Chapter 2: Animal Language | The Story of Doctor Dolittle | Hugh Lofting | Lit2Go ETC The Story of Doctor Dolittle Source: Lofting, H. (1920). The Story of Doctor Dolittle . New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Readability: Chicago Lofting, H. (1920). Chapter 2: Animal Language. The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved January 19, 2017, from Lofting, Hugh. "Chapter 2: Animal Language." The Story of Doctor Dolittle. Lit2Go Edition. 1920. Web. < January 19, 2017. Hugh Lofting, "Chapter 2: Animal Language," The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Lit2Go Edition, (1920), accessed January 19, 2017, Next The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! It happened one day that the Doctor was sitting in his kitchen talking with the Cat's–meat–Man who had come to see him with a stomach–ache.

"Why don't you give up being a people's doctor, and be an animal–doctor?" asked the Cat's–meat–Man. The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor–song to herself. She stopped singing and started to listen. "You see, Doctor," the Cat's–meat–Man went on, "you know all about animals—much more than what these here vets do. That book you wrote—about cats, why, it's wonderful! I can't read or write myself—or maybe I'D write some books. But my wife, Theodosia, she's a scholar, she is. And she read your book to me. Well, it's wonderful—that's all can be said—wonderful. You might have been a cat yourself. You know the way they think. And listen: you can make a lot of money doctoring animals. Do you know that? You see, I'd send all the old women who had sick cats or dogs to you.

And if they didn't get sick fast enough, I could put something in the meat I sell 'em to make 'em sick, see?" "Oh, no," said the Doctor quickly. "You mustn't do that. That wouldn't be right." "Oh, I didn't mean real sick," answered the Cat's–meat–Man. "Just a little something to make them droopy–like was what I had reference to. But as you say, maybe it ain't quite fair on the animals. But they'll get sick anyway, because the old women always give 'em too much to eat. And look, all the farmers 'round about who had lame horses and weak lambs—they'd come. Be an animal–doctor." When the Cat's–meat–Man had gone the parrot flew off the window on to the Doctor's table and said, "That man's got sense. That's what you ought to do. Be an animal–doctor. Give the silly people up—if they haven't brains enough to see you're the best doctor in the world. Take care of animals instead—THEY'll soon find it out.

Be an animal–doctor." "Oh, there are plenty of animal–doctors," said John Dolittle, putting the flower–pots outside on the window–sill to get the rain. "Yes, there ARE plenty," said Polynesia. "But none of them are any good at all. Now listen, Doctor, and I'll tell you something. Did you know that animals can talk?" "I knew that parrots can talk," said the Doctor. "Oh, we parrots can talk in two languages—people's language and bird–language," said Polynesia proudly. "If I say, 'Polly wants a cracker,' you understand me. But hear this: Ka–ka oi–ee, fee–fee?" "Good Gracious!" cried the Doctor. "What does that mean?" "That means, 'Is the porridge hot yet?'—in bird–language." "My! You don't say so!" said the Doctor. "You never talked that way to me before." "What would have been the good?" said Polynesia, dusting some cracker–crumbs off her left wing.

"You wouldn't have understood me if I had." "Tell me some more," said the Doctor, all excited; and he rushed over to the dresser–drawer and came back with the butcher's book and a pencil. "Now don't go too fast—and I'll write it down. This is interesting—very interesting—something quite new. Give me the Birds' A.B.C. first—slowly now." So that was the way the Doctor came to know that animals had a language of their own and could talk to one another. And all that afternoon, while it was raining, Polynesia sat on the kitchen table giving him bird words to put down in the book. At tea–time, when the dog, Jip, came in, the parrot said to the Doctor, "See, HE'S talking to you." "Looks to me as though he were scratching his ear," said the Doctor. "But animals don't always speak with their mouths," said the parrot in a high voice, raising her eyebrows. "They talk with their ears, with their feet, with their tails—with everything. Sometimes they don't WANT to make a noise.

Do you see now the way he's twitching up one side of his nose?" "What's that mean?" asked the Doctor. "That means, 'Can't you see that it has stopped raining?'" Polynesia answered. "He is asking you a question. Dogs nearly always use their noses for asking questions." After a while, with the parrot's help, the Doctor got to learn the language of the animals so well that he could talk to them himself and understand everything they said. Then he gave up being a people's doctor altogether. As soon as the Cat's–meat–Man had told every one that John Dolittle was going to become an animal–doctor, old ladies began to bring him their pet pugs and poodles who had eaten too much cake; and farmers came many miles to show him sick cows and sheep. One day a plow–horse was brought to him; and the poor thing was terribly glad to find a man who could talk in horse–language. "You know, Doctor," said the horse, "that vet over the hill knows nothing at all. He has been treating me six weeks now—for spavins. What I need is SPECTACLES. I am going blind in one eye.

There's no reason why horses shouldn't wear glasses, the same as people. But that stupid man over the hill never even looked at my eyes. He kept on giving me big pills. I tried to tell him; but he couldn't understand a word of horse–language. What I need is spectacles." "Of course—of course," said the Doctor. "I'll get you some at once." "I would like a pair like yours," said the horse—"only green. They'll keep the sun out of my eyes while I'm plowing the Fifty–Acre Field." "Certainly," said the Doctor. "Green ones you shall have." "You know, the trouble is, Sir," said the plow–horse as the Doctor opened the front door to let him out—"the trouble is that ANYBODY thinks he can doctor animals—just because the animals don't complain. As a matter of fact it takes a much cleverer man to be a really good animal–doctor than it does to be a good people's doctor. My farmer's boy thinks he knows all about horses. I wish you could see him—his face is so fat he looks as though he had no eyes—and he has got as much brain as a potato–bug.

