Honor and Help Your Parents

Moral Story Number 5:
Honor and Help Your Parents

1. Watch the video at the top of the page.

2. Read the story “Honor and Help Your Parents” just below it.

3. Do the exercises at the bottom of the page.

Here is the Honor and Help Your Parents video. You can watch it in your own language at The Way to Happiness Foundation. (Simply click the word “language” at the top right corner of that page.) 

The Way to Happiness is a common sense guide to better living which has been distributed to more than 100 million people in over 100 languages. It describes 21 principles to a better quality of life.

Principle number 5 is “Honor and Help Your Parents.”

Now read the short story about this important principle.

Honor and Help Your Parents

Emily is a teenager and lives with her parents. She and her best friend, Kim, find out that their favorite band will give a concert in their town on Friday night. They really want to go, but they do not think their parents will let them.

Emily always asks her parents about the things that she wants to do, and they listen to what she has to say, so she decides to do the same thing this time. She explains that she wants to go to the concert with Kim, but her parents think that she is too young to go without an adult.

Emily tells Kim that she cannot go to the concert, but her friend’s answer is a real surprise to Emily. Kim tells her that she should just lie to her parents. “I asked my mom for permission to go and study with friends on Friday. But I will really go to the concert! She does not need to know,” Kim says.

Emily does not know what to say. She is always very honest with her parents, and they are fair in their decisions. Emily has never felt comfortable lying, and her parents always tell her that it is wrong.

“I really do not want to be dishonest with my parents,” Emily tells her friend.

“Oh, stop acting like a little kid! Everyone lies,” Kim replies.

But Emily is not so sure. She thinks that honesty is very important.

On Thursday, Kim invites Emily over to her house to watch a movie after school. When they get there, Kim and her mother get into a fight. Emily realizes that Kim lies to her mother all the time, and her mother does not trust her. Emily thinks this is terrible. She sits uncomfortably on the couch as Kim and her mother fight most of the afternoon.

As she sits there, Emily remembers that Kim always tells her how terrible her relationship with her mother is. Kim thinks her mother does not understand her, but Emily thinks maybe Kim’s mother is just tired of Kim being dishonest with her.

As she walks home, Emily decides she will not lie to her parents about the concert. There will be lots of concerts in the future, but these are the only parents she will ever have. She knows it is better to honor them and help them so that they can have a good relationship. Because her parents trust her, they let her do most of the things that she wants to do, and she really prefers it that way.

And now, practice:

Exercises

Vocabulary Questions

1. What does “crowd” mean?

a) very loud music

b) lots of people in the same place

c) a stage where musicians play

d) dangerous conditions

2. What does “lie” mean?

a) to say something that is not true

b) to tell a funny story

c) to talk about something that happened to you

d) to talk to someone in a mean way

3. What does “honor” mean?

a) to say nice things about someone

b) to be nice to someone

c) to be serious about something

d) to respect someone and treat them well

Grammar Questions

1. Kim tells Emily that she ________ lie to her parents.

a) would

b) could

c) should

d) might

2. Kim’s mother is just tired ________ Kim being dishonest with her.

a) of

b) about

c) to

d) with

3. ________ Thursday, Kim invites Emily over to her house.

a) In

b) For

c) On

d) At

Comprehension Questions

1. Why do Kim and her mother fight all the time?
Kim think that her mother didn’t understand her, and can’t but her mother is tired of Kim’s dishonest.

2. What does Emily decide not to do to her parents?

Emily decides she will not lie to her parents about the concert.

3. In your opinion, why is it important to honor and help your parents?

Because it is your parents and in this world you have only them.In my opinion we must be honest and care them.If you love your parents, you must have good realtionship.

Love and Help Children

English Reading Practice

Moral Story Number 4:
Love and Help Children

1. Watch the video at the top of the page.

2. Read the story “Love and Help Children” just below it.

3. Do the exercises at the bottom of the page.

Here is the Love and Help Children video. You can watch it in your own language at The Way to Happiness Foundation. (Simply click the word “language” at the top right corner of that page.) 

