Mr
and Mrs Yates had one daughter. Her name was Carol, and she was nineteen years
old. Carol lived with her parents and worked in office. She had some friends,
but she did not like any of the boys very much.
Then
she met a very nice young man. His name was George Watts, and he worked in a
bank hear her office. They went out together quite a lot, and he came to
Carol’s parents’ house twice, and then last week Carol went to her father and
said, ‘I’m going to marry George Watts, Daddy. He was here yesterday.’
‘Oh,
yes,’ her father said. ‘He’s a nice boy – but has he got any money?’
‘Oh,
men! All of you are the same,’ the daughter answered angrily. ‘I met George on
the first of June and on the second he said to me, “Has your father got any
many?” ’
မစၥတာ
ယိတ္(စ္) နဲ႔ မစၥယိတ္(စ္) မွာ သမီးေလး တစ္ေယာက္ရွိတယ္။ သူ(မ)ရဲ႕ အမည္က ကာ႐ိုးပါ၊ ၿပီးေတာ့
သူ(မ) က အသက္ ၁၉-ႏွစ္ ရွိပါၿပီ။ ကာ႐ိုးက သူ(မ)ရဲ႕ မိဘေတြနဲ႔ အတူေနၿပီး ႐ံုးတစ္႐ံုးမွာ
အလုပ္လုပ္ပါတယ္။ သူ(မ)မွာ သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြရွိေပမယ့္ ေယာကၤ်ားေလေတြကိုေတာ့ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလး
သေဘာမက်ဘူး။
ဒီလိုနဲ႔
အရမ္းေတာ္တဲ့ လူငယ္တစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔ ေတြ႕ခဲ့တယ္။ သူ႔အမည္ကေတာ့ ေဂ်ာ့(ရွ္)ဝတ္(စ္)ပါ၊ ၿပီးေတာ့
သူက ကာ႐ိုးရဲ႕ ႐ံုးနားက ဘဏ္မွာ အလုပ္လုပ္ပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ႏွစ္ေယာက္က ေတာ္ေတာ္ တြဲေနၾကၿပီးေတာ့
သူက ကာ႐ိုးရဲ႕ မိဘေတြကို အိမ္ကို ေရာက္တာ ၂-ခါရွိၿပီ။ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ တစ္ပတ္က ကာ႐ိုးက သူ႔အေဖဆီသြားၿပီးေတာ့
“အေဖ၊ သမီးလက္ထပ္ေတာ့မယ္ … ေဂ်ာ့(ရွ္)ဝတ္(စ္)နဲ႔ေလ၊ မေန႔ကေတာင္ သူ ဒီကို လာေသးတယ္ေလ”
လို႔ ေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။
“ေၾသာ္
… အင္း” ေကာင္းေလးက ေတာ္ပါတယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ သူက ပိုက္ဆံရွိရဲ႕လား” လို႔ သူ(မ)ရဲ႕ အေဖက
ေျပာပါတယ္။
“အလိုေလး
… ေယာကၤ်ားေတြ၊ အေဖေရာ … သူေရာ အားလံုး အတူတူပဲ၊” လို႔ သမီးျဖစ္သူက စိတ္ဆိုးမာန္ဆိုး
ေျဖလိုက္တယ္။ ‘ကၽြန္မ ေဂ်ာ့(ရွ္) နဲ႔ ဇြန္လ ၁-ရက္ေန႔ ေတြ႔တယ္၊ ေနာက္ေန႔က်ေတာ့ သူက ကၽြန္မကိုေျပာတယ္
… “မင္းအေဖက ပိုက္ဆံရွိလားတဲ့” ’
A. Which
of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.
Carol
was a girl.
2.
She
worked with her mother and father.
3.
George
worked near her office.
4.
George
never visited Carol’s house.
5.
Carol
said to her mother, ‘I’m going to marry George Watts.’
6.
Both
Mr Yates and George said, ‘Has he got any money?’
B. Answer
these questions.
1.
Was
Carol old, or young?
2.
Where
did she work?
3.
Did
she like her boyfriends?
4.
Whom
did she meet then?
5.
Did
he visit Mr and Mrs Yates?
6.
What
did Carol say to her mother?
7.
What
did he ask her?
8. What did she say then?
C. Match
from the words on the left to the correct words on the right.
1.
Carol a.
often went out together.
2.
Carol
and George b.
said, ‘He’s a nice boy.’
3.
George’s
bank c.
was Carol’s mother.
4.
George
Watts d.
was near Carol’s office.
5.
Mrs
Yates e.
worked in a bank.
6. Mr Yates f. worked in an office.
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Reading
Comprehension (5) မွ အေျဖမ်ား
A. (1) True (2) True (3)
False (4) False (5) True
Reading Comprehension (6) မွ အေျဖမ်ား
A. (1) False (2) True (3) False (4) True (5) True
(6)
True
B.
(1) Joe’s father said, ‘‘You’ve passed your
examinations now, Joe, and you got good marks
in them. Now go and get some good work at the bank in the town.”
(2) Joe went to the bank.
(3) He wanted work.
(4) The man gave Joe a test.
(5) Joe said, ‘Yes, sir.’
(6) The man asked, ‘What year?’
(7) Joe said, ‘Oh, every year, sir.’
သင္ခန္းစာ
(၆) မွာ စကားလံုးအသံုးအႏႈန္းပိုင္း အတြက္ quite အေၾကာင္ကို အနည္းငယ္ ေျပာျပလိုပါ။
quite ဟာ Degree Adverb တစ္ခုပါ၊ တစ္ခုခုရဲ႕ အဆင့္အတန္းကို ေဖာ္ျပတဲ့အခါ သံုးပါတယ္။
ဒါေပမယ့္ ျမန္မာအမ်ားစုက Degree Adverb ေတြထဲမွာ very ကိုပဲ အသံုးမ်ားပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္
“Not, fairly, quite, rather, pretty, very, extremely” ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့ Degree adverb
၇-ခုရွိပါတယ္ … ။ အဲဒီစကားလံုး ၇-လံုးကို ျမန္မာလို တိုက္႐ိုက္ ဘာသာျပန္ဖို႔ မလြယ္လွပါဘူး။
ကိုယ္ေျပာခ်င္ တဲ့ အေၾကာင္းအရာရဲ႕ အဆင့္အတန္းအေပၚမူတည္ၿပီးေတာ့ လိုသလို သံုးႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ေကာင္းတယ္ ဆိုတဲ့ good ကို ေပးထားတဲ့
adverb ေတြနဲ႔ တြဲသံုးမယ္ဆိုရင္ လံုးဝမေကာင္းဘူးဆိုရင္ not good ၊ အဲဒီထက္နည္းနည္းပိုေကာင္းရင္
fairly good ၊ သူ႔ထက္ပိုေကာင္းရင္ quite good စသည္ျဖင့္ သံုးႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဥပမာ -
This food is not good.
This food is fairly good.
This food is quite good.
This food is rather good.
This food is pretty good.
This food is very good.
This food is extremely good.
ဒီတစ္ပတ္ေတာ့ ဒီေလာက္နဲ႔ နားရေအာင္၊ ေနာက္တစ္ပတ္မွာ
ျပန္ေတြ႔ၾကမယ္ … ။
အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာစကား
ေလ့လာသူေတြ အဂၤလိပ္စာအရည္အေသြး တိုးတက္ၾကပါေစ ……
ေအာင္ကိုဦး
(UMK)
Be the
Best !
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