[00:03.17]Module 12 HUA MULAN
[00:06.89]3 Listen and read.
[00:09.97]The Story of Hua Mulan
[00:13.17]Part one
[00:14.91]One day,a young Chinese girl named Hua Mulan,
[00:19.68]hears that the emperor wants lots of young men
[00:22.89]to join the arm.
[00:25.19]The emperor says that one man form every family
[00:29.30]must join the army.Mulan is sad.
[00:33.51]Her father is very old and cannot join the army
[00:37.40]Her brother is very young
[00:39.60]and he cannot join the army either.
[00:43.05]Mulan wants to help the emperor
[00:46.09]fight for his country.
[00:48.92]Mulan suddenly has an idea.
[00:51.44]"I'm going to join the army!
[00:53.60]I'm going to wear my father's clothes,
[00:55.85]and I'm going to look like a man.
[00:58.26]The captain of the army
[00:59.51]will think that I'm a man!"
[01:01.66]So,Mulan wears her father's old clothes.
[01:05.73]She goes to the market and buys a horse.
[01:09.00]Then she says goodbye
[01:10.98]to her mother and father.
[01:12.67]"Please don't be sad,Father and Mother.
[01:15.05]I'm going to fight for our country.
[01:18.11]I'm going to come back soon,"she says.
[01:21.34]Mulan then rides her horse
[01:23.64]to go to join the army.
[01:26.76]She travels past the Yellow River
[01:29.29]and the Black Mountains,
[01:31.25]to go the army many miles away.
[01:35.16]She travels by herself.
[01:37.55]After traveling for many weeks,
[01:40.47]Mulan finally reaches the army.
[01:43.55]Mulan is brave in the war
[01:46.33]with the other soldiers.
[01:48.19]The captain tells her,
[01:50.16]"You're a brave man and a great soldier."
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