The Way to Happiness is a common sense guide to better living which has been distributed to more than 100 million people in over 100 languages. It describes 21 principles to a better quality of life.

Principle number 4 is “Love and Help Children.”

Now read the short story about this important principle.

Love and Help Children

In a busy bus station, there is a little girl sitting all alone on a bench. She stares at the floor as all the busy travelers rush around her. She does not move.

Some of the people are in such a big hurry that they do not notice her. Other people look at her, but they think, “She is not my daughter. She is someone else’s responsibility. I am sure her mother and father must be close.” They continue running to where they need to go.

After some time, a man stops next to the girl. He is very tired after a long day of work, and he just wants to get to his home as quickly as possible so that he can be with his family. But he cannot just leave this little girl alone. He cannot see her parents anywhere. The little girl is no older than his own little daughter!

The man walks up the girl. “Hello,” he says. “Are you all right? Are your parents here with you?”

The little girl does not even look up at him. He gently sits down next to her and touches her shoulder. Now she lifts her head, and he can see that she is crying. He feels terrible!

But he gives her a very warm smile and holds out his hand. She looks scared, but she takes his hand and lets him lead her to the bus station information desk. He helps her sit down on a chair next to the desk and explains the situation to the security guard.

The guard makes an announcement over the speakers. “Attention: a young girl is waiting for her parents at the information desk. If you are looking for your daughter, please come immediately! Thank you.”

A couple of minutes later, a woman comes running toward the desk. As soon as she sees the little girl, she shouts and runs up to her. She lifts the girl into her arms and holds her very tight. Then she separates herself from her daughter and looks at her face while she says, “I am here, Andrea. Everything is okay. I love you, honey.”

Then she turns and greets the man. “Thank you so much, sir,” she says. “We got separated in the crowd earlier. My daughter is deaf, so I could not make an announcement over the speakers for her. I was looking for her everywhere. I was so worried!”  

Now the man understands why the little girl did not look at him until he touched her shoulder. He feels happy that he has helped. It must have been very scary for little Andrea and her mother! He smiles and thinks of how he will tell his family about this. He is a father, too. He knows how important it is to love and help all children.

And now, practice:

1. What does “gently” mean?

a) in a confident way

b) in a fast way

c) in a soft way that will not scare someone

d) in a logical way

2. What does “deaf” mean?

a) that someone cannot hear

b) that someone cannot speak

c) that someone cannot see

d) that someone cannot feel

3. What does “help” mean?

a) to do something unpleasant

b) to make a plan for something

c) to try something new

d) to aid someone and make things easier for them

Grammar Questions

1. The people in the bus station are ________ a big hurry.

a) to

b) in

c) of

d) with

2. Thank you ________ much.

a) so

b) too

c) super

d) a lot

3. He cannot see her parents ________.

a) somewhere

b) everywhere

c) anywhere

d) where

CHECK YOUR PROGRESS.

I saw a friend of mine.He was looking in a shop window.I started to cross the road to say hello to him.While I was crossing the road I heard a noise.A bus was coming in my direction.The bus stopped very close to me.I was lucky it didin’t hurt me.

Fast-slow
cheap-expensive
beautiful-ugly
tidy-messy
quiet-noisy
easy-dificult

EX.B

2.Question 1 was easy. Question 4 was easier than question1, and question 6 was the easiest question of all.
3.Last night’s match was exciting, but Satirday’s match was more exciting than last night’s match was most exiting ever.
4.Yesterday was a bad day for me, but Thursday was worse than yesterday,aand Friday was the worst day of my life.

EX.B

2.Our dog can’t walk very well because he’s getting very old now.
3.I get a surprise yesterday. My uncle sent me some money.
4.The party was great, and I didn’t get home until midnight.
5.My brother says he get a good ideas when he daydreams.
6.I love Maths, and I’m always happy when I get the answer right.

1.Thay ran home quickly.
2.She smiled happily.
3.My brother speaks French fluently.
4.The hairdresser cut my hair very badly.
5.I answered all the questions easily.
6.Our team played very well.

