Online Class Notes (Li)

Reading Comprehension “The Golden Fish Keeps a Promise”

Vocabulary

creature – animal

ex. What a beautiful creature!

provide – give

ex. The fisherman thought that the golden fish was too small to provide any help.

starve – to go hungry

ex. I’m starving/hungry

ex. The poor family starved because they didn’t catch the fish.

not a scrap of food – nothing left

solution – to find a way to solve a problem/find an answer to a problem

It’s about the golden Fish and a man

It’s about a Golden Fish and a man

Golden Fish makes this promise that he would come back if the fisherman ever need help.

The Golden Fish makes a promise where he would come back if the fisherman ever needed help.

The fisherman want to ask the Golden Fish to get some food.

The fisherman wants to ask the Golden Fish for some food.

Maybe this Golden Fish is a powerful thing so the wife want to get this Golden Fish.

Maybe this Golden Fish is a powerful/magical creature so the wife wants to have this Golden Fish.

People can’t usually keep one person’s promise.

People can’t usually keep their promise.

I will don’t be friend.

I will not be friends (with them).