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word list00:00:15
acre00:00:17
an acre is a unit for measuring area00:00:21
they lived on a 150 Acre Farm00:00:25
after life00:00:27
the afterlife is a life that some people00:00:30
believe begins when a person dies00:00:34
I believe that there is an afterlife00:00:38
archeology00:00:40
archeology is the study of the remains00:00:43
left by ancient societies00:00:46
he enjoyed visiting the Great Pyramids00:00:48
of Egypt because he loves archeology00:00:52
chamber00:00:54
a chamber is a closed space or room used00:00:57
for a special purpose00:01:00
the meeting was held in The Faculty00:01:02
chamber00:01:04
Channel00:01:06
a channel is a long deep space between00:01:09
two edges00:01:10
the river cut a Channel Through The00:01:12
Rocks00:01:15
core00:01:16
a core is the main or central part of00:01:19
something00:01:20
Earth has a solid inner core00:01:25
door00:01:26
a corridor is a narrow passage that00:01:29
leads into other areas00:01:32
he took the corridor on the left to go00:01:34
to his office00:01:37
distinct00:01:38
a distinct thing is different or stands00:01:42
out00:01:43
he has a distinct accent00:01:46
Elite00:01:48
Elite means of or from a high-level00:01:51
group00:01:53
only an elite group was allowed00:01:54
membership into the club00:01:57
engineer00:01:59
to engineer something is to skillfully00:02:02
plan out how to make that thing00:02:05
after engineering the robot they needed00:02:07
to find the correct parts to build it00:02:11
found00:02:13
two found something means to start00:02:16
organize or establish that thing00:02:20
my grandfather founded the Citibank00:02:24
Gap00:02:26
a gap is a space between two things00:02:29
there is a small gap between the blocks00:02:32
of wood00:02:34
Glory00:02:36
glory is the importance magnificence or00:02:39
specialness of something00:02:42
they enjoyed the glory of the beautiful00:02:44
sunset00:02:46
interior00:02:48
an interior is the inside of something00:02:52
they looked at the interior of the box00:02:56
lion00:02:58
a lion is a large animal in the cat00:03:01
family00:03:02
we went to see the lion at the zoo00:03:07
roll00:03:08
a roll is a job position or part in00:03:12
something00:03:13
her role in the office is to sell00:03:15
products to customers00:03:18
Royal00:03:20
means related to a king or queen00:03:25
The Duchess was part of the Royal Family00:03:29
soul00:03:31
a soul person or thing is the only one00:03:35
she was the sole woman in the room00:03:40
stairs00:03:41
stairs are a set of steps built to go00:03:44
from one level of a building to another00:03:48
he took the stairs instead of the00:03:50
elevator00:03:52
surface00:03:54
the surface is the top layer of00:03:56
something00:03:58
she wiped the surface of the table00:04:05
the Great Pyramids of Egypt00:04:09
the distinct history of the famous Great00:04:11
Pyramids has been studied for many years00:04:14
by people who study archeology00:04:16
the pyramids were built nearly five00:04:19
thousand years ago00:04:21
according to ancient Egyptians Kings00:04:23
played an important role in the building00:04:25
of the pyramids00:04:27
Egyptians believed that kings were00:04:29
chosen by the gods and that when a king00:04:32
died he went on to become the god of the00:04:35
Dead in the afterlife00:04:37
gold food and clothes were buried with00:04:40
the body so that the spirit would have00:04:42
these things in the afterlife00:04:45
the royal family and other Elite00:04:47
individuals were also buried near the00:04:49
king00:04:51
pyramids were founded for the sole00:04:54
reason of helping the King by containing00:04:56
his things for the afterlife00:04:58
the biggest of the three pyramids is00:05:01
known as the Great Pyramid00:05:03
this structure took over 20 years to00:05:05
engineer00:05:07
the Great Pyramid is made of over 2.500:05:10
million stone blocks00:05:12
the base alone covers an area of 1300:05:15
acres00:05:16
one acre is almost the size of a00:05:18
football field00:05:20
the visible core of the Great Pyramid00:05:22
was originally covered by smooth casing00:05:25
stones00:05:26
some of the casing stones that cover the00:05:29
surface can still be seen at the base00:05:32
the stones were laid so well that there00:05:34
is not a single gap between them00:05:36
the interior of the Great Pyramid is00:05:39
accessible through stairs that lead to a00:05:41
channel which then divides into a00:05:43
corridor going up and another going down00:05:46
the rising Corridor goes up to the00:05:48
Queen's chamber the grand gallery and00:05:51
the King's chamber00:05:53
the other Corridor goes down to an00:05:55
underground chamber and an escape tunnel00:05:58
the Sphinx is a big statue of a lion00:06:00
with a human head and can be found near00:06:03
the Great Pyramid00:06:05
the statue is also made from Big stones00:06:07
and it is said to guard the pyramid00:06:10
surrounded by history and mystery the00:06:14
Great Pyramids of Egypt are a popular00:06:16
place to visit and tourists come from00:06:18
around the world to see their Glory00:06:25
[Music]00:06:26
two00:06:28
word list00:06:33
agreement00:06:35
an agreement is a formal decision about00:06:37
future action00:06:39
I think you'll get Tom's agreement to00:06:41
this proposal00:06:44
arise00:06:46
to arise is to happen00:06:49
difficulties arose with his computer00:06:51
because it was old00:06:55
benefactor00:06:57
a benefactor is a person who gives money00:06:59
to help someone00:07:01
the student's benefactor gave him money00:07:04
to spend on his studies00:07:07
blacksmith00:07:09
a blacksmith is a person who makes00:07:11
things out of metal00:07:13
the blacksmith pounded the piece of00:07:15
metal until it was flat00:07:18
chimney00:07:20
a chimney is a tall pipe used to carry00:07:23
smoke out of a building00:07:25
the cat was sitting on the roof next to00:07:28
the chimney00:07:30
compensate00:07:32
to compensate is to pay someone for the00:07:35
time they spent doing something00:07:38
her boss compensated her for the extra00:07:40
work she did last week00:07:43
encounter00:07:45
to encounter is to find or meet a person00:07:48
or thing00:07:50
I encountered a sea turtle while I was00:07:53
swimming00:07:55
exceed00:07:57
to exceed is to be more than something00:08:00
since I exceeded my limit I decided to00:08:03
get rid of my credit cards00:08:06
Forge00:08:08
to forge is to make or produce00:08:11
especially with difficulty00:08:14
Stacy and Heather forged their00:08:16
friendship when they were teenagers00:08:19
humble00:08:21
people who are humble do not believe00:08:23
that they are better than other people00:08:26
even though Bob is the smartest boy in00:08:29
his class he is humble00:08:32
iron00:08:34
iron is a strong metal that is used to00:08:37
make many objects00:08:39
the horse had shoes made of iron00:08:43
ladder00:08:45
a ladder is an object that is used to00:08:47
climb up and down things00:08:50
he used a ladder to climb to the top of00:08:52
his tree house00:08:55
modest00:08:57
if people are modest they do not think00:09:00
that they are too important00:09:02
Derek is very modest for someone who is00:09:05
so rich00:09:08
occupy00:09:09
to occupy a place is to live work or be00:09:13
there00:09:14
Kevin and Alice occupied the chairs and00:09:17
had a long discussion00:09:20
penny00:09:22
a penny is a coin worth one cent00:09:26
U.S President Abraham Lincoln is on the00:09:28
penny00:09:31
preach00:09:32
to preach is to talk about and promote a00:09:36
religious idea00:09:38
Aaron often preached about living an00:09:41
honest life00:09:44
prosper00:09:45
to prosper is to be successful or make a00:09:49
lot of money00:09:50
Frank's new business finally prospered00:09:53
after many years of hard work00:09:57
province00:09:58
a province is an area that is controlled00:10:01
by a country00:10:03
Canada is divided into several different00:10:05
provinces00:10:08
satisfaction00:10:10
satisfaction is the feeling of having00:10:13
done or received something good00:10:16
Brad was filled with satisfaction when00:10:19
he saw what was for dinner00:10:22
sustain00:10:24
to sustain something is to keep it going00:10:28
wind power is a clean way to sustain a00:10:30
city with energy00:10:36
the real Saint Nick00:10:39
at Christmas children wait for Saint00:10:41
Nicholas to bring gifts down the chimney00:10:44
but it's not just a story Saint Nicholas00:10:47
was a real person00:10:49
a long time ago the man named Marcus00:10:52
occupied a house with his family00:10:55
he was not modest he always told00:10:58
everybody he was the strongest man in00:11:01
the province00:11:02
he worked hard but he could barely00:11:04
sustain his family00:11:06
he wanted to save money and prosper00:11:09
still he could never earn a penny more00:11:12
than he needed00:11:14
one day Marcus made an agreement with a00:11:17
blacksmith the blacksmith had a lot of00:11:19
work to do but he couldn't do it all by00:11:22
himself00:11:23
Marcus wanted to help him Forge iron00:11:27
the blacksmith agreed to compensate him00:11:29
with a lot of money00:11:31
in the same town there was a man named00:11:33
Nicholas at an early age Nicholas00:11:37
started preaching00:11:38
but he also believed that he should be00:11:40
humble and helpful00:11:42
he learned that helping people gave him00:11:45
even more satisfaction than preaching00:11:48
one day Nicholas encountered Marcus00:11:51
Marcus told Nicholas about his agreement00:11:53
with the blacksmith00:11:55
I worked hard for him Marcus said but a00:11:59
problem arose even though I worked for00:12:02
him he didn't pay me00:12:04
Nicholas wanted to help Marcus that00:12:07
night he went back to Marcus's house00:12:10
he brought a bag of gold it exceeded the00:12:14
amount that Marcus needed Nicholas00:12:16
climbed up a ladder and dropped the bag00:12:18
of gold down the chimney00:12:20
Marcus thanked his benefactor00:12:23
soon people found out about Nicholas's00:12:26
gift00:12:27
he became well known and loved even00:12:30
today people still give secret gifts to00:12:33
children and we say they are from Saint00:12:36
Nicholas00:12:41
unit 300:12:43
word list00:12:48
acquire00:12:50
to acquire something is to get or gain00:12:53
possession of that thing00:12:55
Tina acquired a strange package00:12:58
yesterday00:13:00
awkward00:13:02
an awkward thing is embarrassing and00:13:04
uncomfortable00:13:06
after dropping his coffee cup Robbie00:13:09
felt awkward00:13:11
caretaker00:13:13
a caretaker is a person who takes care00:13:16
of very young old or sick people00:13:19
my grandmother's caretaker helps her get00:13:22
around the house00:13:25
deceive00:13:26
to deceive is to make someone believe00:13:29
something that is not true00:13:32
he tried to deceive his friends with a00:13:34
card trick00:13:36
discourage00:13:38
to discourage is to make someone feel00:13:41
less excited about something00:13:43
Mr Perry discouraged the students from00:13:46
quitting school00:13:49
fake00:13:50
a fake thing is made to look real in00:13:53
order to trick people00:13:55
the model was wearing fake hair00:13:59
hatred00:14:01
hatred is a strong feeling of not liking00:14:04
someone or something00:14:06
I have a hatred for the taste of00:14:08
Medicine00:14:11
hunt00:14:12
a Hut is a house made of wood grass or00:14:16
mud that has only one or two rooms00:14:20
we all went into the Hut to sleep00:14:24
inferior00:14:26
an inferior thing is not as good as00:14:29
something else00:14:30
cars built a hundred years ago are00:14:33
inferior to ones built today00:14:36
Lodge00:14:38
a lodge is a house and the mountains00:14:41
used by people who hunt or fish00:14:44
during our ski trip we stayed at a lodge00:14:49
neglect00:14:51
to neglect someone or something is to00:14:54
not take care of it properly00:14:56
William neglected his room so it is a00:14:59
complete mess00:15:02
newcomer00:15:04
a newcomer is a person who has recently00:15:06
arrived at a place or a group00:15:10
the students happily welcomed the00:15:12
newcomer to the school00:15:15
offense00:15:17
an offense is behavior that is wrong or00:15:20
breaks a law00:15:22
stealing a car is a very serious offense00:15:26
overlook00:15:28
to overlook something is to not notice00:15:31
it or to not realize that it is00:15:33
important00:15:35
Brenda overlooked the last step and had00:15:37
a bad fall00:15:40
repay00:15:42
to repay is to pay back or to reward00:15:45
someone or something00:15:47
she repaid her friend for all of his00:15:50
hard work with a small gift00:15:53
ridiculous00:15:55
a ridiculous thing is silly or strange00:16:00
Steve looked ridiculous with those huge00:16:02
blue sunglasses00:16:06
satisfactory00:16:07
a satisfactory thing is good enough00:16:11
Mina often received satisfactory grades00:16:14
since she studied so hard00:16:18
Shepherd00:16:19
a Shepherd is a person who protects and00:16:22
cares for sheep00:16:24
the shepherd moved the Sheep to another00:16:27
field00:16:29
venture00:16:31
to venture is to go to a place that may00:16:33
be dangerous00:16:35
even though it was dangerous they00:16:37
ventured up the mountain00:16:41
wheat00:16:42
wheat is a plant from which we get the00:16:45
grain used to make bread00:16:47
the field of golden wheat was ready to00:16:50
be harvested00:16:56
the shepherd and the wild sheep00:17:00
once there was a Shepherd every night he00:17:04
gathered and counted his sheep00:17:06
he made sure never to overlook any of00:17:08
them00:17:09
one night he saw some wild sheep had00:17:12
joined his herd00:17:14
he hoped to acquire the newcomers00:17:17
it snowed that night00:17:19
in the morning the shepherd couldn't00:17:21
take his sheep out of his lodge00:17:23
instead he had to feed them inside00:17:26
he gave a small amount of wheat to his00:17:29
own sheep but he gave more of the food00:17:31
to the wild sheep00:17:33
he thought the extra wheat would00:17:35
discourage them from leaving00:17:37
it snowed for several days during that00:17:40
time the shepherd's sheep ate very00:17:42
little00:17:43
the wild sheep however ate very well00:17:46
at last the snow melted and they00:17:48
ventured Outdoors00:17:50
as soon as he opened the door of his Hut00:17:52
the wild sheep started to run away00:17:55
wait this is how you repay me after I00:17:59
treated you so kindly why do you run00:18:01
away the shepherd asked00:18:04
his voice was full of hatred00:18:06
the wild sheep stopped and turned toward00:18:09
the shepherd00:18:11
we're leaving because you fed us better00:18:13
than your own sheep one of the wild00:18:15
sheep replied00:18:17
you tried to deceive us with your00:18:19
ridiculous plan yesterday you treated us00:18:22
kindly but tomorrow you might be00:18:24
different00:18:26
if more wild sheep joined your herd you00:18:28
would treat us as inferior sheep00:18:31
as the wild sheep ran away the shepherd00:18:34
understood his offense00:18:36
he knew this awkward situation was his00:18:39
own fault00:18:40
he had not been a satisfactory caretaker00:18:44
he was a fake friend to the wild sheep00:18:47
because of this he had neglected his own00:18:49
sheep00:18:54
unit four00:18:56
list00:19:01
Ally00:19:03
an ally is a narrow road between houses00:19:06
or buildings00:19:08
the alley behind my house looks dirty00:19:12
ax00:19:15
an ax is a tool used to cut wood00:19:19
used an ax to cut some wood for the fire00:19:23
bunch00:19:25
a bunch is a group of the same things00:19:29
she was hungry so she ate the entire00:19:31
bunch of grapes00:19:34
sure00:19:36
a chore is an unpleasant job that must00:19:39
be done00:19:40
it's Nikki's chore to do the dishes00:19:42
every Tuesday and Wednesday night00:19:46
decent00:19:48
a decent person or thing is okay or good00:19:52
enough00:19:53
Eric did a decent job painting the fence00:19:58
disgraceful00:20:00
disgraceful behavior is behavior that is00:20:03
very bad00:20:04
this is a disgraceful waste of money00:20:09
elbow00:20:10
the elbow is the middle part of an arm00:20:13
where it bends00:20:15
she pointed to her elbow to show me00:20:17
where she hurt herself00:20:21
grateful00:20:22
a grateful person feels thankful about00:20:25
something00:20:27
the girls were grateful for the chance00:20:29
to visit their grandfather00:20:32
irritate00:20:34
to irritate means to annoy someone00:20:38
she was irritated when her brother told00:20:40
her that he had lost her camera00:20:44
kid00:20:45
to kid is to say something that is not00:20:48
true as a joke00:20:50
I am not really mad I was kidding when I00:20:53
said I was angry00:20:56
loose00:20:58
a loose thing is not held in place00:21:00
tightly00:21:02
the bolt was loose so I tightened it00:21:04
with the wrench00:21:07
offend00:21:09
to offend is to make someone angry or00:21:12
upset00:21:13
they were both offended by what they had00:21:15
said to each other00:21:18
overnight00:21:20
an overnight action happens during the00:21:22
night00:21:24
the campers stayed in the tent overnight00:21:28
persist00:21:30
to persist means to keep doing something00:21:33
even when it is hard00:21:35
even though the lesson was difficult he00:21:38
persisted until he understood00:21:42
Pine00:21:43
a pine is a type of tall thin tree with00:21:47
needles instead of leaves00:21:49
