Online Class Notes (Jesse) [30]

Paula has cancer. She has six months to live. Her doctors cannot help her. No one can help her. She smoked cigarettes for 30 years. She didn’t want to stop smoking cigarettes. She liked to smoke cigarettes. The doctors told her to stop smoking many years ago. She didn’t listen to them. She didn’t listen to her parents. She didn’t listen to her children. She didn’t listen to her friends. Everyone told her to stop smoking. She told everyone to stop worrying about her. She would be fine, she told them. She still smokes every day. Why not, she asks.

Margaret made a fresh salad. She peeled a yellow banana. She peeled a red apple. She peeled a green cucumber. She peeled an orange carrot. She peeled a brown potato. She peeled a white onion. She peeled a white egg. She chopped everything up with a sharp knife. She chopped everything into little pieces. She used her sharp knife to chop up everything. She chopped up a tomato. She put all the little pieces into a bowl. She opened a bottle of salad dressing. She poured the salad dressing on her fresh salad.

Vocabulary

salad dressing – sha la jiang

Pronunciation

get up
chop up
give up
run off
run away 
hang up 
fall down