PAULA’S REQUEST    Paula的请求

Jack,Pau和Jenny三个人在起居室里谈话。

Jenny  Do you have any homework to do, Paula?

Paula  No, I’ve done it.

Jenny  Oh, Oh, good.

Paula  Daddy?

Jack  Yes?

Paula  Can I learn to play a musical instrument?

Jack  What about your flute?

Paula  I can’t play that.

Jack  If you had practised more, you would have learned to sure.

Jack  Mmm.

Jenny Which instrument would you like to learm?

Paula  The piano.

Jack  Where would we put a piano? If I had known we had a pianist in the family, I would have rented a bigger house!

Paula  Oh, Daddy!

Jenny  If you bought a keyboard instead of a piano, you wouldn’t need so much space. And it would be cheaper, too.

Jack  Maybe. I’ll think about it. It’s your bedtime now, Paula.

Paula  OK. Night, Dad. Night-night, Jenny.

Jack  Night, Paula.

Jenny  Night-night.

Paula回到卧室了。

Jack  Do you think she would learn to play the piano, jenny?

Jenny  Well, when I was paula’s age, I used to get bored all the time. I think it I had learned to play a musical instrument at her

age, I woulddn’t have been so bored.

Jack  Yes, maybe. But we must find a good teacher for her. I started to learn to play the guitar, but my te4acher was awful. If I’d had a better teacher, I might not have given up.

Jenny  I didn’t know that you played the guitar.

Jack  I don’t really. How can we find a good piano teacher?

Jenny  Well, one of the students in my class is a music teacher. He has a keyboard, and know he gives music lessons.If you like, I’ll ask him to come roand give paula a trial lesson.

Jack  Oh, that would be great.

*flute n.长笛              *practise v.练习                  *blow v.吹奏                *instrument n. 乐器