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  • WOMAN: ♪ Hey, now...

  • Hey, wow...

  • Here's how

  • Come and read

  • Between the lions

  • CHORUS: ♪ Come on

  • Come in

  • Begin

  • The world awaits

  • WOMAN: ♪ Between the lions

  • Between the covers of a book

  • It's time to look between the lions

  • Behold the tales beyond the tails

  • CHORUS: ♪ Behind the door

  • Become, explore

  • Come in between the lions

  • Begin between the lions

  • Be here between the lions!

  • ( springs bouncing )

  • ( monkeys laughing and yelling )

  • Yes.

  • Yes, Rick, they're very nice pogo sticks.

  • But I didn't order pogo sticks.

  • I ordered glue sticks.

  • Oh, wow, look at that.

  • Mom.

  • LEONA: Mom.

  • I'll be with you in a minute, cubs.

  • Oh, that's what she said ten minutes ago.

  • Ten minutes, six seconds ago, to be precise.

  • Uh-huh.

  • LEON: Hey, come on.

  • I got an idea.

  • LEONA: What kind of an idea?

  • Yes, I und... Oh!

  • Sorry, sorry.

  • Rick, could you please hold on for a second?

  • Click, could you please do something about these monkeys?

  • Consider it done.

  • ( beeping )

  • ( yelling continues )

  • ( bangs )

  • ( spits )

  • ( reading slowly )

  • Oh!

  • Yeah, outside!

  • Watch your head!

  • ( banging )

  • ( gasps )

  • Rick's Sticks is having a special

  • on dipsticks, lipsticks and fiddlesticks?

  • Hmm.

  • Oh, uh, hold on a second, Rick.

  • ( reading )

  • Oh.

  • Rick, I've got to dash.

  • Send me the glue sticks, two dipsticks

  • one lipstick and six fiddlesticks-- bye.

  • ( cheering )

  • Sorry, cubs.

  • Here's the book, Mom.

  • ( gasps ): I know this book.

  • It's about a farmer who has cows that go:

  • Mm-hmm.

  • Cool!

  • That does not compute.

  • Cows do not click, clack, moo.

  • They do in this book, Click.

  • ( reading )

  • Come on, cubs, let's go get comfy and read.

  • CLICK: Cows that type-- hmm, interesting.

  • LEONA: Oh, boy, oh, boy.

  • ( Leona muttering excitedly )

  • Okay.

  • Ready?

  • Yep.

  • All set, Lionel?

  • ( clears throat ): Okay.

  • CLEO: "Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen Cronin.

  • "Farmer Brown has a problem.

  • "His cows like to type.

  • All day long, he hears..."

  • ( Cleo reading )

  • "At first, he couldn't believe his ears."

  • FARMER BROWN: Cows that type?

  • Impossible!

  • ( Cleo reading )

  • CLEO: "Then he couldn't believe his eyes."

  • FARMER BROWN ( reading ):

  • CLEO: "It was bad enough the cows had found

  • "the old typewriter in the barn.

  • Now they wanted electric blankets."

  • No way.

  • CLEO: "Said Farmer Brown."

  • No electric blankets.

  • CLEO: "So the cows went on strike.

  • They left a note on the barn door."

  • FARMER BROWN ( reading ):

  • No milk today!

  • CLEO: "Cried Farmer Brown."

  • FARMER BROWN: Hmm.

  • CLEO: "In the background, he heard the cows busy at work."

  • ( Cleo reading )

  • Wait a minute, wait a minute.

  • What is that thing?

  • Oh.

  • It's a typewriter.

  • THEO: Ooh, Cleo.

  • Oh, I love it when you say, "Typewriter."

  • ( rolling Rs ): Typewriter.

  • Ooh!

  • Say it one... more...

  • ( crash )

  • Ooh!

  • Ah, those books were all history, anyway.

  • ( laughing )

  • Library humor.

  • Don't you just love it?

  • What's a typewriter?

  • ( groans )

  • A thing of beauty, Lionel.

  • A mechanical... miracle!

  • Yes, a mechanical miracle of its time.

  • Now, sadly, gone the way of the dinosaur.

  • Oh, the typewriter is the eighth wonder of the world

  • right there between the great pyramids

  • and, uh...

  • bubble wrap.

  • Oh.

  • If only I had my faithful old machine with me here

  • I could show you!

  • Wait a minute, Theo, I think we still have it.

  • ( squeals )

  • Be still, my lion heart.

  • My database indicates it is somewhere in sub-basement five.