He tried to put a mustard–plaster on me last week." "Where did he put it?" asked the Doctor. "Oh, he didn't put it anywhere—on me," said the horse. "He only tried to. I kicked him into the duck–pond." "Well, well!" said the Doctor. "I'm a pretty quiet creature as a rule," said the horse—"very patient with people—don't make much fuss. But it was bad enough to have that vet giving me the wrong medicine. And when that red–faced booby started to monkey with me, I just couldn't bear it any more." "Did you hurt the boy much?" asked the Doctor. "Oh, no," said the horse. "I kicked him in the right place. The vet's looking after him now. When will my glasses be ready?" "I'll have them for you next week," said the Doctor. "Come in again Tuesday—Good morning!" Then John Dolittle got a fine, big pair of green spectacles; and the plow–horse stopped going blind in one eye and could see as well as ever.

And soon it became a common sight to see farm–animals wearing glasses in the country round Puddleby; and a blind horse was a thing unknown. And so it was with all the other animals that were brought to him. As soon as they found that he could talk their language, they told him where the pain was and how they felt, and of course it was easy for him to cure them. Now all these animals went back and told their brothers and friends that there was a doctor in the little house with the big garden who really WAS a doctor. And whenever any creatures got sick—not only horses and cows and dogs—but all the little things of the fields, like harvest–mice and water–voles, badgers and bats, they came at once to his house on the edge of the town, so that his big garden was nearly always crowded with animals trying to get in to see him. There were so many that came that he had to have special doors made for the different kinds. He wrote "HORSES" over the front door, "COWS" over the side door, and "SHEEP" on the kitchen door.

Each kind of animal had a separate door—even the mice had a tiny tunnel made for them into the cellar, where they waited patiently in rows for the Doctor to come round to them. And so, in a few years' time, every living thing for miles and miles got to know about John Dolittle, M.D. And the birds who flew to other countries in the winter told the animals in foreign lands of the wonderful doctor of Puddleby–on–the–Marsh, who could understand their talk and help them in their troubles. In this way he became famous among the animals—all over the world—better known even than he had been among the folks of the West Country. And he was happy and liked his life very much. One afternoon when the Doctor was busy writing in a book, Polynesia sat in the window—as she nearly always did—looking out at the leaves blowing about in the garden. Presently she laughed aloud. "What is it, Polynesia?" asked the Doctor, looking up from his book. "I was just thinking," said the parrot; and she went on looking at the leaves. "What were you thinking?" "I was thinking about people," said Polynesia. "People make me sick.

They think they're so wonderful. The world has been going on now for thousands of years, hasn't it? And the only thing in animal–language that PEOPLE have learned to understand is that when a dog wags his tail he means 'I'm glad!'—It's funny, isn't it? You are the very first man to talk like us. Oh, sometimes people annoy me dreadfully—such airs they put on—talking about 'the dumb animals.' DUMB!—Huh! Why I knew a macaw once who could say 'Good morning!' in seven different ways without once opening his mouth. He could talk every language—and Greek. An old professor with a gray beard bought him. But he didn't stay. He said the old man didn't talk Greek right, and he couldn't stand listening to him teach the language wrong. I often wonder what's become of him. That bird knew more geography than people will ever know.—PEOPLE, Golly! I suppose if people ever learn to fly—like any common hedge–sparrow—we shall never hear the end of it!" "You're a wise old bird," said the Doctor. "How old are you really?

I know that parrots and elephants sometimes live to be very, very old." "I can never be quite sure of my age," said Polynesia. "It's either a hundred and eighty–three or a hundred and eighty–two. But I know that when I first came here from Africa, King Charles was still hiding in the oak–tree—because I saw him. He looked scared to death." Polynesian islands | Article about Polynesian islands by The Free Dictionary Polynesian islands | Article about Polynesian islands by The Free Dictionary Also found in: Dictionary , Thesaurus , Wikipedia . Polynesia (pŏlĭnē`zhə, –shə) [Gr.,=many islands], one of the three main divisions of Oceania Oceania or Oceanica , collective name for the approximately 25,000 islands of the Pacific, usually excluding such nontropical areas as the Ryukyu and Aleutian islands and Japan, as well as Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, whose populations are more closely ..... Click the link for more information. , in the central and S Pacific Ocean. The larger islands are volcanic; the smaller ones are generally coral formations.

The principal groups are the Hawaiian Islands (see Hawaii Hawaii , 50th state of the United States, comprising a group of eight major islands and numerous islets in the central Pacific Ocean, c.2,100 mi (3,380 km) SW of San Francisco. Facts and Figures Area, 6,450 sq mi (16,706 sq km). Pop. ..... Click the link for more information. ), Samoa Samoa, chain of volcanic islands in the South Pacific, comprising the independent nation of Samoa (formerly Western Samoa), and E of long. 171° W, the islands of American Samoa, under U.S. control. The Samoan islands extend c.350 mi (560 km), with a total land area of c. ..... Click the link for more information. , Tonga Tonga , officially Kingdom of Tonga, island kingdom (2005 est. pop. 112,000), 270 sq mi (699 sq km), South Pacific, c.2000 mi (3,220 km) NE of Sydney, Australia. Tonga is the only surviving independent kingdom in the South Pacific.

