1️⃣7️⃣ Horses to Ride till Thrown🐎


Laura went to the stable. Four horses stood there. She put a saddle on Star. He was seven years old, big and dark brown. Her sister came out to the stable. They were both going to exercise the horses. It was a warm, sunny day. Janice saddled up Moonbeam, a white mare. They got on the horses and started walking them.

A few minutes later, Laura was telling Janice about the new doctor in her hospital. She raised her hand for a second to make a point. Just then, Star bucked. Laura went flying into the air. She landed on her head and shoulder on the grass.

"Oh, my gosh!" Jan cried. "Laura, are you all right?"
Laura moaned. Jan gently rolled her over. She didn't see any blood. That's good, she thought.

"Can you move? You're not paralyzed anywhere, are you?"
Jan pulled Laura up into a sitting position. Laura slightly moved her legs and arms. She wasn't paralyzed. When she moved her right hand to touch her head, she groaned.

"What's the matter?"
"That hurt. When I moved my arm, it hurt."
They still didn't see any blood. Jan unbuttoned the top buttons on Laura's blouse and looked at Laura's right collarbone.
"Oh, no," she said.

📚#Vocabulary:

✨blouse ~~~ بلوزة
✨buck ~~~ ينطلق
✨collarbone ~~~ عظمة الترقوة
✨gently ~~~ برفق/بلطف
✨groan ~~~ يئن من الألم/ يتأوه
✨mare ~~~ فَرَس (أنثى الحصان)
✨moan ~~~ يتنهد
✨paralyzed ~~~ مشلول
✨saddle ~~~ سرج/ صهوة الفرس
✨slightly ~~~ قليلاً
✨stable ~~~ اسطبل

📚#Grammar:

✒️#Past_progressive_tense
✒️#Past_simple_tense
✒️#Present_simple_tense

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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


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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


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🔉Listen to the phone message and answer the questions.👇🏻

Good luck!🍀

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✨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.👇🏻

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.


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