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Retold by Sue Arengo
Illustrated by Barbara Vagnozzi
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The Little
Mermaid
Retold by Sue Arengo
Illustrated by Barbara Vagnozzi
ELEMENTARY 1
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HIS is the story of a little mermaid She lived with her father, the King, her grandmother and
her five older sisters
The sisters were all beautiful, with long hair and tails The little mermaid was the youngest and she
was very beautiful
There was a garden with wonderful flowers and
trees The little mermaid played there with all
the fish and she was happy
Trang 4But one day she looked up and asked, ‘What is up there? What is above the sea?’
‘A sea of air called the sky,’ said her
grandmother ‘And fish called birds can fly!
The people up there have no tails They walk
on two legs on the ground.’
‘Oh,’ said the little mermaid, ‘I want to see
the sky, the birds and the people.’
Trang 5At last she was
fifteen She swam up
at once and she saw a ship
She swam near to it and she heard music
There was music and dancing
Then she saw a young man — a prince with
wonderful eyes He laughed and danced with his friends He was sixteen years old and it was
his birthday
‘Oh!’ said the little mermaid, ‘He is lovely.’
Trang 6Suddenly the sky went black
‘It’s a storm!’ shouted the men on the ship, ‘A storm!’
The sea was black and angry Water came up
onto the ship and it began to break
‘Help!’ shouted the people, ‘Help!’
Trang 7The little mermaid looked for the Prince He must
not die Then she found
him His eyes were closed
and he did not move But he was alive She put her arms around
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She took him to a beach and left him in the sun
Then she waited
Soon a young girl and her friends came and
found him Nobody saw the little mermaid
Trang 8The little mermaid thought about the Prince She asked her grandmother,
‘How long do people live up there?’
‘Down here we can live for three hundred years,’
said the old mermaid “Then we change to water
People only live for eighty or ninety years But
their souls do not die when their bodies die
Their souls fly up to the sky!’
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‘It’s not easy to get a soul,’ she said ‘A man
must love you and marry you But that can
never happen You’re a mermaid with a tail!’
The little mermaid looked sadly at her beautiful tail
‘Three hundred years is a good long time,’
said the old mermaid ‘Let’s be happy Let’s dance
and sing tonight.’
Trang 10‘Perhaps the sea witch can help me,’ the little
mermaid thought
So she swam to the sea witch’s house
‘You love a man,’ laughed the sea witch, ‘And
you want legs! All right, I can make you a
magic drink
Trang 11‘Give me the drink,’
said the little mermaid
‘Give me your voice!’
said the witch
‘But how can I speak to the Prince with no voice?’ asked the little
mermaid
‘Speak with your eyes,’
she laughed
Then the witch made the magic drink The little mermaid was afraid, but she wanted the Prince very much So she put out
her tongue and the witch cut it off
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The little mermaid swam up by the Prince’s
palace She drank the drink and felt a knife
go through her body
In the morning the sun warmed her face She
opened her eyes and saw the Prince
She wanted to speak to him, but she had no voice
So she looked at him with her beautiful eyes ‘Who are you?’ the Prince asked
She smiled at him And he took her back to
his palace
Trang 13She walked beautifully but walking felt strange
to her The ground felt worse than knives
under her feet
Everybody looked at her because she was very,
very beautiful
‘T like this strange girl,’ the Prince said “She can
stay with me.’
So she went everywhere
with him And when she walked, the ground felt worse than knives under
Trang 14At night she put her
hot feet in the sea
‘Come home, sister!’
her sisters called
But she did not go
She loved the Prince
‘Do you love me?’ her eyes asked him
‘I can love only one girl,’ he said ‘She saved
me from the stormy sea.’
‘That girl was me,’ she told him with her eyes
But he did not hear or understand
Trang 15One day the Prince took the little mermaid onto a
big ship Lots of people from the palace came too
“We re going to visit a king across the sea,’ he
told her ‘My father wants me to marry his
daughter But I cannot love her And he cannot
make me marry her.’
‘Oh! He nearly loves me,’ she thought, ‘So
perhaps one day he can marry me.’
That night her sisters swam up She wanted to tell them how happy she was!
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They came to a very big
town The King and the
people were happy to see
them There was music
and dancing every dau They waited and waited
At last the Princess
arrived and she was very
beautiful
‘It’s you!’ the Prince cried
‘It can’t be! You saved me from the stormy sea! Oh!
How happy I am!’
Then the little mermaid’s
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The Prince married the Princess that day The
little mermaid smiled for him She wanted him to be happy But her eyes were sadder than any
girl’s eyes can be
Without the Prince's
love, the little mermaid had no soul She must
die and be nothing —
only water in the sea! That night she danced beautifully But, ah!
She felt a thousand
Trang 18The Prince and the Princess went to sleep The ship was quiet Only the little mermaid
did not sleep She looked to the east and waited for the sun
Then she saw her sisters
‘Sister!’ they cried, ‘We cut off our hair for the sea witch! She gave us this knife Put it into the Prince’s heart before morning Then you can come home to us Quick! It is nearly day.’
Trang 19She took the knife and went to the Prince
How lovely he was!
She threw the knife into the sea And then
she jumped
The morning sun was yellow on the water and she was nothing
But then she flew up and heard music!
‘We are the children of the air,’ the voices
sang “We help people for three hundred
years Then we get a soul You are good
So, come! You can get a soul!’
Trang 20The little mermaid looked down from the air
She saw the Prince and the Princess They
looked for her in the sea
‘Don’t be sad,’ she sang “Live! Live well!’
The Prince looked up The air was new and
Trang 211 Exercises Who is speaking? GA + N > ^ rc _ the little her “her sister the sea witch the Prince mermaid grandmother 1 or & GC bo
‘I like this strange girl She can stay with me.’ ‘e Prince ‘Put it into the Prince’s heart before morning.’
‘All right, [ can make you a magic drink.’
‘| want to see the sky, the birds and the people.’ ‘It’s not easy to get a soul A man must love you and marry you.’ Complete the sentences with can or can't 1 3
Birds Can't _ speak
Trang 223 Make sentences about the little mermaid 1 She put out her and drank the
tongue magic drink 2 She swam up by the and her heart
Prince’s palace broke
3 She wanted to speak and the sea witch to the Prince cut it off
4 She walked but she had no
beautifully voice
5 The Prince married but walking felt
the Princess strange to her
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birthday you are one year older on your birthday
dance The Prince danced with his friends —
feel She felt a knife go through her SOR — “ found past tense of find grandmother your grandmother is the mother of your mother or your father heard past tense of hear 4 jump they jumped into the water —
king see prince
knew past tense of know
Trang 24marry the Prince married soul your soul does not die the Princess — when your body dies —
tail see mermaid
threw She threw the knife into the sea =
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LOAN
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