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A2 Shopping Part 4: Shopping

Lesson 44 of 10 in this unit.

📖 Reading Passage

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Our school has a small garden behind the classrooms. Every Friday, Class 4 waters the plants and pulls weeds. We grow tomatoes, carrots, and sunflowers. The sunflowers are taller than the teacher now. Last month we picked ten kilos of tomatoes and gave them to the school kitchen. The cook made soup for everyone. We also keep a notebook with drawings of insects we see. Yesterday we found a ladybird and a fat green caterpillar. Gardening teaches us to wait: seeds sleep for weeks before they wake up. In October we collected seeds from the biggest sunflower. We dried them on a tray and put them in paper bags with labels. Our teacher showed us how to test old seeds: put ten on wet cotton and count how many open. Seven grew, so we planted them in small pots on the window sill. We also made compost from fruit skins and dry leaves. It smelled sweet, not bad, because we turned it every week. Next year we want to grow beans up a frame and sell the extra vegetables to buy tools. Gardening also taught us to share: we always give the first tomatoes to the kitchen staff. Next spring we will measure the tallest sunflower every Friday and write the numbers on the classroom wall.

📘 Vocabulary

20 words from this lesson

blue: Of a blue hue.; “They discussed blue during the lesson.”
countries: .; “They discussed countries during the lesson.”
drive: To operate a vehicle:; “They discussed drive during the lesson.”
eat: To ingest.; “Except for carrots, there is nothing he won't eat.”
fall: To be moved downwards.; “They discussed fall during the lesson.”
fast: Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.; “Father is in the habit of reading the paper before breakfast.”
federal: Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.; “They discussed federal during the lesson.”
feeling: Emotionally sensitive.; “They discussed feeling during the lesson.”
felt: A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.; “They discussed felt during the lesson.”
green: The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.; “They discussed green during the lesson.”
league: A group or association of cooperating members.; “They discussed league during the lesson.”
management: ; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.; “They discussed management during the lesson.”
match: Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.; “They discussed match during the lesson.”
model: A person who poses as a subject or visual reference for an artist.; “They discussed model during the lesson.”
picture: A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.; “They discussed picture during the lesson.”
size: The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.; “They discussed size during the lesson.”
step: An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.; “The first step is as good as half over.”
trust: Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.; “They discussed trust during the lesson.”
central: Being in the centre.; “They discussed central during the lesson.”
changes: .; “They discussed changes 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: The School Garden. 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 Shopping Part 4: Shopping

📖 Reading Passage

📘 Vocabulary

📐 Grammar Notes

Practice Exercises

This soup needs something to ___ it with.

___ is the best season for us to study.

I had a little fever, I ___ my heart beat violently.

What does 'blue' mean?

What does 'countries' mean?

What does 'drive' mean?

What does 'eat' mean?

What does 'fall' mean?

Write a sentence using 'blue'.

Summarize the passage in two sentences.

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