Eleven year old Peter watches his older sister Sally practising her tap dancing in the back
garden, and noticing he's intrigued, offers to teach him some steps. “Now the
basic steps are...” his sister demonstrates, and Peter tries his
best to do them. “That's really good Peter.” she says after ten minutes.
“No it isn't...
I'm rubbish.” he replies. “I just went thump thump thump... but
when you do it, it's tap tap tap.”
“That's because
you're not wearing tap shoes.” she says, showing him the soles of
her shoes. “But you can do the steps quite well for a beginner.” She gets him to
try something a little more difficult, and again he gets the hang of
it after a few minutes.
She's really impressed but he's less keen because when she does it, it sounds like tap dancing and when he does it it's just thump thump thump. Sally tells him to wait and disappears inside the house. Peter practises until she returns. “These are my old ones so they might fit you.” she says.
Peter sits down
and removes his trainers, before squeezing his foot inside the black
tap shoe. “I think they're too small.”