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📖🎧
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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📖🎧
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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
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
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
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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
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
@ReadAloudESL
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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🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
@ReadAloudESL
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
⚠️ Click on the “blue” words to see their pics!
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
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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
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
@ReadAloudESL
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
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
@ReadAloudESL
3️⃣0️⃣ Provider Overbills Customer
Simon got a monthly bill that he didn't like. His Internet service provider, Wink, automatically withdrew $15 from his checking account each month. This was called direct payment. It made things simpler for him because it meant one less check to write each month.
In fact, Simon had direct payments with his gas company, his phone company, and his electric company. So that was four fewer checks that he had to write each month.
This month, instead of $15, Wink had withdrawn $75. Simon went online and looked at his account. Part of the increase was because he had switched from a slow dial-up connection to a fast DSL connection. Wink charged him $45 just to make that switch.
Simon thought that this charge in itself was ridiculous. It probably took them about five seconds to make the switch. But any time a corporation can gouge you, they will.
In addition to the $45, Wink had charged him $15 for his dial-up account, but had also charged him $15 for his DSL account. This was a double-charge, since a computer uses dial-up or DSL, but not both.
We'll see about this, Simon thought, as he searched for Wink's 800 number.
📚#Vocabulary:
✨account ~~~ حساب مصرفي
✨automatically ~~~ آلياً/تلقائياً
✨charge ~~~ يسدد/يشحن
✨connection ~~~ شبكة اتصال
✨corporation ~~~ شركة
✨in addition to ~~~ بالاضافة الى ذلك
✨ridiculous ~~~ سخيف
✨switch ~~~ يحوّل
✨withdraw ~~~ يسحب
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
@ReadAloudESL
Simon got a monthly bill that he didn't like. His Internet service provider, Wink, automatically withdrew $15 from his checking account each month. This was called direct payment. It made things simpler for him because it meant one less check to write each month.
In fact, Simon had direct payments with his gas company, his phone company, and his electric company. So that was four fewer checks that he had to write each month.
This month, instead of $15, Wink had withdrawn $75. Simon went online and looked at his account. Part of the increase was because he had switched from a slow dial-up connection to a fast DSL connection. Wink charged him $45 just to make that switch.
Simon thought that this charge in itself was ridiculous. It probably took them about five seconds to make the switch. But any time a corporation can gouge you, they will.
In addition to the $45, Wink had charged him $15 for his dial-up account, but had also charged him $15 for his DSL account. This was a double-charge, since a computer uses dial-up or DSL, but not both.
We'll see about this, Simon thought, as he searched for Wink's 800 number.
📚#Vocabulary:
✨account ~~~ حساب مصرفي
✨automatically ~~~ آلياً/تلقائياً
✨charge ~~~ يسدد/يشحن
✨connection ~~~ شبكة اتصال
✨corporation ~~~ شركة
✨in addition to ~~~ بالاضافة الى ذلك
✨ridiculous ~~~ سخيف
✨switch ~~~ يحوّل
✨withdraw ~~~ يسحب
🎧📖#Short_stories📖🎧
@ReadAloudESL
3⃣2⃣ Let's buy some paint 🎨
"Let's go to Wal-Mart," Elizabeth told Kenneth. She wanted to buy some paint supplies. He suggested that they go to Home Depot instead because employees there could tell them exactly what to buy. After arriving there, Elizabeth found a friendly looking worker who was momentarily free.
"Excuse me," she said. "Could you help us?" She explained that she wanted to paint her office. "Neither me nor my husband knows how to do it, so please tell us the basics," she added. He smiled and told her that it was simple. All they needed were two gallons of white glossy paint, a roller, a tray and an insert to pour the paint in, and an extension -handle to reach the high parts of each wall.
"Don't we need primer?" Kenneth asked.
"Oh, yes, of course. I was getting to that. If you don't put primer on first, the paint won't stick to the walls. Here are two gallons of good, but inexpensive, primer. And a brush would be a good idea for use in the corners and edges. And that should take care of it. Just put the primer on first. Let it dry for a couple of hours. Then put on one coat of paint. Let it dry. Then, if you want to, put on another coat, but it shouldn't be necessary."
As they were putting the items into the trunk, Kenneth told her they should buy a ladder, too. "We're going to have to use the brush to paint up near the ceiling. The roller won't do in a corner," Kenneth said.
"We don't need a stepladder. I can sit on your shoulders," Elizabeth laughed. They went back inside and bought a stepladder.
#Vocabulary:
✨ceiling~~~سقف
✨edge~~~طرف/حافة
✨extension~~~إضافة
✨glossy~~~لمّاع
✨insert~~~مدمِج
✨item~~~مادة
✨momentarily~~~لحظي
✨pour~~~يسكب
✨primer~~~طبقة أساس/أولية
✨stepladder~~~سلم نقّال
✨stick~~~عصا
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"Let's go to Wal-Mart," Elizabeth told Kenneth. She wanted to buy some paint supplies. He suggested that they go to Home Depot instead because employees there could tell them exactly what to buy. After arriving there, Elizabeth found a friendly looking worker who was momentarily free.