there were many beautiful pine trees in00:21:52
the forest00:21:54
scar00:21:56
a scar is a mark on the skin after a00:21:59
wound heals00:22:01
the man had horrible scars on his cheek00:22:03
and forehead00:22:06
sensation00:22:08
a sensation is a feeling that people get00:22:11
from their senses00:22:13
mom got a painful sensation in her head00:22:15
from the loud noise00:22:18
sled00:22:20
a sled is a small vehicle used on snow00:22:25
Marvin likes to ride his sled down the00:22:27
hill in winter00:22:30
teas00:22:31
to T's means to laugh at or make fun of00:22:35
someone00:22:36
Jake teased Charlie because he was the00:22:39
new student00:22:41
Valentine00:22:43
a valentine is someone loved or admired00:22:46
with great affection00:22:49
Harry wanted Molly to be his Valentine00:22:55
thank you00:22:57
the boy and his sled00:23:00
Mike was the smallest child in school00:23:03
another boy Joe always teased Mike00:23:07
Joe had a large scar on his face from00:23:10
fighting other children00:23:12
one day Joe offended Mike when he made00:23:16
fun of Mike's Valentine Jane this was00:23:19
disgraceful but Mike didn't know how to00:23:22
make Joe stop00:23:24
that day Mike walked home down an alley00:23:27
he found a bunch of wood boards next to00:23:30
a pine tree00:23:31
he thought to himself I could build a00:23:34
decent sled from these if I let Joe use00:23:37
it he will be nicer to me and Jane00:23:41
he took the Wood home00:23:43
Mike got an ax and cut the wood00:23:46
he used nails to make sure that the00:23:48
pieces were not loose00:23:50
as he worked he bumped his elbow on the00:23:53
boards00:23:54
the painful sensation made him want to00:23:57
cry it was a hard chore but he persisted he00:24:01
worked overnight by morning the sled was00:24:04
finished00:24:06
Mike called Joe on the telephone he said00:24:09
hi Joe come over to my house right away00:24:13
Joe didn't know why Mike wanted him to00:24:15
come over00:24:16
when Joe arrived Mike told him Joe it00:24:20
irritated me the other day when you said00:24:23
mean things about Jane00:24:25
you weren't kidding when you said those00:24:27
mean things00:24:28
but I'm not like you I just built this00:24:32
sled and I'll let you ride it with me if00:24:35
you are nice00:24:36
they became friends and Joe was grateful00:24:39
that Mike was so nice to him he learned00:24:42
that it is more fun to be nice than to00:24:45
be mean00:24:50
unit 500:24:52
word list00:24:57
acquaint00:24:59
to acquaint is to get to know something00:25:02
or someone00:25:04
Nancy acquainted herself with the new00:25:06
computer00:25:09
Cemetery00:25:10
a cemetery is a place where people are00:25:13
buried when they die00:25:15
some people are scared of cemeteries00:25:19
creature00:25:21
a creature is an animal or person00:25:25
those creatures live in Africa00:25:28
curse00:25:30
to curse someone is to hope that bad00:25:33
things happen to that person00:25:35
the witch cursed The Village00:25:39
disguise00:25:41
a disguise is something you wear so00:25:44
people cannot tell Who You Are00:25:47
everyone knew that it was Dad in the00:25:49
Santa disguise00:25:52
fancy00:25:53
a fancy thing is nicer or more detailed00:25:57
than normal00:25:58
their table was all set for a fancy00:26:01
dinner00:26:03
flashlight00:26:05
a flashlight is a small electric light00:26:08
that people carry in their hands00:26:11
we took a flashlight when we went00:26:13
camping00:26:15
Hood00:26:17
a hood is part of a coat that goes over00:26:20
a person's head00:26:22
she put on her Hood to keep her head00:26:24
warm00:26:26
inhabitant00:26:28
an inhabitant is a person who lives in a00:26:31
certain place00:26:33
the number of inhabitants in the00:26:35
countryside is increasing00:26:39
nourish00:26:40
to nourish is to give someone or00:26:43
something the food needed to live00:26:46
a good mother will nourish her baby00:26:48
every day00:26:51
pirate00:26:52
a pirate is a sailor who steals things00:26:55
from other boats00:26:57
Pirates are very scary characters00:27:01
publication00:27:03
a publication is something printed like00:27:06
a newspaper or book00:27:09
she's been a subscriber to that00:27:10
publication for over 10 years00:27:14
riddle00:27:16
a riddle is a question that is difficult00:27:18
to answer but meant to be funny00:27:22
I could not answer Wendy's riddle but it00:27:24
made me laugh00:27:27
rot00:27:29
to rot is to slowly get softer and00:27:32
become destroyed00:27:34
the Old Log began to rot in the forest00:27:39
shortly00:27:41
an action that happens shortly happens00:27:44
very soon00:27:45
my work day will end shortly00:27:50
skeleton00:27:51
a skeleton is all the bones of a body00:27:55
there is a skeleton in the science00:27:57
classroom00:28:00
spoil00:28:01
to spoil is too rot or to make bad00:28:06
we left the fruit out too long and it00:28:08
spoiled00:28:11
starve00:28:12
to starve is to not get enough food for00:28:15
a long period of time00:28:17
during the war many people starved00:28:22
thrill00:28:24
a thrill is an exciting feeling00:28:27
the surfer enjoys the thrill of Surfing00:28:29
a big wave00:28:32
Wicked00:28:34
a wicked person is very bad or evil00:28:38
my boss is a very Wicked Man00:28:45
trick or treat00:28:48
many different cultures have had00:28:50
Traditions about the Dead00:28:52
people in places like Ireland China00:28:55
Egypt and Mexico believed that Souls00:28:57
needed food00:28:59
they thought the food nourished them on00:29:01
their Journey from cemeteries to heaven00:29:04
people had to put out good things for00:29:06
souls to eat00:29:08
however if the food rotted or spoiled00:29:11
the soul got mad00:29:13
the wicked Soul might curse the family00:29:15
and make them starve during the winter00:29:18
in other places people begged for food00:29:21
on a holiday that remembers The Souls of00:29:23
dead Saints00:29:25
people wore disguises with hoods that00:29:27
covered their faces00:29:29
if they did not get food they played a00:29:32
trick on the home's owner00:29:34
for this reason the activity is known as00:29:37
trick-or-treating00:29:39
shortly after people first began00:29:41
trick-or-treating parents started00:29:43
sending their children to beg on that00:29:45
day00:29:46
Housewives gave the children food if00:29:49
they performed a song or a dance00:29:51
when people moved to America from all00:29:54
over the world they brought this00:29:56
tradition with them00:29:58
inhabitants of villages started00:30:00
trick-or-treating in the early 1900s00:30:03
in 1939 a children's publication00:30:07
acquainted the whole country with the00:30:08
tradition00:30:10
it became very popular00:30:12
today trick-or-treaters do not beg for00:30:15
food and they are not scared of Souls00:30:18
they just enjoy the thrill of dressing00:30:20
up like creatures and getting candy00:30:23
ghosts and skeletons are favorite00:30:25
costumes00:30:26
but some children wear fancy disguises00:30:29
like pirate costumes00:30:31
they carry flashlights instead of fires00:30:34
in some places children still perform00:30:37
songs or riddles to get candy00:30:40
but most of the time they just say trick00:30:43
or treat00:30:48
unit 6.00:30:50
word list00:30:56
alert00:30:57
to alert someone is to tell or warn that00:31:01
person about something00:31:03
the fire alarm alerted us that there was00:31:05
a problem00:31:08
broadcast00:31:10
a broadcast is a television or radio00:31:13
show00:31:14
we watched the broadcast of the local00:31:16
news on TV00:31:19
Bulletin00:31:21
a bulletin is a news report about very00:31:24
recent and important events00:31:27
there was a live bulletin reporting on00:31:30
the economy of the city00:31:33
bump00:31:34
a bump is a small raised area on a00:31:38
surface00:31:39
the monkey got a bump on his head00:31:41
because he was hit by a rock00:31:44
shop00:31:46
to chop something means to cut it into00:31:49
pieces with a tool00:31:51
mom chopped some vegetables to put into00:31:53
the stew00:31:56
closet00:31:58
a closet is a small room used to store00:32:01
things00:32:02
Marie has many clothes inside of her00:32:05
closet00:32:07
console00:32:09
to console is to give Comfort to a00:32:12
person who feels sad00:32:14
when my dog ran away my dad consoled me00:32:19
District00:32:21
a district is a small part of a city00:32:23
county state or country00:32:27
I live in a residential district of00:32:29
Seattle Washington00:32:32
drawer00:32:34
a drawer is a small part in furniture00:32:36
that is used to store things00:32:40
I put my clothes into the empty drawers00:32:44
endure00:32:46
to endure means to experience and00:32:49
survive something difficult00:32:51
she had to endure her husband shouting00:32:54
all day long00:32:57
execute00:32:58
to execute means to kill someone as a00:33:02
legal punishment00:33:04
some people are executed for serious00:33:06
crimes00:33:09
grasp00:33:10
to grasp something means to hold it00:33:14
he grasped the bag of money tightly00:33:18
rear00:33:20
the rear of something is the back part00:33:22
of that thing00:33:24
the man loaded the rear of his truck00:33:26
with boxes00:33:29
senator00:33:31
a senator is someone who makes laws for00:33:33
a state00:33:35
the young Senator promised to make laws00:33:37
that would help the people00:33:41
skull00:33:42
a skull is the hard head bone that00:33:45
protects the brain00:33:47
the brain is protected by the skull00:33:51
stir00:33:53
to stir something means to mix it using00:33:56
something small like a spoon00:33:59
mom stirred the batter until it was00:34:01
smooth00:34:04
tap00:34:05
to tap something is to hit it lightly00:34:09
he tapped the keys of the keyboard to00:34:11
write a short word00:34:14
tremendous00:34:16
a tremendous thing is very large or very00:34:19
good00:34:21
the Earth's oceans are filled with a00:34:23
tremendous amount of water00:34:26
underneath00:34:28
underneath means below or under00:34:32
the roots of a tree are located00:34:33
underneath the ground00:34:37
worm00:34:38
a worm is a small animal with a long00:34:41
thin body00:34:43
worms are often used to help catch fish00:34:51
the senator and the worm00:34:55
a rich Senator lived in a big house he00:34:58
had more money than anyone in his00:35:00
district00:35:01
one day he was sitting on a chair00:35:03
listening to a radio broadcast00:35:06
as he listened to the News Bulletin a00:35:09
worm crawled from underneath the chair00:35:11
and onto his head00:35:13
his cook was in the kitchen stirring00:35:16
some spaghetti sauce00:35:18
suddenly a cry from the senator alerted00:35:21
him he ran to the rear of the house00:35:24
where the senator was sitting00:35:26
the cook looked and saw the worm he00:35:29
tried to console the senator00:35:32
I'll take it off right away he said no00:35:36
shouted the senator I want you to kill00:35:39
it00:35:40
but it's only a worm the cook said why00:35:44
should we execute it it hasn't committed00:35:46
a crime00:35:47
the senator could not endure the worm on00:35:50
his head hurry he shouted00:35:53
the cook looked through several drawers00:35:55
but found nothing then he ran to the00:35:58
closet and took out a pipe he returned00:36:02
to the senator and lifted the pipe over00:36:04
his head00:36:06
he knew he couldn't just tap the worm he00:36:09
was going to hit it hard he grasped the00:36:12
pipe tightly00:36:13
what are you waiting for said the00:36:16
senator kill it00:36:18
the cook swung the pipe at the Senator's00:36:20
head00:36:21
oh no the worm said he's going to chop00:36:25
me in half00:36:26
it jumped off the Senator's head00:36:29
there was a tremendous noise00:36:32
ow cried the senator00:36:35
a bump Rose upon his skull00:36:37
meanwhile the worm crawled outside00:36:41
that was close said the worm instead of00:36:44
being nice he wanted to hurt me now that00:36:48
man has a big bump on his head00:36:55
unit 7.00:36:57
word list00:37:02
abandon00:37:04
to abandon something is to leave it00:37:06
forever or for a long time00:37:09
the old room had been abandoned years00:37:11
before00:37:14
ambitious00:37:16
an ambitious person wants to be rich or00:37:19
successful00:37:20
Kendra had to be ambitious to get into00:37:23
medical school00:37:25
bark00:37:27
to bark is to make a short loud noise00:37:30
like a dog00:37:33
the dog barked loudly and frighteningly00:37:37
bae00:37:39
a bay is an area near the ocean where00:37:42
the land goes inward00:37:44
the Golden Gate Bridge crosses San00:37:46
Francisco Bay00:37:49
brilliant00:37:51
a brilliant person is very bright or00:37:54
smart00:37:55
my younger sister is brilliant for00:37:57
someone her age00:38:01
chin00:38:02
a chin is the hard part at the bottom of00:38:05
a person's face00:38:07
Luke pointed to the hair on his chin00:38:12
complaint00:38:13
a complaint is an expression of00:38:16
unhappiness about something00:38:18
mom said she didn't want to hear my00:38:20
brother's complaints00:38:23
death00:38:25
a deaf person or animal cannot hear00:38:29
Susan uses sign language because she is00:38:32
deaf00:38:34
enthusiastic00:38:37
an enthusiastic person is excited by or00:38:40
interested in something00:38:42
the man was enthusiastic about his job00:38:47
Expedition00:38:49
an expedition is a long trip usually to00:38:52
a place very far away00:38:55
they got into their spaceship to begin00:38:57
their expedition00:39:00
Horizon00:39:02
The Horizon is where the sky looks like00:39:05
it meets the ground00:39:07
the sun dipped below the horizon00:39:11
loyal00:39:13
loyal people always help or support a00:39:16
certain person or thing00:39:19
the three friends are very loyal to each00:39:21
other00:39:23
mayor00:39:25
the mayor is the person in charge of a00:39:27
city00:39:29
the mayor of my hometown is quite a00:39:31
powerful speaker00:39:34
Mutual00:39:36
a mutual thing is felt in the same way00:39:39
by two or more people00:39:42
Robert likes Sarah and she likes him the00:39:45
feeling is mutual00:39:48
overweight00:39:50
overweight people or animals are heavier00:39:53
than is healthy00:39:55
Lisa eats too much so now she is00:39:58
overweight00:40:00
Refuge00:40:02
a refuge is a place of safety00:40:05
when it started to rain she found refuge00:40:08
in the house00:40:11
restore00:40:12
to restore something is to put it back00:40:15
the way it was00:40:17
Victor restored the old car00:40:21
rub00:40:22
to rub something is to push on it and00:40:25
move your hand back and forth00:40:28
mom's feet were sore so she rubbed them00:40:33
senses00:40:35
the senses are how living things00:40:37
experience the world sight taste smell00:40:41
hearing and touch00:40:44
it would be hard to live without your00:40:46
five senses00:40:48
veterinarian00:40:50
a veterinarian is a doctor who takes00:40:53
care of animals00:40:55
Wanda became a veterinarian because she00:40:58
loves dogs00:41:05
Patsy Ann00:41:08
a long time ago in Alaska a dog named00:41:11
Patsy Ann watched The Horizon00:41:14
every day she waited by the bay for00:41:16
ships returning from an expedition00:41:19
Patsy Ann was a brilliant dog and she00:41:22
was very unique00:41:23
she was deaf00:41:25
she couldn't bark either00:41:28
but she used all of her other senses to00:41:31
know when a ship was near00:41:33
cyan lived on the streets00:41:35
her owners did not want her because she00:41:38
could not hear so they abandoned her00:41:41
she found refuge in a fancy hotel00:41:44
guests rubbed her back and scratched her00:41:46
chin many people gave her food she00:41:50
became quite overweight00:41:53
she became very famous00:41:55
visitors to Alaska were enthusiastic00:41:57
about meeting her00:41:59
they brought presents for her they liked00:42:02
seeing her and the feeling was Mutual00:42:05
the mayor said Patsy and should be00:42:07
called the town's greeter00:42:09
the people in town loved Patsy Ann too00:42:12
even though she lived on the streets00:42:14
they were willing to fight to keep her00:42:17
a new law made all dogs wear a collar00:42:20
and get shots00:42:22
the mayor received many complaints00:42:24
people wanted patsyanne to be able to00:42:27
stay00:42:28
one ambitious sailor got people to help00:42:31
together they paid for Patsy Ann to go00:42:34
to the veterinarian00:42:36
she got her shots and a collar she could00:42:39
stay00:42:40
when Patsy and died everyone missed the00:42:43
town's loyal greeter00:42:45
so the mayor hired someone to make a00:42:47
statue of patsyanne00:42:49
He restored the town's greeter00:42:51
now she stands near the water forever00:42:54
waiting for ships to come home00:43:00
[Music]00:43:01
to date00:43:03
word list00:43:08
anniversary00:43:10
an anniversary is a day that celebrates00:43:13
something from the past00:43:16
my parents went out to a restaurant for00:43:18
their wedding anniversary00:43:21
arithmetic00:43:23
arithmetic is math00:43:26
I like to study arithmetic at school00:43:30
ashamed00:43:32
ashamed means feeling upset and00:43:35
embarrassed because of a bad action00:43:38
he was ashamed when he forgot his00:43:40
teacher's name00:43:43
burst00:43:45
to burst is to suddenly break open or00:43:48
apart00:43:49
the bomb burst over the city00:43:53
Carpenter00:43:55
a carpenter is a person who builds00:43:57
things with wood00:43:59
we hired a carpenter to make a cupboard00:44:04
coal00:44:05
coal is a hard black material that00:44:08
