2014- 2- 10
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أكـاديـمـي نــشـط
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Here Are Our Stories
The first short story
Mary's mother was nearly seventy, and Mary and her husband wanted to give the old lady a nice birthday present. She liked drinking tea' so Mary ordered an electric machine which made the tea and then woke you up in the morning. She wrapped it up in pretty paper and brought it to her mother on her birthday. Then her mother opened the package. Mary showed her how to use it.
" Before you go to bed, put the tea in the in the pot and the water in the kettle, " she explained to the old lady, "and don't forget to switch the electricity on. Then, when you wake up in the morning, your tea will be ready."
After a few days, Mary's mother rang up and said, " Perhaps I'm being rather silly, but there is one thing I'm confused about: why do I have to go to bed to make the tea?"
Here are some questions:
1) How old was Mary's mother?
2) What did Mary and her husband buy her mother?
3) Why did they choose this for her?
4) What could the machine do?
5) What happened when Mary brought her mother the present?
6) What did Mary tell her mother?
7) What did Mary's mother do a few day later?
8) What did she tell Mary on the telephone?
I know that all these questions are easy,
but they help us to practice how can we express the ideas
which we want to speak about.
I think there is a very important point which we must focus on it,
that we have to try retelling the story by ourselves,
and that must be loudly
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Good luck for all
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