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Lesson 45
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Eve hadn’t seen her grandchildren – Maria, Teddy, and Abraham – in over a year. She got an unexpected chance to take a week off from work, and she flew to Virginia in January to stay with her daughter, Summer, and her husband, Lincoln. The three grandchildren all lived near their parents, so the parents’ house was a good place for them all to get together.
Lincoln was a policeman, and he had been in that job for about a decade. His favorite thing to do was to go to a school and go class-to-class to demonstrate to the kids how important the police are in helping to keep things calm and peaceful around the town. He wanted every single household to feel safe.
Lincoln would always impress the students, and sometimes a school visit could even be funny. One time, a kid asked him, “Have you ever had to beat up a bad guy and hit him in the face with your fist?”
Lincoln replied in a pleasant voice, “That’s a fair question. It so happens that the leadership in our police office doesn’t like for us to get rough with anyone. Almost always, we can talk with someone who is angry or mean, and we can calm them down easily. Our instructions are to always maintain a peaceful situation, and we can usually accomplish that.”
“But frankly, we do still have to stay on our guard and be careful. Every once in a while, there might be a little wrestling with someone who you’re facing who will continue to stay upset. Anyhow, that’s just part of the job, so I don’t whine about that, and I’ve never complained about it.”
Lincoln has always been very proud of his work. His wife, Summer, is also very proud of what she does. She is a nurse at the town hospital. She has to do lots of different things. She helps to organize and maintain needed supplies, such as rubber gloves and the like. She helps patients who are having to recover from surgery. She helps folks who have to get set up with oxygen to help them breathe more easily. And sometimes she works in the emergency room.
Summer knew at the age of fifteen that she wanted to be a nurse. And she loves her job so much that she has even taken some classes in graduate school. She thinks that when you choose a field to work in, you should always show growth in your knowledge base throughout your whole career! That’s why you’ll see her participate in any training classes that the hospital might offer.
Naturally, a day at her work could be somewhat boring, but other days could be crazy. One time, a woman came in who had suffered from an attack by a large dog. There was a large bite on her leg – it looked like a long, deep scratch – and though the doctor said that it would be pretty straightforward to get it cleaned up, it still took him quite a while to do it. It was on hard days like that that Summer felt like she had the weight of the world on her shoulders.
Well, anyhow, the high point of the trip for Eve was to catch up with her grandchildren. All three of them were “young adults,” each of them at a different stage in their college career. Here are some talks that they had with their grandma.
TEDDY:
Eve said, “Well, Teddy, have you decided yet what kind of career might bring you happiness?”
He hesitated, but then he answered, “I’m thinking about being a sailor in the United States Navy. I love everything about boats – and about being on the water – so that’s the best branch of the military for me to serve in. And I think that it’s important work. There’s so much hate all over the world right now, and I like the idea of being part of a group of people who help to maintain a peaceful world.”
“We’ve got to try to keep world civilization in good shape, right? And I would stay in the Navy for a good length of time, working my way up to leadership responsibility. I just hope that I can qualify to get in!”
Eve said, “Sweetheart, they’d be crazy to not take you, with everything that you’ve accomplished in your life at such a young age. Maybe one day you’ll be a Cabinet Secretary working for the president!”
Teddy laughed and said, “Or maybe one day I’ll run for the United States Senate!”
MARIA:
Eve said, “Maria, dear, you look absolutely radiant! Things must be going well in your life. Do you have a career objective yet?”
Maria replied, “Yes, I think that I do. I’ve been studying and doing a lot of research about poverty, and I feel bad for people who find themselves in that state of being. It seems like it’s one of those problems that just remains impossible to fix, and I feel like we’re going nowhere toward making things better. I just wish that we could erase it from the planet. We need to find a way to stamp it out!”
Eve agreed. “You’re so right. Of course, it would take a miracle to make the problem go away. How might you help?”
Maria explained, “Well, I’ve been invited to join a group that’s trying to make a difference. In fact, I’m making a speech next week to some rich people who share our thoughts – and who might give us money to put together a local project to help people by having us teach them how to dig out of their situation.”
Eve said, “That is SO wonderful. I very much hope that you can be successful!”
ABRAHAM:
As you might have noticed by now, both Teddy and Maria are very serious young people who care about their fellow humans. But Abraham has always been less serious – and more carefree – ever since he was an infant. You’ll find that he likes to joke around a lot. You’re about to experience a good example of this.
