✨Well done, dear friends!👏🏻👏🏻

🔻Correct answers are:

1️⃣ B, 2️⃣ A, 3️⃣ C, 4️⃣ C, 5️⃣ A

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👱🏻‍♂️: My name's Randall Davis, and I'm originally from the state of Indiana in the United States. When I was 19 years old, I moved to Venezuela in South America, and later returned to the United States, where I attended Brigham Young University in the 1980s.

I majored in Spanish education and TESOL, or teaching English as a second language. After graduating from college, my wife and I moved to Japan where we lived for eight years. Now, I work back in the States in Utah.

However, my greatest interests are my family. Years ago, I wanted to make something of myself in my profession ... you know ... get ahead in life. However, I realized that the most important things in life lived within the walls of my own home, and today, I try to put them first. My kids wouldn't remember me for the work I did outside of the home; they would only recall the moments we spent together.

Therefore, I enjoy spending time with my family. I have four children, and we go hiking and camping together, usually in Utah. On our hikes, we often talk about life, and I tell stories or share personal experiences. When I do this, I can focus on the kids without the distractions of video games or the Internet. Telling stories sounds easy, but when you have to think of a new story on a hot, 12-kilometer hike through the desert, you have to come up with ideas off the top of your head.

Now, this doesn't mean we don't have problems; all families face challenges in their lives, and our family is no exception. However, we try to talk openly about our problems, and we try to solve our problems together. Building a strong family takes time, but it is worth the effort.

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📚#Vocabulary and Sample Sentences

✨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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2⃣8⃣ Pete's Sharp Knife 🔪


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✨Well done, dear friends!👏🏻👏🏻

🔻Correct answers are:

1️⃣ A, 2️⃣ B, 3️⃣ C, 4️⃣ A, 5️⃣ B

Listen to the recording and read along with the conversation. Review the key #vocabulary and the sample sentences.👇🏻

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