Learn English for kids: My day, family and the season
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GoGo’s Adventures with English is desighned to be both richly educational and great fun. It utilises high-quality animation, and present new linguistic items in a visually appealing and dramatically entertaining way through the use of visual ” magic ” and charming songs. All episodes are structured to excite children and embed through repetition the key learning points.
It features a central fantasy character called GoGo, who visits an everyday world where he learns English from two children, Tony and Jenny, In each episode he then returns to his magic world where he teachers English to his friends. Entertaining episodes with specific themes help to introduce language structures and vocabulary. Subtitles are included for better comprehension and pronunciation.
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'I'll go to the launderette this morning, ' he thought. 'I'll take the car. '
He put his dirty clothes into a very large black bag, and took the bag out to his car. He put it inside. Then he got in and drove to the launderette.
The launderette wasn't very busy that morning. Before Mr. Bean arrived, there were only two women there. The younger woman was with the launderette manager.
'I've got to wash a lot of clothes, ' the young woman said to the manager. 'I'll want a big washing machine.'
'This is one of our bigger machines,' said the manager. 'Use this. '
At that minute, Mr. Bean arrived. He had the black bag on his back, and he couldn't get it through the launderette door.
'Oh!' he said.
He pulled and he pushed. He pushed and he pulled. In the end, he got the bag inside. He took it across to one of the washing machines.
'Money,' he thought. 'I want two one-pound coins for the washing machine. '
He took two one-pound coins out of his jacket and put them on the top of the machine.
But then Mr. Bean saw a note above the washing machine: Machines now cost 3 pounds.
'Oh, no!' thought Mr. Bean. 'Have I got another one-pound coin?'
He looked in his jacket and his trousers, but he could only find a five-pence coin. He put this on top of the washing machine.
Then Mr. Bean remembered something. He did have another one-pound coin, but...
He looked round.
The young woman was next to the big washing machine.
Mr. Bean saw her putting some clothes into it. The launderette manager was busy in his little office.
'Nobody's watching me, ' thought Mr. Bean. 'Good. '
He opened the front of his trousers. Then he started to pull out some string.
The young woman turned suddenly and saw Mr. Bean pulling the string out of his trousers.
'What is that man doing?' she thought.
Mr. Bean saw her looking and turned away quickly.
But now the older woman looked at him. Her eyes opened wide. 'That's a strange man, ' the woman thought. 'He's got string inside his trousers!'
On the end of the string was some paper, and inside the paper was a one-pound coin. Mr. Bean smiled. He took the coin out of the paper and put it on the top of the washing machine. Then he put the five-pence coin back into his jacket.
Next, he opened the washing machine.
A man came into the launderette with a bag of dirty clothes under his arm. He was young and strong. When he saw Mr. Bean, he smiled. But it wasn't a nice smile. He didn't say 'Hello' or 'Good morning'. He pushed Mr. Bean away from the washing machine.
'What-!' began Mr. Bean.
Then the young man pushed Mr. Bean's one-pound coins on to the next machine.
Mr. Bean was angry. He turned round to speak angrily - but then he saw the young man taking a white karate suit out of his bag.
'A karate suit!' thought Mr. Bean. 'So he can fight. Perhaps I won't say anything. '
The young man pushed his white karate suit into the washing machine. Then he put some money into the machine and sat down on a chair. He took a magazine out of his bag and began to read.
Mr. Bean started to put his clothes into his washing machine. There were some pairs of underpants.
'Monday,' he said, and he put one pair into the machine. 'Tuesday' He put the next pair into the machine. 'Thursday. Friday. Saturday.' Three pairs went into the machine.
Mr. Bean stopped.
'Wednesday!' he thought. 'Where are Wednesday's underpants? Oh, it's Wednesday today, and I'm wearing them!'
What could he do? He had to wash them, so he had to take them off. He looked round.
'Where can I go?' he thought.
There was a partition near the washing machines.
'I'll go behind that, ' he thought.
He started to walk to the partition, but the young man put his legs across the floor. He wanted to make Mr. Bean angry. But Mr. Bean remembered the karate suit. The man could fight! He walked round the young man's legs and said nothing.
He went behind the partition and carefully took off his brown trousers.
The young woman put some of her clothes into one of the very big washing machines. The other clothes were on the top of a smaller machine near the partition.
She didn't watch her clothes very carefully. She didn't see Mr. Bean put a hand round the partition. And she didn't see him put his brown trousers down with her clothes.
Mr. Bean took off his underpants - Wednesday's underpants. Then he put his hand round the partition. He took something - but it wasn't his brown trousers.
It was a long brown skirt.
Mr. Bean put on the skirt and came out from behind the partition. He walked back to his washing machine.
The young woman took the brown trousers from the top of the smaller washing machine. She didn't look at them. She put them into the big machine. Next, she shut the door of the machine and took a magazine. Then she sat down on a chair near the dryers and started to read. She had her back to Mr. Bean, so she didn't see him wearing her skirt.
Mr. Bean put his Wednesday underpants into his washing machine. Then he closed the door and put in his three one-pound coins.