people burn for heat00:44:10
many power stations burn cold to produce00:44:13
energy00:44:15
couch00:44:17
a couch is a long soft seat that many00:44:20
people can sit on00:44:22
Kim and Martin's new couch was very00:44:25
expensive00:44:27
drip00:44:29
to drip is to fall a little bit at a00:44:32
time00:44:33
I heard water dripping from the faucet00:44:37
elegant00:44:39
something elegant is very fancy and00:44:42
pleasing00:44:43
in Japan women wear elegant kimonos on00:44:46
special occasions00:44:49
fabric00:44:51
fabric is cloth used to make clothes00:44:54
Furniture00:44:55
Etc00:44:57
the towels were made from a soft fabric00:45:01
Highlands00:45:03
Highlands are high areas of land usually00:45:06
with mountains00:45:08
the man had a small home in the00:45:10
highlands00:45:12
ivory00:45:14
Ivory is a hard white substance that00:45:17
comes from elephants00:45:19
the elephant's long ivory tusks looked00:45:21
very impressive00:45:24
Mill00:45:26
a mill is a building in which wheat is00:45:29
ground into flour00:45:31
farmer took his wheat to the mill to00:45:33
make it into flour00:45:36
needle00:45:38
a needle is a small sharp piece of metal00:45:41
used to make or fix clothes00:45:44
I used a needle to fix the hole in my00:45:47
pants00:45:49
polish00:45:51
to polish something is to rub it in00:45:53
order to make it shiny00:45:55
Mark spent all morning polishing his00:45:58
shoes for the wedding00:46:01
so00:46:02
to so means to put pieces of cloth00:46:05
together using string or thread00:46:08
I learned to sew when I was a little00:46:10
girl00:46:13
shed00:46:14
a shed is a small building in which00:46:17
people store things like tools00:46:20
we have a small shed in the backyard for00:46:22
storage00:46:25
thread00:46:26
a thread is a thin piece of string00:46:30
I have many different colors of thread00:46:32
at home00:46:34
trim00:46:36
to trim something is to cut it a little00:46:38
bit00:46:40
I had my hair trimmed this afternoon00:46:44
upwards00:46:46
an upwards action moves vertically00:46:49
towards the direction above00:46:51
the kite went upwards further and00:46:53
further00:46:59
the anniversary gift00:47:03
Joe was a carpenter he built houses in00:47:06
the highlands Joe's wife Stella used a00:47:10
needle and thread to sew elegant00:47:12
clothing00:47:13
she only used beautiful fabric to make00:47:16
clothes00:47:17
since they didn't have a lot of money00:47:19
they lived in an old shed00:47:22
water dripped in when it rained they had00:47:25
broken chairs instead of a couch00:47:28
but they had coal for heat and flour00:47:31
from the mill for bread00:47:32
together they trimmed the bushes to make00:47:35
their house look nice00:47:37
Joe and Stella were poor but not ashamed00:47:40
they were happy00:47:42
sometimes in the evening they walked00:47:45
downtown they looked in store windows00:47:48
and dreamed00:47:49
Stella wanted a hairbrush with an ivory00:47:52
handle she pulled her hair upwards every00:47:55
day because she didn't have a brush to00:47:58
make it nice00:47:59
Joe wanted to fix his grandfather's00:48:02
watch00:48:03
for their anniversary Stella wanted to00:48:06
get Joe what he wanted00:48:08
but then she did the arithmetic it would00:48:11
take at least six months to save enough00:48:14
money00:48:15
then she had an idea she cut off all of00:48:19
her hair and sold it00:48:21
meanwhile Joe knew that he could never00:48:24
fix his watch00:48:25
so he polished it and sold it he made00:48:29
enough to buy the brush00:48:31
on their anniversary the door burst open00:48:35
Joe was excited to give Stella his gift00:48:38
but first Stella gave him the money to00:48:41
fix the watch00:48:43
when he saw his wife without any hair he00:48:46
smiled I sold my watch to buy you00:48:49
something Joe said he gave her the brush00:48:52
and she laughed they were both willing00:48:55
to give up something very special to00:48:58
make each other happy00:49:02
thank you Unit Nine00:49:05
word list00:49:11
Ally00:49:13
an ally is someone who agrees to help or00:49:16
support another person or group00:49:19
I was happy to find many allies who00:49:21
shared my opinion00:49:24
boast00:49:26
to boast is to talk about how great one00:49:28
is00:49:30
we all became tired of listening to him00:49:32
boast about himself all day00:49:36
bounce00:49:38
to bounce is to move up and away from a00:49:40
Surface after hitting it00:49:43
Owen bounced the ball on the ground00:49:47
bully00:49:49
a bully is a person who is mean to00:49:51
others00:49:53
the two bullies always picked on the00:49:55
smaller weaker kids00:49:58
carbohydrate00:50:00
carbohydrates are substances in foods00:50:03
like bread that give energy00:50:06
carbohydrates like rice are a good00:50:08
source of energy for active people00:50:12
crawl00:50:14
to crawl is to move slowly on hands and00:50:17
knees00:50:18
the baby crawled across the floor00:50:22
defeat00:50:24
to defeat someone is to beat that person00:50:27
in a game or battle00:50:29
the champion defeated the Challenger in00:50:31
the boxing match00:50:34
dial00:50:36
a dial is a circular tool like the front00:50:39
of a clock00:50:41
I looked at the dial to see what time it00:50:43
was00:50:45
dominant00:50:47
a dominant person or thing is stronger00:50:50
than others00:50:52
the gorilla is one of the dominant00:50:54
animals in the jungle00:50:57
entire00:50:59
entire means the whole thing or group00:51:03
the entire table was covered with food00:51:07
Mercy00:51:09
Mercy is a feeling or act of kindness00:51:12
he asked his boss for mercy and to not00:51:15
fire him00:51:18
nod00:51:19
to nod is to move your head up and down00:51:23
I nodded my head as I listened to the00:51:26
song00:51:28
opponent00:51:30
an opponent is a person or group trying00:51:33
to defeat another person or group00:51:36
on the field our opponents were too good00:51:39
for us00:51:41
Coral00:51:43
to quarrel is to argue or fight00:51:47
Billy quarreled with his wife about00:51:48
buying a new house00:51:52
rival00:51:53
a rival is someone trying to achieve the00:51:57
same thing as another00:51:59
the three Rivals were all competing for00:52:01
the same job00:52:04
sore00:52:06
sore means feeling or causing pain00:52:09
after lifting the heavy box Mona's back00:52:12
was sore00:52:15
sting00:52:16
to sting is to cause pain by pushing a00:52:19
sharp part into the skin00:52:22
the needle stung my arm and made me say00:52:25
ouch00:52:27
strain00:52:29
to strain is to try very hard00:52:32
Casey strained to lift the heavy box00:52:37
torture00:52:39
torture is action that causes physical00:52:41
or mental pain00:52:43
Greg thought that writing the essay was00:52:46
torture00:52:48
wrestle00:52:50
to wrestle is to try to push another00:52:52
competitor to the floor00:52:55
my Dad loved to wrestle when he was in00:52:57
high school00:53:02
Dalton versus the bully00:53:06
Dalton was a nice boy but sometimes the00:53:09
other boys made fun of him because he00:53:11
was so tall and skinny00:53:13
Dalton's biggest problem was Mitch00:53:16
he was a bully who boasted about his00:53:19
strength he quarreled with the other boys00:53:22
sometimes if boys gave Mitch their lunch00:53:25
money he would have mercy and leave them00:53:27
alone00:53:28
one day the boys learned about a special00:53:31
Middle School Olympics00:53:33
their gym class was going to be in it00:53:36
many kids were excited00:53:39
but Dalton thought it sounded like00:53:41
torture00:53:43
that morning Dalton ate plenty of00:53:45
carbohydrates for breakfast00:53:47
he entered the gym and looked at the00:53:49
dial on the clock00:53:51
it was time to begin00:53:53
the teacher asked if they were ready00:53:56
everyone nodded except Dalton00:53:59
I got stung by a bee I need to see the00:54:02
nurse said Dalton00:54:04
he made this story up so he wouldn't00:54:06
have to play00:54:08
I don't believe you get ready to play00:54:11
responded the coach00:54:14
first they wrestled then they jumped00:54:17
crawled and played other games00:54:19
but Mitch was dominant in every event00:54:23
they strained all morning to defeat him00:54:26
by lunch the entire team were sore but00:54:29
they thought they knew how to win00:54:32
they knew the last game of the day was00:54:34
volleyball00:54:36
kids who used to be Dalton's Rivals00:54:38
became his allies00:54:40
they wanted him to help them beat Mitch00:54:43
Dalton was going to be Mitch's opponent00:54:47
the game started00:54:49
every time Mitch tried to hit the ball00:54:51
over the net Dalton stopped it00:54:54
finally Mitch used all of his strength00:54:57
but the ball bounced off Dalton's hands00:55:00
and back into Mitch's face00:55:02
finally Mitch was defeated00:55:09
unit 10.00:55:11
word list00:55:16
absence00:55:18
absence is the state of something being00:55:20
away00:55:22
there is an absence of sand in The00:55:24
Hourglass00:55:27
allowed00:55:28
an action done aloud is done so that00:55:31
people can hear it00:55:33
my father often reads stories aloud to00:55:36
me and my sister00:55:39
bald00:55:40
a bald person or animal has no hair00:55:45
my oldest brother is bald00:55:48
Anket00:55:50
a blanket is a piece of cloth that00:55:52
people use to keep warm or to sit upon00:55:57
I laid a blanket on the ground so that00:55:59
we could have a picnic00:56:02
creep00:56:03
to creep is to move quietly and slowly00:56:07
the cat slowly crept down the tree00:56:11
divorce00:56:13
divorce is the process of ending a00:56:16
marriage00:56:17
divorce rates have increased in the past00:56:19
20 years00:56:22
imitate00:56:24
to imitate someone or something is to00:56:27
act in the exact same way00:56:30
she imitated his favorite superhero by00:56:32
putting on a costume00:56:35
infant00:56:37
an infant is a baby00:56:40
the infant cried all night00:56:44
kidnap00:56:45
to kidnap someone is to take that person00:56:48
illegally00:56:50
she was terrified to find out her son00:56:53
had been kidnapped00:56:56
nap00:56:57
a nap is a short sleep usually during00:57:01
the day00:57:02
I took a short nap because I had stayed00:57:05
up late last night00:57:07
nowhere00:57:09
nowhere means no place or not existing00:57:14
unfortunately water was nowhere to be00:57:17
found00:57:19
Pat00:57:21
to Pat something is to hit it softly00:57:24
with your hand00:57:26
I patted some lotion onto my face00:57:30
relief00:57:32
relief is a good feeling after something00:57:34
bad or challenging ends00:57:38
I felt a sense of relief when I heard00:57:40
the good news00:57:43
reproduce00:57:45
to reproduce is to make something00:57:47
exactly how someone else did it00:57:50
the children tried to reproduce their00:57:53
house using toy blocks00:57:56
rhyme00:57:58
a rhyme is writing or speech that has00:58:01
words with the same ending sounds00:58:04
Humpty Dumpty is an old rhyme that00:58:07
children learn in school00:58:10
suck00:58:11
to suck is to put something in your00:58:14
mouth and try to get something out of it00:58:18
the baby sucked milk from her bottle00:58:23
urgent00:58:24
an urgent thing is important and needs00:58:27
to be done now00:58:29
she had to leave at that moment it was00:58:32
urgent00:58:34
vanish00:58:36
to vanish is to go away suddenly00:58:40
all the passengers vanished from the00:58:42
train station00:58:44
wagon00:58:46
a wagon is a cart used to carry heavy00:58:49
things00:58:51
she used his wagon to carry some of his00:58:53
gifts00:58:55
wrinkle00:58:57
a wrinkle is a line on a person's face00:59:00
that appears as they get old00:59:03
my grandfather has some wrinkles on his00:59:05
face00:59:10
Anna the babysitter00:59:14
since her parents got a divorce Anna has00:59:17
had to help her mother in her mother's00:59:20
absence Anna takes care of Grace the00:59:23
baby at first Anna thought it was an00:59:27
easy job00:59:28
one afternoon Anna played with Grace she00:59:32
meowed like a cat and Grace imitated her00:59:35
in fact Grace reproduced every sound00:59:39
that Anna made00:59:41
Anna then took her sister outside00:59:44
she put Grace in The Wagon but there was00:59:47
nowhere for them to go so they went back00:59:50
inside00:59:51
Anna put the infant on the floor and00:59:53
went into her room00:59:55
but when she came back Grace had00:59:58
vanished Anna looked everywhere but she01:00:01
could not find her sister maybe the baby01:00:04
had been kidnapped01:00:06
where are you Anna called aloud the01:00:10
situation was becoming urgent01:00:13
she wanted to call her mom but she01:00:16
didn't want her to think Anna couldn't01:00:18
do the job01:00:20
Anna sat down what was she going to do01:00:24
but then Anna heard something it was01:00:28
coming from her room01:00:30
Grace01:00:31
she got down on her knees and looked01:00:34
under the bed01:00:35
she could see Grace's bald head Grace01:00:38
had followed Anna into her room and01:00:41
crept under the bed01:00:43
what a relief Anna cried she picked up01:00:47
her sister and patted her on the head01:00:50
her head was soft and had no wrinkles01:00:54
Grace was sucking on her thumb and01:00:56
looked tired so Anna wrapped her in a01:00:59
blanket and sang rhymes for her then she01:01:03
put Grace in bed for a nap01:01:05
after that afternoon Anna knew that01:01:08
taking care of Grace was not an easy job01:01:11
it is a lot of work to take care of a01:01:14
baby01:01:19
unit 11.01:01:21
word list01:01:26
architecture01:01:28
architecture is the design and form of a01:01:31
building01:01:33
the Sydney Opera House is a good example01:01:35
of modern architecture01:01:38
basket01:01:40
a basket is a container made of woven01:01:43
materials that is used to carry things01:01:47
he put the vegetables in a basket01:01:51
bloom01:01:52
to bloom is to produce an open flower01:01:56
the white daisies were about to bloom01:02:00
canoe01:02:02
a canoe is a long light boat with01:02:05
pointed ends01:02:07
he paddled his canoe to the edge of the01:02:09
lake01:02:11
carpet01:02:13
a carpet is a thick heavy woven fabric01:02:17
used to cover the floor01:02:19
his white living room carpet was soft01:02:24
cousin01:02:25
a cousin is the child of one's aunt and01:02:28
uncle01:02:30
my cousin looks just like me01:02:34
desk01:02:35
a desk is a piece of furniture that01:02:38
people sit at to do work01:02:41
he put the books on her desk01:02:45
gallery01:02:46
a gallery is a large space where people01:02:49
can see works of art01:02:51
the art gallery displayed beautiful01:02:53
paintings01:02:56
guest01:02:58
a guest is someone who is invited to an01:03:01
event occasion or location01:03:04
Alice invited a special guest for dinner01:03:08
host01:03:10
a host is someone who invites a guest01:03:12
someplace01:03:14
he was a gracious host01:03:18
July01:03:20
the seventh month of the year is July01:03:24
her birthday is in July01:03:27
modern01:03:29
a modern thing belongs to the current01:03:32
time01:03:33
the kitchen had a modern look01:03:37
Museum01:03:39
a museum is a building that displays01:03:41
cultural social and scientific objects01:03:45
the Louvre is a famous Museum in France01:03:50
pink01:03:52
is a pale shade of red01:03:55
she chose a pink lipstick01:03:59
plane01:04:00
a plane is a vehicle that has an engine01:04:03
and wings and flies in the air01:04:06
they took a plane across the ocean to01:04:09
India01:04:11
refrigerator01:04:13
a refrigerator is a large electrical01:04:16
machine used to keep food cold01:04:19
he kept milk eggs and butter in the01:04:22
refrigerator01:04:25
temperature01:04:26
a temperature is a measure of how hot or01:04:29
cold something is01:04:31
in the winter the temperature can drop01:04:34
below zero degrees01:04:37
theater01:04:39
a theater is a place where people can01:04:41
watch movies or live shows01:04:44
he took her to see a comedy show at the01:04:47
theater01:04:49
upper01:04:50
an upper position is a higher position01:04:54
he took the elevator to the Upper Floor01:04:59
welcome01:05:01
to welcome is to greet someone or01:05:03
something with pleasure01:05:05
she greeted her friends with a warm01:05:07
welcome01:05:11
thank you July 28 2017.01:05:18
dear diary01:05:20
I am beyond excited my cousin Ella is01:05:24
coming all the way from England for a01:05:26
visit01:05:27
we haven't seen each other for many01:05:28
years01:05:30
Ella's plane will land soon and I want01:05:32
to be a gracious host and get everything01:05:34
ready to welcome my special guest from01:05:37
abroad01:05:38
the warm temperature in July is just01:05:40
right01:05:42
earlier today I opened the window to let01:05:45
in fresh air and looked outside01:05:47
the afternoon sky was a brilliant blue01:05:50
the grass was a fresh emerald green and01:05:53
the pink roses were in full bloom01:05:56
it was a stunning display of natural01:05:58
beauty01:05:59
Ella is coming at the perfect time01:06:03
I still have to finish cleaning up and01:06:05
then vacuum the carpet01:06:07
I have already stocked the refrigerator01:06:09
with Ella's favorite foods01:06:12
last night I set out clean towels and01:06:15
arranged the guest bedroom for Ella01:06:18
I will set out toiletries and other01:06:20
things soon01:06:22
I want to go over the activity list for01:06:24
Ella's visit one last time01:06:27
I made sure to keep a copy of the list01:06:30
