Goldilocks
is a thief. Her mother is a thief, and her father is, too. They are all thieves.
They steal things and sell them. They are criminals. They break into (allanar) houses and take stuff.
Goldilocks walks around the neighborhood and looks in the windows of her neighbors. She knows that the three bears are rich.
“They probably have a lot of good stuff. I will look in their window,” Goldilocks says.
It is two thirty-five (02:35) in the morning. It is very dark outside. A window opens and Goldilocks enters the house of the three bears. It is dark inside the house, too, but Goldilocks has a light.
“Where is something expensive? I want to steal something expensive,” Goldilocks says.
At first, she looks in the kitchen. Goldilocks wants to steal expensive things. There is a lot of stuff in the kitchen, but most of it is for cooking. There are a lot of plates and glasses, but those things are heavy and they aren’t expensive.
“I can’t carry the fridge or the dishwasher,” she thinks.
She finds an iPhone and a tablet on the kitchen table. She puts them both in her bag. She knows that iPhones aren’t cheap.
Then she goes into the living room. There is a lot of expensive stuff in there. She sees a TV, a sofa, a hi-fi music player, and lots of books. She takes two books because she loves to read.
“Books aren’t very expensive, and the TV is too big. I can’t carry a TV. I want something small and expensive.”
She looks on the bookshelves and on the table. She looks behind the curtains. She can’t find anything small and expensive. All of the small things she sees are inexpensive
A policeman walks by the house. He sees the light in the living room.
“Why is there a light on in the living room at the three bear’s house?” he says to himself. “I’m going to investigate.”
He walks to the window of the living room and looks inside the house. Goldilocks hears him and she turns off the flashlight. She is very quiet.
The cop doesn’t see anyone in the living room. He is very hungry. He isn’t a very good policeman.
“I want to go buy a donut and some coffee,” he says.
Goldilocks watches the cop walk away from the house. She starts to look for something to steal. Then she sees something on the wall in the dining room. It is a beautiful painting. The painting is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci. It was painted between 1503 and 1506.
She takes the painting from the wall.
“I’m going to be rich!” she shouts.
Then she remembers that she is a thief and she doesn’t want to wake up the three bear who are sleeping upstairs.
Goldilocks takes a knife from the pocket of her trousers. Then she begins to take the painting from the frame. She is very careful. She works slowly to remove the painting from the frame. When she finishes, she puts the painting in her bag.
Suddenly, she hears a noise. Someone is coming down the stairs of the house. The bedrooms are upstairs. Someone is awake.
Baby Bear walks into the dining room. Goldilocks is hiding under the dining room table. Baby Bear looks at the wall.
“Where is the Mona Lisa? Where is the painting?” he asks. “Did it fall on the floor?”
He looks under the table and sees Goldilocks.
“Stop, thief!” he shouts at Goldilocks.
Goldilocks doesn’t listen to the little bear. She stands up and picks up her bag from the floor.
“I said stop,” the bear repeats.
“Shut up, Baby Bear. I’m not afraid of you. You are very small.”
Baby Bear starts to cry. He is afraid of Goldilocks because she has a knife in her hand.
“Go back to bed, Baby Bear,” Goldilocks yells.
Baby Bear runs very quickly up the stairs.
Goldilocks is tired. She sits on the sofa and turns on the TV. She wants to watch a movie. Goldilocks likes action movies. Her favorite movie is Spiderman. She watches an action movie. The film is very loud. There are lots of explosions in the movie. Goldilocks has the volume up to #10, the highest volume level.
Questions
1. What is your favorite type of film?
2. Who is your favorite film star?
3. Do you prefer going to the cinema or watching movies on Disney?
4. What was the last film you saw?
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She hears someone coming down the stairs.
“I told you to go to bed, Baby Bear. It’s almost three o’clock in the morning.”
“I’m not Baby Bear. I’m Mama Bear. What are you doing in my house and why are you watching the TV so late? And why is the volume so high?”
“Be quiet, I’m trying to watch a movie.”
Goldilocks isn’t afraid of Mama Bear.
“I’m going to call the police,” Mama Bear says.
“Go ahead. I’m not afraid of that cop. He’s fat and stupid,” Goldilocks says.
Goldilocks isn’t very nice.
Mama Bear calls the police, but the policeman is eating donuts and is too busy to come to the house. Mama Bear goes back upstairs. She is very angry at Goldilocks.
Goldilocks turns on the hi-fi and plays loud music. Goldilocks likes to listen to music and she likes to dance. She starts to dance in the living room.
Now all of the bears are awake: Baby Bear, Mama Bear, and Papa Bear.
“What can we do?” Mama Bear asks.
“She will get sleepy and go to bed soon. It’s very late,” Papa Bear says. “Let’s go back to sleep.”
Papa is right. Goldilocks is tired. She wants to go to sleep, but she is too tired to walk home.
“I’m going to sleep here tonight,” Goldilocks says.
She walks upstairs and finds an extra bedroom, a guest bedroom.
Before she goes to bed, she goes to the bathroom. She brushes her teeth and washes her face.
She goes to sleep with her bag of stolen items next to her on the floor. It is four o’clock in the morning.
Suddenly, Goldilocks hears a loud alarm clock.
It is very early in the morning. The three bears are awake and making a lot of noise. Papa Bear opens the door to Goldilocks’ bedroom.
“Rise and shine, thief. We wake up early in this house. Breakfast will be ready in ten minutes.”
Goldilocks is not happy. She is very tired.
“I’m not getting up. I need more sleep,” she says.
“Sorry, the rule of the house is that we all wake up at six thirty every morning.”
Mama Bear and Baby Bear walk into her bedroom.
“Wake up, little girl,” Mama Bear says.
“It’s time for breakfast,” Baby Bear says.
Papa Bear picks up Goldilocks and swings her up in the air.
“Come on, little girl,” Papa Bear says. “It’s time to come downstairs for breakfast.”
Goldilocks doesn’t want to wake up, and she isn’t hungry. She doesn’t want to have breakfast; she wants to sleep. She decides that she needs to leave the house of the three bears and go home to her bed, but the bear family is in front of the door and she can’t leave. Goldilocks leaves her bag on the floor and goes to the window. She opens the window and climbs down the drainpipe and escapes.
“Good bye, little girl,” Papa Bear says.
“See you later, thief,” says Baby Bear.
“Come back for a visit someday,” Mama bear says.
The three bears are very nice, but Goldilocks doesn’t want to come back for a visit. She wants to go home and go back to bed.
The End
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Questions
1. What time do you wake up in the morning when you have school?
2. What time do you wake up on weekends?
3. What kind of music do you like?
4. What does Goldilocks steal from the three bears?
5. Is the Mona Lisa an expensive painting?
6. Is it the most expensive painting in the world?
7. What painting does she steal?
The Mona Lisa is in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Lots
of people go there to look at the painting every day. It is the most famous
painting in the world and the most expensive.