Vocabulary

Crooked
legs
Waltzing

Swaying grass

Jump backwards

Branches Bow
 Gerald was a tall giraffe
whose neck was long and
slim.
But his knees were awfully
crooked
and his legs were thin
 But when he tried to move around,

he fell because of
his knees.

He was very good at standing still

and eating leaves from trees.
 Now every year in Africa
animals join the jungle dance,
where everyone shows
what it is good at.

And this year when the day arrived

poor Gerald felt so sad,
because when it came to dancing
he was really very bad.
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 “Hey, look at clumsy
Gerald was walking Gerald,” the animals shout.
“Giraffes can’t dance, go
and the lions saw away! You are not good at
him, so they began to dancing” they said.
roar.
Gerald froze up. “They’re
right”, he thought. “I am
not good at dancing”.

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Then he looked up to the sky and the
moon was there.
“The moon can be so beautiful,”
he whispered.

“Excuse me!” said a cricket

“But sometimes when you’re
different
you just need a different song.”
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 The cricket smiled
and picked up his violin.

Then Gerald felt his body

do the most amazing thing.

His body started to

move.
 He danced and danced
everywhere.

He even jumped backward in

the air.
Gerald felt extremely happy.
“I am dancing!

Yes, I AM DANCING!”
Gerald cried.
 al?”
They shouted “Is it re
ncer
Gerald is the best da
that we’ve ever, ever
seen!”

Then, one by one, each

animal who’d been there at
the dance,
arrived while Gerald was
dancing and watched him.
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“How did y
that?
a l d t e l l u s how.”
Please, Ge r
e r a l d s i m ply turned
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around
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and finish
 Then he raised his head
and looked at the animals:
“We all can dance,” he
said,
“when we find music that
we love.”
The End