He sat down on a chair - and saw the skirt!
'Oh, no!' he thought. 'What's this? A skirt? Where are my trousers?'
The young man walked past and Mr. Bean tried to hide the skirt with his hands.
'I don't want him to see me in this skirt,' he thought. 'What will he think?'
The young man went across to a machine on the wall and bought a cup of conditioner.
Mr. Bean got up and went back to the partition. He looked at the washing machine next to it and remembered the young woman's clothes.
'She put my trousers in the big washing machine with her things!' he thought.
He went across to the big washing machine and tried to open it. But he couldn't do it.
'I'll have to wait, ' he thought, and he walked back to his chair.
The young man put his cup of conditioner on the top of his washing machine. Then he looked at Mr. Bean - and saw the skirt. He started to laugh.
Mr. Bean looked away quickly. He got his black bag - and a pair of underpants fell out of it.
'Oh! Sunday's underpants!' he said.
He tried to stop his washing machine and open the door. But the machine didn't stop.
'What can I do?' he thought. He looked down at the skirt. 'I know! I'll wear Sunday's underpants under this skirt! That's a good idea. '
He looked round, then went across to the conditioner machine, away from the other people. Carefully, he started to put on Sunday's underpants. He put his feet into them and - suddenly, he couldn't pull them up. He couldn't move them. There was a strange foot on them!
It was the young man's foot.
Mr. Bean turned round and saw the young man laughing at him. Mr. Bean wanted to shout, 'Go away, you stupid man!' but he was too afraid.
After a minute, the young man laughed again and went back to his chair.
Mr. Bean quickly pulled up Sunday's underpants. He was angry.
'I don't like people laughing at me,' he thought, and he looked at the young man. 'What can I do to him? I can't fight him. He's too strong. '
Then he had an idea.
There was a coffee machine next to the machine for conditioner. Mr. Bean went across to it and got a cup of black coffee. He smiled and walked back to his washing machine with the coffee.
The young man's eyes were on his magazine. He didn't look at Mr. Bean or the washing machine.
'Now!' thought Mr. Bean
And he quickly changed the young man's cup of conditioner for his cup of black coffee. Then he carried the cup of conditioner to his chair and sat down.
He smiled. 'That will teach him a lesson,' he thought.
After a minute, the young man stood up and went to his machine. He had to put the conditioner into it now. He stood next to the machine and laughed at Mr. Bean's skirt. So he didn't look at the cup when he put the 'conditioner' into the top of his washing machine.
But, of course, it wasn't conditioner. It was black coffee.
Mr. Bean tried not to laugh.
The young man sat down in his chair again and looked across at his washing machine. There was a window in the door, and the young man could see his white karate suit going round and round in the water. But the suit wasn't white now. It was brown!
'What-!?' he shouted.
He jumped up. He ran across to the cup and looked inside it. Then he put it to his nose and smelled it.
'Coffee!' he shouted. Then he looked across at Mr. Bean. 'Did you... ?'
Mr. Bean didn't answer, but his face said, 'Who, me?' He pretended to drink his cup of 'coffee'. But it wasn't coffee, it was conditioner.
The young man went to find the launderette manager. Mr. Bean stopped drinking and said, 'Aaaagh!'
The young man showed the brown karate suit to the launderette manager. 'What's wrong, sir?' said the manager.
'This karate suit was white when I came in here, ' said the young man. 'Now look at it!'
'What did you do to it?' said the manager.
'Me? I didn't do anything to it,' said the young man, angrily. He pulled the manager across to his washing machine. 'This is your machine. Is that right?'
'Y-yes, ' said the manager. The young man showed him the karate suit again.
'This cost me two hundred pounds!' he said. 'What are you going to do about it?'
'Er - will you come to my office please, sir?' said the manager. 'We can talk about it there. '
***
Mr. Bean sat opposite a large dryer. His underpants and other things were in the machine. They were clean now, and nearly dry. Mr. Bean waited.
After a minute, the dryer stopped. He got up and opened the door. Then he started to take out his clothes.
A minute or two later, the young woman came to the next dryer and started to take out her clothes. They were dry, too.
'Perhaps my trousers are in there!' thought Mr. Bean. The young woman took some clothes out of the machine and put them into a bag. Then she went back to the big washing machine for her other clothes.
Mr. Bean moved quickly. He started to look through her clothes for his trousers, but he couldn't find them.
'Where are they?' he thought. 'They're here somewhere. Wait a minute! Perhaps she left them in the dryer.'
So he looked inside it. First, he put his head into the machine. 'I can't see anything,' he thought. 'It's too dark.' Next, he climbed into the machine.
The young woman was busy at the big washing machine. She didn't see Mr. Bean climb into the dryer. Then she took something out of the big washing machine. Her eyes opened wide.
'What's this?' she thought. 'A pair of trousers. I haven't got any brown trousers.'
She threw them on to one of the other washing machines, then she took her clothes across to the dryer.
Mr. Bean was inside the dryer. 'Where are my trousers?' he thought.
