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The Emperor’s
Nightingale
夜莺 Yèyīng
Vocabulary

机械夜莺
夜莺 Yèyīng
Jīxiè yèyīng
= sick
1. Look at the title of the story and the picture. Guess what the story is
about.
Many years go by. The emperor
is happy with the mechanical
nightingale but one day it stops
singing. The emperor is very sad
and becomes ill. The real
nightingale hears about the
emperor and goes to the palace
to sing to him. The emperor is
very happy to see the nightingale
again.
One day, the Emperor of China gets a new book about his
palace and he reads it.
‘What’s this? A nightingale? In my forest? said the emperor.
The emperor is angry because he didn’t know about it. He
tells his men to go into the forest to find the nightingale.
As they are walking in the forest, they suddenly hear a
beautiful song.
‘There it is! It is sitting in the tree,’ said one of the men.
They take the nightingale to the emperor and it sings for the
him. He loves the nightingale’s song and asks it to stay and
sing for him every day.
One day, he gets a mechanical nightingale from the Emperor
of Japan. Everyone loves the new nightingale because it can
sing and it’s got diamonds on it, too. The real nightingale
hasn’t got diamonds on it. It is sad and leaves.
Appreciate the beauty of nature.
2. Match the pictures from the story with what the emperor says.

e c

a d

f b
3.
Put in the sentences in the correct order. Write 1 – 8.
a. 6

b. 2

c. 4

d. 1
e. 8

f. 3
g. 7
h. 5
6.
Why do you think the
nightingale came back to the
emperor?

Do you think the emperor got well

again?