It's Christmas at Clara's home. Many guests arrive to celebrate with the family. Clara's godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, makes toys. He gives Clara a very special gift of a 1 . Her brother, Fritz, is 2 . He takes the nutcracker away and it gets broken! After all the guests leave and the children go to bed, Clara 3 up at night and goes downstairs to get her nutcracker under the tree. She 4 asleep there. She dreams that all her toys come to life and are fighting against the bad Mouse King. The Nutcracker flies to 5 young Clara, but is struck down. Clara saves her Nutcracker by 6 her shoe at the Mouse King.
With the Mouse King out of the way, Clara runs to the Nutcracker. When she kisses him, he turns into a prince! Then she and her prince enjoy a 7 trip along which they see dancing snowflakes and are welcomed by sweets.
On Christmas morning, Clara wakes under the 8 holding her nutcracker. This story of Nutcracker is very popular,9 with kids. It was made into a ballet. Russian 10Tchaikovsky composed his beautiful music and that is one of the reasons why people love to watch it. See it at the theatre and yo'll find the story is also told by beautiful dances, rather than just words.
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It was a hot day. Everybody wanted (get) cool, so an ice cream store was popular.
A little girl (hold) her money in her hand and went into the store. But the shop (assist) told her to read the sign on the door. The girl couldn't go into the store unless she put on shoes. The little girl left (slow), and a big man followed her out of the store.
He watched the girl quietly when she stood in front of the store and read the sign, said "No Bare Feet”. She turned and started to walk away with tears her eyes. Just then, the big man called her. He took off his shoes put them in front of the girl. “If you walk with them, you can get your ice cream.” he said.
Then he helped the girl put her (foot) into the shoes. He said, “I get (tire) of walking around, and it'll be good to just sit here and eat ice cream.” The little girl was happy. She ran into the store and ordered her ice cream.