Suddenly, the woman's washing began to fly into the machine - a skirt, a dress and some shirts.
'What-?' began Mr. Bean.
Then the dryer door shut with a BANG!
'Oh, no!' thought Mr. Bean. He turned and climbed back to the door. 'Help!' he shouted through the window in the door. 'There's somebody in here!'
But the woman couldn't hear him. She took a pound coin and put it into the dryer.
Mr. Bean hit the window in the dryer door. Bang! Bang! But nobody heard him.
'I can't get out!' he shouted.
Suddenly, it was very hot inside the dryer. There was a noise - and the machine started!
The clothes began to go round and round!
And Mr. Bean began to go round and round... and round... and round...
It was Mr. Bean's birthday, and he wanted to enjoy it! What could he do?
'How can I make this important day a happy day?' he thought. 'I know. I'll go out to a restaurant for dinner this evening! I'll enjoy that. '
Mr. Bean didn't often eat in restaurants. They were sometimes very expensive. And he sometimes did things wrong when he was in a new or strange place.
Oh dear! Life wasn't easy for Mr. Bean!
***
That evening, Mr. Bean put on a clean shirt. He put on his best coat and trousers. He put on his best shoes. Then he drove to a restaurant in the centre of town.
He arrived at eight o'clock and went inside. It was a very nice restaurant. Everybody was wearing their best clothes, and there were flowers on every table.
'I'm going to like it here, ' thought Mr. Bean. 'This is a good restaurant for my birthday dinner. '
The manager met him at the door.
'Good evening, sir, ' he said. 'How are you? Would you like a table for one?'
'Yes, please, ' said Mr. Bean.
'Follow me, sir, ' said the manager.
He walked across the room to a table, and Mr. Bean went after him.
'Here you are, sir, ' said the manager. 'This is a nice table. '
He pulled the chair away from the table. Then he waited for Mr. Bean to sit down. Mr. Bean looked at him.
'Why is he taking my chair away?' thought Mr. Bean. 'What's he doing?'
And he pulled the chair away from the manager and sat down quickly.
When the manager went away, Mr. Bean sat quietly for a minute. Then he remembered something. He took a birthday card and an envelope out of his jacket. Next, he took out a pen and wrote 'Happy Birthday, Bean' inside the card. Then he put the card into the envelope and wrote his name on the outside of it. He put it on the table, and put his pen back into his jacket.
After a minute or two, Mr. Bean pretended to see the card for the first time.
'Oh! A card - for me?' he said.
He opened the envelope and took out the card. He read it carefully.
'Now that's nice!' he said. 'Somebody remembered my birthday!'
And he stood the card on his table.
The manager arrived with the menu and gave it to Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean started to read it.
'Oh, dear!' he thought. 'Everything's very expensive! What can I have?'
Mr. Bean got out his money. He had a ten-pound note and some coins. He put the money on to a plate.
'How much have I got?' he said, and he moved the money round on the plate. 'Ten, eleven... And forty, fifty, fifty-five! Eleven pounds and fifty-five pence. '
He looked at the menu again. What could he eat for eleven pounds fifty-five?
The manager came to his table.
'Are you ready, sir?' he asked.
'Yes, ' said Mr. Bean. He put his finger on the menu. 'I'll have that, please. '
The manager looked at the menu. 'The steak tartare, sir. Yes, of course. '
'Yes, ' said Mr. Bean. 'Steak. '
The manager took the menu and went away.
Mr. Bean sat and looked round the restaurant. There were a lot of people in the room. There was a man and a woman at the next table. They ate and talked.
Suddenly, a waiter arrived at Mr. Bean's table with a bottle of wine.
'Would you like to try the wine, sir?' he said.
'Oh, yes please, ' said Mr. Bean.
The waiter put some wine in Mr. Bean's glass and Mr. Bean had a drink. It was very nice! He smiled, and the waiter tried to put more wine into the glass.
Of course, the waiter was right. First, the customer tries his wine. When he is happy with it, the waiter gives him more wine. But Mr. Bean didn't know this, and he quickly put his hand across the glass.
'No, thank you, ' he said. 'I don't drink wine when I'm driving.' The waiter looked at him strangely - and walked away. He didn't say, 'Why did you try the wine when you didn't want it, you stupid man!'
Mr. Bean took the knife from the table and started to play with it. He pretended to be a bad man. He pretended to push the knife into somebody. But he didn't really want to kill anybody, of course. It was a game.
The woman at the next table looked at him angrily, and Mr. Bean quickly moved the knife. Next, he hit the glasses and plate on his table with it. Ping, ping, ping they went! And after a minute, he played the song 'Happy Birthday' on the glasses. He smiled and thought, 'I'm very clever!'
But the woman at the next table didn't think, 'That's clever!' or 'Oh yes, that's funny!' She thought, 'That man's really stupid!' And she looked hard at Mr. Bean.
Mr. Bean put the knife down and looked at his napkin.
'It's a very nice napkin, ' he thought.
The waiter saw Mr. Bean looking at his napkin. He didn't say anything, but suddenly - flick! - he opened it for Mr. Bean.
