İngilizce Hikayeler Oku: 

It is 9 o’ clock on Monday morning and the sun is shining through the windows of a tall building in Central London. Inside, a line of students is walking slowly up the stairs to a large room on the first floor.

Two middle-aged women are sitting at a table at the front of the room. They are looking at a list of students’ names. A tall man is standing just inside the door. He is telling the students where to sit.

“Please fill the chairs at the back of the room!” he says in a loud voice. The tall man is a teacher, but this is a big school. There are many teachers. The other teachers are waiting in a room on the second floor.

One of the middle-aged ladies stands up. Most of the chairs are now occupied. She can see faces from many different countries. She looks at the  students to get their attention.

 “Good morning!” she says in a lively voice. Some of the students say “Good morning!” but many are silent. She is not happy with their silence.

“You’re all here to speak English! … Let’s try again! … Good morning!” she repeats in a louder voice.

All the students say “Good morning!” in very loud voices. Then she smiles at them.

“My name’s Mary Palmer and I’m your Course Director. This is my assistant, Angela Leach. She’s going to check your passports. We’re both very happy to welcome you to the English Language College. We’ve got the best teachers in London and we’re sure that your English will get better. You’ll also make a lot of new friends. There are people in this school from all over the world! Stand up all the students who come from Japan! … Thank you! … Now stand up if you come from Spain!”

There are eleven students from Japan – eight young ladies and three young men. But there are only two students from Spain. One of them is a waiter  from Gijon. His name is Arturo. The other is a psychology graduate from Madrid. She is called Rosa.

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İngilizce Hikayeler Oku:

• Prepositions of Place 1
• Speaking: Looking after children for two hours

It is Saturday. Mr and Mrs Frost are shopping at their local supermarket. Rosa is alone for the first time with Elisabeth and Isaac. They are in the living-room. The two Frost children are sitting in front of the television. They are watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

Tom is a cat and Jerry is a mouse. The mouse is very intelligent and gives the cat a difficult time. The cartoon is popular in many countries and Rosa often watches it in Spain, but she is not watching it with the children.

Rosa is taking some coloured crayons and some paper from a plastic bag. First, she draws a picture of her English family’s kitchen. She then draws Tom and Jerry. Tom the cat is on the kitchen table and Jerry is under it. The mouse is drinking the cat’s milk.

Soon Elisabeth and Isaac are looking at Rosa’s picture. Rosa is very happy because she has the two English children’s attention. She quickly takes some coloured paper from her bag. The paper is for Japanese Origami.

“What are you doing?” Elisabeth asks.

“Watch me and you’ll see!” she says.

Soon the children are drawing their own pictures and playing with paper models of Tom and Jerry.

Later that morning, Mr & Mrs Frost arrive home. They are very happy to see their children together with the young lady from Spain.

“What a surprise!” Mr Frost says. “The children usually watch television all the morning, but now you have their full attention. How do you do it? Do you have a Spanish secret?”

“Your children don’t understand Spanish and I don’t have any secrets”, says  Rosa modestly. She does not tell them about the big, black book.

In the evening, Rosa phones her mother in Madrid. Maruja is glad to hear that her daughter is safe and well. Rosa is happy to tell Maruja about English children, Tom & Jerry and international psychology.

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İngilizce Hikaye Oku: 

• Verbs – Present Continuous & Present Simple
• Auxiliaries – is / are
• Speaking & Writing: First impressions of the English family

We are now in a street in West London. The sky is very dark and it is raining. This is Rosa’s big day. Her first day in England.

Rosa is getting out of a London taxi. The taxi driver is carrying a very heavy suitcase. They walk through the rain to the front door of a big Victorian house.

A small girl opens the door. She is four years old. Her brother is standingbehind her. He is only two years old. One minute later, a young woman comes to the door.

“Welcome to Wembley!”, she says and she offers Rosa her hand. “These are my two children, Elisabeth and Isaac.”

“Pleased to meet you, Mrs Frost!” says Rosa with a strong Spanish accent. The two children run back into the living-room.

“Don’t worry about them! They’re a little shy. And please call me Diana! Now let me show you your room and then we can have a nice cup of tea. Or would you prefer coffee?”

“I’d like to try a cup of English tea, made in England.”

“This is your bedroom. There’s a nice view of the football stadium and here’s a little desk where you can study. The bathroom and toilet are just opposite your door. Now I’ll just go and put the kettle on.”

“Excuse me. What’s a kettle?”

“In England, we use a kettle to make hot water. We can then put the hot water in a teapot or use it to make instant coffee.”

Rosa is happy with her new home, but she is thinking about her mother’s opinions. Perhaps Maruja is right. The British are not normal people. They do not kiss when they meet and they live in large Victorian palaces. Their favourite drink is tea and they use  strange metal kettles to make the water hot. What is she going to say to Elisabeth and Isaac? How can she make friends with two shy English children? Perhaps the answer is in the big, black psychology book.

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