Nukualofa is the capital. ..... Click the link for more information. , and the islands of French Polynesia French Polynesia, officially Overseas Lands of French Polynesia, internally self-governing dependency (2002 pop. 245,516) of France, consisting of 118 islands in the South Pacific. The capital is Papeete, on Tahiti. ..... Click the link for more information. . Ethnologically though not geographically, Polynesia also embraces New Zealand New Zealand , island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. ..... Click the link for more information. .

Malayo-Polynesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages , sometimes also called Austronesian languages , family of languages estimated at from 300 to 500 tongues and understood by approximately 300 million people in Madagascar; the Malay Peninsula; Indonesia and New Guinea; the Philippines; ..... Click the link for more information. are spoken in Polynesia. The Polynesians were skilled navigators and sailors, and the Pacific islands they settled were often separated by enormous expanses of open ocean. Bibliography See T. Barrow, Art and Life in Polynesia (1972). Polynesia islands of Oceania located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean, between 23° 30’ N lat. and 28” S lat. and between 176” E long, and 109° 20’ W long.

Polynesia includes the Tonga Islands (an independent state since 1970), the Hawaiian Islands (a US state), the Tuvalu Islands and the Phoenix Islands (British possessions), the Tokelaus and the Cook Archipelago (possessions of New Zealand), Western Samoa (an independent state since 1962), Eastern Samoa (US possession), the Line Islands, or the Central Polynesian Sporades (possession of Great Britain and the USA), the Tubuais, the Marquesas, the Societies, and the Tuamotus (French possessions), and Easter Island (Chilean possession). New Zealand is also considered part of Polynesia. The area, without New Zealand, is about 26,000 sq km. Population, about 1.2 million (1969). The islands are mostly of volcanic or coral origin. The volcanic islands are mountainous with elevations of more than 4,000 m (Hawaiian Islands 4,202 m); the coral islands are flat and low-lying. The Hawaiian and Samoan islands have active volcanoes. Most of the islands are surrounded by coral reefs.

The climate is equatorial and tropical, with tradewinds; mean annual temperatures vary from 22° to 26°C, with minor monthly fluctuations. Precipitation averages 1,500 to 3,500 mm per year. Tahiti, Samoa, and Tonga are subject to violent hurricanes. The mountainous islands are covered with dense, evergreen subequatorial and tropical forests, especially on the windward slopes; the leeward slopes are covered mostly with savanna. Along the coasts are coconut palms, breadfruits, and pan-danuses. There are no large mammals but many birds. The population of Polynesia consists of two basic groups: aboriginal Oceanians and immigrants from Europe, America, and Asia or their descendants. The former, represented by various Polynesian peoples, are heavily predominant on the islands of Tonga, Samoa, Wallis, Horn, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Line, Cook (together with Niue), Society, Tubuai, Tuamotu, Gambier, Marquesas, and Easter Island.

In New Zealand the majority of the population are Anglo-New Zealanders (descendants of immigrants from Great Britain and Ireland), and on Hawaii US Americans and Japanese predominate, although there are large numbers of Filipinos and Chinese. The island of Tahiti also has a group of Chinese. Micronesians—natives of the Gilbert Islands —live on some of the Line Islands. The Phoenix Islands are uninhabited. The main crop on the islands is coconut palms. Also grown are bananas, sugarcane, pineapples, coffee, cacao, rubber plants, rice, yams, taro, and manioc. There is pearl diving, and sea turtles are caught. The islands of Polynesia became known to the Europeans at the end of the 16th century, when the Spanish explorer A. de Mendaña de Neyra discovered the Solomon Islands in 1568 and sighted the Santa Cruz and Marquesas islands in 1595. Portuguese, Dutch, French, English, and Russian navigators took part in the discovery of the islands of Polynesia up to the 19th century. The islands of Polynesia are on routes linking America with Southeast Asia and Australia.

The largest cities and ports of Polynesia are Honolulu (Hawaii), Papeete (Tahiti), Apia (Western Samoa), and Pago Pago (Eastern Samoa). Polynesia wise old parrot who teaches Dr. Dolittle the languages of birds and animals. [Children’s Lit.: Hugh Lofting Dr. Dolittle] Polynesia | Article about Polynesia by The Free Dictionary Polynesia | Article about Polynesia by The Free Dictionary Related to Polynesia: Polynesian , Oceania , Melanesia Polynesia (pŏlĭnē`zhə, –shə) [Gr.,=many islands], one of the three main divisions of Oceania Oceania or Oceanica , collective name for the approximately 25,000 islands of the Pacific, usually excluding such nontropical areas as the Ryukyu and Aleutian islands and Japan, as well as Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, whose populations are more closely ..... Click the link for more information. , in the central and S Pacific Ocean. The larger islands are volcanic; the smaller ones are generally coral formations.

The principal groups are the Hawaiian Islands (see Hawaii Hawaii , 50th state of the United States, comprising a group of eight major islands and numerous islets in the central Pacific Ocean, c.2,100 mi (3,380 km) SW of San Francisco. Facts and Figures Area, 6,450 sq mi (16,706 sq km). Pop. ..... Click the link for more information. ), Samoa Samoa, chain of volcanic islands in the South Pacific, comprising the independent nation of Samoa (formerly Western Samoa), and E of long. 171° W, the islands of American Samoa, under U.S. control. The Samoan islands extend c.350 mi (560 km), with a total land area of c. ..... Click the link for more information. , Tonga Tonga , officially Kingdom of Tonga, island kingdom (2005 est. pop. 112,000), 270 sq mi (699 sq km), South Pacific, c.2000 mi (3,220 km) NE of Sydney, Australia. Tonga is the only surviving independent kingdom in the South Pacific.

