2️⃣2️⃣ Paper piles grows and goes


Sammy looked at the pile of paper on the floor. Whenever he finished reading his mail or a newspaper or magazine, he threw it into this pile. This was his recycling pile. At the moment, it was almost two feet high. It was time to recycle.

He squatted down, protecting his back. Sometimes, just sitting down would cause his back to go out for a week. He scooped his hands under the pile and slowly stood up.

He walked over to his front door. Hands full, he struggled to turn the doorknob and open the door. He walked outside and down the stairs. So far he hadn't dropped one piece of paper. He walked to the blue trash bin.

There was no way to lift the lid of the recycling bin with his hands full. He carefully put the pile of papers down and then opened the lid. The bin was completely full.

Sammy gathered the pile into his arms and trudged back upstairs. Pleased that he still had not dropped any paper, he lowered the pile back onto the floor. Then he stood up, but just a little bit too fast.

📚#Vocabulary:

✨doorknob ~~~ مقبض الباب
✨lid ~~~ غطاء
✨lift ~~~ يرفع
✨lower ~~~ يخفض
✨pile ~~~ كومة
✨protect ~~~ يحمي
✨recycle ~~~ يعيد تدوير
✨scoop ~~~ يغرف
✨squat ~~~ يجلس القرفصاء
✨trash bin ~~~ سلة المهملات
✨trudge ~~~ يمشي بتثاقل


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📚#Vocabulary and Sample Sentences


✨be in charge of (verb): be responsible for
 ✨يتولى مسؤولية

🔻Call Brandon if you have questions. He is in charge of the food for the barbecue.

✨eat like a horse (verb): eat a lot of food like a horse 
✨يأكل كالحصان(يأكل بشراهة)

🔻I hope you have a lot of food for the party. My brother eats like a horse.

✨put away (verb): eat a large amount of food 
✨يلتهم

🔻The football team put away 20 pizzas after the game, and they were still hungry.

✨vegetarian (noun): a person who does not eat meat 
✨شخص نباتي

🔻My sister has been a vegetarian for many years.

✨work out (verb): end in a positive way
 ✨ينجح

🔻I really hope things work out for you after you graduate.


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2⃣4⃣ New to America from Asia 🛬


Nancy was new to America. She came to America speaking only her native language. She brought her 8‐year‐old son with her. He was all she had in the world. They found an apartment in Arcadia. They were there for only two months when a neighbor's dog jumped over the fence.

The dog ran toward Nancy's son. Nancy put her body in between the dog and her son. The dog stopped when it saw Nancy screaming at it. She was going to punch it in the nose. The dog turned around.
Shaking, Nancy took her son upstairs. They stayed in the apartment all weekend. Then Nancy found another apartment, close to the school that her son was going to attend.

She and her son walked everywhere. One day her son started coughing badly. He had an asthma attack. All the walking was making his asthma worse.

Nancy knew that she had to buy a car. So she called up the Honda dealer. She talked to a salesman who spoke her language. She told him that she wanted to buy a new car if he could come over to pick her up. The salesman said he would be right over.

📚#Vocabulary:

✨apartment ~~~ شُقة سكنية
✨around ~~~ هنا و هناك/كل ما حول
✨asthma ~~~ مرض الربو
✨attend ~~~يلتحق
✨cough ~~~ يسعل/يكح
✨dealer ~~~ بائع/تاجر
✨everywhere ~~~ كل مكان
✨fence ~~~ سياج
✨punch ~~~ يلكم


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1️⃣ A, 2️⃣ A, 3️⃣ C, 4️⃣ C, 5️⃣ B

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✨hon (pronoun): short for "honey"
✨اختصار لكلمة حبيبي/حبيبتي

🔻Hon. Could you wake me up early tomorrow morning?

✨Humph: a word showing disbelief
✨كلمة تستخدم للتعبير عن عدم التصديق

🔻Humph. There's no way you can lift all that weight!

✨abandon (verb): in this case, "give up" the idea
✨يتراجع عن/يلغي الفكرة

🔻They had to abandon the plan to build a house due to a financial crisis.

✨out of shape (idiom): in poor physical condition
✨غير ليِّق

🔻I have to start exercising because I'm so out of shape.

✨physical (noun): a medical examination
✨فحص طبي

🔻She had to have a physical before she joined the track team.

✨cut back on (phrasal verb): to reduce
✨يُقلِّل

🔻I have to cut back on the fatty foods I've been eating.

✨take up (phrasal verb): begin or start
✨يبدأ

🔻He has decided to take up cooking in his spare time.

✨cardiovascular system (noun): your body’s blood circulation system including your heart, veins, and arteries
✨الدورة الدموية

🔻Running at least 30 minutes a day helps improve your cardiovascular system.


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2⃣6⃣ The Yardman 🍃🌳


The yardman comes every two weeks. He drives a gray pickup truck. The truck is a Ford. It is about 15 years old, but it runs well. It doesn't burn oil, and it gets decent gas mileage. The yardman's name is Byron.

