Talking to a Small Child at the Zoo

Question 1

Regarde cet animal étrange

Answer 1

Look at this strange animal

Question 2

C’est unc chameau

Answer 2

It is a camel

Question 3

Sais-tu où habitent les chameaux?

Answer 3

Do you know where camels live?

Question 4

Les chameaux habitent dans le désert où il fait très chaud.

Answer 4

Camels live in the desert where it’s very hot.

Question 5

Que penses-tu qu’ils mangent?

Answer 5

What do you think they eat?

Question 6

Ils ne mangent pas de blé or de riz.

Answer 6

They don’t eat wheat or rice.

Question 7

Ils ne mangent pas de poisson ou de viande.

Answer 7

They don’t eat fish or meat.

Question 8

Ils ne mangent que de l’herbe, des feuilles et des chardons.

Answer 8

They just eat grass, leaves, and thistles.

Question 9

Ils aiment en particulier manger des chardons.

Answer 9

They especially like to eat thistles.

Question 10

Connais-tu une histoire avec des chameaux?

Answer 10

Do you know any stories about camels?

Question 11

Connais-tu l’histoire de, “la chamelle qui partit se promener?”

Answer 11

Do you know the story, “the camel who took a walk?”

Question 12

Un jour je te raconterai cette histoire.

Answer 12

Someday I’ll tell you that story.

Question 13

Voudrais-tu être un chameau?

Answer 13

Would you like to be a camel?

Question 14

Pourquoi pas?

Answer 14

Why not?

Question 15

Quelles autres espèces d’animaux vivent dans le désert?

Answer 15

What other kinds of animals live in the desert?

Question 16

Les tortues habitent aussi dans le désert.

Answer 16

Tortoises also live in the desert.

Question 17

À quoi ressemblent les tortues?

Answer 17

What do tortoises look like?

Question 18

Elles ont une carapace.

Answer 18

They have a hard shell.

Question 19

Quand elles on peur, elles se cachent dans leur carapace.

Answer 19

When they are frightened, they hide in their shell.

Question 20

Elles portent leur propre maison avec elles.

Answer 20

They carry their own house with them.

Question 21

Elles avancent très lentement.

Answer 21

They move very slowly.

Question 22

As-tu entendu l’histoire, “la tortue et le lièvre?”

Answer 22

Have you heard the story, “the tortoise and the hare?”

Question 23

Je te la raconterai un jour.

Answer 23

I’ll tell it to you sometime.

Question 24

Regarde, il y a une tortue près du chameau.

Answer 24

Look, there is a tortoise near the camel.

Question 25

La vois-tu?

Answer 25

Do you see it?

Question 26

Les chameaux et les tortues sont des amis?

Answer 26

Camels and tortoises are friends.

Question 27

Penses-tu qu’ils se parlent?

Answer 27

Do you think they talk together?

Question 28

Quels animaux peuvent parler?

Answer 28

Which animals can speak?

Question 29

Est-ce que les chiens peuvent parler?

Answer 29

Can dogs speak?

Question 30

Est-ce que les oiseaux peuvent parler?

Answer 30

Can birds speak?

Question 31

Comment communiquent-ils?

Answer 31

What language do they speak?

Question 32

Peux-tu parler la langue des animaux?

Answer 32

Can you speak animal language?

Question 33

Peux-tu comprendre la langue des animaux?

Answer 33

Can you understand animal language?

Question 34

Existe-t-il quelqu’un au monde qui puisse parler la langue des animaux?

Answer 34

Is there anybody in the world who can speak animal language?

Question 35

Si tu pouvais parler à un chameau, que voudrais-tu lui dire?

Answer 35

What would be the first question you’d ask him?

Question 36

Que penses-tu que le chameau te demanderait?

Answer 36

What do you think the camel would ask you?

Question 37

Voudrais-tu monter un chameau?

Answer 37

Would you like to ride on a camel?

Question 38

Si tu devais voyager dans un désert, préférerais-tu monter sur un chameau ou sur une tortue?

Answer 38

If you had to travel in a desert, would you prefer to ride a camel or a tortoise?

Question 39

Ou préférerais-tu marcher par toi même?

Answer 39

Or would you prefer to walk by yourself?

Question 40

Pourqoui?

Answer 40

why?

Question 41

Un chameau est beaucoup plus rapide qu’une tortue et beaucoup plus fort.

Answer 41

A camel is much faster than a tortoise and much stronger.

Question 42

Regarde, le chameau a deux bosses sur son dos.

Answer 42

Look, that camel has two humps on its back.

Question 43

Le vois-tu?

Answer 43

do you see them?

Question 44

Sais-tu à quoi servent les bosses?

Answer 44

Do you know what the humps are for?

Question 45

Si tu manges autant de nourriture qu’un chameau, est-ce que deux bosses pousseraient sur ton dos?

Answer 45

If you ate as much food as a camel does, would two humps grow on your back?

Question 46

Bien sûr que non. Tu n’est pas un chameau.

Answer 46

Of course not. You’re not a camel.