Online Class Notes (Li)

Today we focused on:

https://www.kidsgen.com/stories/general_stories/hidden_treasure.htm

Vocabulary

couple: 一对

eg. They are a happily married couple.

farming: 畜牧;养殖

eg. The couple did farming for their whole lives.

make a living: to earn enough money to buy the things you need 咋么赚钱

eg. She made a living out of selling fruits.

eg. How do you make a living?

crops: 收成,收获量

trembling: 发抖

eg. His voice started to tremble, and I thought he was going to cry.

eg.I felt dizzy and my legs were trembling.

hut: 小屋

eg. The couple found a hut behind the trees.

suddenly: 突然

eg. Suddenly a deer ran out of the woods and it scared the boy.

eg. The door suddenly flew open.

overjoyed: very happy

eg. She was overjoyed when she found the pot of gold.

discovery: 发现;被发现的事物

eg. The treasure was a new discovery for the woman.

knot: 打结

eg. The girl learnt how to tie a knot in class today

jealous: 妒忌

eg. He was jealous of his brother winning the competition.

treasure: 财宝

surprise: 意想不到的事物

eg. What a surprise! You didn’t tell me that you were coming.

eg. My uncle paid us a surprise visit yesterday.

Reading

Long long ago, there lived a very poor couple. They had only a small hut to live in and a a little plot of land where they did farming and made a living by the crops they grew.

But one day, the husband fell sick and the woman went to work alone.

She went into the fields and began to remove the weeds. Suddenly, she saw a gold coin lying among the weeds. Overjoyed at this discovery, she picked it up with her trembling hands and tied it into a knot in one corner of the long cloth she wore.

Imagine her surprise and joy when a little later, she found a sparkling red ruby lying some distance away. After this, she found an emerald, a topaz and a diamond as long as she worked. She went back home, buying some rice with the gold coin. She did not tell her husband about her discoveries.