Horton Hears a Who

Horton Hears a Who is a book written by

Dr Seuss. It is about an elephant called
Horton.

Story:
Horton the elephant hears a voice shouting
for help from a speck of dust. He discovers
there are people living on the speck of dust.
Then he tries to protect the very small people who live on it...

ジャングルに住むゾウのホートンの耳に、風で飛んできたホコリから、助けを求める
小さな声が聞こえてきた。ジャングルの仲間達からバカにされながらも、ホコリに何
度も話しかけるホートン。あきらめかけたその時、小さな声で返事が返ってきたの
だ!それは、ホコリみたいに小さな“Whoville”の市長の声だった....

Vocabulary

dust ホコリ to fit

speck 　 いってん believe 　 信じる
mayor　 市長 collossal　 でっかい
drainpipe　　 放水管　（ほうすいかん） miniscule　 細小　（さいしょう）
accounting 経理部　（けいりぶ） to make contact 連絡（れんらく）がつく
fake にせもの pretty (adverb/副詞）　なかなか
enormous でかい amazing　 すごい
slim down 体重が減る I guess... ~だろう, ~かな
impossible ふかのう

We will watch a clip from the Movie “Horton Hears A Who”!

In this clip, Horton talks to the people of Whoville for the first time!!
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Script: Fill In The Blanks

Horton: Hello?

Mayor: （WHO SAID THAT!!!).........Hello?

Horton: Hellooooo....

Horton: Who's 1_____?

Mayor: Um..　This is the Mayor.

Horton: The Mayor? The Mayor! I'm 2 _______ to the Mayor!

Horton: I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. I knew 3 _____ ___ life on this speck.

Mayor: "This speck"? 4 ____ speck?

Horton: Well, um, I don't exactly know how to tell you this, but... You're 5 ______

on a speck.

Mayor: Well, I hate to disagree with you, O-'voice from the drainpipe', but I live in

Whoville...

Horton: Well, then, Whoville's a speck.

Mayor: Right... Okay, seriously, who is this? Is this Burt from accounting?

Horton: Uh... No. This is Horton. I'm an elephant.

Mayor: Okay, "Horton." (Fake name!)... Where are you?

Horton: Well, from where you're 6 ________, I guess I'm in the sky.

Horton: Compared to you, I'm enormous. Which is saying something, because I've

7 _______ down quite a bit. I swim....

Horton: Your whole world fits on a 8 ______ in my world.

Mayor: Oh, man, this is even pushing it for you, Burt.

Horton: Don't 9 _______ me? Watch what10 _______ when I put you in the shade.

Mayor: This is absolutely 11 __________...

Horton: Dark.
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Horton: Light.

Horton: Dark.

Horton: Light. Dark, light, dark, light, dark, light, dark.

Horton: Light! Don't you see? We're in the middle of some kind of amazing

cosmic convergence. Two vastly different worlds, miraculously crossing

paths!

Horton: 12 ____, colossal! 13 _____, miniscule. Yet somehow we've managed

to make contact. If you think about it, it's pretty amazing.

Horton: Is everything okay down there?

Mayor: I don't know. You tell me. You're the one holding the speck.

Horton: I'm the one 14 ______ the speck...

Horton: I'm the one holding the speck!!! ... Don't you worry Mr Mayor...

Mayor: Hold please!

Answers:

1. there
2. talking
3. there was
4. what
5. living
6. standing
7. slimmed
8. flower
9. believe
10. happens
11. impossible
12. mine
13. yours
14. holding