Luyện nghe bài hát 14 Carrot Love

Polly Darton by a fence, looking over 13 carrots, laid out in a row)

Polly Darton: Oh, hi there. My name is Darton, and I'd like to sing a song for you, but I can't. The song I'd like to sing's called, "14 Carrot Love", but as you can see, I only have (slowly counting carrots) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 carrots. Mm-hmm.

(Benny Rabbit, with a carrot in his mouth, hops by behind her, and then stops to on)

How can I a song about 14 carrot love, when I only have 13 carrots?

(she Benny)

Benny: Uh-oh. (tries to away)

Polly Darton: Look! Did you see that with that carrot?

(Benny stops, skyward, his escape foiled)

I wonder if let me borrow it. (calls) Here bunny, bunny, bunny!

Benny: (spitting out the carrot) Hey! Don't me Bunny! The name is Benny!

Polly Darton: Well, I'm sorry, Benny. I was if I could borrow that carrot there.

Benny: (shocked) No! No way, no chance! No how! This is my carrot, and I gotta get downtown, so goodbye! (picks up in his mouth again)

Polly Darton: Oh please? You one carrot and I have 13 carrots. (Benny puts carrot back down) If I add your carrot and my 13, I'll have (slowly counting carrots) 1, 2...

Benny: Yeah yeah...

Darton: ...3, 4...

Benny: on, I gotta get downtown!

Polly ...5, 6, 7, 8...

Yeah yeah yeah...

Polly ...9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 carrots.

14, yeah.

Polly And I can sing my song.

Benny: No, no way, it!

Polly Darton: Aw, please? do it for me - do it for the little children! Please?

Benny: (Squeaks his teeth as he thinks it) Oh, all right all right all right. You can borrow my carrot. But you have to give it back. And you can't, I say you can't nibble on it, okay?

Polly Darton: Okay, okay. Thank you! you, you -

Benny: yeah yeah...

Darton: ...wonderful little bunny, you!

Benny: (appalled) call me Bunny! The name is BENNY!!!

(music starts, she now sings)

Darton: These carrots from the garden
Are as you see
In one big bunch
As as can be

(unimpressed) Yeah...

Polly Darton: The has 13 carrots
But it only takes a

(Benny starts into the beat)

To add carrot
And get 14 love!

14 love!

(Benny starts his teeth in time to the music)

14 love!
That is we got here -
14 love!
It's better some flowers
Or on a ring

(Benny's really getting it)

And all 'cause of you-ou
I have song to sing

14 carrot love!
14 love!
That's what we got -
14 love!

(music ends, but Benny keeps singing, back on the fence)

14 carrot love! 14 carrot love!

Polly Darton: (calling to him) Hey hey! Benny! over, Benny!

Benny: (still singing) That's what we've got here! 14 ca- (stops) Oh yeah yeah, right right, well I gotta go anyway. Yeah yeah, I'm just gonna take my carrot here, and get outta here ...

Polly Darton: Hey, hey you can have all those carrots, Benny. Just my way of sayin' you.

Benny: (blown away) Oh! Oh gee, well, um ... but I don't know to say!

Darton: Aw, you know he really is a sweet little bunny!

Benny: (shouting) Don't call me Bunny! The is Benny!

(squeaks his as last notes of the song replay)