'That's clever, ' thought Mr. Bean. 'I'll try that!'
And he began to move his napkin. Flick! Flick! Flick!
Suddenly, the napkin flew out of his hand. It flew across on to the next table. The woman at the table looked round again. But Mr. Bean pretended not to see her. His face said, 'It's not my napkin!'
A minute later, the waiter arrived with his food. There was a large cover on the plate and Mr. Bean couldn't see the food. But he gave the waiter the money on the table.
Customers don't usually give a waiter money when he arrives with the food. But the waiter didn't say anything. He took the money and put it in his jacket. Mr. Bean was happy. 'I'm doing everything right, ' he thought. The waiter took the cover off the plate and walked away. Mr. Bean looked at the food in front of him. He put his nose near the meat and smelled it. Then he put his ear next to it.
'What's this?' he thought.
He put some of the meat into his mouth.
Suddenly, the manager arrived at his table.
'Is everything all right, sir?' he asked. 'Are you happy with everything?'
'Mmmmm, ' said Mr. Bean. He smiled.
The manager smiled, too. He walked away - and Mr. Bean's face changed. There was no smile now. 'Aaagh!' he thought. 'They didn't cook this meat!'
But he had to eat it. 'I don't want people to think that I'm stupid,' he thought. 'But I'll never ask for steak tartare again! Never!' He pushed his plate away. But then the waiter went past his table. 'Is everything all right, sir?' he asked.
'Oh, yes,' said Mr. Bean. He smiled. 'Yes, everything's very nice, thank you.' He smiled and pretended to eat some meat. But the waiter went away before Mr. Bean put it into his mouth.
'What can I do with it?' he thought. 'I can't eat this. Where can I hide it?' Then he had an idea. Carefully, he put the meat into the mustard pot and put the cover on it.
'Where can I put some now?' he thought. 'I can't eat it, so I've got to hide all of it. Oh, yes, the flowers!'
He took the flowers out of the vase. But then the manager went past, so Mr. Bean pretended to smell the flowers. 'Mmm, very nice!' he said. The manager smiled and walked away.
Quickly, Mr. Bean put some meat into the vase and pushed the flowers in on top of it.
He looked round the table.
'Where next?' he thought. 'Yes! The bread!'
He took his knife and cut the bread roll. Then he quickly ate the middle of it. Now he could push some meat inside the roll. He did this, then he put the roll down.
He looked at the meat on his plate. 'There's a lot of it, ' he thought. 'Where can I hide it now?'
He looked at the small plate on the table. Perhaps he could hide some meat under the plate. He looked round.
'Nobody's watching me, ' he thought.
So he took more meat from the big plate in front of him, and put it under the small plate. Then he pushed down hard with his hand.
The waiter walked past his table again. Mr. Bean smiled at him and put his arm on the plate. After the waiter went away, he pushed down on the small plate again.
'That's better, ' he thought. 'Now you can't see the meat. Good. But there's more meat. Where can I hide it?'
He looked round the table.
'The sugar pot!' he thought. 'But it's got sugar in it. What can I do?'
He thought quickly, then he put some sugar into a wine glass. Next, he put some of the meat into the sugar pot. Then he put the sugar from the wine glass on top of it.
'Good!' he thought. 'Nobody can see it in there. '
Suddenly, Mr. Bean could hear music.
'Where's that coming from?' he thought.
He looked round - and saw a man with a violin. After a minute or two, the man came across to Mr. Bean's table and played for him.
Mr. Bean smiled. 'This is nice, ' he thought.
Then the man saw Mr. Bean's birthday card, and the music changed. The man started to play 'Happy Birthday'!
The people at the other tables looked round when they heard the song. 'Who's having a birthday?' they thought. Then they saw Mr. Bean and smiled at him. Mr. Bean smiled back at them.
He pretended to eat some of the meat, but he didn't put it into his mouth. The man with the violin walked round Mr. Bean's table and watched him. He played his violin and waited for Mr. Bean to eat the meat. And he waited... and waited... and waited...
'I'll have to eat some,' thought Mr. Bean. 'He'll only go away when I eat it. '
So he put the meat into his mouth.
And the man with the violin turned away to the next table.
The meat was in Mr. Bean's mouth, but he didn't want to eat it. He wanted to put it somewhere. But where? He looked at the man with the violin. He moved quickly. He pulled open the back of the man's trousers and opened his mouth. The meat fell inside the trousers!
He smiled. 'That was clever, ' he thought.
The man with the violin moved round the next table. He played a song to the man and the woman. The music was very beautiful. They listened and drank their wine. They watched the man with the violin, so their eyes weren't on Mr. Bean. Nobody's eyes were on Mr. Bean. He saw this, and he had an idea.
Mr. Bean quickly took the woman's bag from the floor. He opened it and pushed some meat inside it. Then he put the bag on the floor again.
But when he did this, he accidentally put his foot out.
The waiter walked past with some plates of food - and he fell over Mr. Bean's foot! The plates fell on to Mr. Bean's table, and on to the floor. There was a loud CRASH!, and the people at the other tables looked up quickly.