on my desk and also on my computer01:06:33
I meticulously planned the details for01:06:36
each day so that they are productive and01:06:38
packed with fun-filled activities01:06:42
I know that Ella loves history so we01:06:44
will visit the museum on Monday where01:06:47
there is a special show about01:06:48
architecture in modern cities01:06:51
we will go to the art gallery on Tuesday01:06:54
and see the latest works of Contemporary01:06:56
Art01:06:58
I also want to take Ella to the upper01:07:01
part of town because that is where the01:07:03
best shopping and sales are01:07:05
then we'll watch Hamlet a Shakespearean01:07:08
play being performed at the local drama01:07:10
theater01:07:12
I also want to take Ella on a canoe ride01:07:14
and enjoy the many lakes around the city01:07:18
we can pack a picnic basket have lunch01:07:20
at the lake and enjoy the beautiful01:07:22
weather outside01:07:24
I am really excited about it because01:07:27
I've never been on a canoe ride01:07:29
there are so many sightseeing01:07:31
opportunities and so much to show Ella01:07:34
but I also want to spend time at home01:07:36
with Ella so we can both relax and catch01:07:38
up01:07:40
I'd better run because it's almost time01:07:42
to pick up Ella at the airport01:07:44
I can't wait to see Ella01:07:47
love Gemma01:07:54
unit 12.01:07:56
word list01:08:01
anticipate01:08:03
to anticipate something is to think that01:08:05
it will happen01:08:07
Carrie anticipated the arrival of her01:08:10
baby01:08:12
Barrel01:08:14
a barrel is a round thing that you can01:08:16
keep liquids in01:08:18
There Was An Empty Barrel outside the01:08:21
house01:08:23
beam01:08:24
a beam is a heavy bar01:08:27
Modern Skyscrapers are made with many01:08:29
beams01:08:32
casual01:08:33
a casual thing is relaxed or simple01:08:37
you can wear casual clothes like jeans01:08:40
to the party01:08:43
caution01:08:44
caution is care and attention in order01:08:47
to avoid Danger01:08:49
please use the power saw with caution it01:08:52
is very dangerous01:08:55
contrary01:08:57
a contrary thing is the opposite to01:08:59
another thing01:09:01
it isn't warm outside at all on the01:09:04
contrary it is quite cold01:09:07
deliberate01:09:09
a deliberate action is one done on01:09:12
purpose not by accident01:09:15
Bernie made a deliberate attempt to01:09:17
injure Andy01:09:19
dissolve01:09:21
to dissolve something is to mix it into01:09:24
a liquid until it disappears01:09:27
I dissolved the pill in a glass of water01:09:31
explode01:09:33
to explode is to suddenly move apart in01:09:36
many smaller pieces01:09:39
the old TV exploded when I plugged it in01:09:43
fasten01:09:45
to fasten something is to close it or01:09:48
attach it to something01:09:50
Elizabeth fastened her seat belt01:09:54
germ01:09:56
a germ is a very small living thing that01:09:59
can make people sick01:10:02
germs are on everything that you touch01:10:06
kit01:10:07
a kit is a set of all the things needed01:10:11
to do something01:10:13
is there a first aid kit in your office01:10:17
Puff01:10:18
a puff is a little bit of smoke or Steam01:10:22
a puff of smoke came from the burnt01:10:25
match01:10:27
rag01:10:29
a rag is a small towel01:10:32
please use a rag to clean the dust off01:10:34
the table01:10:37
scatter01:10:38
to scatter something is to make it go in01:10:41
many places01:10:43
I accidentally scattered all of my pills01:10:48
sent01:10:49
Ascent is a smell01:10:52
Julie enjoyed the scent of the flowers01:10:56
Steel01:10:58
is a strong gray metal01:11:01
the new apartment building was made with01:11:03
steel01:11:06
Swift01:11:07
a swift person or animal is fast01:11:11
the Swift horse easily jumped over the01:11:14
hurdle01:11:16
toss01:11:18
to toss something is to throw it softly01:11:22
he tossed a coin into the air01:11:25
Triumph01:11:27
Triumph is the act or feeling of winning01:11:31
he raised the award in Triumph at the01:11:33
end of his speech01:11:38
the ice cream cone explosion01:11:42
one day John walked to his uncle's ice01:11:45
cream shop01:11:47
when he reached the sidewalk near the01:11:49
shop he caught the scent of ice cream01:11:51
cones and anticipated eating some ice01:11:55
cream Sam opened the door Uncle John had a new01:11:59
steel machine01:12:01
what is that01:12:03
it's a cone maker I built it from a kit01:12:06
you take flour from the barrel and put01:12:10
it in this pan Uncle John said then add01:12:14
water and sugar here and stir it so the01:12:17
sugar dissolves next you fasten down the01:12:21
beam01:12:22
Uncle John wanted to look casual but he01:12:26
was excited he made a few Swift01:12:28
movements and turned it on there was a01:12:32
puff of smoke and then cones came out01:12:35
the other end01:12:36
is it hard to use say I'm asked on the01:12:40
contrary it's easy to use want to try01:12:45
Sam washed his hands with caution he01:12:48
made a deliberate attempt to keep germs01:12:51
out of the dough01:12:52
soon Sam had his first cone he smiled in01:12:56
Triumph01:12:58
Uncle John tried to turn the machine off01:13:00
but it kept making cones01:13:04
Sam and Uncle John put them on the01:13:06
counter then on chairs before long Cones01:13:10
were scattered all over the floor they01:13:13
tried everything to stop it but it01:13:16
wouldn't stop01:13:18
what are we going to do he said01:13:21
kick it yelled Sam Uncle John lifted his01:13:25
foot and gave the machine a kick it made01:13:29
a funny noise and exploded they were01:13:33
both covered with dough Uncle John01:13:36
laughed when he knew Sam was okay01:13:39
he tossed Sam a rag to clean his face01:13:42
and smiled I guess we have enough cones01:13:45
now01:13:50
unit 13.01:13:52
word list01:13:57
a board01:13:59
someone aboard a ship or plane is in or01:14:03
on it01:14:04
they climbed aboard the kayak and01:14:06
paddled through the river01:14:09
bitter01:14:10
a bitter person feels upset or angry01:14:13
about something01:14:15
he was extremely bitter when his01:14:17
computer crashed01:14:20
bullet01:14:22
a bullet is a small metal object that is01:14:25
shot out of a gun01:14:27
bullets come in different sizes for01:14:29
different guns01:14:32
devil01:14:34
the Devil is a powerful evil spirit in01:14:37
some religions01:14:39
the church promised protection from the01:14:41
Devil01:14:43
drift01:14:45
to drift means to be moved Slowly by01:14:48
wind or water01:14:50
the large chunk of ice drifted in the01:14:52
water01:14:54
in fours01:14:56
to enforce means to make a person follow01:14:59
a rule01:15:01
police enforced traffic laws to keep01:15:03
everyone safe01:15:06
fountain01:15:08
a fountain is a source of water made by01:15:11
people01:15:12
there was a beautiful fountain in the01:15:14
middle of the park01:15:17
Harbor01:15:18
a harbor is an area of water along a01:15:21
Shore where boats land01:15:24
there were a few small boats in the01:15:26
harbor01:15:28
inhabit01:15:30
to inhabit means to live in a certain01:15:33
place01:15:34
no one inhabits the ancient city01:15:38
March01:15:40
to March means to walk at a steady Pace01:15:43
together with others01:15:45
the soldiers marched in straight rows01:15:50
millionaire01:15:51
a millionaire is a person who has at01:15:54
least a million dollars01:15:57
he became a millionaire because he was01:15:59
smart with his money01:16:02
port01:16:03
a port is a place where ships stop to01:16:06
load and unload things01:16:09
this ship was being loaded with01:16:11
materials at the port01:16:14
Sheriff01:16:16
a sheriff is a police officer who is in01:16:19
charge of a large area01:16:21
it was the sheriff's job to make the01:16:23
city safe01:16:26
startle01:16:28
to startle means to scare someone01:16:30
suddenly01:16:32
the loud crash startled the sleeping01:16:34
woman01:16:36
sweat01:16:38
to sweat means to lose liquid from the01:16:41
body through the skin01:16:43
whenever I go to the gym I sweat quite a01:16:46
bit01:16:48
trigger01:16:50
a trigger is the part of a gun that a01:16:53
person pulls to make it fire01:16:55
the man had his finger on the trigger of01:16:57
the gun01:17:00
unify01:17:02
to unify means to bring people or things01:17:05
together01:17:08
for Good Deeds the children tried to01:17:10
unify the world01:17:13
vessel01:17:14
a vessel is a large ship or boat01:17:18
we toured the area aboard a luxury01:17:21
vessel01:17:23
voyage01:17:25
a voyage is a long journey made on a01:17:28
boat or an aircraft01:17:30
the astronauts took off on a long Voyage01:17:32
to the Moon01:17:35
worship01:17:37
to worship means to like and honor a01:17:40
person thing or religious figure01:17:44
many people around the world Worship in01:17:46
a church01:17:51
Sheriff Dan01:17:55
was the evil Sheriff of ocean town01:17:58
Dan was as cruel as the devil he01:18:01
worshiped money01:18:03
Dan was a millionaire but he paid his01:18:05
police officers almost nothing01:18:08
the police were very bitter but Dan01:18:11
didn't care he only cared about his01:18:13
money01:18:15
every person who inhabited ocean Town01:18:17
disliked him01:18:19
Dan enforced cruel laws once Dan even01:18:23
put his own brother in jail for throwing01:18:26
a coin into a fountain01:18:28
sometimes he pointed his gun into the01:18:31
air and pulled the trigger01:18:33
he didn't want the bullets to hit anyone01:18:36
he just wanted to scare people with the01:18:38
loud sound01:18:40
finally the people of ocean Town decided01:18:43
that they had to get rid of sheriff Dan01:18:46
and tried to find some way to do this01:18:49
their wish to get rid of Dan helped to01:18:52
unify the town01:18:54
they marched to Dan's house01:18:56
he was startled by the site when he ran01:18:59
to the door01:19:00
when he opened the door the crowd jumped01:19:03
on him01:19:04
they used a rope to tie him to a chair01:19:07
Dan yelled get your hands off me I'll01:19:10
put you all in jail for the rest of your01:19:12
lives01:19:14
the crowd didn't listen01:19:16
They Carried Dan to the harbor and put01:19:18
him aboard a vessel01:19:20
Den was so scared that he began to sweat01:19:23
he begged if you let me go I will give01:19:27
you all my money01:19:29
the crowd said Sheriff we don't care01:19:32
about your money we know you'll never01:19:34
change we're sending you on a Voyage to01:19:38
the middle of the ocean01:19:40
the boat drifted out of the port and Dan01:19:43
was never seen again01:19:44
the people chose a new sheriff who was01:19:47
kind and fair01:19:51
foreign01:19:52
[Music]01:19:55
word list01:20:00
Apprentice01:20:02
an apprentice is a person who learns how01:20:04
to do a job from a skilled person01:20:07
Mark is an apprentice chef at the01:20:10
restaurant01:20:12
assure01:20:14
to assure people is to tell them01:20:16
something is true to make them less01:20:18
worried01:20:19
he assured the boss that the building01:20:21
would be done on time01:20:24
bandage01:20:26
a bandage is a piece of cloth used to01:20:29
stop bleeding01:20:31
if you cut yourself please get a bandage01:20:33
from the first aid kit01:20:36
bleed01:20:38
to bleed is to lose blood01:20:41
if you are not careful you will cut your01:20:43
finger in bleed01:20:46
Bond01:20:48
to bond with someone is to become01:20:50
friends with that person01:20:52
the women bonded after several hours of01:20:55
conversation01:20:58
chef01:20:59
a chef is a person who cooks in a01:21:02
restaurant01:21:03
Tom is a chef at the restaurant near my01:21:06
house01:21:08
crown01:21:09
a crown is the hat worn by a king or01:21:13
queen01:21:14
the crown is made of gold01:21:17
departure01:21:19
a departure is the act of leaving a01:21:22
place01:21:23
they were excited about their departure01:21:25
to go back home01:21:28
diligent01:21:30
a diligent person works hard and is01:21:33
careful01:21:34
Craig has always been a very diligent01:21:36
person at work01:21:39
emperor01:21:41
an emperor is the leader of a group of01:21:43
countries01:21:45
the emperor Julius Caesar was in control01:21:47
of ancient Rome01:21:50
fiber01:21:52
a fiber is a thread of a substance used01:21:55
to make clothes or robe01:21:57
the mat was made from Tiny fibers01:22:01
horrible01:22:03
a horrible thing is very bad01:22:07
the assignment was horrible I hated it01:22:12
impolite01:22:13
an impolite person is rude or not polite01:22:18
Roger is impolite to everyone he meets01:22:23
Neil01:22:25
to kneel is to put one or both knees on01:22:28
the ground01:22:29
Daryl kneeled down on one knee and asked01:22:32
Nina to marry him01:22:35
luxury01:22:37
a luxury is an expensive thing that is01:22:40
nice but not needed01:22:42
our honeymoon resort was a luxury we01:22:45
really enjoyed01:22:48
massive01:22:49
a massive thing is very big01:22:53
the wheels on his truck were massive01:22:57
panic01:22:59
to panic is to feel so nervous or afraid01:23:02
that one cannot think clearly01:23:05
everyone panicked when the house caught01:23:07
on fire01:23:10
priority01:23:12
a priority is something that is more01:23:14
important than other things01:23:17
my priority is to get good grades in01:23:20
school01:23:22
robe01:23:23
a robe is a long loose piece of clothing01:23:28
the monks of the temple all wear robes01:23:32
scold01:23:34
to scold means to criticize someone01:23:36
angrily for doing something wrong01:23:39
Jesse was scolded by the teacher for not01:23:42
paying attention01:23:48
The Helpful Apprentice01:23:52
there was once a small restaurant people01:23:55
said that the best chef in the world01:23:57
worked there01:23:58
but the chef was a horrible person to01:24:01
work for he was impolite and scolded his01:24:05
workers all the time01:24:07
the chef had a Young Apprentice01:24:10
the apprentice's first priority was to01:24:13
make the best food in the world he was01:24:16
happy to have a good teacher but he01:24:19
didn't like the chef the boy was a01:24:22
diligent worker but the chef scolded him01:24:25
more than anyone else01:24:28
then one day the chef got great news the01:24:33
emperor wanted to have dinner there that01:24:35
night he was very excited he was working01:24:39
very fast and he made a mistake he cut01:24:43
his hand with a knife and it started to01:24:46
bleed01:24:48
The Apprentice gave him a bandage but01:24:50
the chef still couldn't cook the chef01:24:53
started to panic01:24:55
The Apprentice tried to assure him01:24:57
everything will be okay he said but the01:25:02
chef was still afraid then they started01:25:05
to work together they began to bond the01:25:09
chef told The Apprentice what to do and01:25:12
the boy cooked a great meal01:25:15
as soon as they finished the emperor01:25:18
arrived he wore a beautiful robe made of01:25:21
soft fibers he also had a massive crown01:25:25
everyone in the restaurant kneeled when01:25:28
the emperor came in01:25:30
the chef and the boy brought out his01:25:32
food the emperor was used to luxuries01:25:36
would he like the food the emperor loved01:25:40
the food after his departure the chef01:25:43
was very proud and very thankful to his01:25:47
new friend The Apprentice01:25:54
unit 15.01:25:56
word list01:26:01
affair01:26:03
an affair is an event or a thing that01:26:05
happened01:26:07
my wife and I attended a formal Affair01:26:09
over the weekend01:26:12
assembly01:26:14
an assembly is a group gathered together01:26:16
for the same reason01:26:19
the students had an assembly to talk01:26:21
about their interests01:26:24
bless01:26:26
to bless is to ask God for protection or01:26:29
help01:26:30
the angel blessed the newborn baby to01:26:33
keep it safe01:26:36
cereal01:26:37
cereal is a breakfast food made from01:26:40
grains that is eaten with milk01:26:43
cereal is a fast and common breakfast01:26:45
food enjoyed in the U.S01:26:49
cheerful01:26:51
a cheerful person is happy and pleasant01:26:55
the children were cheerful because they01:26:57
didn't have to go to school01:27:00
diameter01:27:02
the diameter of a round thing is the01:27:05
length across its Center01:27:07
the diameter of the tree was about 6001:27:09
centimeters01:27:12
exploit01:27:14
to exploit something is to use it for01:27:16
greedy reasons rather than good reasons01:27:20
the company exploits their workers and01:27:23
makes them work 12 hours a day01:27:26
famine01:27:28
a famine is a long time with little or01:27:31
no food01:27:33
the farmers couldn't grow any food in01:27:35
the dry soil so there was a famine01:27:39
Harvest01:27:41
a harvest is the act of collecting food01:27:44
from farming01:27:46
they had a lot of wheat from the last01:27:48
Harvest01:27:50
Mary01:27:52
a merry person is happy and pleasant01:27:56
they felt merry because the weather was01:27:58
great01:28:00
not01:28:02
a nut is a hard seed or fruit that comes01:28:05
from some trees and bushes01:28:09
that you must first crack its shell01:28:13
pardon01:28:15
to Pardon is to not be angry at someone01:28:18
for asking a question or for making a01:28:20
mistake01:28:22
pardon me teacher could you repeat what01:28:25
you just said01:28:27
pharaoh01:28:29
a pharaoh was a king in ancient Egypt01:28:33
the Pharaohs ruled Egypt for thousands01:28:35
of years01:28:38
ripe01:28:39
a ripe fruit or vegetable is ready to be01:28:42
eaten01:28:44
the cherries were nice and ripe01:28:48
roast01:28:49
to roast something is to cook it in an01:28:52
oven or over a fire01:28:54
