• ☐ ☐ ☐ one-stop shopping [exp] - buying everything you need in one store
• ☐ ☐ ☐ slopping [v] - eating trash
• ☐ ☐ ☐ get (someone) off my back [exp] - make someone stop bothering me
• ☐ ☐ ☐ cross-eyed [adj] - when both cannot look in the same direction
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a cornfield [n] - a field where corn is grown
• ☐ ☐ ☐ starving [adj] - very hungry
• ☐ ☐ ☐ pork rinds [n] - cooked pig skin
• ☐ ☐ ☐ draw a crowd [exp] - attract/bring a lot of people
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a birdbrain [n] - a stupid person
• ☐ ☐ ☐ peck [v] - hit (with a bird beak [bird mouth])
• ☐ ☐ ☐ buttons [n] - small disks (circles) on the front of shirts
• ☐ ☐ ☐ straw [n] - long dry yellow pieces of grass
• ☐ ☐ ☐ XXX rules [exp] - XXX is the best
• ☐ ☐ ☐ Your highness [exp] - a respectful title for a queen
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a hunk [n] - a large piece
• ☐ ☐ ☐ be choked up [exp] - have trouble talking because of strong emotion
• ☐ ☐ ☐ the smokehouse [n] - the place where animals are cooked or smoked

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,  [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression

Wilbur	Charlotte	Templeton

• Templeton is at the county fair.
• Charlotte wants Templeton to find a new word that she can write in her web.
• Brooksie and Elwyn are two crows (birds) that hate Templeton.

1. Charlotte is sitting on Templeton's back.
   True
   False
   
   
2. The two birds like Templeton.
   True
   False
   
   
3. The two birds are hungry.
   True
   False
   
   
4. The two birds hate corn.
   True
   False
   
   
5. Templeton is looking for a new word.
   True
   False
   
   
6. The two birds thought that the scarecrow was a real man.
   True
   False
   
   
7. Charlotte is disappointed with the word that Templeton brings.
   True
   False
   
   
8. Templeton says he really cares about Wilbur.
   True
   False
   
   
9. Charlotte thinks that Templeton cares about Wilbur.
   True
   False
   
   
10. Wilbur is confident that he will win the competition.
    True
    False
    
    

Directions: 1) Read the script and choose the best word or expression to complete the sentence. 2) Listen again and check your answers.

• One-stop slopping. All right. ---I go Let's go Go (Let's go) and get the spider off my back.
• How come I'm not in a cornfield, Elwyn? How come?
• Hey, hey. They got all kinds of corn right here. You've got your popcorn, caramel corn, candy corn.
• ---You stop Let's stop Stop (Stop) torturing me! I'm starving here, and now I'm cross-eyed because of this pink stuff. If I ever see that rat again...
• Words, words, words. "Pork rinds." That'll draw a crowd. This looks promising.
• Hey! That rat!
• I'm going to get me some rat!
• Oh, not these birdbrains. ---I get Let's get Get (Let's get) rid of them once and for all.
• ...and everything. Rat on three! Three!
• ---You wait up Let's wait up Wait up (Wait up) , Brooksie! I'm coming with you!
• Little flamingoes! ---You come Let's come Come (Come) and get me!
• It's scary guy!
• Abort! Abort!
• ---You peck Let's peck Peck (Peck) him! ---You peck Let's peck Peck (Peck) him, Elwyn!
• ---You wait Let's wait Wait (Wait) a minute. His eyes are buttons, and his hair is straw. This guy ain't real!
• He's not?
• No!
• Oh, yeah! The rat rules! ---You take Let's take Take (Take) that!
• ---Do you know Let's know Know (Do you know) what this means?
• What?
• We could've had corn!
• Well, Your Highness, are you satisfied or what? 'Cause I've got a spitty hunk of pineapple upside-down cake out there with my name on it.
• Yes, very satisfied. ---You be Let's be Be (Be) careful. If you keep this up, someone might think you care.
• Gee, ---I am Let's be Be (I am) all choked up.
• Charlotte? If ---I don't win let's not win don't win (I don't win) the prize tomorrow, they're gonna send me to the smokehouse.
• ---You are Let's be Be (You are) going to win, Wilbur. And you're going to see the snows of winter. I told you, I never break a promise.