  • THEO: To sub-basement five!

  • Oh, I love a good hunt.

  • Yeah, me, too, I love a good hunt.

  • I love a good hunt.

  • You look great.

  • Hey, sing along

  • with Martha Reader and the Vowelles

  • as they bring you the short I, "ih" sound

  • in the word "brick."

  • ( Martha singing repeated short "i" sound to pop tune )

  • ( Vowelles respond rhythmically with short "i" sound )

  • MONKEYS: Brick!

  • ( hooting )

  • ( humming )

  • ( makes L sound )

  • ( makes short "i" sound )

  • Li, li...

  • ( sounds out word )

  • ( makes S sound )

  • ( makes ST sound )

  • ( makes short "i" sound )

  • ( sounds out "stick" )

  • ( sounds out word )

  • ( crowd roaring )

  • GAWAIN: Excellent!

  • Gawain here once again at Blending Fields

  • where two brave knights in armor

  • will charge together at high speed

  • and make a word.

  • Competing today, we have...

  • Sir K...

  • And Sir Ick.

  • ( horse whinnies )

  • Blend on, dudes!

  • BOTH: Kick!

  • Through the goalpost, kick!

  • ( crowd cheering )

  • "Kick"! Excellent!

  • That's Gawain's word for today

  • and this is Gawain saying I shall be tick-led

  • to see you next time on...

  • Flying off the shelf once again

  • it's the continuing

  • daring and dangling Adventures of Cliff Hanger!

  • Today's adventure, number six--

  • "Cliff Hanger and Trixie the Tricky Pixie."

  • CHORUS ( singing ):

  • We find Cliff Hanger where we left him last

  • hanging from a cliff.

  • Suddenly, above him

  • Cliff sees Trixie the Tricky Pixie.

  • Quickly, Cliff digs into his nifty backpack

  • and lifts out his trusty survival manual.

  • Using his expert decoding skills, Cliff begins to read.

  • "Ricky the Tick Picker."

  • Here it is.

  • "Trixie the Tricky Pixie."

  • ( reading )

  • "And she will give you a lift off the cliff."

  • ( in a southern accent ):

  • Nope.

  • Uh-uh.

  • 606 minutes pass.

  • ( getting louder each time )

  • And that's why he's called Cliff Hanger. ♪

  • ( lions talking excitedly )

  • ( sneezing and coughing )

  • THEO: This is so exciting.

  • ( sneezes )

  • ( beeps )

  • ( coughs )

  • Oh, beautiful typewriter of mine.

  • Oh, so good to see you again.

  • Hey, doesn't Sam Spud have one of these things?

  • Yes, he does, Lionel.

  • But no one tickles the keys like your father.

  • Show us how it works, Daddy.

  • Yeah.

  • Okay, Leona, Lionel.

  • Stand back and I'll demonstrate

  • the marvelous multitude of the typewriter's moving...

  • ( takes breath ): parts.

  • Oh, get ready for click, clack, roar!

  • ( chuckling ): Ha!

  • ( metallic clanking )

  • Hmm?

  • ( metallic clanking )

  • Uh, that doesn't sound like "click, clack."

  • Mmm.

  • More like "clunk clunk."

  • ( grunting )

  • CLICK: It appears that that machine is not functioning.

  • Oh, no, no, no, it'll work, you'll see.

  • Come on, you can do it, old timer.

  • ( grunts )

  • Oh, it's no use.

  • I'm sorry, cubs, I...

  • I'm not going to be able to show you how a typewriter works.

  • Yes, you will, Theo.

  • Click, could you please bring the cows' typewriter

  • out of the book?

  • LEONA, LIONEL AND THEO: The cows' typewriter?

  • I'm sure they won't mind us

  • borrowing it for a little while.

  • Executing command.

  • ( cows mooing in alarm )

  • ( lions oohing and ahhing )

  • Task completed.

  • Applause for mouse.

  • LIONEL: All right, Click.

  • Oh, that's cool.

  • Applause for typewriter, huh?

  • ( roars )

  • ( chuckling )

  • Prepare to witness the eighth wonder of the world.

  • ( platen turning )

  • Heh? Heh?

  • Is that a cool sound or what?

  • Wow, it rolls.

  • ( rolling R ): It rolls!

  • ( chuckling )

  • ( bell rings )

  • It dings.

  • It dings.

  • ( chuckling )

  • BOTH: Cool.

  • And that's only

  • the tip of the typewriter.