'What happened?' they said. Then they saw the waiter on the floor. 'Oh, dear!' they said.
Now Mr. Bean had another idea. Here was the answer to his problem!
He moved very quickly. He pushed the meat from his plate on to the table with the other food. Then he pretended to be very angry.
'Look, you stupid man!' he said to the waiter. 'Oh, look at this!'
The waiter got up from the floor.
'I'm sorry, sir, ' he said. 'I'm really very sorry. '
The manager arrived at the table.
'I'm very sorry, too, sir, ' he said. 'Oh, the food-!'
'Yes, it's everywhere!' said Mr. Bean. 'Look! It's in the mustard pot. It's in the bread roll. It's in the vase of flowers.' He took the woman's bag from the floor. 'And it's in here!' He pulled open the back of the violin player's trousers. 'And here!'
The waiter couldn't understand it.
'Go back to the kitchen, ' the manager told him, and the waiter went away. Then the manager turned to Mr. Bean. 'Please, sir, ' he said. 'Come with me.'
'What?' said Mr. Bean. 'Oh, yes, all right.'
The manager took Mr. Bean to a clean table. 'Sit here, sir, ' he said. Mr. Bean sat down.
'Thank you, ' he said.
The manager opened Mr. Bean's napkin. Then he got the birthday card from the other table. He put it on Mr. Bean's clean table. 'Thank you,' said Mr. Bean.
The man with the violin came across and played 'Happy Birthday' to him again. Mr. Bean smiled. Now everything was all right.
'Now I can start again, ' he thought. 'And this time I'll do everything right.' The waiter arrived at Mr. Bean's table. He put a plate in front of Mr. Bean. The manager smiled and took off the cover. Mr. Bean looked down. And he stopped smiling.
There, in front of him, was a very large plate - of steak tartare!
A rich man lives in a big city near the sea. He has got three daughters and three sons.
One daughter is called 'Beauty' because she is very beautiful. The other two daughters are called Rosalind and Hortensia. They are lazy and unfriendly. They like going out and having fun. They both want to find a rich husband. They do not like Beauty because she is beautiful.
Beauty has got long red hair. She is kind and friendly. She likes staying at home and reading books. She also likes playing the piano.
Beauty's father is a merchant. One day he loses all his money because his ship is lost at sea.
'My dear children,' he says sadly, 'I haven't got much money. We're poor. We must leave this big house and go and live in the country.'
'Oh, dear!' say the two sisters. 'We're poor - this is terrible!'
'What bad luck!' say the three brothers.
'We have to work now,' says Beauty's father.
'Work?' say the two sisters. 'No, we don't want to work! And we don't want to live in the country.' They start to cry.
Beauty is sad but she says, 'Let's not cry! We can work and be happy without money.'
The family goes to the country and lives in a small house. Beauty gets up at four o'clock every morning to clean the house and cook. Then she washes the family's clothes in the river. The three brothers work in the country.
Rosalind and Hortensia do not work. They do nothing all day. They sleep all morning and walk in the woods in the afternoon.
'I'm unhappy,' says Rosalind. 'I don't like the country because there's nothing to do.'
'We can't go to the theatre and wear nice clothes,' says Hortensia. 'And we haven't got any friends.'
'Look at Beauty,' says Rosalind angrily. 'She works and she's happy in this terrible place.'
Beauty's father says, 'Dear Beauty, you work a lot and you're always happy. You're a wonderful daughter.'
CHAPTER TWO
Beauty's Rose
A year later Beauty's father gets an important letter. He calls his six children and says, 'Listen to this letter:'
You ship is here.
It is not lost at sea!
Please come to the port.
Everyone is happy. 'This is wonderful news!' say the three sons.
'Yes,' says their father, 'the ship with my goods is in the port.'
'We're rich again!' says Rosalind. 'We can buy beautiful clothes.'
'We can go back to our big house in the city,' says Hortensia. 'I must go to the port today,' says her father happily.
'Oh, father,' says Hortensia, 'bring me some new clothes and new hats.'
'Yes,' says Rosalind, 'and some new shoes and jewels.' Beauty's father looks at her and says, 'What do you want, Beauty?'
'Please don't spend your money, father,' says Beauty. 'Just bring me a rose.'
Beauty's father gets to the port and finds his ship. But there are no goods on it - it is empty!
'What bad luck!' he says angrily. 'I must go home and tell the children the bad news.'
On the way home he crosses a big forest. It is snowing and windy. He is lost.
'Where am I?' he thinks. 'Where can I go? I'm very cold and tired.' He hears some wolves and he is afraid. Suddenly he sees a big castle in the forest. And there are lights in the windows.
'Oh, good!' he thinks. 'Perhaps the people in the castle can help me.'
He takes his horse to the stable near the castle. He knocks on the big door of the castle but no one answers. He waits outside the door. Then he opens the door and goes inside. He sees a big hall with a fireplace. There is a long table with a lot of food on it.
He is cold and sits near the fireplace.
