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A2 Shopping Part 10: Shopping

Lesson 50 of 10 in this unit.

📖 Reading Passage

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For his twelfth birthday, Sam received a red bicycle from his parents. It was the gift he had wanted for a whole year. The bicycle was bright red with black tires and a small bell on the handle. On the first day, his father took him to the park to practice. Sam was afraid of falling, so his father held the back of the seat and ran beside him. After one hour, Sam could ride slowly by himself. After one week, he could ride fast and turn corners safely. Every morning he now rides his bicycle to school with his best friend. They wear helmets, stop at every crossing, and lock their bicycles near the school gate. On weekends, Sam rides to the library to borrow books, or to his grandmother's house two streets away. His grandmother always gives him juice and biscuits when he arrives. Once Sam fell off because the road was wet, but he wore his helmet and only hurt his knee a little. His father taught him to check the brakes and tires every week. Sam cleans his bicycle every Sunday and says it is his most important possession in the world. In the end, small steady habits decide progress more than any single lesson, and learners who review a little each day keep what they study.

📘 Vocabulary

20 words from this lesson

figure: A drawing or diagram conveying information.; “They discussed figure during the lesson.”
hospital: A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment.; “They discussed hospital during the lesson.”
knows: All persons, singular and plural, present form of know.; “No one knows when such a custom first came into existence.”
loss: The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.; “They discussed loss during the lesson.”
modern: Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.; “They discussed modern during the lesson.”
ones: A senior or first team (as opposed to a reserves team).; “They discussed ones during the lesson.”
paper: A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.; “They discussed paper during the lesson.”
parts: Intellectual ability or learning.; “They discussed parts during the lesson.”
popular: Common among the general public; generally accepted.; “They discussed popular during the lesson.”
published: Issued for sale to the public; “They discussed published during the lesson.”
safe: Not in danger; out of harm's reach.; “They discussed safe during the lesson.”
starting: The act of something that starts.; “They discussed starting during the lesson.”
version: A specific form or variation of something.; “They discussed version during the lesson.”
voice: Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.; “They discussed voice during the lesson.”
whose: Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.; “They discussed whose during the lesson.”
writing: Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.; “They discussed writing during the lesson.”
army: A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.; “They discussed army during the lesson.”
earth: .; “They discussed earth during the lesson.”
forget: To lose remembrance of.; “They discussed forget during the lesson.”
goal: A result that one is attempting to achieve.; “They discussed goal during the lesson.”

📐 Grammar Notes

Comparatives compare two items: cheaper than, more colorful than. Superlatives pick one of many: the cheapest, the freshest. Use too plus adjective for excess and enough after adjectives for sufficiency. Polite requests use could and would: could you wrap this, I would like two kilos. 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: shopping. Reading: A New Bicycle. 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.

Practice Exercises

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A2 Shopping Part 10: Shopping

📖 Reading Passage

📘 Vocabulary

📐 Grammar Notes

Practice Exercises

Please turn over these ___s and explain the matter to me in detail.

An operation on his throat helped him recover from the pneumonia, but it left him without his ___.

What on ___ did you put it on the menu for?

What does 'figure' mean?

What does 'hospital' mean?

What does 'knows' mean?

What does 'loss' mean?

What does 'modern' mean?

Write a sentence using 'figure'.

Summarize the passage in two sentences.

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