  • ( chuckling )

  • BOTH: Ooh.

  • It makes letters-- look!

  • Yes, it makes letters.

  • It makes words.

  • It makes sentences.

  • It makes paragraphs!

  • Oh, how I've missed that sound.

  • Clickety-clack, clickety-clack.

  • ( roars )

  • You haven't lost your touch, Theo.

  • ( mooing )

  • LIONEL: But we have to get

  • the typewriter back to the cows.

  • THEO: Clickety-clack, clickety-clack.

  • ( cows mooing )

  • Dad...

  • Dad...

  • ( mooing )

  • Mom...

  • Mom...

  • Never fear.

  • We live in a library.

  • ( typing )

  • Clickety-clack, clickety-clack, clickety-clack.

  • ( chuckling )

  • Whoa...

  • Ah, the sweet sound of the old desk piano.

  • ( laughs )

  • Now, that's comedy.

  • Ding!

  • And now Timeless Classic Masterpieces

  • presents another chapter from that saga of the sea

  • Moby Duck

  • in which Captain Ahab, with the crew of the good ship Pea Pod

  • continues his endless search for Moby, the great white duck.

  • AHAB ( reading ):

  • "Methinks our long search will soon be over.

  • Arrgh!"

  • Do you see him, Mr. Starbuck?

  • Do you see the duck?

  • Nay, Captain Silly, can't see a thing

  • except for an old Yankee Clipper.

  • ( water splashes )

  • And the seas be rough.

  • Arrgh!

  • Wait, Captain!

  • Thar she quacks.

  • Moby, the great white duck.

  • Arrgh! At last.

  • Nay, Mr. Starbuck.

  • That not be Moby, the great white duck.

  • Arrgh!

  • Arrgh!

  • No?

  • Arrgh!

  • No, look.

  • See the print on screen there.

  • Ch... ick... en.

  • Chick... en.

  • Ch-- not duh...

  • Ick-- not uck...

  • Icken.

  • Arrgh! That be Moby

  • the hippy dippy white chicken.

  • Arrgh!

  • I be sorry, Captain.

  • The seas be playing tricks with me decoding skills.

  • Well, like I always say at the end of every chapter...

  • Snap out of it, matey!

  • Moby, the great white duck be near, very near.

  • Methinks our search will soon be over.

  • Arrgh!

  • ( bouncy tune playing )

  • If you can read I-N-G

  • Then you can read "king" and "ring" ♪

  • And you can read "sting" and "sling" ♪

  • And you can read "spring"

  • Yeah, you're really startin' to swing

  • Gonna sing you a thing about "ing" ♪

  • If you can read I-N-G

  • Then you can read "fling" and "cling" ♪

  • And you can read "bring" and "string" ♪

  • And you can read "ping"

  • Yeah, you're really startin' to read

  • Little "ing" is a thing that you need

  • If you can read I-N-G

  • Then you can read "wing" and "wring" ♪

  • And you can read "ding"

  • ( bell dings )

  • And you can read "king"

  • ♪ 'Cause you can read "ing."

  • And now a word

  • from star of stage, screen and television...

  • Nothing.

  • ( applause and cheering )

  • Thank you, thank you.

  • It was nothing.

  • Really, nothing.

  • I'm not kidding.

  • All I said was "nothing."

  • ( applause and cheering )

  • I mean, it's very...

  • My work would be nothing without all of you.

  • ( applause and cheering )

  • I can't believe this.

  • Really, it's nothing.

  • ( applause and cheering )

  • I'm not trying to get any applause.

  • It's a very simple fact.

  • Nothing, it's nothing.

  • ( applause and cheering )

  • ( sirens blaring )

  • Man ( over radio ): Typewriter trauma units, code red.

  • Dr. Mouse to E.R. stat.

  • Nurse Leona to O.R.

  • Dr. Lionel, triage team.

  • Patient prepped.

  • Vital signs stable.

  • What's next, Dr. Lionel?

  • To loosen, turn one-half turn to the right.

  • ( squeaks while turning )

  • All right, that should fix it.

  • Wha!

  • ( boinging )

  • Whoa!

  • Or not.

  • Oh, no.

  • You know what we need?

  • A miracle.

  • No, Leona, what we need is professional help.

  • Bring on the grease monkeys!

  • Ha!

  • Let's turn this baby back

  • and get it on the clickety-clack track.

  • ( monkeys talking over each other )

  • LEONA: Hey, hey, hey, we need that.

  • We need that thing.

  • CLEO: Get him!