Nukualofa is the capital. ..... Click the link for more information. , and the islands of French Polynesia French Polynesia, officially Overseas Lands of French Polynesia, internally self-governing dependency (2002 pop. 245,516) of France, consisting of 118 islands in the South Pacific. The capital is Papeete, on Tahiti. ..... Click the link for more information. . Ethnologically though not geographically, Polynesia also embraces New Zealand New Zealand , island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. ..... Click the link for more information. .

Malayo-Polynesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages , sometimes also called Austronesian languages , family of languages estimated at from 300 to 500 tongues and understood by approximately 300 million people in Madagascar; the Malay Peninsula; Indonesia and New Guinea; the Philippines; ..... Click the link for more information. are spoken in Polynesia. The Polynesians were skilled navigators and sailors, and the Pacific islands they settled were often separated by enormous expanses of open ocean. Bibliography See T. Barrow, Art and Life in Polynesia (1972). Polynesia islands of Oceania located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean, between 23° 30’ N lat. and 28” S lat. and between 176” E long, and 109° 20’ W long.

Polynesia includes the Tonga Islands (an independent state since 1970), the Hawaiian Islands (a US state), the Tuvalu Islands and the Phoenix Islands (British possessions), the Tokelaus and the Cook Archipelago (possessions of New Zealand), Western Samoa (an independent state since 1962), Eastern Samoa (US possession), the Line Islands, or the Central Polynesian Sporades (possession of Great Britain and the USA), the Tubuais, the Marquesas, the Societies, and the Tuamotus (French possessions), and Easter Island (Chilean possession). New Zealand is also considered part of Polynesia. The area, without New Zealand, is about 26,000 sq km. Population, about 1.2 million (1969). The islands are mostly of volcanic or coral origin. The volcanic islands are mountainous with elevations of more than 4,000 m (Hawaiian Islands 4,202 m); the coral islands are flat and low-lying. The Hawaiian and Samoan islands have active volcanoes. Most of the islands are surrounded by coral reefs.

The climate is equatorial and tropical, with tradewinds; mean annual temperatures vary from 22° to 26°C, with minor monthly fluctuations. Precipitation averages 1,500 to 3,500 mm per year. Tahiti, Samoa, and Tonga are subject to violent hurricanes. The mountainous islands are covered with dense, evergreen subequatorial and tropical forests, especially on the windward slopes; the leeward slopes are covered mostly with savanna. Along the coasts are coconut palms, breadfruits, and pan-danuses. There are no large mammals but many birds. The population of Polynesia consists of two basic groups: aboriginal Oceanians and immigrants from Europe, America, and Asia or their descendants. The former, represented by various Polynesian peoples, are heavily predominant on the islands of Tonga, Samoa, Wallis, Horn, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Line, Cook (together with Niue), Society, Tubuai, Tuamotu, Gambier, Marquesas, and Easter Island.

In New Zealand the majority of the population are Anglo-New Zealanders (descendants of immigrants from Great Britain and Ireland), and on Hawaii US Americans and Japanese predominate, although there are large numbers of Filipinos and Chinese. The island of Tahiti also has a group of Chinese. Micronesians—natives of the Gilbert Islands —live on some of the Line Islands. The Phoenix Islands are uninhabited. The main crop on the islands is coconut palms. Also grown are bananas, sugarcane, pineapples, coffee, cacao, rubber plants, rice, yams, taro, and manioc. There is pearl diving, and sea turtles are caught. The islands of Polynesia became known to the Europeans at the end of the 16th century, when the Spanish explorer A. de Mendaña de Neyra discovered the Solomon Islands in 1568 and sighted the Santa Cruz and Marquesas islands in 1595. Portuguese, Dutch, French, English, and Russian navigators took part in the discovery of the islands of Polynesia up to the 19th century. The islands of Polynesia are on routes linking America with Southeast Asia and Australia.

The largest cities and ports of Polynesia are Honolulu (Hawaii), Papeete (Tahiti), Apia (Western Samoa), and Pago Pago (Eastern Samoa). Polynesia wise old parrot who teaches Dr. Dolittle the languages of birds and animals. [Children’s Lit.: Hugh Lofting Dr. Dolittle] Cambridge Primary English - What you need to know by Cambridge University Press Education - issuu Cambridge Primary English What you need to know Introduction to the Cambridge Primary Series Cambridge Primary is our exciting new series for the Cambridge Primary curriculum frameworks from Cambridge International Examinations. Joining our other marketleading titles, our Primary series starts the learnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey and completes the suite of titles available for a lifetime of learning: from Cambridge Primary to Cambridge Checkpoint, Cambridge O level and Cambridge IGCSE to Cambridge International AS and A level. Cambridge Primary is made up of Primary English (for First Language learners), Global English* (for English as a Second Language learners), Primary Mathematics and Primary Science, and is an innovative set of resources designed to support teachers and help learners to succeed in Primary education.

