- •Student exercise book
- •Contents
- •Episode 1
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- •Episode 2
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- •Episode 3
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- •Episode 4
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- •Episode 5
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- •Episode 6
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- •Episode 7
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- •Episode 8
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- •Episode 10
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- •Episode 11
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- •Episode 12
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- •Episode 13
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- •Episode 15
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- •Episode 17
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- •Episode 18
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- •Episode 19
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- •Episode 20
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- •Episode 21
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- •Episode 22
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- •Episode 24
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- •Episode 25
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- •Episode 26
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- •Episode 27
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- •Episode 28
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- •Episode 30
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- •Episode 31
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- •Episode 32
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- •Episode 33
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Episode 30
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It was a sunny day.
Rebecca took some tools to her garden plot.
She caught some dogs digging in the garden.
The wind had blown in some paper.
Rebecca was startled by the bark of a dog.
Sheila O'Brien is a neighbor.
Rebecca planned to plant vegetables.
Sheila invited Rebecca for dinner that evening.
II. QUICK REVIEW: Write the words that best complete the sentence.
It had been ____________________ off and on for more than a ____________________, and the bright ____________________ was more than ____________________.
She noticed that some ____________________ had been digging in the ____________________.
She was ____________________ completely engrossed in the ____________________ before her.
She was somewhat ____________________ when she heard a ____________________ say: "What are you going to ____________________ this year?"
"Oh, just the ____________________ vegetables."
"Just let me ____________________ these tools away and I'll be ____________________ with you."
III. CLOSE ATTENTION: Write the word that immediately precedes or follows the words below to fill in the blanks.
____________________ bright and sunny
working ____________________
____________________ the yard
____________________ to herself
cut down old ____________________
____________________ had blown in
come up ____________________
____________________ of them
over for ____________________
IV. RECALL: Answer the following questions based on what you remember.
How did Rebecca prepare to work in her garden?
What did she think had dug in her garden?
What startled her?
Who is Sheila O'Brien?
Why had she come?
Episode 31
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Charles was speaking on the radio.
His friends had told him what was going to happen.
He had perfected his trade.
He heard the news late at night.
Charles was being replaced by a machine.
The company was going to save millions of jobs.
Charles was humiliated by the company.
Charles's job was replaced by a machine.
His skills were put in a computer.
He had become a manager.
II. QUICK REVIEW: Write the words that best complete the sentence.
When he first heard the ____________________ on the radio, Charles could ____________________ believe it.
He had spent too many years ____________________ his trade to ____________________ that the time would come when __________________ would replace him and his ___________________.
The company was going to ____________________ machines and thereby ____________________ thousands of dollars in production ____________________.
He felt relieved that his ____________________ were not lost but, instead, ____________________ enough to be placed in a ____________________.
Now his job was to ____________________ rather than do the ____________________ himself.
III. CLOSE ATTENTION: Write the word that immediately precedes or follows the words below to fill in the blanks.
expect what ____________________
just couldn't accept ____________________
____________________ his ears early
when the announcement ____________________
going to be ____________________
now, months ____________________
____________________ were still producing
____________________ than do the work ____________________
____________________ up in the world
no longer a ____________________
IV. RECALL: Answer the following questions based on what you remember.
How did Charles first hear the news?
What was going to replace him?
What was the company going to do?
What was going to happen to Charles's job?
Why did he feel relieved months later?
What had he become?