1️⃣9️⃣Noisy neighbor quiets down
Barbara couldn't take it anymore. Her upstairs neighbor was blasting his stereo again. She had asked him twice already to turn the volume down. The first time she asked, he was surprised. He said he didn't know that she could hear his stereo.
"Yes," she said. "It's just like your stereo was in my living room. I can hear every note!"
He said he would keep it down. She hoped that he was telling the truth. Of course, he wasn't. The very next day, he blasted his stereo. She marched upstairs to remind him of his promise. He said the volume was so low that he could barely hear it. She asked him to turn it lower. He said he would try. Barbara could swear that when she reentered her apartment, the music was louder than when she had walked upstairs.
So, this was the third time. She took her baseball bat upstairs with her. She knocked very loudly on his door. When he opened the door, she screamed at him like a crazy person. She told him she would kill him if he didn't turn the music down and keep it down. His eyes got big.
She went back downstairs. She couldn't hear a note.
“I can't believe I said that”, she told herself.
📚#Vocabulary:
✨barely ~~~ بالكاد
✨blast ~~~ يعصف/يدوي
✨crazy ~~~ مجنون/معتوه
✨knock ~~~ يطرق (الباب)
✨loudly ~~~ بصوت مرتفع
✨low ~~~ منخفض
✨neighbor ~~~ جار
✨note ~~~ نغمة موسيقية
✨promise ~~~ وعد
✨scream ~~~ يصرخ
✨stereo ~~~ ستيريو (نظام صوتي مجسم)
✨surprise ~~~ يتفاجأ
✨swear ~~~ يحلف/يقسِم
✨truth ~~~ حقيقة
✨upstairs ~~~ الطابق العلوي
✨volume ~~~ صوت
📚#Grammar:
✒️#Past_simple_tense
✒️#Past_perfect_tense
✒️#Past_progressive_tense
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
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Barbara couldn't take it anymore. Her upstairs neighbor was blasting his stereo again. She had asked him twice already to turn the volume down. The first time she asked, he was surprised. He said he didn't know that she could hear his stereo.
"Yes," she said. "It's just like your stereo was in my living room. I can hear every note!"
He said he would keep it down. She hoped that he was telling the truth. Of course, he wasn't. The very next day, he blasted his stereo. She marched upstairs to remind him of his promise. He said the volume was so low that he could barely hear it. She asked him to turn it lower. He said he would try. Barbara could swear that when she reentered her apartment, the music was louder than when she had walked upstairs.
So, this was the third time. She took her baseball bat upstairs with her. She knocked very loudly on his door. When he opened the door, she screamed at him like a crazy person. She told him she would kill him if he didn't turn the music down and keep it down. His eyes got big.
She went back downstairs. She couldn't hear a note.
“I can't believe I said that”, she told herself.
📚#Vocabulary:
✨barely ~~~ بالكاد
✨blast ~~~ يعصف/يدوي
✨crazy ~~~ مجنون/معتوه
✨knock ~~~ يطرق (الباب)
✨loudly ~~~ بصوت مرتفع
✨low ~~~ منخفض
✨neighbor ~~~ جار
✨note ~~~ نغمة موسيقية
✨promise ~~~ وعد
✨scream ~~~ يصرخ
✨stereo ~~~ ستيريو (نظام صوتي مجسم)
✨surprise ~~~ يتفاجأ
✨swear ~~~ يحلف/يقسِم
✨truth ~~~ حقيقة
✨upstairs ~~~ الطابق العلوي
✨volume ~~~ صوت
📚#Grammar:
✒️#Past_simple_tense
✒️#Past_perfect_tense
✒️#Past_progressive_tense
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
@ReadAloudESL
2️⃣0️⃣A shampoo shower injury 🚿 🧴
Ben leaned over the edge of the tub. He turned on the hot and cold water faucets. The water came out of the spout near the top of the tub. He pushed down on the lever beneath the spout so that the water would drain. He was going to take a shower, not a bath.
He tested the temperature. It wasn't hot enough. He adjusted the hot water faucet. There was another handle between the hot and cold faucets. This one controlled whether water came out of the spout or out of the shower head. Ben turned it all the way to the right. Now hot water was coming out of the shower head. The temperature was just right.
Ben took off his robe and stepped over the top of the tub. He pulled the shower door closed. He grabbed the bar of soap out of the soap dish and started scrubbing his face.
While his eyes were closed to keep out the soap, he put the soap back into the dish. Then he reached for the big plastic container of shampoo on his window ledge. The bottle slipped out of his hands and landed on his left foot.
"Shoot!" Ben said angrily. That hurt.
