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A2 Family Part 2: Family

Lesson 22 of 10 in this unit.

📖 Reading Passage

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Many people keep bees on city rooftops today. The bees fly from garden to garden and find many flowers. City honey often tastes sweet because gardens have different plants. Bees are important because they help flowers and fruit trees grow. Without bees, apples and berries would be rare. Some people worry that too many hives hurt wild bees. They ask beekeepers to plant more flowers and keep fewer hives. In this way, honeybees and wild bees can live together in the city. Beekeepers wear white suits and use smoke to keep the bees calm. They open the hive, lift out the frames, and look for the queen. The queen is longer than the other bees and has a small dot of paint on her back. In summer the bees work from morning to evening. In winter they stay inside and eat the honey they saved. City beekeepers must tell the council where their hives are, and they put water near the hives so the bees do not visit swimming pools. Children visit the roofs on school trips and learn that a bee sting is rare when people move slowly. The best honey comes from many different flowers, so a city with gardens and parks is a good home for bees.

📘 Vocabulary

20 words from this lesson

looking: as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.; “I am looking forward to seeing you soon.”
public: Able to be known or seen by everyone; happening without concealment; open to general view.; “They discussed public during the lesson.”
top: The highest or uppermost part of something.; “Please go away and stop annoying me.”
women: .; “They discussed women during the lesson.”
business: A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.; “They discussed business during the lesson.”
care: Close attention; concern; responsibility.; “They discussed care during the lesson.”
start: The beginning of an activity.; “They discussed start during the lesson.”
system: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.; “They discussed system during the lesson.”
times: The circumstances of a certain time.; “They discussed times during the lesson.”
week: Any period of seven consecutive days.; “They discussed week during the lesson.”
already: Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.; “They discussed already during the lesson.”
anything: Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.; “They discussed anything during the lesson.”
case: An actual event, situation, or fact.; “They discussed case during the lesson.”
nothing: Not any thing; no thing.; “They discussed nothing during the lesson.”
person: An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.; “They discussed person during the lesson.”
today: On the current day or date.; “They discussed today during the lesson.”
change: To become something different.; “They discussed change during the lesson.”
enough: Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.; “They discussed enough during the lesson.”
everything: All the things under discussion.; “They discussed everything during the lesson.”
full: Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.; “They discussed full during the lesson.”

📐 Grammar Notes

Possessives map relationships: my mother, their cousins, Anna's brother. Use present simple for habits and past simple for shared history. Relative clauses add detail without new sentences: the uncle who taught me, the house where we meet. Keep pronoun reference clear so every they points to a named group. Practice by labeling each sentence in the reading: underline the main verb, circle the time marker, and check that every they and it points to a named noun. Rewrite any three sentences in your own words while keeping tense and meaning intact. Theme: family. Reading: Bees in the City. As a final check, read the passage once more and label every verb for tense, every noun for countability, and every connector for function. Keep a short error log of your own recurring mistakes and review it before writing. This routine turns isolated rules into durable habits across all five hundred lessons.

A2 Family Part 2: Family

📖 Reading Passage

📘 Vocabulary

📐 Grammar Notes

Practice Exercises

On entering the bedroom, she ___ed sobbing.

In most ___s we had to give in to their demands.

That plan came to ___.

I've finished all the work for ___.

What does 'looking' mean?

What does 'public' mean?

What does 'top' mean?

What does 'women' mean?

Write a sentence using 'looking'.

Summarize the passage in two sentences.

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