mom roasted a turkey for the holiday01:28:57
dinner01:28:59
routine01:29:01
a routine is a way of doing things that01:29:04
is the same every time01:29:06
my father's daily routine includes01:29:09
shaving right before breakfast01:29:13
scheme01:29:14
a scheme is a plan or design01:29:18
Jason and Mark came up with a scheme to01:29:20
solve the problem01:29:23
Slim01:29:25
a slim person or thing is thin not thick01:29:30
look at my new cell phone it's very slim01:29:35
stove01:29:36
a stove is a device used to cook food01:29:41
our new stove helps us to cook food much01:29:43
faster than before01:29:46
theft01:29:48
a theft is a criminal act that involves01:29:51
someone stealing something01:29:53
the theft of his TV took place when he01:29:56
was at work01:30:02
why monkey has no home01:30:06
for five years there was a famine the01:30:10
farmers asked people to bless them and01:30:12
finally they had a good harvest01:30:15
since there was now plenty of food the01:30:17
Pharaoh decided to have a party01:30:20
the party was a happy affair01:30:22
for five days they had a huge feast01:30:26
monkey was very happy01:30:28
because of the famine he was very slim01:30:32
he wanted to eat a lot of food01:30:35
when he arrived at the feast hundreds of01:30:38
long tables were filled with food01:30:40
there were nuts bowls of cereal and ripe01:30:43
fruit01:30:44
he could also smell hot roasted meat01:30:47
cooking on the stove01:30:50
the Assembly of animals was merry01:30:53
however during the meal monkey thought01:30:56
of a scheme to exploit the pharaoh's01:30:58
kindness01:30:59
he decided to steal some of the food and01:31:02
then eat it at home01:31:04
all the animals were cheerful01:31:07
they didn't notice that monkey was01:31:09
hiding food01:31:11
after the feast monkey took the food to01:31:13
his house and ate it01:31:15
he repeated this routine every day for01:31:18
four days01:31:20
but on the fifth day the Pharaoh had a01:31:23
surprise01:31:24
he was going to give all the animals a01:31:26
home01:31:27
monkey was very excited01:31:30
but when he arrived at the pharaoh's01:31:32
home he could not get through the door01:31:35
the diameter of his waist was wider than01:31:38
the door he was too fat01:31:42
monkey asked the pharaoh to forgive him01:31:44
for his theft01:31:45
but the Pharaoh said no01:31:48
pardon ask the monkey01:31:51
he didn't understand why the Pharaoh was01:31:54
being unkind01:31:56
everybody else will have a home now but01:31:59
not you01:32:00
now you know that greed gets you nothing01:32:03
explained the pharaoh01:32:09
unit 16.01:32:11
word list01:32:16
adolescent01:32:18
an adolescent is a young person or a01:32:21
teenager01:32:23
the Adolescent was excited about getting01:32:25
a skateboard for his birthday01:32:29
aptitude01:32:31
aptitude is a natural ability or skill01:32:35
he has a natural aptitude for water01:32:37
skiing01:32:40
compliment01:32:41
to complement is to say a nice thing01:32:44
about someone or something01:32:47
her co-worker complimented her for doing01:32:49
a good job01:32:52
hinder01:32:54
to hinder is to stop someone or01:32:56
something from doing something01:32:58
all the traffic hindered me from getting01:33:01
to work on time01:33:04
journalism01:33:06
journalism is the work of collecting the01:33:08
news to put in newspapers or on TV01:33:12
before becoming a teacher she worked in01:33:15
journalism01:33:17
jury01:33:19
a jury is a group of people that listen01:33:21
to a trial and say if someone is guilty01:33:25
the jury listened closely to the01:33:27
attorney before they made their decision01:33:31
Justice01:33:33
Justice is fairness in the way that01:33:35
people are treated01:33:37
people turn to the court system when01:33:39
they are Seeking Justice01:33:42
Liberty01:33:44
Liberty is freedom to do what one wants01:33:48
to many people the Statue of Liberty is01:33:51
a symbol of freedom01:33:54
literary01:33:55
a literary person or thing is involved01:33:58
with literature in some way01:34:01
he worked hard to create a successful01:34:03
literary career01:34:06
Pharmacy01:34:08
a pharmacy is a place where medicine is01:34:10
sold01:34:12
my mother sells medicine to people at01:34:14
the pharmacy01:34:17
pill01:34:18
a pill is a small object that has01:34:21
medicine inside01:34:23
she took a pill for her headache01:34:27
presume01:34:28
to presume is to believe something is01:34:31
true without being certain01:34:34
since the girl raised her hand the01:34:36
teacher presumed she knew the answer01:34:40
privacy01:34:42
privacy is the state of being happily01:34:44
away from other people01:34:46
please hang the sign on the door so we01:34:49
can have some privacy01:34:52
punishment01:34:53
a punishment is something that one must01:34:56
endure for any wrongdoing01:34:59
he was given a punishment for being rude01:35:01
to the teacher01:35:04
sensible01:35:06
a sensible person or thing is good and01:35:09
smart01:35:10
it was sensible for her to save some01:35:12
money each month01:35:15
slice01:35:17
a slice is a piece from something larger01:35:20
such as a cake01:35:22
the girl enjoyed a slice of cake at her01:35:24
birthday party01:35:27
sorrow01:35:28
sorrow is a very sad feeling01:35:32
the girl felt sorrow after her best01:35:34
friend moved away01:35:37
straw01:35:38
a straw is a thin tube that is used to01:35:42
suck liquid into the mouth01:35:44
I drank the orange juice through a straw01:35:50
to swell is to become larger and rounder01:35:54
my sister's stomach began to swell after01:35:57
she got pregnant01:35:59
tidy01:36:01
a tidy place or person is clean and in01:36:04
order01:36:06
Leon has always been a very tidy boy01:36:13
Matthew learns a lesson01:36:17
Matthew was an adolescent and a sensible01:36:20
boy01:36:21
he always kept his room tidy and had a01:36:24
natural literary aptitude01:36:27
he hoped to one day have a career in01:36:29
journalism01:36:31
he spent much of his time reading and01:36:33
liked his privacy but his quiet01:36:36
personality hindered his ability to make01:36:39
friends01:36:40
one day Matthew went to the pharmacy to01:36:44
pick up some pills for his grandmother01:36:46
he saw some boys leaning against a tree01:36:49
outside01:36:50
one of the boys complimented Matthew01:36:53
I like your jacket01:36:56
another boy asked do you want to go to01:36:59
Nate's Restaurant01:37:01
sure Matthew said the boys walked to the01:37:05
restaurant they were going to have01:37:07
slices of pizza01:37:09
they ordered their food and drank soda01:37:12
with straws they ate until their bellies01:37:15
swelled up Matthew was having so much01:37:18
fun01:37:19
one of the boys said let's leave without01:37:22
paying01:37:24
Matthew didn't want to but he presumed01:37:27
his new friends wouldn't like him if he01:37:30
didn't01:37:31
suddenly the waiter yelled stop01:37:34
the two other boys ran leaving Matthew01:37:38
there alone01:37:39
soon the police arrived01:37:42
leaving without paying for your meal is01:37:45
the same as stealing said the police01:37:47
officer01:37:48
the restaurant wants justice so next01:37:52
week you have to go to court and let a01:37:55
jury decide your punishment01:37:57
when he went to court the judge asked do01:38:01
you have anything to say Matthew01:38:04
he said I am full of Sorrow for what01:38:07
I've done now I know that real friends01:38:10
won't ask you to do something illegal01:38:14
the jury then let him have his Liberty01:38:16
but they made Matthew pick up garbage as01:38:20
a punishment01:38:21
much to Matthew's surprise he ended up01:38:24
meeting some new friends01:38:31
unit 17.01:38:33
word list01:38:37
affection01:38:39
affection is a feeling of liking someone01:38:42
or something01:38:43
Amanda has a lot of affection for her01:38:46
little sister Sarah01:38:49
agency01:38:51
an agency is a business or service set01:38:54
up to act for others01:38:56
I went to a travel agency to help me01:38:58
arrange a flight home01:39:01
Ash01:39:03
Ash is the gray or black powder created01:39:06
when something is burned01:39:08
the end of his cigar was full of Ashes01:39:13
confined01:39:15
to confine something is to keep it in01:39:17
one place01:39:19
the elephant is confined to a cage in01:39:21
the zoo01:39:24
dismiss01:39:26
to dismiss something is to say it is not01:39:28
important01:39:30
he quickly dismissed my idea about the01:39:33
new project01:39:35
erupt01:39:37
to erupt is to explode or blow apart01:39:40
especially a volcano01:39:43
the volcano erupted for the first time01:39:45
in 10 years01:39:48
fate01:39:50
fate is a power that causes things to01:39:52
happen01:39:54
some people believe that the lines on a01:39:56
person's hand can tell his or her fate01:40:00
lava01:40:02
lava is the hot substance made of melted01:40:05
rock that comes out of volcanoes01:40:09
the red hot lava poured from the volcano01:40:14
miserable01:40:16
a miserable person is very unhappy01:40:19
he was miserable after his dog died01:40:24
navigate01:40:26
to navigate something is to control the01:40:28
way it moves or goes01:40:31
she navigated the ship across the ocean01:40:36
originate01:40:37
to originate somewhere is to start there01:40:41
the idea of democracy originated in01:40:44
ancient Greece01:40:47
remainder01:40:49
the remainder of something is what is01:40:51
left01:40:52
he took a bite of the apple and then01:40:54
gave me the remainder of it01:40:58
retrieve01:41:00
to retrieve something is to find it and01:41:03
get it back01:41:05
she retrieved her mail from the mailbox01:41:09
shallow01:41:11
a shallow thing is not deep01:41:14
the kids were playing in the shallow01:41:16
water01:41:18
slope01:41:20
a slope is ground that is not flat01:41:24
the slope to the top of the mountain was01:41:27
very steep01:41:29
span01:41:31
to span is to spread across an amount of01:41:34
time or space01:41:37
work at the bakery has spent 20 years01:41:41
superstition01:41:43
a Superstition is something magical that01:41:46
people believe is real01:41:48
it is a Superstition that Friday the01:41:50
13th is an01:41:52
eye day01:41:54
sympathy01:41:56
sympathy is a feeling of sadness for01:41:59
another person who feels bad01:42:02
I felt sympathy for my sister so I got01:42:04
her a balloon to cheer her up01:42:08
vibrate01:42:10
to vibrate is to shake very hard01:42:13
the machine made his whole body vibrate01:42:16
as he broke up the ground01:42:19
wander01:42:21
to wander is to walk without going to a01:42:24
certain place01:42:26
the boys like to wander in the woods and01:42:29
look at Birds01:42:35
the Magic Cup01:42:38
Paul and John were brothers they fought01:42:41
all the time because they both wanted to01:42:44
be leaders of the agency they both01:42:45
worked at01:42:47
there was a Superstition in their town01:42:49
about a magic cup01:42:51
people said the cup was in a volcano01:42:53
located far away01:42:56
anyone who retrieved the cup would have01:42:58
a wish come true01:43:00
John and Paul both wanted to find it01:43:03
then they could become the leader01:43:06
they both left to find the cup01:43:09
before their trip their mother said they01:43:12
should work together01:43:13
they dismissed that idea01:43:16
even though their trips originated from01:43:18
the same house each wanted to travel01:43:20
alone01:43:22
they were both miserable during the trip01:43:25
they had to navigate small boats across01:43:27
shallow rivers and climb difficult01:43:29
slopes01:43:31
their Journey spanned many days01:43:34
when they finally got close to the01:43:36
volcano the ground began to vibrate and01:43:39
the volcano erupted01:43:41
Ash filled the sky and lava covered01:43:44
everything01:43:46
John climbed to the top of a hill to01:43:48
keep from getting burned01:43:50
a few moments later his brother went up01:43:53
the same Hill01:43:54
they were confined to the hill until the01:43:57
lava cooled down01:43:59
they talked about the things they had01:44:01
seen while wandering around the country01:44:04
they felt more sympathy and affection01:44:06
for each other than ever before01:44:09
they decided that fate had brought them01:44:11
together01:44:13
the next day they left to finish the01:44:15
remainder of the trip together01:44:17
everything seemed much easier01:44:20
when they finally found the Cub they01:44:23
learned that it didn't make wishes come01:44:24
true01:44:26
it was only an ordinary cup01:44:29
but the trip to reach the cup taught01:44:31
them to work together and love each01:44:33
other01:44:39
unit 18.01:44:41
word list01:44:45
armor01:44:47
armor is metal worn by soldiers to01:44:50
protect the body01:44:51
the soldier wore armor to protect his01:44:54
body01:44:56
Blaze01:44:58
to blaze means to burn brightly or01:45:01
powerfully01:45:02
the small fire soon blazed into a large01:45:05
dangerous one01:45:08
boom01:45:10
to Boom means to make a loud deep sound01:45:15
the firecrackers made a loud boom when01:45:17
they exploded01:45:20
cliff01:45:22
a cliff is a high and often flat wall of01:45:25
Rock01:45:26
the wolf stood at the cliff and howled01:45:31
Flame01:45:32
a flame is part of a fire01:45:35
the torch was filled with yellow and01:45:37
orange flames01:45:40
Independence01:45:42
Independence is the state of being free01:45:45
from the control of others01:45:48
after leaving home Sophia had a great01:45:50
feeling of Independence01:45:54
invasion01:45:55
an invasion is an attack by a group from01:45:59
another country01:46:00
in Korea walls were built around cities01:46:03
to protect them from invasions01:46:07
night01:46:09
a knight is a soldier of high rank and01:46:11
skill who usually serves a king01:46:15
he was the best soldier so the king made01:46:18
him a knight01:46:20
lightning01:46:22
lightning is the bright light seen01:46:24
during a storm01:46:26
the lightning flashed above the water01:46:30
Rebel01:46:32
a rebel is a person who fights the01:46:34
government in order to change it01:46:37
the rebel was angry about the01:46:39
government's unfair policies01:46:43
retreat01:46:45
to retreat means to run away because of01:46:47
losing a fight01:46:49
the Army retreated because they were01:46:51
losing the battle01:46:54
Revolution01:46:56
A revolution is a change to the01:46:59
political system by a group of people01:47:02
the Revolution in Russia led to the01:47:04
creation of the Soviet Union01:47:08
spear01:47:09
a spear is a long stick with a blade on01:47:12
one end that is used as a weapon01:47:16
the soldier was holding a spear in his01:47:18
hand01:47:20
steep01:47:22
a steep surface or place has a slope or01:47:25
angle that rises or Falls sharply01:47:29
he rode his bike up the Steep Hill to01:47:32
reach the top01:47:34
Summit01:47:36
a summit is the highest part of a hill01:47:39
or Mountain01:47:40
snow covered the summit of the mountain01:47:42
even during the summer01:47:46
Thunder01:47:48
is the loud noise heard during a storm01:47:52
the sound of the Thunder startled me01:47:56
troops01:47:58
troops are soldiers that fight in groups01:48:01
in a battle01:48:02
the troops were all prepared to go into01:48:05
battle01:48:07
Warrior01:48:09
a warrior is a brave Soldier or fighter01:48:13
the samurai were some of the most01:48:15
skilled Warriors in the ancient world01:48:19
withdraw01:48:21
to withdraw means to leave a place01:48:23
usually during war01:48:26
after losing the battle the enemy01:48:28
withdrew back to its own country01:48:32
yield01:48:34
to yield something means to give up01:48:36
control of it or to give it away01:48:40
he had to yield his turn because he was01:48:42
in checkmate01:48:47
foreign plan01:48:51
a town was fighting for their01:48:54
independence from another country01:48:56
several Rebels started a revolution01:48:59
however they were afraid of an invasion01:49:02
from a lot of troops they didn't have01:49:05
enough Warriors to stop the enemy so01:49:08
they asked a knight for help01:49:10
the Knight made a plan01:49:12
a tall mountain was outside the town the01:49:15
road near the top was very narrow Cliffs01:49:18
rose on both sides of it01:49:21
we must trick the enemy they have to01:49:24
follow us up the mountain the Knight01:49:27
explained on the Narrow Path only a few01:49:30
can attack us at one time01:49:33
the people agreed with the Knights plan01:49:36
the Knight put on his armor and the01:49:39
Warriors got their Spears when the enemy01:49:42
attacked the Knight and warriors acted01:49:44
as if they were afraid they quickly01:49:47
withdrew toward the mountain the enemy01:49:50
troops followed them up the Steep path01:49:53
soon the enemy became tired at the01:49:56
summit the Knight and his troops stopped01:49:59
the enemy was close behind them but now01:50:03
they were tired also only a few could01:50:06
attack because the path was narrow01:50:09
the Knight and the Warriors fought the01:50:11
enemy but there were too many troops the01:50:15
night was afraid01:50:17
if the Warriors yielded the path to the01:50:20
enemy the town would be lost01:50:22
a storm suddenly came over the mountain01:50:25
there was strong wind and rain thunder01:50:29
boomed lightning struck some trees near01:50:32
the enemy the trees blazed the Flames01:50:37
scared the enemy and they retreated they01:50:40
ran down the mountain out of the town01:50:43