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thethe cage cage of the of the parrot parrot thethe house house belonging belonging to the to the family family thethe journey journey of the of the parrot parrot thethe parrot parrot of Great of Great Uncle Uncle George George 3 Find 3 Find these these phrases phrases in the in the extract extract and and rewrite rewrite them them without without using using thethe possessive possessive form: form: bird’s bird’s ear,ear, Harry’s Harry’s mouth. mouth. 4 What 4 What do do youyou think think thethe title, title, Harry’s Harry’s Mad, Mad, means? means? Can Can youyou think think of of twotwo possible possible meanings? meanings? 9 The 9 The Voyages Voyages of of Doctor Doctor Dolittle Dolittle AA Discussion points are provided to help engage young learners and aid understanding of the main extract TheThe Doctor Doctor Dolittle Dolittle stories stories areare about about a doctor a doctor who who learns learns to talk to talk to animals. to animals.

1 Skim 1 Skim over over thethe Doctor Doctor Dolittle Dolittle extract extract and and discuss discuss with with a talk a talk partner partner what what thethe characters characters areare talking talking about. about. 2 Discuss 2 Discuss who who appears appears to be to be telling telling thethe story: story: a boy a boy (Tommy (Tommy Stubbins), Stubbins), or or Polynesia Polynesia thethe parrot? parrot? Find Find evidence evidence to to support support your your answer. answer. 3 Summarise 3 Summarise thethe keykey points points of the of the extract: extract: characters, characters, setting, setting, main main idea. idea. Did Did you you know? know? Although Although Hugh Hugh Lofting Lofting wrote wrote the the stories stories in the in the 1920s, 1920s, theythey are are set set in Victorian in Victorian England England in the in the 1840s, so they so they historical stories reasons. 1840s, are are historical stories for for twotwo reasons.

Old-fashioned Old-fashioned books books often usedused Roman numerals to to often Roman numerals number number the the chapters. chapters. What What number number chapter chapter is VIII? is VIII? 6464 UnitUnit 4 Just 4 Just imagine imagine Helpful learning bubbles are there to help point out new or unusual grammar and language points Brief introductions to the texts help set the scene and build the context for the reader, before going into the full extract. A nine-year-old A nine-year-old boy named boy named Tommy Tommy Stubbins, Stubbins, the cobbler’s the cobbler’s son, son, has discovered has discovered that Doctor that Doctor Dolittle Dolittle can talk can to talk animals. to animals. WhileWhile he ishe at is theatdoctor’s the doctor’s house, house, having having breakfast breakfast and and drying drying off inoff front in front of theoffire, the Tommy fire, Tommy speaks speaks to Polynesia, to Polynesia, Doctor Doctor Dolittle’s Dolittle’s parrot parrot friend friend fromfrom Africa. Africa. Chapter Chapter VIIIVIII AreAre youyou a good a good noticer? noticer?

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I seeIno see no reason why why you shouldn’t you shouldn’t be able be able to help to help about about birdsbirds and and animals: animals: the way the way theythey walkwalkreason a great a great deal deal – that – that is, if is, you if are youreally are really and and move move theirtheir heads heads and and flip their flip their wings; wings; him him the way the way theythey sniff sniff the air theand air and twitch twitch theirtheir whiskers whiskers and and wiggle wiggle theirtheir tails.tails. You have You have to notice to notice all those all those littlelittle things things if you if want you want to learn to learn animal animal language. language. For you For see, you lots see, lots of the ofanimals the animals hardly hardly talk talk at allatwith all with theirtheir interested interested in animals.” in animals.” “Oh,“Oh, I’d love I’d love that!” that!” I cried. I cried.

“Do “Do you think you think the the Doctor Doctor would would let me?” let me?” Hugh Hugh Lofting Lofting tongues; tongues; theythey use their use their breath breath or their or their tails tails Session 9 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Session 9 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle 65 65 Cambridge Primary English Learner’s Books Title ISBN Cambridge Primary English: Learner’s Book Stage 1 78-1-107-63298-1 Cambridge Primary English: Learner’s Book Stage 2 78-1-107-68512-3 Cambridge Primary English: Learner’s Book Stage 3 78-1-107-63282-0 Cambridge Primary English: Learner’s Book Stage 4 78-1-107-67566-7 Cambridge Primary English: Learner’s Book Stage 5 78-1-107-68321-1 Cambridge Primary English: Learner’s Book Stage 6 78-1-107-62866-3 Cambridge Primary English: Phonics Workbook A 

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Why is this? ü This is because the series follows the globally recognised curriculum from Cambridge International Examinations. Although it may initially appear challenging, the skills-led, enquiry-based approach means that teachers will be able to help their pupils to attain the appropriate international standards of achievement. ü Is there enough material to last for a whole school year? Is it too much material for the school year? ü Each Learner’s book contains nine units: 2 long units and one shorter unit per 10-week term. Each long unit has been designed to be delivered over four weeks, with three lessons per week. The shorter units are intended to be delivered over two weeks. The units per term may be taught in any order with progression being built in per term rather than unit by unit to add flexibility to the programme and to allow for more cross-curricular matching. ü At what level is each stage? ü As Cambridge Primary Science and Mathematics are also ‘language controlled’, they correspond to levels A1 to A2. Although the language levels do not comprise the content, they do reflect the language skills needed to access the content. Global English or Primary English?

