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What did you like best about the story? What did you like least about the story?

Activity 2 Silent Reading

A. Read the story all the way to the end. The words in bold may be new to you. Do not stop to look
up the words you do not know. Try to guess. At the end of the story, you will have a chance to
learn the meanings of these words.

The Nightingale
by Hans Christian Andersen

In China, you know, the branches. In one of these
emperor is a Chinese, and trees lived a nightingale,
all those about him are who sang so beautifully
Chinamen also. The story that even the poor
happened a great many fishermen, who had so
years ago, so it is well to many other things to do,
hear it now before it is would stop and listen.
forgotten. The emperor's Sometimes, when they went
palace was the most at night to spread their
beautiful in the world. It nets, they would hear her
was built entirely of sing, and say, "Oh, is not
porcelain, and very costly, but so delicate that beautiful?" But when they returned to
and brittle that whoever touched it was their fishing, they forgot the bird until the
obliged to be careful. In the garden could be next night. Then they would hear it again,
seen the most singular flowers, with pretty and exclaim "Oh, how beautiful is the
silver bells tied to them, which tinkled so nightingale's song!"
that everyone who passed could not help Travellers from every country in the
noticing the flowers. Indeed, everything in world came to the city of the emperor,
the emperor's garden was remarkable, and which they admired very much, as well as
it extended so far that the gardener himself the palace and gardens; but when they
did not know where it ended. Those who heard the nightingale, they all declared it to
travelled beyond its limits knew that there be the best of all. And the travellers, on
was a noble forest, with lofty trees, sloping their return home, related what they had
down to the deep blue sea, and the great seen; and learned men wrote books,
ships sailed under the shadow of its containing descriptions of the town, the

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