and never returned01:50:45
the night explained with a little luck a01:50:48
good plan beats even a big army01:50:56
unit 19.01:50:58
word list01:51:03
bench01:51:05
a bench is a long seat for two or more01:51:08
people01:51:09
most Parks have benches for people to01:51:12
relax upon01:51:14
Daisy01:51:16
a daisy is a small flower with white01:51:19
petals and a yellow Center01:51:21
there were a few daisies growing in the01:51:24
field01:51:26
dispute01:51:28
a dispute is an argument or disagreement01:51:31
that people have01:51:33
Karen and Brian often have disputes01:51:35
about silly things01:51:38
empty01:51:40
an empty container is one that has no01:51:43
things in it01:51:44
the teacher showed the students an empty01:51:47
bottle01:51:49
horror01:51:51
horror is a feeling of being very afraid01:51:54
or shocked01:51:56
the audience screamed in horror when the01:51:58
ghost appeared in the movie01:52:01
incident01:52:03
an incident is an event that is usually01:52:06
not pleasant01:52:07
Mr Wilson had an incident he became sick01:52:11
and had to leave01:52:14
missed01:52:15
mist is water that can be seen in the01:52:18
air or on a surface01:52:21
the forest was covered with mist01:52:25
object01:52:27
an object is a non-living thing that you01:52:30
can see or touch01:52:32
the shopping cart was filled with01:52:34
objects01:52:36
orphan01:52:38
an orphan is a child who does not have01:52:41
parents01:52:42
the orphan frequently cried during the01:52:45
night01:52:47
plot01:52:48
to plot is to make a secret plan to do01:52:51
something that is wrong or mean01:52:54
the group was plotting to ruin the01:52:56
company's Financial reports01:53:00
pregnant01:53:02
a pregnant woman or animal is going to01:53:05
have a baby01:53:06
the pregnant woman was shopping for baby01:53:09
clothes01:53:11
rage01:53:13
rage is a very angry feeling01:53:16
the chef was filled with rage when his01:53:18
helpers ruined the meal01:53:22
Revenge01:53:23
revenge is the act of hurting someone01:53:26
who has hurt you01:53:28
he broke his sister's doll as Revenge01:53:30
after she lost his favorite book01:53:34
shame01:53:36
shame is a bad feeling about things one01:53:39
has done wrong01:53:41
the boy felt shame about misplacing his01:53:43
clothes01:53:46
Psy01:53:47
to sigh is to breathe out loudly to show01:53:50
tiredness boredom or sadness01:53:54
Molly side when she looked at all the01:53:56
information she had to research01:54:00
sneak01:54:02
to sneak is to move quietly in order not01:54:05
to be seen or heard01:54:07
the thief snuck out of the house without01:54:09
anyone noticing him01:54:12
spare01:54:14
to spare something is to give it away01:54:16
because it is not needed01:54:19
I wanted to help him but I couldn't01:54:21
spare a tire01:54:24
stem01:54:26
the stem of a plant is the stick that01:54:29
grows leaves or flowers01:54:31
The Rose had a long thin stem01:54:36
supper01:54:37
supper is a meal that is eaten in the01:54:40
evening01:54:41
we usually have supper around six01:54:43
o'clock at my house01:54:46
tender01:54:48
a tender food is soft and easy to chew01:54:52
the meat was so tender they didn't need01:54:54
knives to cut it01:55:00
the magic pear tree01:55:04
it was a cool morning and the grass was01:55:06
covered and mist01:55:08
the market was full of people01:55:10
a mean farmer named Jack yelled pears01:55:13
for sale01:55:15
he sat on a bench plotting how he could01:55:17
trick people01:55:19
then an orphan came to his cart01:55:22
can you spare a pair she asked01:55:25
Jack felt rage he replied you don't have01:55:29
any money01:55:31
please I haven't had supper in days01:55:34
no shouted the farmer01:55:37
the orphan side however a pregnant lady01:55:40
heard the dispute and came over to Jack01:55:44
just give her a pair she said01:55:47
Jack had no shame and said no01:55:50
finally a man bought a pair for the girl01:55:54
the girl quickly aided but she saved the01:55:57
seed she wanted to get revenge01:56:01
she told Jack01:56:03
I know a way to get hundreds of pairs in01:56:06
one day I'll show you how01:56:09
he watched the girl dig a hole she01:56:11
dropped the seat into the ground then01:56:14
she spread the dirt over it01:56:16
watch closely she said01:56:19
in a few minutes a stem will grow it'll01:56:22
turn into a tree that's full of pears01:56:25
Jack stared at the dirt but nothing01:56:28
happened01:56:29
the only objects there were a few01:56:32
daisies01:56:33
he looked for the girl but she had snuck01:56:35
away01:56:36
then he looked at his cart in horror it01:56:40
was empty01:56:41
he suddenly realized that the orphan had01:56:44
tricked him01:56:45
while Jack was waiting for the tree to01:56:48
grow the people had taken the pairs from01:56:50
his cart01:56:51
they all laughed while they were eating01:56:54
the tender fruit01:56:55
the farmer felt ashamed the incident01:56:58
taught him to be kinder01:57:05
unit 2001:57:07
word list01:57:12
beneath01:57:13
beneath means under or lower than01:57:18
the largest part of an iceberg Lies01:57:20
Beneath the water line01:57:23
cub01:57:25
a cub is a baby animal such as a bear or01:57:28
lion01:57:29
the lion cub was crying for its mother01:57:34
Dawn01:57:35
Dawn is the time of day when the Sun01:57:38
rises01:57:39
at dawn the sun gently Rose over the01:57:42
farm01:57:45
dissatisfied01:57:47
dissatisfied means not happy with01:57:50
something01:57:51
I was dissatisfied with their decision01:57:53
to work on Sunday01:57:56
ease01:57:58
ease is a condition without difficulty01:58:01
or hard work01:58:03
the monkey climbed the tree with ease01:58:07
evident01:58:09
evident means easy to see or understand01:58:13
it was evident from the look on his face01:58:15
that he was unhappy01:58:19
hail01:58:20
is ice that falls from the sky when rain01:58:23
freezes01:58:25
the hail from the storm was the size of01:58:27
golf balls01:58:30
how01:58:32
to howl means to make a long loud sound01:58:35
like a wolf or a dog01:58:38
the wolf howled at the Moon01:58:42
leap01:58:44
to LEAP means to jump a long distance01:58:47
he had to leap over the Gap to reach the01:58:50
other side of the Hill01:58:53
magnificent01:58:55
magnificent means beautiful and Grand01:58:59
the man gave his wife a pair of01:59:01
magnificent diamond earrings01:59:04
necessity01:59:06
a necessity is something that is needed01:59:10
fresh water is a necessity for life01:59:15
outcome01:59:16
an outcome is the end result of an01:59:19
action or event01:59:21
the outcome of his latest business plan01:59:23
was a complete failure01:59:26
pile01:59:28
a pile is a large group of things on top01:59:31
of one another01:59:33
the pile of Cups was beginning to lean01:59:37
profound01:59:39
profound means deep or very intelligent01:59:43
for a young man Jeremy has some profound01:59:46
thoughts01:59:49
seize01:59:50
to seize something means to grab it01:59:53
quickly or strongly01:59:56
the man seized as much money as he could01:59:58
before anyone could see him02:00:02
squeeze02:00:04
to squeeze something means to press it02:00:06
together and hold it tightly02:00:09
when Clara saw her cat she squeezed it02:00:12
to her face02:00:15
Supreme02:00:17
means of the highest level or best02:00:20
quality02:00:22
the Supreme officer was in charge of02:00:24
keeping the citizens calm02:00:27
terrific02:00:29
something terrific is very good02:00:32
my youngest daughter is a terrific02:00:34
painter02:00:37
trait02:00:39
a trait is part of someone's personality02:00:42
one trait of Salvador's personality is02:00:45
his cheerfulness02:00:48
vital02:00:50
something vital is necessary for life02:00:54
title organ02:01:00
Little Wolf and mother wolf02:01:05
mother wolf was a magnificent animal02:01:08
she had all the traits of a terrific02:01:10
Hunter02:01:11
she was very strong and fast02:01:14
she knew how to hide and how to seize02:01:18
animals02:01:19
mother wolf was the forest's Supreme02:01:21
creature her skills were evident to all02:01:25
the other animals02:01:26
mother wolf lived in a den beneath a02:01:29
tree with her cub Little Wolf one02:01:32
morning at dawn little wolf and mother02:01:35
wolf were eating breakfast02:01:37
Little Wolf looked sad mother wolf said02:01:40
what is wrong my cub02:01:43
Little Wolf said I want to be big like02:01:46
you you can run and leap better than02:01:50
anyone you can howl so loudly being big02:01:55
is a necessity and I am so small02:01:59
mother wolf said don't be dissatisfied02:02:02
with your size being small can be very02:02:05
helpful sometimes02:02:07
just then rain and hail began to fall02:02:11
the tree was hit by lightning it fell on02:02:14
the wolves den02:02:16
Little Wolf was scared the Wolves knew02:02:19
that Escaping The Den was vital02:02:22
mother wolf said Little Wolf I cannot02:02:26
move the heavy pile of branches but you02:02:29
can escape with ease you can get out and02:02:33
find help02:02:34
Little Wolf crawled out of the den and02:02:37
called all the large animals for help02:02:40
they went to the den and pulled away the02:02:43
branches mother wolf came out and said02:02:46
thank you little wolf you saved my life02:02:50
she softly squeezed Little Wolf and02:02:53
kissed her little wolf smiled she said02:02:57
mother this outcome has taught me a02:03:00
profound lesson even though I'm small02:03:03
I'm still important02:03:10
unit 21.02:03:12
word list02:03:17
attack02:03:18
to attack something is to hurt or damage02:03:21
it02:03:22
she watched the lizard attack its prey02:03:27
breast02:03:28
a breast is one of the two soft Parts on02:03:31
a woman's chest02:03:33
she was diagnosed with breast cancer02:03:39
is a serious disease that causes cells02:03:43
to grow abnormally02:03:45
he was a leading scientist in finding a02:03:48
cure for cancer02:03:51
ous02:03:53
cancerous cells are the result of cancer02:03:57
the exam found cancerous cells in the02:03:59
patient's blood02:04:02
so02:04:04
a cell is the smallest part of a living02:04:06
thing that can live by itself02:04:10
a red blood cell carries oxygen02:04:14
cigarette02:04:16
a cigarette is a thinly wrapped paper02:04:18
tube filled with tobacco that is smoked02:04:22
cigarette smoking is terrible for your02:04:25
health02:04:27
code02:04:29
a code is a set of symbols used to hide02:04:32
or read a message02:04:34
she used the code to solve the puzzle02:04:39
cure02:04:40
a cure is a medical treatment to make a02:04:43
sickness go away02:04:45
scientists are still working on finding02:04:47
a cure for diabetes02:04:51
destruction02:04:52
to damage something is to cause its02:04:55
destruction02:04:56
the wildfires left the forest in a state02:04:59
of Destruction02:05:02
DNA02:05:04
DNA is the short form of02:05:06
deoxyribonucleic acid02:05:09
the police sometimes use DNA to solve02:05:12
crime02:05:14
extensive02:05:16
extensive means large in size or amount02:05:20
the game Drew extensive media coverage02:05:25
female02:05:27
refers to women or girls02:05:30
she is the only female student in her02:05:33
class with short hair02:05:36
furthermore02:05:38
furthermore means more information will02:05:40
be added02:05:42
she's clever and furthermore she is not02:05:45
afraid of work02:05:48
Gene02:05:49
a gene controls what it looks like how02:05:52
an organism grows and how it develops02:05:56
gene therapy is sometimes used to treat02:05:59
an illness02:06:02
inherit02:06:03
to inherit is to receive something that02:06:06
is passed down from a relative02:06:09
all the girls in my family inherit red02:06:11
hair from my great-grandmother02:06:15
link02:06:16
a link is a connection to something else02:06:20
the two lines in the poem share a common02:06:22
link02:06:25
mail02:06:27
refers to men or boys02:06:30
he was the only male in the store02:06:35
population02:06:37
a population is all the people living in02:06:40
an area02:06:41
the population of our city is steadily02:06:44
growing02:06:46
result02:06:48
a result happens because of something02:06:50
else02:06:52
the result of her experiment was02:06:54
surprising02:06:57
sugar02:06:58
comes from plants and is used to make02:07:02
food taste sweet02:07:04
she added extra sugar to her tea02:07:11
genes and cancer02:07:16
is a disease that develops because of02:07:18
unusual cell growth in the human body02:07:21
cancer cells take over and attack02:07:23
healthy cells leaving the normal working02:07:26
cells in a state of Destruction02:07:29
extensive research has been done to02:07:32
understand the link between genes and02:07:34
cancer02:07:35
a gene is what decides the traits a02:07:37
living thing May inherit02:07:40
genes can be found in the DNA of each02:07:42
cell in the body02:07:44
DNA contains a code that carries all the02:07:47
needed information about the qualities02:07:49
of a living thing02:07:51
genes control how cells work by making02:07:54
proteins that have special jobs02:07:57
these proteins make up everything bones02:08:00
teeth muscles blood Etc in our bodies02:08:05
genes pass on the DNA code to proteins02:08:08
that decide eye color hair color and02:08:11
skin color02:08:13
furthermore damaged DNA can sometimes be02:08:16
passed on as well02:08:18
the damaged DNA can eventually lead to02:08:21
Gene changes which then may result in a02:08:23
problem in the body02:08:25
over time the problem may become a02:08:28
disease and sometimes even become02:08:31
cancerous02:08:33
there are many different types of02:08:35
cancers02:08:36
breast cancer is the most common in the02:08:39
female population while prostate cancer02:08:42
is the most common in the male02:08:43
population02:08:45
drinking alcohol increases the chances02:08:48
of developing cancer in different places02:08:50
of the body such as the head neck liver02:08:53
or throat02:08:55
cigarette smoking is the number one02:08:57
cause of lung cancer in the United02:08:59
States02:09:01
studies also show a strong link between02:09:03
eating too much sugar and a higher risk02:09:06
of cancerous cells growing even faster02:09:09
although scientists have been studying02:09:11
cancer there is still no cure for the02:09:14
disease02:09:16
hopefully a cure will eventually be02:09:18
found and prevent the sadness that comes02:09:21
from losing a loved one to cancer02:09:28
unit 22.02:09:30
word list02:09:35
accommodate02:09:37
to accommodate is to have enough room02:09:40
the meeting room can accommodate nine02:09:43
people02:09:45
circus02:09:47
a circus is a traveling show with02:09:50
animals and people02:09:52
I like to go to the circus to see the02:09:54
animals do tricks02:09:57
coincide02:09:59
to coincide means to happen at the same02:10:03
time02:10:04
my birthday coincides with Christmas02:10:08
Commission02:10:10
to commission someone is to pay that02:10:13
person to do some job02:10:15
the artist was commissioned to create a02:10:18
picture02:10:20
does02:10:22
a dose is a certain amount of medicine02:10:24
taken at one time02:10:26
my mother gave me a dose of medicine02:10:28
before I went to bed02:10:32
die02:10:34
to die something is to make it a certain02:10:36
color by using a special chemical02:10:40
Valerie got her hair dyed at the salon02:10:42
yesterday02:10:44
extend02:10:46
the extent of something is how large02:10:49
important or serious it is02:10:52
he ate to such an extent that he became02:10:55
overweight02:10:57
gender02:10:59
gender is a category that describes02:11:02
being either a boy or a girl02:11:05
do you know the gender of her new baby02:11:09
headline02:11:11
a headline is the title of a newspaper02:11:14
story02:11:15
the headline on the front page was about02:11:17
the economy02:11:20
informal02:11:22
an informal thing is casual and relaxed02:11:25
not official02:11:27
they had an informal meeting to talk02:11:29
about their experiences02:11:33
inquire02:11:34
to inquire about something is to ask02:11:37
about it02:11:39
dad called to inquire about the price of02:11:41
tickets for the show02:11:44
messenger02:11:46
a messenger is one who carries02:11:48
information from one place to another02:11:52
the messenger delivered an important02:11:54
document to the office02:11:57
peer02:11:59
to period something is to watch it02:12:01
carefully02:12:03
she peered at people through the window02:12:07
portrait02:12:08
a portrait is a painting or photograph02:12:11
of someone02:12:13
I saw Many religious portraits when I02:12:15
went to the museum02:12:18
pose02:12:19
to pose is to stay in one place without02:12:22
moving02:12:24
the kids and their dog posed for a02:12:26
picture02:12:28
Ranch02:12:30
a ranch is a large farm where animals02:12:33
are kept02:12:34
my uncle has many horses on his Ranch02:12:39
steer02:12:41
to steer something is to control where02:12:43
it goes02:12:45
he steered the go-kart around the track02:12:49
stripe02:12:51
a stripe is a thick line02:12:54
the flag of the United States has red02:12:56
and white stripes02:12:59
tame02:13:01
a tame animal is not afraid to be near02:13:03
people02:13:05
the tame bird rested in his hand02:13:09
tempt02:13:11
to tempt people is to offer them02:13:13
something they want but shouldn't have02:13:16
I wasn't hungry but she tempted me with02:13:19
a piece of my favorite cake02:13:27
the circus02:13:30
Ben was unhappy he lived on a ranch near02:13:34
a small town and he didn't have many02:13:37
friends02:13:38