  • ( reading ):

  • ( Theo chuckles )

  • ( mooing )

  • Theo, the cows in the book want their typewriter returned.

  • Oh...

  • Not yet, Click.

  • I'm having too much fun.

  • ( chuckling )

  • ( reading ):

  • ( chuckling )

  • Hmm?

  • ( sniffs )

  • I know that scent.

  • ( gasps )

  • CLEO, LEONA AND LIONEL: Surprise!

  • Surprise, surprise, surprise!

  • CLEO: Click...

  • ( gasps )

  • Clack...

  • Clickety-clack.

  • You fixed it?

  • It's... it's working?

  • We fixed it.

  • Oh... wow!

  • ( reading )

  • On behalf of the machines everywhere, I rejoice.

  • Hooray!

  • Come, my old friend.

  • We must make beautiful words together.

  • Farewell, family.

  • There's paper in the basement.

  • Click, can we put the cows' typewriter back in the book

  • so we can finish the story?

  • Yeah.

  • Executing command.

  • ( beeping )

  • ( mooing stops )

  • Okay, let's go.

  • All right.

  • All right.

  • Read, Mommy.

  • Where were we?

  • Oh, yeah, the cows were striking for electric blankets.

  • Yeah, yeah, because they were cold.

  • Mm-hmm, all right.

  • ( sighs )

  • "The next day, Farmer Brown got another note."

  • FARMER BROWN ( reading ):

  • LEONA: "The cows were growing impatient with the farmer.

  • They left a new note on the barn door."

  • "Closed. No milk. No eggs."

  • No eggs?!

  • CLEO: "Cried Farmer Brown.

  • "In the background, he heard them.

  • "Click, clack, moo.

  • "Click, clack, moo.

  • Clickety-clack, moo."

  • FARMER BROWN: Cows that type, hens on strike.

  • Who ever heard of such a thing?

  • How can I run a farm with no milk and no eggs?

  • CLEO: "Farmer Brown was furious.

  • Farmer Brown got out his own typewriter."

  • FARMER BROWN ( reading ):

  • CLEO: "Duck was a neutral party

  • so he brought the ultimatum to the cows."

  • ( quacking )

  • CLEO: "The cows held an emergency meeting."

  • ( mooing to each other )

  • "All the animals gathered around the barn to snoop

  • "but none of them could understand moo.

  • "All night long, Farmer Brown waited for an answer.

  • "Duck knocked on the door early the next morning.

  • He handed Farmer Brown a note."

  • FARMER BROWN ( reading ):

  • CLEO: "Farmer Brown decided this was a good deal.

  • "He left the blankets next to the barn door

  • "and waited for Duck to come with the typewriter.

  • The next morning, he got a note."

  • ( Farmer Brown reading )

  • "Sincerely, The Ducks."

  • CLEO AND DUCKS: "Click, clack, quack.

  • "Click, clack, quack.

  • Clickety-clack, quack."

  • CLEO: "The end."

  • That was cool.

  • The ducks got a diving board.

  • Yeah, they did, but...

  • Oh, but poor Farmer Brown.

  • I wonder what kind of farm animal

  • the typewriter went to next.

  • Hmm...

  • Perhaps a monkey.

  • Typo-gram for, uh... Cleo.

  • Oh.

  • Here you go.

  • Ah! Thank you.

  • Now, who could this be from?

  • What, no tip?

  • Oh, um...

  • ( pants excitedly )

  • ( crash )

  • CLEO ( reading ):

  • ( all chuckle )

  • Oh, come on.

  • THEO: I've heard that somewhere before.

  • Let's see.

  • Right.

  • ( typing )

  • ( dings )

  • ( reading ):

  • Hmm...

  • Nah, I'd have to run that by Legal.

  • ( typing continues )

  • The end.

  • ( chuckling )

  • I love that joke.

  • CHORUS: ♪ Between the lions...

  • ( to rap beat ): ♪ Come on, everyone, let's show 'em how it's done. ♪

  • Watch me!

  • Miss Roma Downey!

  • Mr. Pantomime Horse!

  • You can do it!

  • There are games and stories at the Between the Lions Web site:

  • pbskids.org, or America Online keyword: PBS Kids.

  • Hi, Baja Men.

  • BAJA MEN: Hi, Leona.

  • Can you guys be my designated readers?

  • BAJA MEN: Sure, Leona.

  • I have a book about a dog.

  • So do I.

  • So do I.

  • Yo, who took the dog books out?