Eve finally had some time alone with Abraham. She just began with a simple, “Well Abraham, what’s new with you?”
He replied, “Well, let’s see. Yeah, I just got a new pet lizard. It’s great. I named him Henry. Here’s a photo of him that I took with my phone camera.”
Though Eve did smile when she looked at it, she finally exclaimed, “Oh my, that’s just awful! You’ve always got to be different, don’t you? Couldn’t you just be normal, and get a cat or a dog?”
Abraham had a big grin on his face, and he replied, “Absolutely not! I’ve got to be out-of-the-box, period! That’s my brand, you know!”
Eve shook her head and asked, “Do you have any ideas for your dream job?”
Abraham barked, “Yes, indeed!” I first thought about being a cowboy, where I could ride a horse on a dusty path all day. But then I decided that I could do WAY better than that. So, I want to go halfway around the world and set up an expedition in the jungle. I will ride on an elephant, find a good place to stay, build a huge palace, set up a small kingdom, and I’ll have a big festival there once a month. You won’t be able to have as much fun anywhere else in the galaxy as you’ll be able to in my little kingdom!”
Eve looked him in the eye – like a hawk – and she said, “Now Abraham, do you think that I don’t have a brain inside my skull? Ever since your seventh birthday – I remember what you did with me that day like it was just yesterday – you’ve pulled this kind of story on me. I am no longer ignorant about how you like to trick me, and I know that what you just said to me is a complete joke. What are you REALLY thinking about doing?”
Abraham gave Eve a wink, and he said, “Okay, seriously, in business school, I have found the railroad field to be quite interesting. There are only four big ones in the United States, demand is rising for them – I mean, they have more business than they can handle – and I think that it’s going to be a good field to be a part of in the future. So, that’s my target plan. I want to get a good job with a railroad company.”
Eve said, “Now that’s better! It’s nice to see you demonstrate some unexpected common sense instead of looking at life like it’s just one big joke. Maybe, just maybe, you’ll accomplish a lot in your career, after all!”
With that, Eve gave Abraham a big hug, and they were heading off to the kitchen, where Summer was making a delicious dinner with a leg of lamb, onion rings, and berries with home-made ice cream for dessert.
Eve fell to sleep that night with very proud thoughts about all three of her grandchildren!
piled, maximum, moisture, newspapers, dictionary, geography
After the household of kids piled into the back seat of the small car, it was almost difficult to breathe. The adults in the front seat opened each window, and air poured into the car.
The maximum number of folks that this railroad car can hold is sixty people.
Dad sat down at the breakfast table and barked, “Why is there moisture on my morning newspapers?”
Mary, let’s go to Target and buy you a new dictionary and other supplies for the next school year.
Dad complained, “I didn’t research the geography of this area very well. I was ignorant of how long it takes to get from one place to another! That has caused some problems with an expedition or two that I wanted to go on during our holiday here. We may have to scratch one or both of them off of our list, and I am somewhat upset about that. Anyhow, it is what it is, and we’ll just have to make the best of things.”
Our teacher said, “Class, here are the instructions for your homework for the weekend, and they are very straightforward. Write a paper about what you did on your various summer vacations. That will demonstrate to me how well each of you can write. Keep it to a maximum length of three pages long. So, here’s your objective as you get set up. Organize your thoughts well and impress me with how well you write. Oh, and don’t whine about the work!”
When my young son and I are in the ocean, he loves for me to pick him up so that he can sit on my shoulders. Naturally, he was somewhat scared the first couple of times that we tried that, but now he can’t get enough of it. One of our best days was when there were a bunch of boats nearby with many different colors. He got a kick out of that!
I need a rubber band to put around these old dusty newspapers that are in this cabinet. I know that I have a lot of stuff like this piled up in the attic and the basement, and one day soon I’ll organize it, with the objective being to throw out at least half of it. I think that I can accomplish that quite easily.
Our school wrestling team has been invited to participate in a big tournament in Virginia this coming January. This was an unexpected, pleasant surprise for all of us, and the team is quite excited about the opportunity. Right now, we’re being careful to regularly practice hard, because we know that we’ll be facing some really tough schools. We hope to come back from there and impress everyone here with how we did.
With our tremendous final attack against the enemy, our country won the war. To celebrate, the Queen put on a gigantic festival for the people. While there, she gave a speech and said that she wanted to build the biggest palace in all of Europe to show that we were a great country!