📚#Vocabulary:
✨adjust ~~~ يعدّل
✨bar ~~~ قالب
✨beneath ~~~ تحت
✨control ~~~ يسيطر
✨dish ~~~ وعاء
✨drain ~~~ ينصرف في المجاري
✨edge ~~~ طرف
✨faucet ~~~حنفية/صنبور
✨grab ~~~ يمسك
✨handle ~~~ مقبض
✨injury ~~~ إصابة
✨lean ~~~ ينحني
✨ledge ~~~ حافة
✨lever ~~~ مقبض
✨robe ~~~ ثوب الاستحمام
✨scrub ~~~ يفرك
✨slip ~~~ ينزلق
✨spout ~~~ فوهة
✨temperature ~~~ درجة حرارة
✨tub ~~~ حوض استحمام
📚#Grammar:
✒️#Past_simple_tense
✒️#Past_progressive_tense
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
@ReadAloudESL
Ben leaned over the edge of the tub. He turned on the hot and cold water faucets. The water came out of the spout near the top of the tub. He pushed down on the lever beneath the spout so that the water would drain. He was going to take a shower, not a bath.
He tested the temperature. It wasn't hot enough. He adjusted the hot water faucet. There was another handle between the hot and cold faucets. This one controlled whether water came out of the spout or out of the shower head. Ben turned it all the way to the right. Now hot water was coming out of the shower head. The temperature was just right.
Ben took off his robe and stepped over the top of the tub. He pulled the shower door closed. He grabbed the bar of soap out of the soap dish and started scrubbing his face.
While his eyes were closed to keep out the soap, he put the soap back into the dish. Then he reached for the big plastic container of shampoo on his window ledge. The bottle slipped out of his hands and landed on his left foot.
"Shoot!" Ben said angrily. That hurt.
📚#Vocabulary:
✨adjust ~~~ يعدّل
✨bar ~~~ قالب
✨beneath ~~~ تحت
✨control ~~~ يسيطر
✨dish ~~~ وعاء
✨drain ~~~ ينصرف في المجاري
✨edge ~~~ طرف
✨faucet ~~~حنفية/صنبور
✨grab ~~~ يمسك
✨handle ~~~ مقبض
✨injury ~~~ إصابة
✨lean ~~~ ينحني
✨ledge ~~~ حافة
✨lever ~~~ مقبض
✨robe ~~~ ثوب الاستحمام
✨scrub ~~~ يفرك
✨slip ~~~ ينزلق
✨spout ~~~ فوهة
✨temperature ~~~ درجة حرارة
✨tub ~~~ حوض استحمام
📚#Grammar:
✒️#Past_simple_tense
✒️#Past_progressive_tense
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
@ReadAloudESL
2️⃣Which item did Joshua NOT take to school?
Anonymous Poll
18%
A. a backpack
65%
B. a school-hat
18%
C. gym clothes
3️⃣What does Josh do first when he gets to school?
Anonymous Poll
21%
A. He puts on his gym clothes for class.
58%
B. He stands and bows to the teacher.
21%
C. He practices his reading and writing.
4️⃣Where does Joshua eat lunch at school?
Anonymous Poll
38%
A. in the lunchroom
6%
B. in the gymnasium
56%
C. in his classroom
5️⃣Joshua probably gets home from school between ___.
Anonymous Poll
25%
A. 3:00 and 4:00 p.m.
13%
B. 1:00 and 2:00 p.m.
63%
C. 2:00 and 3:00 p.m.
1️⃣How does Joshua go to school in Japan?
Anonymous Poll
63%
A. He walks with a group of students.
31%
B. He takes a school bus every morning.
6%
C. He rides the subway at 8:00 AM.
🎧LET’S READ ALOUD🎧
🔉Listen to the phone message and answer the questions.👇🏻 Good luck!🍀 🎧📖#Conversations📖🎧 @ReadAloudESL
✨Well done, dear friends!👏🏻👏🏻
🔻Correct answers are:
1️⃣ A, 2️⃣ B, 3️⃣ B, 4️⃣ C, 5️⃣ C
Now, listen to the conversation and read along with the conversation. Review the Key Vocabulary and the sample sentences.👇🏻
🔻Correct answers are:
1️⃣ A, 2️⃣ B, 3️⃣ B, 4️⃣ C, 5️⃣ C
Now, listen to the conversation and read along with the conversation. Review the Key Vocabulary and the sample sentences.👇🏻
🎧LET’S READ ALOUD🎧
Randall Davis – A Day at School
2️⃣1️⃣ A day at School
👱🏻♂️Randall: Hello. Today I'm interviewing Joshua on his experiences going to a Japanese school. Now Joshua, what time do you go to school?