'How strange,' he thinks, 'there's no one here.'
He is hungry and sits down at the table and starts to eat.
Then he is sleepy. He finds a warm, comfortable bed and falls asleep. The next morning he finds some new clothes near his bed.
'How nice! New clothes!' he thinks. 'A kind person lives in this castle.'
He looks out of the window and is surprised.
'It's not snowing and it's a beautiful day!' he thinks. 'And there are flowers in the garden.'
He gets dressed and goes to the hall. There are biscuits, chocolate and milk on the long table. He sits down and says, 'Thank you for this lovely breakfast.' He looks round but sees no one.
He eats and decides to go home. He goes to the stable and gets his horse. In the garden he sees some roses.
'Beauty wants a rose,' he thinks. He takes a lovely one. Suddenly he hears a terrible noise. He turns round and sees an ugly monster.
CHAPTER THREE
The Beast
'You're a bad man!' cries the Beast angrily. 'You come to my castle and I save your life. You eat here and you sleep here. And then you take one of my beautiful roses. For this you must die!'
Beauty's father starts to cry. Oh, sir, I'm sorry! You're very kind. Please don't be angry with me. This rose is for one of my daughters.'
'My name is not "sir'' - it is Beast. Please call me by my name. You talk about your daughters. Then one of your daughters must die in your place.'
'Oh, no!' says Beauty's father. 'They're young and they don't want to die.'
'Then you must come back here and die,' says the Beast. 'I can wait three months. Do you agree to come back?'
Beauty's father agrees to come back.
'My daughters must not die,' he thinks. 'I want to go home and see my children for the last time.'
Before Beauty's father leaves the castle the Beast talks to him.
'I'm not had,' says the Beast. 'Go back to your bedroom. There is a big chest there. Fill it with everything you want and it is yours.'
Beauty's father fills the chest with a lot of gold. Then he gets on his horse and goes home. When he is at home he gives the rose to Beauty.
'Take this rose, Beauty,' he says sadly. 'Let me tell you about my terrible adventure.'
He tells his children about the empty ship in the port, the castle in the forest and the Beast.
Rosalind and Hortensia are angry with Beauty. They say, 'Father must die because you like roses, Beauty!'
'No,' says Beauty, 'father is not going to die. I'm going to the Beast's castle!'
'No, dear sister,' say her three brothers. 'We're going to his castle and we're going to kill him!'
'No, that's not possible,' says their father. 'The Beast is very big and strong. I'm old - I must go and die.
But Beauty does not agree. She decides to go to the Beast's castle.
'No, father,' she says, 'you must not go. I want to go!'
'Never, my dear Beauty!' says her father.
'I'm not afraid,' says Beauty. 'You must live and look after my brothers and sisters. They need you.'
Beauty's father thinks for a moment. Then he says sadly, 'Alright, Beauty. You can go.'
Beauty's brothers are very sad, but Hortensia and Rosalind are not.
The next morning Beauty and her father go to the Beast's castle. Inside the castle they see a long table with a lot of good food on it.
Beauty and her father are not hungry, but they sit down and eat. Suddenly they hear a loud noise.
'What's that terrible noise?' asks Beauty.
'The Beast is coming,' says her father.
Beauty sees the Beast's ugly face and she is terrified
'Oh, this Beast is really terrible!' she thinks.
The Beast looks at her and says, 'You're a brave girl.'
'I'm very sorry about the rose from your garden...,' says Beauty quietly.
The Beast looks at Beauty's father and says, 'You must go away tomorrow. And don't come back! Do you understand?'
Beauty's father looks at the Beast and then at his daughter.
'Oh, Beauty,' he says, 'please go home! Let me stay here!'
'No, father,' says Beauty. 'We must be brave. We're both tired - let's go and sleep now. Tomorrow morning you can go home to my brothers and sisters.'
That night Beauty has a dream. In her dream a good fairy says, 'You're a good girl, Beauty. And you've got a kind heart. You want to save your father's life. You're going to be very happy one day.'
CHAPTER FOUR
Life at the Castle
The next morning Beauty's father leaves the castle. He is crying.
'Don't cry, father,' says Beauty. 'Remember, I love you.'
'Goodbye, dear Beauty,' says her father.
Beauty is terrified. 'The Beast is going to eat me tonight,' she thinks. 'I want to enjoy my last day. I'm going to visit the garden of the castle.'
She goes to see the big garden and she is surprised. It is a beautiful garden with a lot of lovely flowers. Then she goes to see the big castle. She looks in all the rooms. On one door she sees this sign:
BEAUTY'S ROOM
She opens the door and sees a lovely room. There is a nice bed and a mirror on the wall.
Beauty looks round and thinks, 'There's a piano and a lot of books for me. How strange! Perhaps the Beast doesn't want to eat me tonight.'
She takes a book and starts to read it. Suddenly she sees these words on the pages:
Welcome, Beauty!
You're the queen here.
Tell me everything you want.
'I only want to see my poor father,' says Beauty.
Suddenly she sees her father in the mirror on the wall. He is very sad. She also sees her home and Hortensia and Rosalind. They are happy without Beauty.