"Excuse me," she said. "Could you help us?" She explained that she wanted to paint her office. "Neither me nor my husband knows how to do it, so please tell us the basics," she added. He smiled and told her that it was simple. All they needed were two gallons of white glossy paint, a roller, a tray and an insert to pour the paint in, and an extension -handle to reach the high parts of each wall.
"Don't we need primer?" Kenneth asked.
"Oh, yes, of course. I was getting to that. If you don't put primer on first, the paint won't stick to the walls. Here are two gallons of good, but inexpensive, primer. And a brush would be a good idea for use in the corners and edges. And that should take care of it. Just put the primer on first. Let it dry for a couple of hours. Then put on one coat of paint. Let it dry. Then, if you want to, put on another coat, but it shouldn't be necessary."
As they were putting the items into the trunk, Kenneth told her they should buy a ladder, too. "We're going to have to use the brush to paint up near the ceiling. The roller won't do in a corner," Kenneth said.
"We don't need a stepladder. I can sit on your shoulders," Elizabeth laughed. They went back inside and bought a stepladder.
#Vocabulary:
✨ceiling~~~سقف
✨edge~~~طرف/حافة
✨extension~~~إضافة
✨glossy~~~لمّاع
✨insert~~~مدمِج
✨item~~~مادة
✨momentarily~~~لحظي
✨pour~~~يسكب
✨primer~~~طبقة أساس/أولية
✨stepladder~~~سلم نقّال
✨stick~~~عصا
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3️⃣4️⃣ Helps Old Man at Airport
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3⃣4⃣ Helps Old Man at Airport
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3⃣4⃣ Helps Old Man at Airport
The crowd at the airport surged forward. The passengers had been waiting for a couple of hours for an airline employee to open the door leading to the plane outside. No one was in a good mood. An old man got trapped in the middle of the rush. He fell down without being able to break his fall. His head hit the concrete floor. Blood gushed from his forehead. He appeared to be unconscious. Everyone rushed past him, except for Dana. She called for help.
A minute later, a young airline employee showed up. Hardly looking at the old man, she told Dana to get aboard her plane. She said the old man would be okay, and walked away.
Dana screamed for help. An airport supervisor appeared. He told Dana to get on the plane. Dana said that she was not moving until an ambulance arrived. The supervisor said her plane would leave without her. Dana said that she didn't care.
An ambulance and two paramedics finally arrived. The paramedics said that the man would be okay, but he would need stitches. They put him into the ambulance and drove off.
On her way out to the plane, which was still refueling, Dana saw the employee who had initially ignored the old man. The employee said, "You're lucky the plane didn't leave without you."
"The plane?" Dana asked. "Who cares about the plane? How could you be so cold? That was an old man; he could have been your grandfather! How would you like it if everyone just stepped over your grandfather and went on their way?"
📚#Vocabulary:
✨aboard ~~~
على متن (طائرة/سفينة..الخ)
✨ambulance ~~~ سيارة اسعاف
✨concrete ~~~ قاسي/صلب/اسمنتي
✨forehead ~~~ جبهة/مقدمة الرأس
✨gush ~~~ يتدفق/ينفجر
✨ignore ~~~ يتجاهل
✨initially ~~~ في البداية/بدايةً
✨paramedic ~~~
مُسعِف/مُضمِّد/مُساعد طبي
✨refuel ~~~ يتزود بوقود إضافي
✨stitch ~~~ غرزة جراحية
✨supervisor ~~~ مُشرِف
✨surge ~~~ يندفع بقوة/يتدافع
✨trap ~~~ ينحشر/ينحصر
✨unconscious ~~~
فاقد للوعي/مُغمى عليه
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The crowd at the airport surged forward. The passengers had been waiting for a couple of hours for an airline employee to open the door leading to the plane outside. No one was in a good mood. An old man got trapped in the middle of the rush. He fell down without being able to break his fall. His head hit the concrete floor. Blood gushed from his forehead. He appeared to be unconscious. Everyone rushed past him, except for Dana. She called for help.
A minute later, a young airline employee showed up. Hardly looking at the old man, she told Dana to get aboard her plane. She said the old man would be okay, and walked away.
Dana screamed for help. An airport supervisor appeared. He told Dana to get on the plane. Dana said that she was not moving until an ambulance arrived. The supervisor said her plane would leave without her. Dana said that she didn't care.
An ambulance and two paramedics finally arrived. The paramedics said that the man would be okay, but he would need stitches. They put him into the ambulance and drove off.
On her way out to the plane, which was still refueling, Dana saw the employee who had initially ignored the old man. The employee said, "You're lucky the plane didn't leave without you."
"The plane?" Dana asked. "Who cares about the plane? How could you be so cold? That was an old man; he could have been your grandfather! How would you like it if everyone just stepped over your grandfather and went on their way?"
