Can they become real A magic paintbrush Hong

Can they become real? 变成 真的

A magic paintbrush.

洪汛涛和“马良”在一起 Hong Xuntao wrote (write的过去式） this story in 1954.

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1. What did Ma Liang paint？ 2. Why did Ma Liang paint food for this old woman？ 3. What did Ma Liang do with the magic paintbrush？

Read Pictures 1 , 2 and 3 and answer. 1. What did Ma Liang paint？ He painted food. 2. Why did Ma Liang paint food for the old woman？ Because this old woman didn’t have food. 3. What did Ma Liang do with the magic paintbrush？ He helped people.

________ This old woman didn’t have ______. food So Ma Liang painted ____. food Then ______ the food became real.

________ This old woman didn’t have ______. food So Ma Liang painted ____. food Then ______ the food became real.

This old woman didn’t have food. So Ma Liang painted food. Then the food became real. ______ didn’t have ______. So Ma Liang painted _____. Then ______ became real.

A bad man took Ma Liang’s magic paintbrush.

1. What did the bad man paint? 2. Why did the bad man paint gold? 3. What did it become?

Read Pictures 4, 5 and 6 and answer. 1. What did the bad man paint? He painted gold with the magic paintbrush. 2. Why did the bad man paint gold? He didn’t have gold. 3. What did it become? It became a snake.

This old woman didn’t have food. So Ma Liang painted food. Then the food became real. This bad man didn’t have gold. So he painted gold. But it didn’t become real. It became a snake.

What did he do then? He took Ma Liang away.

Read Pictures 7 and 8 and fill in the blanks. help became angry helped come took painted went The bad man was ____. The magic paintbrush didn’t _______ him. It only ______ Ma Liang. He _______ Ma Liang away. He wanted a big ship. So Ma Liang _______ a ship. Then the ship _______ real. The bad man _____ to sea in the ship. But he didn’t ______ back.

Read the story in groups.

What was the man like? … greedy 贪婪的 selfish 自私的 didn’t help people a bad man

What was Ma Liang like? helped people helpful a magic paintbrush liked painting clever brave a good boy (勇敢的） …

A. Listen and imitate the story. B. Tell the story to your parents. C. Try to finish the exercises.

(1) Find the verbs of the past tense. 规则变化 help ---- helped 不规则变化 have ---- had

(2) Find the sentences with “didn’t”. Eg. It didn’t become gold. (3) Try to say some sentences like this.