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Learn English Easily While You  Listen: Can You Hear These Words?
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One effective way to learn English easily is to listen to the story and read it at the same time.  Reading the story out loud is best.  Try to follow the pace of the recording.

Listen to your voice as you read the story.  This sends an important message to your mind: these words are your words. As you repeat them more and more, they become your words.

Many people think it is difficult; you know the secret: you can learn english easily when you listen and practice often.  Listen to the stories again and again.

Think about the meaning. If you don't understand the meaning perfectly today, you can listen and think again tomorrow.  Repeating often is the secret to learning English easily.

Late Homework

Idioms list
1. Turn (someplace) upside down: to cause confusion and mass usually when looking for something
2. make oneself scarce: to stay away; avoid.
3. in hot water: in trouble
4. like a cat on a hot tin roof: very nervous and restless
5. the coast is clear: there is no longer any danger or difficulty present.

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To listen the slower version, click below.

Tom attends a very strict school.  The teachers give a lot of homework and they get angry if it is not done.  One day Tom lost his homework.  He turned his room upside down looking for it.  He couldn't find it.  On the way to school he thought, 'I'd better make myself scarce today!' In class, he was like a cat on a hot tin roof waiting for the teacher to ask for the homework.  About half way through class, there was a fire drill and the whole class had to go outside.  The coast was clear!  He was safe for another day.  Later on, Tom did find his homework and he handed it in with pride.

Questions
1. What did Tom do when he lost his homework?
2. What did Tom say to himself on the way to school?
3. How did Tom behave in school?
4. How was it when they went outside for a fire drill?


Answers
1. He turned his room upside down looking for it.
2. He said he'd better make himself scarce today.
3. He was like a cat on a hot tin roof.
4. The coast was clear!

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