📚#Vocabulary:
✨aboard ~~~
على متن (طائرة/سفينة..الخ)
✨ambulance ~~~ سيارة اسعاف
✨concrete ~~~ قاسي/صلب/اسمنتي
✨forehead ~~~ جبهة/مقدمة الرأس
✨gush ~~~ يتدفق/ينفجر
✨ignore ~~~ يتجاهل
✨initially ~~~ في البداية/بدايةً
✨paramedic ~~~
مُسعِف/مُضمِّد/مُساعد طبي
✨refuel ~~~ يتزود بوقود إضافي
✨stitch ~~~ غرزة جراحية
✨supervisor ~~~ مُشرِف
✨surge ~~~ يندفع بقوة/يتدافع
✨trap ~~~ ينحشر/ينحصر
✨unconscious ~~~
فاقد للوعي/مُغمى عليه
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3️⃣6️⃣Snakebite on Mountain Trail
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3⃣6⃣ Snakebite on Mountain Trail🐍
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3️⃣6️⃣Snakebite on Mountain Trail 🐍
Bill parked his car on the residential street. The street used to be safe, but now there were frequent reports in the weekly paper about break‐ins. He put The Club on his steering wheel and made sure that nothing of value, not even a pair of cheap sunglasses, was visible through the car windows.
He got out of the car and started the uphill walk. The mountain trail was mostly narrow for the first two miles. Only two people could walk side by side. When the trail got close to the edge of the mountainside, it was best if people walked single file. Several years ago, an experienced hiker, walking alone, slipped and fell to his death.
The trail went past a small lake created by a dam, and then broadened as it went up into the heart of the mountain, away from cliffs. When Bill got to First Camp, he stopped by the small stream to look for fish or frogs. Suddenly, he heard a sinister rattling sound. Then, he felt a sharp bite on his calf. He turned around in time to see a rattler slithering off.
There was nothing to do now but walk back down to his car. He had no cell phone with him. He would remember to bring it next time, if there was a next time. Should he walk slowly, so the poison would spread slowly? Or should he walk fast, so he could get to his car and get medical help faster? Perhaps he'd meet someone on the way down.
A simple walk, he thought. It was just going to be a simple walk up a mountain trail.
📚#Vocabulary:
✨broaden ~~~ يتسع
✨calf ~~~ عجل
✨cliff ~~~ منحدر صخري/جرف
✨dam ~~~ سد
✨edge ~~~ حافة/طرف
✨frequent ~~~ متكرر
✨frog ~~~ ضفدع
✨hiker ~~~ مُتجوِّل
✨lake ~~~ بحيرة
✨narrow ~~~ ضيِّق
✨poison ~~~ سم
✨rattle ~~~ يخشخش
✨rattler ~~~
المخشخش (نوع من الثعابين)
✨residential ~~~ سكني
✨sinister ~~~ خطير
✨slither ~~~ ينزلق
✨steering wheel ~~~ مِقوَد السيارة
✨stream ~~~ جدول/مجري نهر صغير
✨trail ~~~ طريق/ممر مشاة
✨visible ~~~ واضح/مرئي/ظاهر
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Bill parked his car on the residential street. The street used to be safe, but now there were frequent reports in the weekly paper about break‐ins. He put The Club on his steering wheel and made sure that nothing of value, not even a pair of cheap sunglasses, was visible through the car windows.
He got out of the car and started the uphill walk. The mountain trail was mostly narrow for the first two miles. Only two people could walk side by side. When the trail got close to the edge of the mountainside, it was best if people walked single file. Several years ago, an experienced hiker, walking alone, slipped and fell to his death.
The trail went past a small lake created by a dam, and then broadened as it went up into the heart of the mountain, away from cliffs. When Bill got to First Camp, he stopped by the small stream to look for fish or frogs. Suddenly, he heard a sinister rattling sound. Then, he felt a sharp bite on his calf. He turned around in time to see a rattler slithering off.
There was nothing to do now but walk back down to his car. He had no cell phone with him. He would remember to bring it next time, if there was a next time. Should he walk slowly, so the poison would spread slowly? Or should he walk fast, so he could get to his car and get medical help faster? Perhaps he'd meet someone on the way down.
A simple walk, he thought. It was just going to be a simple walk up a mountain trail.
📚#Vocabulary:
✨broaden ~~~ يتسع
✨calf ~~~ عجل
✨cliff ~~~ منحدر صخري/جرف
✨dam ~~~ سد
✨edge ~~~ حافة/طرف
✨frequent ~~~ متكرر
✨frog ~~~ ضفدع
✨hiker ~~~ مُتجوِّل
✨lake ~~~ بحيرة
✨narrow ~~~ ضيِّق
✨poison ~~~ سم
✨rattle ~~~ يخشخش
✨rattler ~~~
المخشخش (نوع من الثعابين)
✨residential ~~~ سكني
✨sinister ~~~ خطير
✨slither ~~~ ينزلق
✨steering wheel ~~~ مِقوَد السيارة
✨stream ~~~ جدول/مجري نهر صغير
✨trail ~~~ طريق/ممر مشاة
✨visible ~~~ واضح/مرئي/ظاهر
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