Chapter three audio
The shooting
Well, my darling, says Mr Fox. What do you want for dinner tonight?
I think we will have duck tonight, says Mrs Fox.
Bring us two fat ducks, if you please. One for you and me and one for the children.
But be careful, says Mrs Fox.
My darling, says Mr Fox, I can smell those horrible crooks a mile away. I can even smell one from the other. Boggis gives off a filthy stink of rotten chicken-skins. Bunce reeks of goose-livers, and as for Bean, the fumes of apple cider hang around him like poisonous gases.
Yes, but be careful, says Mrs Fox. You know they will be waiting for you, all three of them.
Don't worry about me, says Mr Fox. I'll see you later.
The three farmers wait outside the entrance of the hole, each one crouching behind a tree with his gun loaded. Mr Fox creeps up the dark tunnel to the mouth of the hole, pokes his face out into the night air and sniffs once. He moves an inch and stops. He sniffs again. He inches forward a little more. The front half of his body is now in the open. He sniffs for the scent of danger but he finds none. He hears a tiny noise. Mr Fox flattens his body against the ground and waits for a long time. He hears nothing more.
Perhaps it's a field-mouse or some other small animal, he says.He looks carefully around. The wood is very still. He sees something bright behind a tree .
What on earth is it? Good heavens!! It is the barrel of a gun!, he says.
Mr Fox jumps back into his hole and at the same instant the entire wood seems to explode around him. Bang-bang! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
The smoke from the three guns floats upward in the night air. Boggis, Bunce and Bean come out from behind their trees and walk towards the hole.
Did we get him? says Bean.
Bunce holds a flashlight and there on the ground in the circle of light is the fox's tail. Bean picks it up.
Boggis answers: We got the tail but we missed the fox.
Dang and blast! says Bunce.
Bean pulls a flask from his pocket and takes a swig of cider. Let's dig him out, he says.
Boggis: We can dig him out in a couple of hours. We know he is here.
Bunce: Yep!
Bean: Get the shovels!
Chapter 3
Répondre aux questions suivantes.
1. Qu'est ce que Mrs Fox souhaite que son mari lui ramène comme repas?
2. Avant qu'il ne parte , que lui préconise-t-elle?
3. Pourquoi Mr Fox est-il capable de sentir les 3 fermiers de loin?
4. Chercher dans un dictionnaire le sens des verbes suivants:
wait________________ crouch__________ creep_____________
poke out_____________ sniff___________ inch forward __________
hear _____________ flatten___________
5. Tous ces verbes décrivent l'attitude de Mr Fox qui sort de son trou. Maintenant que tu sais ce qu'ils veulent dire, sois prêt à mimer Mr Fox.
6. Qu'a-t-il cru entendre comme animal?
7. Qu'est ce que c'est cette chose qui brille qu'il aperçoit?
8. Après que les fermiers aient tiré, que se passe-t-il?
9. Que tient Bunce à la main?
10. Qu'est ce que Bean ramasse?
11. Traduis ce que dis Boggis: We got the tail but we missed the fox.
12. Que suggère Bean?