'The Beast is kind to me,' she thinks. 'Why am I afraid of him?'
At 12 o'clock she has lunch. After lunch she goes to her room.
'What a beautiful piano!' thinks Beauty. 'I want to play it.'
She plays some wonderful music on the piano. Then she looks at all the books in her room. Some of them have got pictures and others have not. She takes a book about flowers and looks at the pictures of different flowers. Then she sees pictures of roses of all colours.
'Now I want to go to the garden and look at the lovely roses,' she thinks. She goes to the garden and stays there all afternoon. She looks at the flowers and feels happy.
At dinner time she sits down at the long table and then she hears the Beast coming. She is terrified.
'Beauty, can I sit here with you?' asks the Beast.
'You're the lord of the castle,' says Beauty.
'And you're the queen,' says the Beast. 'Can I ask you a question?'
'Yes, of course,' says Beauty quietly.
'Am I very ugly?' asks the Beast.
Beauty does not know what to say. She looks at him and thinks for a moment.
'Well, yes you are!' says Beauty. 'But you're kind and polite.'
The Beast looks at Beauty and smiles. 'You're right, I'm terribly ugly but I'm kind. This is your home now, Beauty. Please don't be sad!'
'Some men are handsome but they're not kind,' says Beauty. 'I prefer you because you've got a good heart.
'Thank you, Beauty,' says the Beast.
Now Beauty is not afraid of the Beast and she eats a big dinner.
The Beast looks at her and asks a question.
Do you want to marry me, Beauty?'
What a question! Beauty is terrified.
'What can I say?' thinks Beauty.
She is silent for a moment and then she says, 'No, I'm sorry I don't want to marry you.'
The Beast is angry and Beauty is afraid.
Then he goes out of the room and says, 'Goodbye, Beauty.'
CHAPTER FIVE
The Magic Ring
Beauty spends three months at the beautiful castle. Every day she reads books and plays the piano. She walks everywhere in the big garden. She likes the tall trees and the flowers of different colours. She puts beautiful flowers in the rooms of the castle. Sometimes she makes perfume from the flowers.
But the days are long and she is often lonely. Beauty often thinks about her father, her sisters and her brothers.
'I want to see my father again,' she thinks sadly. 'And I want to see my home again too.'
The Beast goes to see her every evening at dinner time, at nine o'clock.
They talk about interesting things and are happy together. Beauty is not afraid of his ugly face now. Every evening the Beast asks Beauty the same question:
'Beauty, do you want to marry me?'
And every evening Beauty answers, 'No.'
One day Beauty says, 'Why do you ask me the same question every evening?'
'Because I hope to hear a different answer,' says the Beast.
'I'm sorry, I don't want to marry you,' says Beauty.
The Beast is very sad.
'But I'm always going to be your friend,' she says.
'You're a wonderful friend,' says the Beast.
'And you are too,' says Beauty smiling.
'I know I'm terribly ugly,' says the Beast. 'But I love you a lot. I'm very happy with you. Please, don't leave me!'
Beauty's face becomes red and she is quiet for a moment.
'In the mirror of my room,' says Beauty, 'I see my poor father. He's sad and lonely. He thinks I'm dead. My sisters are married and my brothers are away. I want to see my father for the last time. Can I go and see him, please?'
'Yes, you can go and see your father,' says the Beast. 'But I'm going to be very sad without you.'
'Oh, thank you!' says Beauty happily. 'Please don't be sad, Beast. I'm going to come back in a week.'
'Alright,' says the Beast. 'You can visit your father tomorrow morning. But remember, you must come back in a week. Before you come back put this ring on a table near your bed. It's a magic ring. Goodbye, Beauty.'
CHAPTER SIX
The Sisters' Plan
The next morning Beauty wakes up in her bedroom in her father's house. She gets up and goes downstairs.
When her father sees her he cries, 'Beauty, is that you? How wonderful! My daughter is well and she's here!'
Beauty is very happy and hugs her father.
'Get dressed quickly and then tell me about the Beast!' says her father happily.
She goes to her room and finds a chest full of beautiful clothes. 'This is a present from the Beast!' says Beauty to her father. He's very nice and gives me presents every day.' She chooses some lovely clothes.
'I want to give these lovely clothes to Rosalind and Hortensia,' she says.
When she says this the chest disappears!
'The Beast is watching you,' says Beauty's father. 'These beautiful clothes are for you and not for your sisters.'
Suddenly the chest comes back again.
That morning Rosalind and Hortensia come to visit their sister. They are both very unhappy.
'Oh, Beauty,' says Rosalind, 'I'm unhappy.'
'Why are you unhappy, Rosalind?' asks Beauty.
'Oh, it's a long story,' says Rosalind.
'Please tell me,' says Beauty.
'My husband is handsome and he spends all day in front of a mirror. He never looks at me or talks to me.'
'Oh, dear, that's a big problem,' says Beauty.
Hortensia says, 'My husband is very clever, but he doesn't like anyone, and no one likes him.'