then one day a messenger came to the02:13:41
ranch02:13:42
he showed the headline in the Town02:13:44
Newspaper02:13:45
the circus was coming to the town it02:13:48
even coincided with Ben's birthday02:13:51
Ben was very excited as his father02:13:54
steered the car through the town the02:13:57
circus couldn't accommodate to all the02:13:59
people who wanted to see the show but02:14:01
Ben had a ticket02:14:03
Ben peered at the activity around him he02:14:07
watched people of both genders Dance all02:14:10
around they wore funny costumes and02:14:13
their hair was dyed many different02:14:15
colors02:14:16
also tame tigers with stripes on their02:14:20
fur did tricks02:14:22
outside people could commission an02:14:24
informal portrait02:14:26
they posed in front of a funny picture02:14:28
while an artist quickly drew them02:14:31
Ben couldn't believe it he was happier02:14:35
than he had ever been before02:14:37
that day Ben knew what he wanted to do02:14:40
he loved the circus to such an extent02:14:43
that he wanted to have his own circus02:14:46
when he grew older02:14:47
seeing the circus was like a dose of02:14:50
medicine for him he wasn't unhappy02:14:53
anymore02:14:54
he felt special he inquired about what02:14:58
he needed to do to have his own circus02:15:01
he studied hard and learned about02:15:03
business02:15:04
Ben worked very hard and one day he had02:15:08
his own circus it was a great circus02:15:12
people told him that he could be very02:15:15
rich but he wasn't tempted by money he02:15:19
just wanted to make children happy he02:15:22
knew the circus had changed his life and02:15:24
he wanted to do the same thing for02:15:26
others02:15:30
foreign02:15:31
[Music]02:15:34
word list02:15:39
ban02:15:41
to ban something is to not let people do02:15:44
it02:15:45
smoking is banned in this building02:15:49
cautious02:15:51
a cautious person is careful to avoid02:15:53
Danger02:15:55
be very cautious as you stack those02:15:57
boxes02:16:00
confess02:16:01
to confess is to admit a bad or02:16:04
embarrassing truth02:16:06
the woman confessed that she had stolen02:16:09
the money02:16:11
Cottage02:16:13
a cottage is a small old house in the02:16:16
countryside02:16:17
my aunt lives in a pretty Cottage in the02:16:20
mountains02:16:22
daytime02:16:24
daytime is the time of the day when the02:16:27
sky is light02:16:29
the kids are only allowed to play02:16:31
outside in the daytime02:16:34
desperate02:16:36
A desperate person will try anything to02:16:39
do or change something02:16:42
I'm desperate to find a new job02:16:46
exhausting02:16:48
an exhausting activity is very tiring02:16:52
after an exhausting Journey we finally02:16:55
arrived02:16:57
fade02:16:59
to fade is to become quieter or less02:17:02
bright02:17:03
the piece of cloth I found was old and02:17:06
Faded02:17:08
fierce02:17:10
a fierce person or animal is angry or02:17:13
violent02:17:15
wolves are fierce animals do not disturb02:17:19
them02:17:21
Gamble02:17:23
to gamble means to play a game that02:17:25
involves winning or losing money02:17:28
people like to go to casinos to gamble02:17:33
lawn02:17:35
a lawn is an area covered in grass02:17:39
my dad keeps the lawn in front of our02:17:41
house very neat02:17:44
MO02:17:46
to mow grass is to cut it to make it02:17:48
short02:17:50
I mow our lawn every weekend02:17:54
outlaw02:17:56
an outlaw is a criminal who hides from02:17:58
the police02:18:00
the police passed out posters of the02:18:02
outlaw to all the people02:18:06
Prospect02:18:08
a prospect is a possibility that02:18:10
something will happen02:18:12
he wakes up every morning with the02:18:14
prospect of having a good day02:18:18
purse02:18:19
a purse is a bag in which women keep02:18:22
money makeup Keys Etc02:18:26
my sister likes to buy designer purses02:18:31
rod02:18:32
a rod is a thin stick made of wood or02:18:35
metal02:18:37
I bought a new fishing rod to use while02:18:39
on vacation02:18:42
seldom02:18:43
seldom shows that an action doesn't02:18:46
happen very often02:18:48
it's seldom Reigns in Southern Arizona02:18:53
shave02:18:55
to shave means to cut the hairs on one's02:18:58
face with a sharp tool02:19:00
my father shaves his face every day02:19:03
because he doesn't want a beard02:19:06
terrified02:19:08
a terrified person or animal is02:19:11
extremely scared02:19:13
when I saw the ghost I was absolutely02:19:16
terrified02:19:19
wizard02:19:20
a wizard is a man who can do magic02:19:24
the wizard made gold fall from the sky02:19:32
lazy Hans02:19:35
was lazy he seldom helped his mother02:19:39
with anything02:19:40
he didn't cook and he never mowed the02:19:43
lawn he didn't even shave02:19:46
he spent the daytime gambling with his02:19:49
mother's money02:19:50
one day his mother realized that her02:19:53
money was gone from her purse02:19:55
you're banned from my house she shouted02:19:58
don't come back until you've learned02:20:01
your lesson02:20:03
Hans went to live in the forest Like An02:20:05
Outlaw02:20:07
but it was cold and Hans couldn't find02:20:09
any food02:20:11
he went to a cottage to ask for a meal02:20:14
a wizard answered the door02:20:17
can I stay here please Hans asked02:20:21
you can stay if you work the man replied02:20:25
Hans liked the prospect of food and02:20:28
warmth so he agreed02:20:30
the man pointed to a field02:20:32
take this rod and plant it over there02:20:36
I am a wizard and this magic Rod will02:20:39
bring us food02:20:40
the field was far away02:20:43
Hans knew it would be exhausting to walk02:20:45
there02:20:46
so he just threw the rod behind the02:20:49
cottage and sat by the river02:20:51
when daylight faded he returned to the02:20:54
cottage and went to sleep02:20:56
the next morning the old man looked very02:20:59
fierce02:21:01
you didn't take the rod to the field he02:21:04
shouted02:21:06
no confessed Hans it was too far02:21:10
because of you we have nothing to eat02:21:13
replied the man02:21:16
Hans was terrified that the man would02:21:18
punish him so he ran home02:21:21
mama he cried I'm desperate to come back02:21:25
his mother was cautious02:21:28
do you promise to work she asked yes02:21:32
said Hans I'll never be lazy again02:21:42
unit 24.02:21:44
word list02:21:49
abroad02:21:50
an action done abroad is done in a02:21:53
different country02:21:55
my friend is going on a summer trip02:21:57
abroad02:22:00
Airline02:22:01
an airline is a company that takes02:22:04
people to different places by plane02:22:07
the airline has excellent customer02:22:09
service02:22:12
audience02:22:14
an audience is a group of people who02:22:16
gather to watch someone do something02:22:20
he was excited to be part of the02:22:22
audience02:22:24
bargain02:22:26
a bargain is a very good price paid for02:22:30
a product02:22:31
she was looking forward to getting a02:22:33
good bargain at the supermarket02:22:37
brief02:22:38
a brief action lasts a short time02:22:42
the lawyers took a brief break02:22:46
currency02:22:48
the currency of a country is the type of02:22:51
money used in that country02:22:54
the currency in China is different from02:22:56
that in Australia02:23:00
data02:23:01
data is a collection of information and02:23:04
facts02:23:06
he saved all the data on his computer02:23:10
domestic02:23:12
domestic refers to something that02:23:15
happens within a particular country02:23:18
the airline has 50 domestic flights02:23:21
daily02:23:23
draft02:23:25
a draft is a piece of written work that02:23:28
is not in its final form02:23:30
he was writing his first draft02:23:35
gather02:23:36
to gather is to form a group or bring02:23:39
together02:23:41
we will gather the children before the02:23:43
meeting02:23:45
Hobby02:23:47
a hobby is a fun and creative activity02:23:50
people do in their free time02:23:53
she liked to paint as a hobby02:23:57
income02:23:59
and income is the money you earned from02:24:02
work02:24:03
she was saving her income to buy a house02:24:08
jet02:24:09
a jet is a fast plane with a big engine02:24:14
her company owns a private jet02:24:18
maximum02:24:20
maximum is the highest amount of02:24:22
anything allowed02:24:24
the maximum driving speed here is 8002:24:27
kilometers per hour02:24:30
official02:24:32
an official thing is approved by someone02:24:34
in authority02:24:36
her official degree was being02:24:38
transferred02:24:41
recommend02:24:42
to recommend means to give advice based02:24:46
on experience02:24:48
his doctor will recommend the best02:24:50
medicine for her cough02:24:53
refer02:24:55
to refer to something means to mention02:24:57
or call attention to it02:25:02
referred to the time to show bill that02:25:04
he was late for class02:25:07
remote02:25:08
a remote place is distant or far away02:25:13
he lived in a remote Village in the02:25:15
Himalayas02:25:18
Sleepless02:25:20
Sleepless describes a time period in02:25:23
which someone does not sleep02:25:26
Jill had a sleepless night because she02:25:28
had so much on her mind02:25:31
volume02:25:33
the volume is the total amount of02:25:36
something02:25:37
the volume of cars in the parking lot02:25:39
was steadily increasing02:25:46
travel writers02:25:49
travel Riders travel around the world02:25:52
and write about their experiences they02:25:55
post their articles on an online blog or02:25:58
in a magazine it may seem like the02:26:01
perfect way to earn income but there is02:26:04
a lot of hard work involved02:26:06
travel writers have to be prepared to02:26:08
travel on short notice whether getting02:26:11
on a jet to travel abroad or boarding a02:26:14
small plane for a domestic flight travel02:26:17
writers must have official documents02:26:19
such as passports they must also have02:26:22
international currency and they must02:26:25
have personal belongings ready at all02:26:28
times02:26:29
since travel writers also get paid to02:26:32
write about their trips a laptop to keep02:26:35
track of all the data they gather is02:26:37
important02:26:39
being good at research is a must for02:26:41
travel writers they must choose airlines02:26:44
that offer maximum travel perks they02:26:47
must hunt for hotel Bargains and they02:26:50
must choose the best things to do on a02:26:53
brief trip02:26:54
good travel writers must attract an02:26:56
audience in large volumes02:26:58
to do this they first write drafts about02:27:01
their experiences02:27:04
they edit the drafts many times02:27:07
since they get paid to recommend and02:27:09
refer travelers to hotels restaurants02:27:12
and places to visit their articles have02:27:15
to be well written and inviting to read02:27:19
getting paid to travel around the world02:27:21
might seem like an exciting profession02:27:23
but travel writers often endure02:27:26
sleepless nights and long wait times at02:27:29
the airport02:27:30
they travel to remote locations and must02:27:33
adjust to new environments it takes some02:27:37
time to make these adjustments but for02:27:39
someone who loves to travel as a hobby02:27:42
and loves to write being a travel writer02:27:45
is a great job02:27:49
foreign02:27:54
word list02:27:58
circulate02:28:00
to circulate is to spread something02:28:02
around especially in a circular way02:28:06
the fan helped to circulate cool air02:28:09
through the room02:28:11
consequent02:28:13
consequent means happening because of a02:28:16
different situation02:28:18
her consequent rash came after she02:28:21
touched the poisonous plant02:28:24
derive02:28:26
to derive means to come or originate02:28:29
from a thing or place02:28:32
Red's nickname was derived from the02:28:34
color of her hair02:28:37
drown02:28:39
to drown is to die from not being able02:28:42
to breathe underwater02:28:44
he would have drowned If the sellers had02:28:46
not rescued him02:28:49
Dynasty02:28:51
a dynasty is a series of rulers who are02:28:54
all from the same family02:28:56
the ancient Egyptians had a dynasty that02:28:59
lasted for many years02:29:02
fraction02:29:04
a fraction is a small part of something02:29:08
only a fraction of the cake was gone02:29:12
Frost02:29:13
Frost is a white layer of ice that forms02:29:17
during very cold weather02:29:19
in the morning the trees were all02:29:21
covered with frost02:29:24
illusion02:29:26
an illusion is something that looks real02:29:29
but doesn't actually exist02:29:32
some pictures create an illusion for the02:29:35
eyes02:29:37
invade02:29:39
to invade is to take over a place by02:29:42
force02:29:43
the enemy forces tried to invade our02:29:46
country from the sky02:29:49
lieutenant02:29:51
a lieutenant is a rank in the military02:29:53
or police or a person with that rank02:29:58
the lieutenant was a good leader and his02:30:00
soldiers respected him02:30:04
Marine02:30:06
Marine describes something related to02:30:08
the Sea02:30:10
a healthy ocean is full of marine02:30:12
animals02:30:15
Merit02:30:16
a merit is a positive or good quality02:30:20
the actor received an award for his02:30:23
merits in the movie02:30:26
Navy02:30:27
a Navy is the part of a country's02:30:29
military that fights at sea02:30:32
my country is known for our strong Navy02:30:37
polar02:30:39
polar relates to the cold places on02:30:41
Earth's north and south ends02:30:44
only a few people live in the earth's02:30:47
Northern polar region02:30:50
Rey02:30:51
a ray is a line of light that comes from02:30:54
a bright object02:30:56
the Sun's Warm Rays covered the beach02:31:01
resign02:31:03
to resign means to quit a job02:31:06
after I officially resigned from work I02:31:09
said goodbye to my boss02:31:13
suicide02:31:15
suicide is the act of killing oneself02:31:19
some people feel so sad that they think02:31:21
suicide is the only answer02:31:25
tremble02:31:27
to tremble is to shake as a result of02:31:30
excitement or cold weather02:31:33
Harry was not used to the cold so he02:31:35
trembled most of the day02:31:39
underlying02:31:40
an underlying thing is a hidden cause or02:31:44
Reason02:31:45
her underlying fear of flying reduced02:31:48
her traveling options02:31:51
via02:31:53
introduces a root or means of travel02:31:57
we arrived in this city from the airport02:32:00
via the train02:32:06
how did Greenland get its name02:32:10
the nation of Greenland isn't very green02:32:14
the sun's Rays don't shine there for02:32:16
three whole months02:32:18
as a result it's covered with snow ice02:32:21
and frost02:32:23
then how was the name derived02:32:26
it started with a viking named Eric the02:32:28
Red02:32:30
Eric had many merits however there was02:32:33
an underlying problem02:32:35
he got angry easily02:32:38
people were scared of him02:32:40
however he was married to the niece of a02:32:43
very powerful man02:32:45
so everybody tried to be nice to him02:32:48
one day Eric fought with his neighbor02:32:51
and killed him02:32:52
his consequent punishment was to leave02:32:55
Iceland02:32:56
many stories circulated about a land02:32:59
west of Iceland02:33:01
but only a fraction of the people in02:33:03
Iceland believed them02:33:05
still Eric wanted to find it02:33:08
Eric sailed toward the land via the02:33:11
Atlantic Ocean02:33:12
his Marine knowledge was good but the02:33:15
trip was hard02:33:17
some of his men drowned02:33:19
Eric's Lieutenant wanted to resign from02:33:21
his position02:33:23
others thought about committing suicide02:33:26
suddenly Eric thought he saw something02:33:30
I don't believe it said Eric it must be02:33:34
an illusion02:33:36
but it was no trick it was the new land02:33:40
Eric trembled in the cold polar air02:33:43
he saw that there was ice everywhere02:33:46
he realized that the eyes could keep02:33:48
enemies out02:33:50
not even the best Navy could invade the02:33:53
new land02:33:54
he could start a new Dynasty in his name02:33:58
but how could he convince people to live02:34:00
here02:34:01
I'll call it Greenland he said02:34:05
Eric's plan worked within two years over02:34:09
a thousand people moved to Greenland02:34:16
unit 26.02:34:18
word list02:34:23
alter02:34:25
to alter something means to change it02:34:29
I altered the color of my nails to match02:34:31
my hair02:34:34
aside02:34:35
an action done aside is done toward the02:34:39
side of something or someplace02:34:42
the man stood aside and opened the door02:34:45
for me02:34:47
autumn02:34:49
Autumn is the season of the year between02:34:51
summer and winter02:34:53
I love when the leaves fall in Autumn02:34:56
because I can play in them02:34:59
blend02:35:01
to blend is to mix two or more things02:35:04
together so that they become one thing02:35:08
my wife Blended together all of the02:35:10
ingredients to make a delicious stew02:35:15
collapse02:35:16
to collapse is to fall down suddenly02:35:20
the tree collapsed right in front of our02:35:23
house02:35:25
Crush02:35:27
to crush something is to press it02:35:29
together so its shape is destroyed02:35:33
Selena's new car was crushed when the02:35:35
tree fell on top of it02:35:38
curve02:35:40
to curve is to move in a line that bends02:35:43
and does not go straight02:35:46
the road curves to the left and to the02:35:49
right02:35:51
disgusting02:35:53
a disgusting thing is very unpleasant02:35:57
after running all day Greg's feet had a02:36:00
disgusting odor02:36:03
drain02:36:05
a drain is a pipe that carries away02:36:08
water from a building such as in a02:36:10
