HUA MULAN (Level Starter)

Hua Mulan is a brave girl who becomes a soldier in her father's place. She does well on her the battle field and becomes a general. She goes home making her father proud of her.

This simplified version is suitable for beginner and elementary English learners. Pictures book and illustration with new words in bold and meaning below the video. 

MULAN 

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Vocabulary:

1. ancient: very old
2. parent: a mother or a father
3. cloth: you make clothes from this
4. sell: to take money for something
5. market: where people go to sell things in the street
6. follow: to go after someone
7. crowd: a lot of people together
8. shout: to say loudly and angrily
9. list: a lot of names that you write one after another
10. enemy: people who are not friends of your country
11. fight: to hit someone again and again
12. emperor: the most important man in a number of countries
13. army: a large number of men who fight for their country
14. join: to go with
15. plan: when you get something ready before it happens
16. news: when someone tells you something that is new
17. punish: to do something bad to someone after they do something bad
18. strong: with a body that works well
19. in someone's place: when you do something for someone because they can't do it.
20. soldier: a person in an army
21. clothes: people wear these
22. brave: not afraid
23. save: to stop bad things happening to someone or something
24. buy: to give money for something
25. ride: to go on a horse
26. saddle: the thing that you put on a horse's back to sit on
27. secret: something that you don't tell to everybody
28. whisper: to speak very quietly
29. clever: quick-thinking
30. river: water that moves through the country in a long line
31. snow: something soft, cold, and white 
32. light: a thing that helps you to see in the dark.
33. tent: a house made of cloth that you can take with you when you move
34. fire: this is red and hot, and it burns
35. welcome: we say this when someone arrives and we are happy to see them
36. awake: not sleeping
37. battle: when two armies fight
38. general: a very important person in an army
39. towards: nearer
40. next to: near
41. win: to be the best in a battle
42. hero: a person who does something brave or good
43. lead: to go in front
44. become: to change from one thing to a different thing
45. chase: to follow behind someone quickly
46. famous: when many people know a person
47. message: something that one person tells another person to say to someone
48. palace: a big house where an emperor lives
49. safe: when something bad cannot happen there
50. bow: to put down your head in front of someone or something important
51. minister: an important person who helps an emperor
52. fine: beautiful
53. journey: when you go far
54. cheer: to shout happily
55. traveller: someone how goes on a journey
56. feast: lots of good things to eat
57. firecracker: this makes a big noise when you put fire to it
58. gate: a big door before the door of a house
59. brush: to move something through your hair to make it look good
60. adventure: something very exciting that happens to you.
61. explain: to talk to someone and make them understand something
62. marry: to make someone your husband or wife
63. husband: the man that a woman marries
64. wedding: the day when two people marry