👦🏻Joshua: Eight O'clock.
👱🏻♂️Randall: Eight O'clock. And do you go by yourself, or on a school bus?
👦🏻Joshua: No, I have a group that goes with me.
👱🏻♂️Randall: So you go with a group?
👦🏻Joshua: Uh-huh.
👱🏻♂️Randall: Now what kinds of things do you take to school?
👦🏻Joshua: I take my taiso fuku, that is gym clothes, and I take my backpack and my books [ Oh, okay. ] and stuff like that.
👱🏻♂️Randall: Okay and what is the first thing you do when you get to school?
👦🏻Joshua: We do "kiritsu, rei."
👱🏻♂️Randall: "Kiritsu" and "rei." Now what are those?
👦🏻Joshua: It means "stand up, bow."
👱🏻♂️Randall: Stand up and bow.
👦🏻Joshua: Uh-huh.
👱🏻♂️Randall: And what do you study at school?
👦🏻Joshua: We study kokugo, that is writing and reading and stuff like that [ Okay], and sansu, that's math. [ Okay. ]. And, let's see . . . , we do gym too.
👱🏻♂️Randall: Okay, and where do you eat lunch? Do you have a lunchroom or cafeteria?
👦🏻Joshua: No, we eat in our classroom.
👱🏻♂️Randall: You eat in your classroom! [ Yeah. ]. Oh wow. That is very interesting. Now what time do you come home from school?
👦🏻Joshua: We come home sometimes at 3:00 and sometimes at 2:00.
👱🏻♂️Randall: Okay, well thank you very much Joshua.
👦🏻Joshua: You're welcome.
📚#Vocabulary and Sample Sentences
✨stuff (noun): things
✨أغراض؛ أشياء؛ حاجات؛ لوازم؛ ضرورات
🔻Please put your stuff in your backpacks.
✨bow (verb): bend your head and waist to show respect and thanks to another person
✨ينحني؛ أن تخفض رأسك و خصرك لإظهار التحية و الاحترام و الشكر للشخص الآخر (يعتبر هذا السلوك من عادات و تقاليد الشعب الياباني)👘
🔻You should bow in Japan when you meet people in formal situations.
🎧📖#Conversations📖🎧
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👱🏻♂️Randall: Hello. Today I'm interviewing Joshua on his experiences going to a Japanese school. Now Joshua, what time do you go to school?
👦🏻Joshua: Eight O'clock.
👱🏻♂️Randall: Eight O'clock. And do you go by yourself, or on a school bus?
👦🏻Joshua: No, I have a group that goes with me.
👱🏻♂️Randall: So you go with a group?
👦🏻Joshua: Uh-huh.
👱🏻♂️Randall: Now what kinds of things do you take to school?
👦🏻Joshua: I take my taiso fuku, that is gym clothes, and I take my backpack and my books [ Oh, okay. ] and stuff like that.
👱🏻♂️Randall: Okay and what is the first thing you do when you get to school?
👦🏻Joshua: We do "kiritsu, rei."
👱🏻♂️Randall: "Kiritsu" and "rei." Now what are those?
👦🏻Joshua: It means "stand up, bow."
👱🏻♂️Randall: Stand up and bow.
👦🏻Joshua: Uh-huh.
👱🏻♂️Randall: And what do you study at school?
👦🏻Joshua: We study kokugo, that is writing and reading and stuff like that [ Okay], and sansu, that's math. [ Okay. ]. And, let's see . . . , we do gym too.
👱🏻♂️Randall: Okay, and where do you eat lunch? Do you have a lunchroom or cafeteria?
👦🏻Joshua: No, we eat in our classroom.
👱🏻♂️Randall: You eat in your classroom! [ Yeah. ]. Oh wow. That is very interesting. Now what time do you come home from school?
👦🏻Joshua: We come home sometimes at 3:00 and sometimes at 2:00.
👱🏻♂️Randall: Okay, well thank you very much Joshua.
👦🏻Joshua: You're welcome.
📚#Vocabulary and Sample Sentences
✨stuff (noun): things
✨أغراض؛ أشياء؛ حاجات؛ لوازم؛ ضرورات
🔻Please put your stuff in your backpacks.
✨bow (verb): bend your head and waist to show respect and thanks to another person
✨ينحني؛ أن تخفض رأسك و خصرك لإظهار التحية و الاحترام و الشكر للشخص الآخر (يعتبر هذا السلوك من عادات و تقاليد الشعب الياباني)👘
🔻You should bow in Japan when you meet people in formal situations.
🎧📖#Conversations📖🎧
@ReadAloudESL
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
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧@ReadAloudESL
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
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧@ReadAloudESL