kitchen02:36:11
the water in the sink goes down the02:36:13
drain as you wash your hands02:36:17
embrace02:36:19
to embrace is to hug02:36:22
when they saw each other again the happy02:36:24
couple embraced02:36:27
Envy02:36:29
to Envy someone is to wish that you had02:36:32
something that other person has02:36:35
Sally envied the happy couple02:36:39
fireworks02:36:41
fireworks are objects that create02:36:43
colored lights when they are lit02:36:46
the display of fireworks was so02:36:49
beautiful02:36:51
flower02:36:53
is a powder made from plants that is02:36:56
used to make foods like bread02:36:59
I wanted to bake a pie but I needed02:37:02
flour02:37:05
fuse02:37:07
a fuse is a string on fireworks that02:37:10
burns to make them explode02:37:12
the boy lit the fuse on the rocket and02:37:15
waited for it to burst in the sky02:37:19
Ginger02:37:21
Ginger is a root of a plant that is used02:37:24
to make food spicy and sweet02:37:27
Ginger is a common ingredient in many02:37:30
dishes from India02:37:33
jealous02:37:34
a jealous person might take something02:37:37
from you02:37:38
Miriam was jealous because Sue is paying02:37:41
too much attention to Jim02:37:45
paste02:37:46
a paste is a thick and smooth substance02:37:51
my son needed some paste for a school02:37:53
project02:37:56
receipt02:37:57
a receipt is a paper that proves that02:38:00
something was received or bought02:38:04
after looking at my receipt I realized02:38:06
that I had spent too much money02:38:10
wipe02:38:11
to wipe something is to slide a piece of02:38:14
cloth over it to clean it02:38:17
wiped the dust from the windows02:38:21
wire02:38:23
a wire is a thin string made out of02:38:26
metal02:38:27
the wires were connected to towers that02:38:29
brought electricity to the city02:38:36
everyone is special02:38:39
when I was young everything that went02:38:42
wrong in my house seemed to be my fault02:38:45
once my brothers tried to make cookies02:38:48
they Blended flour and ginger and made a02:38:52
disgusting paste then they tried to wash02:38:55
it down the drain but it got all over02:38:57
the floor02:38:58
later my brother said that I had done it02:39:01
and I had to wipe it up02:39:04
I worry that my parents liked them more02:39:07
than me02:39:08
one autumn day I was sure I would make02:39:11
my parents proud I bought a model rocket02:39:14
after I put it together I invited02:39:17
everybody to watch it I wanted my02:39:20
brothers to Envy my technical knowledge02:39:23
I lit the fuse but nothing happened02:39:27
looks like your fireworks don't work I02:39:31
hope you kept the receipt so you can02:39:32
return them my brother said02:39:35
it's not a firework I screamed they were02:39:39
making fun of me again02:39:41
I didn't know what went wrong I hadn't02:39:44
altered anything I quickly moved the02:39:47
wires on the bottom hoping that would02:39:49
help02:39:50
suddenly the rocket flew up we stood02:39:54
aside as it curved through the grass and02:39:56
ran straight into the mailbox then the02:40:00
mailbox collapsed the rocket was crushed02:40:04
embarrassed I ran inside and hid a few02:40:08
minutes later my mom asked are you okay02:40:13
I just wanted them to be jealous of me02:40:15
for once now I see why you and Dad don't02:40:19
love me as much as you love them I said02:40:22
that's not true said my mom see my02:40:26
fingers each one is different you kids02:40:29
are like my fingers all are different02:40:31
but I love them all the same02:40:35
I embraced her now I know that my02:40:38
parents love me just as much as my02:40:40
brothers02:40:44
thank you02:40:46
unit 2702:40:48
word list02:40:53
acknowledge02:40:55
to acknowledge something is to accept02:40:57
that it is true or that it exists02:41:01
the teacher acknowledged that the young02:41:03
student was hungry02:41:06
ambassador02:41:08
an ambassador is a government worker who02:41:11
works in another country02:41:14
the Ambassador from Korea was in charge02:41:16
of the conference02:41:19
blonde02:41:21
a blonde is a person with light-colored02:41:24
hair02:41:25
my cousin is a blonde with blue eyes02:41:30
conquer02:41:31
to conquer a place means to attack and02:41:35
take control of it02:41:37
the soldiers were trying to conquer the02:41:39
world02:41:41
drag02:41:43
to drag something means to pull it02:41:46
across the ground02:41:48
the dog was dragging his owner down the02:41:50
street02:41:52
exaggerate02:41:55
to exaggerate is to say that something02:41:57
is bigger or better than it really is02:42:01
Jimmy wasn't exaggerating about the02:42:04
seriousness of his injury02:42:07
heritage02:42:09
Heritage is the collection of features02:42:12
of a society such as language and02:42:14
religion02:42:16
TPS are part of the heritage of the02:42:18
Native Americans of the Plains02:42:22
insult02:42:24
to insult someone is to say things that02:42:27
will hurt the person's feelings02:42:29
the girls insulted each other all02:42:31
afternoon02:42:34
meanwhile02:42:36
an action that happens meanwhile happens02:42:39
at the same time as another action02:42:42
he wants to be a doctor in the future02:42:44
but meanwhile he works a regular job02:42:49
necklace02:42:51
a necklace is a piece of jewelry that02:42:54
people wear around their necks02:42:56
Joyce received a lovely pearl necklace02:42:59
for her wedding anniversary02:43:02
Noble02:43:04
a noble is a rich and powerful person02:43:08
the queen invited a noble from a nearby02:43:10
country to dinner02:43:14
precious02:43:15
a precious thing is valuable and02:43:18
important02:43:20
in a desert water can be more precious02:43:22
than money02:43:25
prejudice02:43:27
a prejudice is an unfair opinion about02:43:30
people based on the group they belong to02:43:33
the company's rules against gender02:43:36
Prejudice must be enforced02:43:40
rumor02:43:41
a rumor is a story that may not be true02:43:45
Carla was spreading rumors around the02:43:47
office02:43:50
sin02:43:51
a sin is something that is wrong for02:43:54
religious reasons02:43:57
taking something that doesn't belong to02:43:59
you is a sin02:44:02
spectacle02:44:03
a spectacle is an amazing sight02:44:07
Niagara Falls is quite a spectacle02:44:12
stack02:44:13
a stack is a pile of different things02:44:17
there was a stack of paperwork on his02:44:19
desk to complete02:44:22
suspicious02:44:24
a suspicious person does not trust02:44:27
others or is not trusted by others02:44:31
dad was suspicious of the caller on the02:44:34
line02:44:36
10.02:44:37
10 is an inexpensive metal02:44:41
soup is a food that is often sold in tin02:44:44
cans02:44:46
vase02:44:48
a vase is an attractive container in02:44:50
which people keep flowers02:44:53
the vase was filled with such lovely02:44:55
flowers02:45:01
Pizarro and the Inca Gold02:45:05
according to rumors there's lots of02:45:08
precious gold hidden in the jungles of02:45:10
Peru02:45:11
it got there when the Spanish conquered02:45:13
parts of South America02:45:15
a Spanish Noble Francisco Pizarro02:45:18
arrived in Peru in the 1500s02:45:21
he found a group of people called the02:45:23
Incas02:45:25
the Incas believed that their leader02:45:27
atahuapa was both a king and a god02:45:31
but Pizarro didn't agree02:45:34
it is a sin for a man to think he is God02:45:38
he said to atahuapa02:45:41
atahu Alba thought Pizarro was insulting02:45:44
his heritage02:45:45
he thought the blonde Spanish men held02:45:48
prejudices against the Incas02:45:51
but atahuwaba was a kind man and didn't02:45:54
want to fight the Spaniards he said if I02:45:58
give you a room full of gold will you02:46:00
leave my country in peace02:46:03
Pizarro was suspicious he thought02:46:06
ottawalpa was exaggerating02:46:08
but a few days later Pizarro returned to02:46:11
the Inca palace with his ambassadors02:46:14
he saw a room filled with stacks of gold02:46:17
there were golden necklaces cups plates02:46:20
and vases02:46:22
it was a great spectacle02:46:24
he acknowledged that Ottawa had told the02:46:27
truth02:46:29
but after seeing the gold he wanted all02:46:32
of Peru's gold02:46:34
so he didn't leave the country02:46:36
the Spanish soldiers stayed in Peru and02:46:39
grabbed all the gold they could find02:46:41
but the Inca people tricked the02:46:43
Spaniards02:46:45
they mixed the gold with tin so that it02:46:47
was poor quality02:46:49
they gave this gold to the Spaniards02:46:52
meanwhile they hid the good gold02:46:55
they put it into sacks and dragged it02:46:58
deep into the jungle02:47:00
the Spanish conquerors never found the02:47:02
gold02:47:03
people think it is still there today02:47:11
unit 28.02:47:13
word list02:47:18
ache02:47:19
to ache is to hurt or cause pain02:47:23
Mindy's headache because she bumped it02:47:25
against the wall02:47:28
Arctic02:47:30
Arctic shows that something is of or02:47:32
from the cold far north part of the02:47:35
Earth02:47:36
it is cold when the Arctic winds blow02:47:41
canal02:47:42
a canal is a path for water to travel02:47:45
through02:47:46
the city of Venice Italy has many canals02:47:51
chemist02:47:52
a chemist is a scientist who works with02:47:55
chemicals02:47:57
my mother is a02:47:58
is a chemist who helps invent new02:47:59
products02:48:02
chill02:48:04
a chill is a feeling of cold02:48:07
The Chill from the cold wind made Bill02:48:09
shiver02:48:12
Congress02:48:13
Congress is a group of leaders in a02:48:16
government02:48:17
congress makes laws for people to follow02:48:21
Dairy02:48:23
Dairy shows that something is made from02:48:26
milk02:48:27
things like milk and cheese are dairy02:48:29
foods02:48:31
descend02:48:33
to descend is to go downward02:48:37
I descended the stairs to get out of the02:48:39
building02:48:41
grocer02:48:43
a grocer is a person who sells food02:48:46
our grocer Mr Smith is a very kind man02:48:52
hesitate02:48:54
to hesitate is to wait for a short time02:48:56
before doing something02:48:59
he hesitated for a moment before he02:49:01
decided which one to choose02:49:04
Institution02:49:06
an institution is an organization that02:49:09
works to help a city or group of people02:49:13
banks are vital institutions that02:49:15
businesses and people use every day02:49:19
jog02:49:21
to jog is to run slowly02:49:24
he jogs every day so he can be healthier02:49:28
Merchant02:49:30
a merchant is a person who sells things02:49:34
the merchant was selling used cars02:49:38
poke02:49:39
to poke something is to push something02:49:42
quickly with your finger or a pointed02:49:44
object02:49:46
I poked my finger on a thumbtack02:49:50
postpone02:49:52
to postpone something is to make it02:49:54
happen later than planned02:49:57
they postponed the meeting until Elena02:49:59
arrived02:50:02
splash02:50:04
to Splash is to crash into something so02:50:07
that liquid spreads out02:50:10
some green paint splashed upon the floor02:50:14
stubborn02:50:16
stubborn people don't change their minds02:50:18
easily02:50:20
both of my parents are stubborn they02:50:22
never give in to each other02:50:26
suburb02:50:27
a suburb is a small part of a large city02:50:31
I grew up in the suburbs only a few02:50:34
minutes outside of the city02:50:37
tied02:50:39
The Tide is the level of the water in02:50:41
the sea02:50:43
the tide continued to crawl upon the02:50:45
beach little by little02:50:48
tragedy02:50:50
a tragedy is a very sad event02:50:54
it was a tragedy when his house was02:50:56
struck by lightning and burned02:51:03
the boy who saved the town02:51:06
Marcus lived in a small suburb near the02:51:09
sea he was a stubborn boy and he only02:51:12
cared about himself02:51:14
his father worked as a chemist for a02:51:16
large institution and wanted Marcus to02:51:19
get a job there instead the boy02:51:22
delivered milk every morning he took02:51:25
dairy products to the Grocers02:51:27
one day Marcus was jogging down the02:51:30
street that descended into the lower02:51:32
part of the town with a gallon of milk02:51:34
to give to emergent02:51:36
he didn't want to be late02:51:38
he ran down a path beside a large canal02:51:42
a wall there kept water from coming into02:51:44
the town during high tide but Marcus saw02:51:48
a small hole in the wall02:51:51
Marcus knew that if the wall broke it02:51:54
would be a tragedy for the town02:51:56
at first he hesitated he had to choose02:51:59
between helping himself and helping the02:52:02
town there was only one way to save the town02:52:05
it seemed crazy to him but it was the02:52:08
only thing he could do he poked his02:52:11
finger into the hole02:52:13
this didn't fix the problem forever but02:52:16
it did postpone the tragedy02:52:18
his finger ached he felt the chill of02:52:21
the Arctic water as it splashed him02:52:24
there was no one else around he knew he02:52:27
had to wait until the tide went out02:52:29
again02:52:30
it was very difficult but Marcus stayed02:52:33
there and saved the town02:52:35
once the tide had gone out Marcus told02:52:38
everyone what happened a group of people02:52:41
went to the wall they saw the hole and02:52:44
fixed it everyone was very happy with02:52:47
Marcus the local Congress even gave him02:52:50
a gift for saving the town he was a hero02:52:57
thank you02:52:59
unit 2902:53:01
word list02:53:06
bomb02:53:07
a bomb is an object that explodes and02:53:10
destroys large areas02:53:13
the bomb will destroy anything that is02:53:15
nearby02:53:18
certificate02:53:19
a certificate is a document that says02:53:22
that something is true or happened02:53:25
I was given a certificate for completing02:53:27
the computer course02:53:30
circumstance02:53:32
a circumstance is an event that makes a02:53:35
situation what it is02:53:37
there were many circumstances behind02:53:40
their success like hard work02:53:44
coffin02:53:45
a coffin is a box used to bury dead02:53:48
people02:53:50
when people pass away they are usually02:53:52
buried inside of a coffin02:53:55
cope02:53:57
to cope with a difficult or stressful02:54:00
situation means to deal with it02:54:03
he copes with work stress by exercising02:54:06
three or four times a week02:54:09
criticism02:54:11
criticism is the act of saying that02:54:13
something is not correct or good02:54:16
she had a lot of criticism about their02:54:19
new plan02:54:21
devastate02:54:23
to devastate something is to cause great02:54:26
damage or pain to that thing02:54:29
the entire wall was devastated02:54:33
frown02:54:35
to frown is to make an unhappy look with02:54:38
one's face02:54:40
Melissa frowned when she found out that02:54:42
the party had been canceled02:54:46
gays02:54:47
to gaze at something means to look at it02:54:50
for a long time02:54:52
we used a telescope to gaze at the stars02:54:55
for over an hour02:54:58
glance02:55:00
to glance at something means to look at02:55:02
it quickly02:55:04
she glanced behind her to see if he was02:55:06
looking at her02:55:09
grief02:55:10
grief is the feeling of deep sadness02:55:13
usually when a person dies02:55:16
the grief caused by losing her parents02:55:19
was very difficult for her02:55:22
groom02:55:24
a groom is a man who is going to be02:55:26
married02:55:27
the groom looked happy as he walked with02:55:30
his new wife02:55:32
license02:55:34
a license is an official document that02:55:37
gives one permission to do something02:55:40
in the United States you need a driver's02:55:43
license to drive legally02:55:46
microscope02:55:48
a microscope is a device that makes02:55:50
small objects look bigger02:55:53
germs cannot be seen without aDescription:
This is the 4000 Essential English Words 2nd Edition Book 3 with 3000 words in B1 CEFR level. For anyone studying to learn a language, vocabulary is one of the most difficult aspects. Learn 4000 essential English words and their definitions with this easy-to-use application. List of units: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:06 Unit 01 00:04:05 The Great Pyramids Of Egypt 00:06:24 Unit 02 00:10:36 The Real Saint Nick 00:12:41 Unit 03 00:16:56 The Shepherd and the Wild Sheep 00:18:54 Unit 04 00:22:57 The Boy and His Sled 00:24:50 Unit 05 00:28:45 Trick or Treat! 00:30:48 Unit 06 00:34:51 The Senator and the Worm 00:36:55 Unit 07 00:41:05 Patsy Ann 00:42:59 Unit 08 00:46:59 The Anniversary Gift 00:49:02 Unit 09 00:53:02 Dalton vs. the Bully 00:55:09 Unit 10 00:59:10 Anna the Babysitter 01:01:19 Unit 11 01:05:11 July 28, 2017 01:07:54 Unit 12 01:11:38 The Ice Cream Cone Explosion 01:13:50 Unit 13 01:17:51 Sheriff Dan 01:19:51 Unit 14 01:23:48 The Helpful Apprentice 01:25:54 Unit 15 01:30:02 Why Monkey Has No Home 01:32:09 Unit 16 01:36:13 Matthew Learns a Lesson 01:38:31 Unit 17 01:42:35 The Magic Cup 01:44:39 Unit 18 01:48:47 The Knight's Plan 01:50:56 Unit 19 01:55:00 The Magic Pear Tree 01:57:05 Unit 20 02:01:00 Little Wolf and Mother Wolf 02:03:10 Unit 21 02:07:11 Genes and Cancer 02:09:28 Unit 22 02:13:27 The Circus 02:15:30 Unit 23 02:19:32 Lazy Hans 02:21:42 Unit 24 02:25:46 Travel Writers 02:27:50 Unit 25 02:32:06 How Did Greenland Get Its Name? 02:34:16 Unit 26 02:38:36 Everyone Is Special 02:40:46 Unit 27 02:45:01 Pizarro and the Inca Gold 02:47:11 Unit 28 02:51:03 The Boy Who Saved the Town 02:52:59 Unit 29 02:57:17 An Interesting Life 02:59:28 Unit 30 03:03:33 The Island
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