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A2 Travel-Basics Part 2: Travel Basics

Lesson 52 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

offer: A proposal that has been made.; “They discussed offer during the lesson.”
pass: To change place.; “They discussed pass during the lesson.”
professional: A person who belongs to a profession.; “They discussed professional during the lesson.”
risk: The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.; “They discussed risk during the lesson.”
sleep: To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.; “They discussed sleep during the lesson.”
table: Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; “This farm yields enough vegetables to meet our needs.”
ten: The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.; “They discussed ten during the lesson.”
truth: True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.; “They discussed truth during the lesson.”
ball: A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.; “They discussed ball during the lesson.”
box: A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.; “They discussed box during the lesson.”
build: To form (something) by combining materials or parts.; “They discussed build during the lesson.”
card: A playing card.; “They discussed card during the lesson.”
dark: Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.; “They discussed dark during the lesson.”
district: An administrative division of an area.; “They discussed district during the lesson.”
mine: That or those belonging to me.; “Your opinion is similar to mine.”
minister: A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.; “They discussed minister during the lesson.”
note: A symbol or annotation.; “They discussed note during the lesson.”
percent: For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).; “They discussed percent during the lesson.”
piece: A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.; “They discussed piece during the lesson.”
recent: Having happened a short while ago.; “They discussed recent during the lesson.”

📐 Grammar Notes

Going to expresses plans: we are going to leave at six. Past simple narrates trips taken; present perfect links trips to now: I have visited three islands. Prepositions of movement matter: get on the bus, get off the train, arrive at the station, arrive in the city. 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: travel basics. 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 Travel-Basics Part 2: Travel Basics

📖 Reading Passage

📘 Vocabulary

📐 Grammar Notes

Practice Exercises

I was ___ed the choice of tea or coffee.

Lay the book on the ___.

We found a secret passage into the ___ing.

His interests clash with ___.

What does 'offer' mean?

What does 'pass' mean?

What does 'professional' mean?

What does 'risk' mean?

Write a sentence using 'offer'.

Summarize the passage in two sentences.

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