In the back of his truck are a lawn mower, a leaf blower, a rake, and a shovel. Byron uses the leaf blower to blow leaves and dirt from the back of the building out to the front of the building. Then he rakes up the leaves into a bag. He blows the dirt out into the street. He cuts the lawn with his lawn mower. He trims the hedge. He uses the leaf blower to blow the dirt off each Welcome mat that lies in front of each apartment door.

Then he puts all the leaves, the grass trimmings, and the hedge clippings into a wheelbarrow. He pushes the wheelbarrow to the back of the building, where he uses his big shovel to empty the wheelbarrow contents into the big dumpster. It takes Byron about two hours to do this work.

When he is done, he goes half a block up the street to the house on the corner. There he does the same work again.

📚#Vocabulary:

✨burn ~~~ يحرق/يستهلك وقود
✨content ~~~ محتوى
✨decent ~~~ مناسب
✨dirt ~~~ تراب
✨dumpster ~~~ مكب النفايات
✨hedge ~~~ سياج من الشجيرات
✨lawn ~~~ مرج/عشب أخضر
✨leaf ~~~ ورقة شجر
✨mileage ~~~
المسافة بالميل/عدد الأميال
✨mower ~~~ جزّارة عشب
✨rake ~~~ جرّاف
✨shovel ~~~ جاروف/مغرفة/شبل
✨trim ~~~ يشذّب/يقلّم
✨wheelbarrow ~~~ عربة يدوية


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1️⃣ B, 2️⃣ A, 3️⃣ C, 4️⃣ C, 5️⃣ A

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✨make something of oneself (idiom): become successful in a career 
✨يحقق إنجاز في الحياة المهنية

🔻My dad never thought I would make something of myself because I didn't graduate from a prestigious university, but I proved him wrong.

✨get ahead (phrasal verb): become successful in the business world 
✨ينجح/يتقدم

🔻If you want to get ahead in life, you have to set clear goals.

✨realize (verb): understand the importance of something 
✨يدرك/يستوعب

🔻Many young married couples don't realize how challenging raising children can be until they have children of their own.

✨recall (verb): remember something from the past
✨يسترجع/يتذكر (عادة أحداث ماضية و قديمة)

🔻I can't recall a time when my parents argued in front of me and my brothers.

✨focus on (verb): pay careful and direct attention to a particular person or thing
✨يركز على

🔻When people focus too much on their careers, they sometimes neglect their family's needs.

✨distraction (noun): something that takes your attention away from another activity
✨مشتت للانتباه

🔻Watching too much TV can be a big distraction from building a good relationship with children.

✨off the top of your head (idiom): think of something immediately without preparation
✨يستحضر بسرعة

🔻I felt really embarrassed when I couldn't remember her name off the top of my head.

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2️⃣8️⃣ Pete’s sharp knife 🔪


Pete was in his kitchen. He was about to slice three green apples. He liked to eat fresh apples with cinnamon sprinkled on them. He opened the blinds so that he could get more sunlight into the kitchen. Now he could see what he was doing.

He grabbed a knife out of a drawer. It said "Surgical Stainless USA" on the side of the blade. The blade was very thin and light. It had teeth, like a saw. The handle was a brown piece of cheap hollow plastic.

He had bought this knife about 20 years ago at a county fair. It was one of those knives that were advertised on TV. It could cut through a tomato can, and then cut easily and cleanly through a fresh tomato.

"You never need to sharpen it. The sharp edge is guaranteed for life." That's how they advertised it. And Pete, for once, couldn't argue that the advertisers lied. This was a great knife.

But it was also a dangerous knife. A couple of years ago, Pete was careless. He was rapidly slicing a potato and the blade got his finger. The doctor put three stitches in Pete's finger.
"Next time, be more careful," the doctor said.
No kidding, Pete thought. He was so careful that he didn't use the knife for almost a year.

📚#Vocabulary:

✨advertise ~~~ يُعلن في وسائل الإعلام
✨almost ~~~ تقريباً
✨blade ~~~ شفرة/حد السكين
✨blind ~~~ الستارة
✨cinnamon ~~~ قرفة
✨couple ~~~ زوج (إثنان)
✨drawer ~~~ دُرج
✨fair ~~~ معرض
✨guarantee ~~~ يضمن
✨hollow ~~~ أجوف/مجوَّف
✨kid ~~~ يمزح
✨once ~~~ مرة
✨rapid ~~~ سريع
✨slice ~~~ شريحة
✨sprinkle ~~~ ينثر/يرش
✨stitch ~~~ غرزة
✨sunlight ~~~ ضوء الشمس
✨surgical ~~~ جراحي


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1️⃣ A, 2️⃣ B, 3️⃣ C, 4️⃣ A, 5️⃣ B

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