to my house. I have a lot of food.” The rabbit followed the man. Walk and walk, walk and walk, walk and walk. When they reached the house, rabbit saw a lot of cows. The cows were also hungry. Lots of cows came and ate the rabbit. mcheng2 https://padlet.com/mcheng2/stories/wish/152337292 2017-02-08 00:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mcheng2/stories/wish/152337292 mcheng2 https://padlet.com/mcheng2/stories/wish/152338006 Snow White
      A long long time ago there was a beautiful princess. 
Her name is snow white.Her mom died, and her father married another women. But Snow White's Step mother doesn’t like her, she  wanted to kill Snow White. 

One day snow white went to the forest and found a house. The house was very pretty, but very small. Around the house there were many birds and many other animals. A lady herd snow white walking , and say that snow white was very pretty, the lady became very angry. kBut this lady had magical powers, and a magical mirror. That same day she asked the magical mirror a question.” Magical Mirror , who is the prettiest of them all” said the lady. The Mirror responded and said” Snow White the girl you saw”. The Lady was very mad.

     Snow white saw that the door in the tiny house was open so she went inside. She saw a very nice bed, so she fell asleep. When she woke up she saw little people looking at her. She screamed, but one of the dwarfs screamed” We are nice”. Then the dwarfs introduced himself.  At night the dwars went out, so Snow White made a cake. The second day the evil lady had a plan. She made a poison apple. She went to snow white's house and offered the poison apple. So she ate the apple and fell to the ground.

      When the dwarfs came home and saw Snow white on the floor, they were all scared. All the dwarfs start to cry, So this moment the prince kissed her and she woke up, everyone was happy. THE END

Gong zhu: princess
Bai xue gong zhu:
Hou ma: step ma
Niao: bird
Dong wu: animal
Jing zi: mirror
Guo le yi hui er: after a while
Mo jing: magic mirror,
Xiao ai ren, dwarf
Wang zi: princes
Jin qu: go inside
You du de: poisonous 
Pa, scared
Ku, cry
Zhe ge shi hou, this moment
Wen/qin, kiss
Da jia, everyone 
Kai xin, happy ]]> 2017-02-08 00:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mcheng2/stories/wish/152338006 Princess and the Pea https://padlet.com/mcheng2/stories/wish/152366514
Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He traveled all over the world to find one, but he didn’t like any of them. So he came home again and was sad and heartbroken. One evening a lightning storm with rain. A princess showed up. She was pretty. The prince didn't know if she was real. The king made a bed for her with a pea under twenty mattresses. The princess couldn’t sleep. In the morning, she said “I couldn’t sleep because the mattress was bad.” The prince knew she was a real princess and married her.

Gong zhu: princess
Wang zi: prince
Jie hun: married 
Nan guo, shang xi
Guo wang: king
Chuan: bed
]]> 2017-02-08 05:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mcheng2/stories/wish/152366514 Goldilocks and the three Bears 2152291 https://padlet.com/mcheng2/stories/wish/152366594 Once upon a time there was a little girl called Goldilocks. She was walking in the forest and then she saw a house. The house was very beautiful. She entered the house and saw three cup of soup. She was very hungry and she took a bit of the soup in the first cup. 
“Too hot” she said 
She tasted the second cup’s soup
“Too cold” she said
She tasted the third cup’s soup
“This is perfect,” said said and she ate it all up!
After drinking the soup she felt very tired. She went to the living room and saw three chairs.
She sat on the first chair .
“Too big” said Goldilocks
She sat on the second chair
“Also too big” said Goldilocks
She sat on the third chair
“This is perfect” said Goldilocks. Just then the chair broke. 
Because she was still very tired, she went up the stairs to the bedroom and she saw three beds. 
She felt the first bed and said “too hard”
She felt the second bed and said “too soft”
She felt the third bed and said “This is perfect” and started sleeping
Later, the three bears came inside their house, 
The daddy bear said “Someone drank a bit of my soup”
The mommy bear said “Some drank a bit of my soup”
The baby bear said “Someone drank all of my soup”
The daddy bear said “Someone sat on my chair”
The mommy bear said “ Someone sat on my chair”
The baby bear said “Someone sat on my chair and it broke” 
The daddy bear said “Someone was sleeping in my bed”
The mommy bear said “Someone was sleeping in my bed”
The baby bear said “Someone was sleeping in my bed and she’s still there”  
Just then, Goldilocks woke up and she saw the bears and screamed and ran out of the beautiful house. She never came to the house again. 

Forest : shenlin
Entered : jinqu
Cup : beizi
Chair : yizi
Broke : huaile
Bed : Chuang
Felt : zhan
Xioang : bears
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A long time ago,  there was a King and a Queen. They wanted a child and then 1 day they had a baby girl born. The King and Queen called everyone in the village but not Maleficent. Maleficent became very angry and cursed the girl. She said, when she turns 16 years old, she will sleep forever but when someone kiss her, she will wake up .  years later a boy came. He was on a horse and found the girl. He kissed her and then she woke up. Maleficent got angry. She and the boy fought until Maleficent died.  After awhile they decided that that they should get married, and they lived happily ever after.

Guo wang: king
Huang hou: queen
Cun zi: village
Hen sheng qi,angry
qin/ wen, kiss 
Hen duo nina yi hou, many years later.

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