  • ( all laughing )

  • ♪ ♪

  • [Captioned by The Caption Center WGBH Educational Foundation]

  • CHORUS: ♪ Between the lions...

  • Between the lions...

  • WOMAN: ♪ Come in between the lions

  • Begin between the lions

  • Be here between the lions!

  • CLEO: Between the Lions is funded in part by...

WOMAN: ♪ Hey, now...

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Between The Lions: Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!

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Video vocabulary

Keywords

tricky

US /ˈtrɪki/

UK /'trɪkɪ/

  • adjective
  • Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
  • Likely to use tricks; dishonest or deceptive
  • Using or likely to use dishonest tricks.
  • Difficult to deal with or do because it is complex and full of problems.
applause

US /əˈplɔz/

UK /ə'plɔ:z/

  • noun
  • The sound made by clapping a performance or speech
strike

US /straɪk/

UK /straɪk/

  • noun
  • A punch or hit
  • Fact of not hitting the ball when playing baseball
  • In bowling, the act of knocking down all the pins with the first ball.
  • A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in order to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.
  • A military attack, especially an air raid.
  • Refusal to work to get more pay, protest something
  • verb
  • To hit something
  • To suddenly become (e.g. rich)
  • To hit forcefully and deliberately.
  • To have an idea occur to you
  • To remove or erase.
neutral

US /ˈnu:trəl/

UK /ˈnju:trəl/

  • adjective
  • Something with pH value of 7
  • Having no positive or negative electrical charge
  • Not supporting either side in a war, etc.
  • Not taking either side in a debate; not involved
  • noun
  • Color that is dull and not bright, such as gray
  • The rest position for gears in a car or vehicle
  • Person/country not supporting a side in a war, etc.
tip

US /tɪp/

UK /tɪp/

  • noun
  • A piece of advice or practical information, especially when given to deal with a problem.
  • End point of e.g. a pencil or finger
  • A place where waste or garbage may be deposited.
  • Extra money given for good service
  • Hint or clue; helpful idea for what to do
  • A sum of money given to someone as a reward for their service.
  • Place you leave or get rid of garbage
  • Extremely unclean place, that is not neat
  • verb
  • To pour or move something from a place, container
  • To give extra money for good service
  • To say someone/something is likely to succeed/win
  • To cause something to move into a leaning position
  • To lift one side or edge so the contents fall out
  • To hit something softly, so that it changes course
  • other
  • Give (someone) a tip.
  • To (cause to) topple over.
  • To (cause to) slope.
  • Touch lightly or briefly.
  • other
  • To (cause to) slope.
click

US /klɪk/

UK /klɪk/

  • verb
  • To work well with someone or something
  • To press a computer mouse
  • To make a short, slight, and sharp sound
  • other
  • To like each other immediately.
  • To suddenly understand something.
  • noun
  • The sound a computer mouse makes when you press it
  • A photograph.
  • A short, slight, and sharp sound
  • A single instance of a clicking sound or action.
  • other
  • To select something on a computer screen by pressing a button on a mouse.
leave

US /liv/

UK /li:v/

  • noun
  • A period of absence from duty or work, especially when granted permission.
  • Permission to do something
  • Vacation time; time off work
  • other
  • To cause someone to be in a particular state or condition.
  • To allow something to remain in a specific place or condition.
  • other
  • Permission to be away from work or duty.
  • Remains of food.
  • verb
  • To go away from; depart
  • To gift property to someone after you die
  • To allow something to continue happening
  • To let something remain unused or available
  • To let something or someone remain somewhere
  • other
  • To go away from a place.
command

US /kəˈmænd/

UK /kə'mɑ:nd/

  • verb
  • To be able to see far from a certain location
  • To give an order; have control over others
  • To have or get (respect or attention)
  • noun
  • Electronic order to a computer to do something
  • An instruction given to a computer.
  • A body of troops or a military unit.
  • An order to control things or others
  • The authority to give orders.
  • other
  • To control a computer with commands.
  • To have control or authority over something.
  • To give an authoritative order.
  • To have a good knowledge or use of something.
  • To have a view from a high position.
brick

US /brɪk/

UK /brɪk/

  • noun
  • Baked clay block used to build houses, walls
cliff

US /klɪf/

UK /klɪf/

  • noun
  • High, vertical or steep surface of rock or ice
  • A critical or dangerous situation.
  • A high, steep face of rock or earth.
  • A steep rock face, especially at the edge of the sea.
  • A surname.
  • Person's name