'I can never invite my friends to lunch or dinner because he doesn't like them.'
'We've got a lot of problems with our husbands,' they say.
'My poor sisters!' says Beauty. 'I'm very sorry.'
'Tell us about the Beast,' says Hortensia.
Oh, the Beast is not a bad man,' says Beauty. 'He's very kind. I live in his beautiful castle and I'm the queen. I don't work. I read, play the piano and walk in the garden. Every evening the Beast comes to see me at dinner and we talk about a lot of things. It's wonderful.'
The two sisters are very angry and they go to the garden.
'Beauty wears lovely clothes and shoes,' says Rosalind. 'She's like a queen. She's very happy. Why is she lucky? And why are we unlucky?'
'You're right, Rosalind,' says Hortensia. 'We're not very lucky. But maybe we can be lucky! Beauty has to return to the Beast in a week, or he's going to get angry and eat her!'
'Then we must keep her here,' says Rosalind. 'Then the Beast is going to get angry.'
During the week the two sisters are kind to Beauty. They talk and laugh with her. They walk together in the country. Beauty is happy with her sisters.
'Rosalind and Hortensia love me,' she thinks. 'They're good sisters and I love them a lot.'
At the end of the week Beauty says, 'I must go back to the Beast's castle.' But her sisters start to cry.
'Oh, Beauty,' says Rosalind, 'please stay with us another week. We need you.'
'Yes, Beauty,' says Hortensia, 'please don't leave us. We have fun with you and we love you.'
'Yes,' says Rosalind, 'stay with us! We can do a lot of things together.'
Beauty does not know what to do. She decides to stay another week.
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Dream
The Beast is going to be very sad without me,' Beauty thinks. 'But I want to stay with my family for a few more days. Then I'm going to go back to him.'
Beauty thinks about the Beast. She misses him.
Ten days later Beauty dreams about the Beast. In her dream the Beast is on the grass in the garden of the castle. And he's going to die!
'Beauty, whispers the Beast, 'today is the tenth day and you're not here. I can't live without you. I can't eat or drink.'
Beauty wakes up and thinks, 'The poor Beast is going to die without me! I must go back to him.'
She takes the ring and puts it on a table near her bed.
'The Beast is ugly but he's very kind,' she thinks. 'Why don't I marry him? I'm happy with him. My sisters have handsome, clever husbands - but they're not happy.'
Beauty falls asleep and the next morning she wakes up at the Beast's castle.
Today I'm going to wear a beautiful dress,' Beauty thinks.
At nine o'clock in the evening she goes to dinner and waits for the Beast. But he doesn't come to see her.
'What's happening?' Beauty thinks. 'Where's the Beast? Why isn't he here?'
'Beast!' she cries. 'Beast, where are you! Answer me!'
She opens the doors of all the rooms and looks everywhere in the castle. But she cannot find him. Suddenly she remembers her dream. She runs to the garden and sees the Beast on the grass.
'Oh, no!' she cries. 'Is he dead?' She listens to his heart and it is beating. 'Good! He's not dead!' she thinks.
She gets some cold water from the river and wets his face. The Beast slowly opens his eyes.
'Beauty,' he whispers, 'I'm dying... but I'm happy because you're here.'
'No, Beast,' cries Beauty. 'Don't die! You must live and become my husband. I love you and I can't live without you.'
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Prince
Suddenly all the lights of the castle and the garden, turn on. There are beautiful fireworks in the sky. Beauty is surprised and looks at the castle. Then she turns round and looks at the Beast.
What a surprise! She sees a handsome young man.
'Thank you, Beauty,' says the young man. 'The spell is broken!'
'But where is the Beast?' asks Beauty. 'I am the Beast!' says the prince.
'I don't understand,' says Beauty. 'Who are you?'
'I'm a prince and this is my castle,' says the young man. 'Sometimes a bad witch puts a spell on a prince and only true love can break the spell. Now I know your love is true.'
The prince takes her hand and says, 'Do you want to marry me, Beauty?'
Beauty looks at the handsome prince and says, 'Yes, I do!'
Beauty and the prince go to the castle. When she opens the door she is surprised.
'My family! You're all here!' cries Beauty. She is happy when she sees her family. They talk and laugh together.
Suddenly she sees the good fairy from her dream.
'Beauty,' says the good fairy, 'you've got a kind heart and you're going to marry the prince and become a princess!'
Then the good fairy looks at Beauty's two sisters.
'You're both bad, lazy and unkind,' says the fairy. 'You don't love anyone!'
The fairy says some magic words and suddenly Rosalind and Hortensia become statues.
'Oh, no!' cries Beauty. 'My sisters are statues!'
'Your sisters have got hearts of stone,' says the fairy. 'Now they can't move, but they can see and hear everything. When they understand their mistakes they can become Rosalind and Hortensia again.'
The next day Beauty and the prince get married. Everyone dances and sings in the castle. It is a happy day. People give flowers to Beauty and the prince.
The prince sees tears in Beauty's eyes and says, 'Don't cry, my Beauty. We're going to be very happy together!'
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