Cambridge Primary English is designed for children who are already English speakers (First Language speakers) whereas Cambridge Global English is designed for English as a Second language speakers. See the table below for more detailed information about which course is right for you and your students. Global English Are you teaching using the Cambridge Primary English curriculum framework from Cambridge International Examinations? Are you teaching using the Cambridge Primary English as a Second Language curriculum framework? Primary English Are your children mainly fluent or relatively fluent English speakers? ü Are you teaching the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program or the International Primary Curriculum?** ü Are you teaching in a bilingual school?* ü ARTCORE – Arts & Entertainment in Casper, Wyoming Signstage Theatre’s Dr. Dolittle April 6, 2009 • 7:30 p.m. Natrona County High School In the story of Dr. Dolittle, we are introduced to the good Dr. who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal languages. He already knew sign language. Who would have thought he could learn animal languages too. His fame in the animal kingdom quickly spreads throughout the world.

Using ALL his language skills, he sets off to cure a monkey epidemic in Africa, finding all sorts of adventures on the way. Sign Stage on Tour is a specialist in Sign Language Theatre where deaf and hearing actors perform together on stage. Whenever a character speaks, the character speaking uses Sign Language but you’ll always hear the voice too. The voice comes from a different actor speaking through a microphone, sometimes on-stage and sometimes off-stage. Visually, the stage is filled with the movement of hands and bodies yet every word is spoken to make sure all audience members, both deaf and hearing, don’t miss a thing. It’s a magical blend of language created when performing a play simultaneously in spoken English and in the spatial beauty of American Sign Language. “Well done! Loved it! Great humor! Moved well! Costumes/scenery were creative and colorful. Good for students to be exposed to two languages at once. I felt it was one of the better performances in recent years.” -The Columbus Dispatch Sign Stage on Tour performances have included: Roald Dahl’s The Fantastic Mr.

Fox, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Matilda and James And The Giant Peach as well as Beauty And The Beast, Treasure Island, Aladdin, Snow White and The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow. Sign Stage also offers residencies and a wide range of workshops. Mailing List Join Artcore's mailing list for announcements about upcoming events, news, and more. It's free! ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS Polly Wants a Microphone - TV Tropes Polly Wants a Microphone You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share "I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak Nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him" — Hotspur, Henry IV Possibly the most common type of Intellectual Animal is a talking bird , and you know you've seen it already. Parrots , ravens , mynah birds (Asian starlings, in a nutshell) and other birds capable of mimicking human speech are likely to be outright fully intelligent and articulate. Most common in settings where there is an element of the fantastic that can be used to Hand Wave the inaccuracy, but even fairly mundane, realistic stories sometimes do it. Someone who Speaks Fluent Animal is not needed here (but may show up nonetheless).

Be careful if you're talking about something you want to keep a secret — Not in Front of the Parrot ! Inverted in one of ESPN 's Winter X Games XV commercials of 2011, in which two snow owls are "talking" with subtitles. Anime & Manga Hippo in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch is a talking penguin. Fuku-chan might also count, but he never speaks in bird form, so we don't know whether he can't or whether he's just shutting up while undercover. Averted, oddly, in Pokï¿½mon , with the parrot Pokémon Chatot. It's known for repeating human speech, all Pokémon are supposedly sentient, with a large number (The humanoid and psychics in particular) appearing sapient, and a cat Pokemon learned human language and speaks it fluently. But every time a Chatot is featured it just mimics human words without understanding them like a real-life parrot. Go Figure . Digimon naturally has talking bird Mons ; Piyomon, Hawkmon, and Falcomon have been used as partners.

Aversion: Princess Tutu 's Ahiru/Duck is about the only sentient animal in the series that doesn't talk unless transformed into a human girl. The second season of Yes! Pretty Cure 5 has Syrup, at least in mascot and "birdplane" form. The crows Oboe and Ocarina, Hamel and Sizer's companions (respectively) in Violinist of Hameln . Justified in that they were originally winged humanoids cursed to turn into crows. , and Joe from Singapore . Both are fully intelligent, but neither are very anthropomorphic (especially compared to the Parrot character José Carioca). Magica De Spell 's raven was similar. The National Lampoon had a long-running comic strip "Chicken Gutz" by Randall Enos. The eponymous Butt Monkey character had a bird perched on top of his hat, who provided constant snarky commentary on the proceedings. Mr. Eleven from Ghost Rider , a talking crow that leads people to make deals with the devil. Jommeke : Jommeke's pet parrot Flip is able to communicate in articulate sentences and converses with everybody.

All other parrots in this comic strip share the same gift. Nero : Beo, Meneer Pheip's beo, is also able to talk with people, make speeches, and is cleverer than the average bird of his species. At one point he meets a female beo in the Indian jungle, who is just a normal bird who can only squawk. Films — Animation Iago from Disney's Aladdin . A line in Return of Jafar implies that Jafar taught him, possibly using magic. For most of the original movie, Iago pretends to be a regular parrot when in the presence of characters other than Jafar. He drops this after the protagonists turn on Jafar, though, and no one in-universe seems particularly surprised by his fluent speech. Inverted in Rio where the Spix's macaws can actually indeed talk, but none of the humans can understand them. In fact, said macaws can actually talk to other birds and animals, but they cannot talk to people. Merlin's "highly educated", snide and sarcastic pet owl Archimedes in Disney's The Sword in the Stone , of course.