Exercises

My favorite sport:

I can’t say that i have a favorite sport, but we can say that i love footbal.I think that my love in footbal, conect with my uncle because he was a footballer, and when i was child, I played football, approximatly every day.Yea, that’s right information, you thinked that it is just joke,but no.But now smth. like sport, I go to dance, btw my dance is sport, because that is latin dances and there we are really use a lot of energy, and it’s really hard, because i know people who thinking that latin dances is not sport, but i go only to latin dances and i don’t feel sport’s missing in my life.So my favorite sport is footbal and dancing.

Be an invetor.

comparative and superlative adjectives

Grammar:comparative and superlative adjectives

Hometask:ex.2/,b,page 19,ex.3/a,b,c,page 19

What did they ivent?

ex.C

His brain machine was checking people’s brains to find out what they think.
2.Every now and then , Q5 was looking at the huge screen, Everything was going well.All the human brains are thinking of other things,and none of them are knowing about his terrible plans.

3.When Olivia are looking at the neighbour, she is seeing that he is holding smth. in his hand. It looked lika a mobile phone.

Ex.e

2.Harry was running to school.He falled and hurt his leg.1
3.Alex and Sue was playing tennis, Lucy arrived.
4.Antonio was having breakfast.He had a great idea.

Telephone

Write about a famous invention that you think is useful!

A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user. The term is derived from Greek: τῆλε (tēle, far) and φωνή (phōnē, voice), together meaning distant voice. A common short form of the term is phone, which came into use early in the telephone’s history.^[1]

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice at a second device.^[2] This instrument was further developed by many others, and became rapidly indispensable in business, government, and in households.

An old rotary dial telephone

The essential elements of a telephone are a microphone (transmitter) to speak into and an earphone (receiver) which reproduces the voice at a distant location.^[3] The receiver and transmitter are usually built into a handset which is held up to the ear and mouth during conversation. The transmitter converts the sound waves to electrical signals which are sent through the telecommunication system to the receiving telephone, which converts the signals into audible sound in the receiver or sometimes a loudspeaker. Telephones permit transmission in both directions simultaneously.

Most telephones also contain an alerting feature, such as a ringer or a visual indicator, to announce an incoming telephone call. Telephone calls are initiated most commonly with a keypad or dial, affixed to the telephone, to enter a telephone number, which is the address of the call recipient’s telephone in the telecommunication system, but other methods existed in the early history of the telephone.

The first telephones were directly connected to each other from one customer’s office or residence to another customer’s location. Being impractical beyond just a few customers, these systems were quickly replaced by manually operated centrally located switchboards. These exchanges were soon connected together, eventually forming an automated, worldwide public switched telephone network. For greater mobility, various radio systems were developed for transmission between mobile stations on ships and automobiles in the mid-20th century. Hand-held mobile phones were introduced for personal service starting in 1973. In later decades, their analog cellular system evolved into digital networks with greater capability and lower cost.

Convergence in communication services has provided a broad spectrum of capabilities in cell phones, including mobile computing, giving rise to the smartphone, the dominant type of telephone in the world today.

English exercises with book

Page 6

Ex.A

1.wanted
2.called
3.went
4.Was
5.were
6.fell
7.woke up
8.saw
9.didn’t stay
10.Did you enjoyed the match
11.started
12.lost
13.missed
14.Did you get home?
15.Did you phone?
16.took
17.payed


Page 4

Ex.2
2.Our teacher always gives us homework on Fridays.
3.I’m sorry-I don’t know the answer.
4. My father doesn’t like football.
5. Do all your friends go to the same school.?
6. Where does your best friend live?

Ex.3

Hi Sally !
It’s me-Jessica .I’m writing to you from Portugal! We’re on holidays here.We’re staying in a nice hotel near the beach.I have a really good time.It’s a beautiful day today- the sun is shining and my brother and sister are playing on the beach.Me? I am sitting in my room and I am not doing any work! What are you doing? Write and tell me!

Love

Jessica