Films — Live Action The parrot of 102 Dalmatians , who thinks he's a dog, and is voiced by Eric Idle . Scary Movie 2 had a very foul-mouthed parrot that at one pointed started begging to be killed. Pirates of the Caribbean has Cotton's parrot. It speaks for its owner, who had his tongue cut out. While it cannot speak fluently (it speaks in various short phrases, which the other pirates interpret), its phrase selection is a good deal larger than the standard. It eventually learned a phrase that the crew understood perfectly in Dead Man's Chest : "Don't Eat Me!" as the cannibals apprehended them. The Survivors begins with Robin Williams getting fired by his boss's parrot. No, really. The title character of Paulie is such a parrot; the catch is that every other parrot in the movie isn't, and most humans have difficulty believing that Paulie is. He also can't communicate with other birds. He almost became famous, but during the press-conference switched to "Polly want a cracker" type talk instead to spite the scientist who tricked him.

Deep Blue Sea has Preacher's foul-mouthed parrot, who's later eaten by a shark. Prehysteria features a miniature pterodactyl that can do this. Literature The Ur-Example (at least as far as this trope's horror potential goes) is Edgar Allan Poe 's famous raven in the poem " The Raven ." The narrator begs of the bird to answer increasingly desperate questions about the afterlife and the hope of reuniting with his The Lost Lenore , but the raven constantly answers, "Nevermore," rather pessimistically. The last stanza suggests that the bird has taken up permanent residence, and is less bird than evil portent of despair and damnation. You know, typical Poe. Discworld has two: Quoth, the raven ( har dee har har ), and the parrot in Eric . Both have limited wossnames... vocabularies, especially the parrot. Which led to the splendid line (from the parrot) "Wossname wossname wossname wossname wossname!" From the children's literature book Matilda , the titular character and a neighbor kid teach a parrot scary phrases, then hide it in the chimney.

The end result is that her parents tear the house apart looking for what's making the noise, and Matilda gives the neighbor kid his parrot back with her parents never figuring out what happened. From the children's book series Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle , the main character's parrot Penelope was originally depicted realistically, but in the last book of the series she was an Intellectual Animal . The Unkindness of Ravens, a story about a researcher trying to boost animal intelligence. His only success had been with the ravens. They eventually wanted to leave the lab to have chicks. The story had one raven return to talk with the scientist. They figured out that the intelligence (and speech) couldn't be made hereditary. They'd have to come back and be altered. Doctor Dolittle 's parrot, Polynesia, was the one that taught him to speak animal. Kehaar from Watership Down , except that he's speaking animal language, not English. When first introduced, Kehaar speaks "hedge", the lingua franca of the world, but later learns Lapine, the native tongue of the rabbits.

Ravens in American Gods are fully articulate and intelligent, which is hardly surprising, them being Odin's companions and whatnot. Shadows asks one to quoth "Nevermore". The raven is not amused. Raven: Fuck you. J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Hobbit has talking ravens, including Roac son of Carc, the chief of the ravens of the Lonely Mountain. Peach (which is short for Machu Picchu, but the full name is rarely used) in the Young Wizards series, although this one may be justified by the fact that exposure to wizardry has said to have altered all of Tom and Carl's pets, not to mention that she's one of the Powers That Be in disguise. Oreb in Gene Wolfe 's Books of the Short Sun. Madison, the African Grey in the Dick King-Smith novel Harry's Mad and its TV adaptation. Averted in the Alternate History Alien Invasion novel In the Balance by Harry Turtledove . One of the aliens is quite excited on discovering there's an animal called a parrot who'll say exactly what it's told, as their human collaborator is refusing to make further propaganda broadcasts.

The collaborator is tempted to let the aliens make idiots of themselves, but reluctantly informs them that no human would take anything said by a parrot seriously. One novel in Erle Stanley Gardner's lengthy Perry Mason series, The Case of the Perjured Parrot, turns on the eponymous parrot (it doesn't exactly testify, but it is observed that its claws are cut too short, which is a clue to the murderer). In the television adaptation, it was voiced by Mel Blanc. The Dark Tower and A Song of Ice and Fire both have talking ravens. For the most part, they just seem to act like parrots, but it's implied they are capable of comprehending human speech. Jeor Mormont's white raven in A Song of Ice and Fire at first seems to only be unusual in that it's able to speak at all, only using this to ask for corn and repeat people's names and taught phrases . However, its tendency to say unusually apropos things has several characters suspicious that it's smarter than it looks . This universe also has people with the ability to move their consciousness into animals.

So the most popular theory behind the inexplicably apropos sayings of Mormont's raven is that a particular person was speaking through him. The parrot in Next ; his uncanny use of language is handwaved as the result of being genetically altered. He's also far and away the most awesome character in the book because of this. The titular character in Charles Dickens ' Barnaby Rudge has a talking raven that likes to shout "I'm a devil!" In the Garrett, P.I. series, the Goddamn Parrot, aka "Mr. Big", is given to Garrett by a friend as a joke. Operating under its own power, it's incredibly foul-mouthed, and prone to saying things he fears will get him lynched ("Help! Rape! Please, mister, don't make me do that again!"). When operating under the psychic control of the Dead Man, it becomes a mouthpiece and perpetual nag for Garrett's partner. One of the early Animorphs books has the group morphing parrots to tell off a seedy restaurant that's mistreating the birds. They start yelling things at the potential customers that drive them away.

Parodied in The Areas of My Expertise , where these attributes - and, indeed, the Shakespearean page quote - are modified so that they apply to lobsters. Lobsters are introduced to America because of the Shakespeare passage and there's a failed attempt at establishing them as popular pets, but then everyone realizes that they are ugly, violent little animals, so instead the lobsters just get eaten. In The Hunger Games , talking birds are mentioned to have been used for espionage, but this stopped after the people being spied on caught on and started giving out false information to the birds. When The Robbers Came To Cardamom Town features a talking and singing parrot as well as a talking and singing camel . Ray Bradbury 's short story "The Parrot Who Met Papa" features a parrot who memorized the unpublished last novel of Ernest Hemingway . Live Action TV Kiki in The Enid Blyton Adventure Series .

An episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys had Hercules turned into a pig and eventually meet a parrot who he can speak with through Animal Talk (where it didn't have the stereotypical parrot voice), and which could speak to people through Polly Wants A Microphone (where it did), and could translate between the two. On The Young Ones , a pirate is insulted by his own parrot. Subverted in that the pirate thinks the parrot is a dog (he keeps it on a leash) and assumes his boatswain is the one who insulted him, because dogs can't talk. Tabletop Games Raven Familiars in Dungeons & Dragons can speak. A Wizard Did It (or Sorcerer, or Adapt, or Hexblade, Dread Necromancer or arcane caster with the right feat) The "Stormwrack" source book officially introduced parrot familiars that are mechanically identical to ravens. Players probably took parrot familiars and used the statistics for ravens even earlier than that. Taken to extreme in Los Angeles 2035 where there are translator parrots. Ok, they are mutated birds , but still...

Theme Parks The Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland and the Tropical Serenade (and later the Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management) ) at Walt Disney World feature singing animatronic birds with distinct personalities, all fluent in English. Video Games The birds in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door will exhibit this if you hide. But only one is a parrot (the rest are ravens), and if you're not hiding, it says the stock parrot phrases (and, for some reason , "Shine get!" ). The parrot drops the act after the end of the chapter, though. Infocom 's Sorcerer has Belboz's talking parrot, Pollibar, who provides a crucial clue to getting out of the Hall of Enchanters at the beginning of the game. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has two myna birds, and while they both talk, one of them is a bit of a subversion: It will say it's not good at human language and will only interact with Wolf Link (who can understand all animals ), offering a minigame. Douglas Adams' computer game Starship Titanic featured a very screechy parrot voiced by former Python Terry Jones. Who loved eating chicken .

There is a talking parrot in The Ultimate Haunted House , found in the menagerie, who gives hints to complete the game. It can be fed items in order to make him lay eggs, or attacked, tortured, or fried by electricity to create a "roast bird". Web Comics Blackwing, Vaarsuvius's raven familiar in The Order of the Stick . Not bothering to speak Common at first because of a strained relation with V, he proved since the start of the fifth book to be quite smart. However, he is a familiar, so he grows smarter as his master becomes more powerful. Western Animation In the Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Farting Dragon" (seriously), the secretive Scissorsmith's attempts to keep Jack from discovering the dragon's location (because he didn't want a customer to leave without buying anything) are foiled by his... wife, who was turned into a talking crow by a wizard the Scissorsmith had angered. From G.I. Joe : Shipwreck's parrot, Polly (who often seems smarter than her owner). Needle from Conan the Adventurer . An episode of Jimmy Two-Shoes has a bird that supposedly only said "Grunk" and "Snark".

When Jimmy finds out it can speak perfect English, he's surprised, to which Heloise asks " Where are you from? " Professor Pericles, one of the main villains of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated . When he first appears (in which his first line is offscreen), Velma comments how parrots can mimic human speech, but the prison officer notes it's the first thing he's said in decades. He speaks normally (with a German accent) throughout the show. In the Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa episode "Cow Pirates of Swampy Cove", Cowlorado Kid successfully interrogates Longhorn Silver's parrot about the whereabouts of Longhorn Silver and his crew. Real Life The Story of Doctor Dolittle By Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) audiobook - YouTube The Story of Doctor Dolittle By Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) audiobook Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Published on Jun 17, 2015 An adventurous children’s novel, The Story of Doctor Dolittle is the first book in the Doctor Dolittle series. The novel depicts the many adventures of Dr. John Dolittle as he learns the language of animals and takes on various feats including exotic travel, a dangerous encounter with pirates, and a mission to set right from wrong. The novel begins with the introduction of Dr. John Dolittle, an animal lover and respected physician, who lives in the small English town of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh with his unmarried sister. Due to an increase in the number of animals in his home, he loses many of his clients which results in a decline of wealth. Even his sister is repelled from the amount of animals in their home. However, one day Dr. Dolittle learns the secret to speaking with animals from his parrot Polynesia, who teaches him the language of animals. Consequently, he leaves behind his unfulfilling job surrounded by people and instead decides to take up a veterinary practice. This career change proves to be the correct one, as Dr. Dolittle quickly becomes renowned throughout the animal kingdom.

Eventually he finds himself on the way to Africa along with his most trusted animal companions to help cure a monkey epidemic. Yet, unfortunate events lead to a shipwreck and Dr. Dolittle and his animal friends are imprisoned by the king of Jolliginki, who is a victim of colonization and for this reason dislikes all Europeans. The protagonist and his escort undergo many adventures in their task to spread kindness and animal awareness throughout. An optimistic and heartwarming novel, The Story of Doctor Dolittle leaves no one feeling indifferent, as Dr. Dolittle risks losing everything including his house, family and wealth for the sake of proper care and love of animal life. Abundant with humor and a fun easy-to- follow plot, Lofting has successfully created a rich fantasy world with vivid portrayals of memorable characters which have entertained generations time after time. Category

Question: Polynesia the parrot teaches animal language to what literary character?
Answer: Doctor Doolittle