Our boss hit his fist on the table and said that our target for next year will be to double the growth rate in our branch of the company. After the meeting was over, frankly, most of us complained, saying that it would take a miracle to pull that off. We are wrestling with how we could make that possible, but we fear that the target remains out of reach.
While I was walking around the neighborhood today, at the household four homes down from us, I saw the Hawk family get out of their car with a new infant. Naturally, I knew that their new child would bring them much happiness!
The dog barked at a lizard that was on the porch, but he didn’t try to attack it.
How can your sister Virginia graduate from high school when she’s only fifteen? Frankly, it must take a miracle to be that super-smart!
In a pleasant voice, the teacher said, “Now remember, when you write your paper, be careful and make sure that you put a period at the end of each sentence.
Price hesitated, looked around, and then he said, “With all of this wind, it’s too dusty out here for me to use my expensive new camera.”
This is the seventh day without having stopped that we’ve had rain! With all of this moisture – and with the geography of the land on the east side of the river being a miles-wide plain – I fear that we’re going to have a terrible flood. I’ve heard that the water is already rising.
I looked in the cabinet where we keep all of our paper supplies and the like, and I could find only one stamp. I need fifteen of them to mail these letters. I guess it’s time for a little expedition to the post office.
The two newspapers in our city want for people to suggest a good name for the new baby elephant at our zoo, and I want to participate in that contest.
A person could freeze going out into that crazy cold weather. I’ll go nowhere unless I’m wearing my gloves. I didn’t remember to put them on yesterday, and oh my, I suffered terribly because of it.
It’s normal for an infant to whine when they are hungry or thirsty. It’s been that way since the dawn of civilization.
The Senate passed their seventh bill of the year yesterday.
“How long will it take for Grandpa to recover from his heart attack?” “Well, it often takes quite a period of time to get back to feeling normal.”
We had dinner at an all-you-can-eat restaurant last night, and I just piled onion rings onto my plate!
“Why did that young girl stamp her foot on the ground?” “I heard the adults near her talking, and it’s because she wasn’t invited to a birthday party that she wanted to go to.”
I regularly go on a date with my sweetheart every weekend. But we couldn’t do that in January because there was too much snow out there to be safe while driving.
I got a great shot of an elephant today with my new camera.
That sentence is not very neat, is it? I need to erase it and write it over again.
I had three patients at the hospital today who needed oxygen.
Have you ever heard the saying “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb?”
Don’t you ever wonder if there’s another human-like civilization somewhere else in our galaxy?
Doc, I don’t know what I did to myself, but I hurt my hand pretty badly. I have a lot of pain when I try to ball my hand up into a fist. I’ve suffered from this for about a week.
“Mom, if I go into the woods and pick lots of berries, will you please make a pie with them?” “Of course I will, sweetheart!”
Dad gave me a little speech today about my future career choice. He said, “Son, when you grow up, graduate from college, and get a job in the business world, you’re going to find out that it’s a jungle out there!
I asked my parents what it would take to qualify to become a policeman. The first thing that they told me was that you have to be really fit.
You don’t want to trip and fall on this sidewalk with all of the ice on it; you might hurt your skull if you hit your head on the ground!
Wow, look at the big shoulders on that sailor who is standing between those two boats! He must be really strong!
You know, I haven’t seen a good cowboy movie in a least a decade.
I can hold my breath for only about a minute. Then I need to breathe and get oxygen back into my body!
When I run for Senate, I’ll talk a lot about how I want to start a war on poverty!
I hesitated to use that word until I looked it up in the dictionary. I didn’t want to use it the wrong way and have people think that I’m ignorant.
What are you doing by the front door? Get this into your skull: my instructions are that you’re going nowhere until you finish your homework!
Would you please scratch me in the middle of my back? I can’t get my hand to reach that spot.
I hope to see some growth with this little rubber plant by the end of the summer.
You should probably erase that thought from your head. It remains to be seen whether you’re going to get to go to ANY party – any time soon – until you get a good grade in math!
There are some big berries on that branch.
I’m facing what will be a really hard geography test on Monday.
It was a radiant scene with the sun all shiny on the beautiful blue lake. It brought me much happiness to see that.
I’m not gonna touch that lizard until I put some gloves on!
I just saw a hawk pick up a mouse and fly away with it.
I heard the sailor say, “Please don’t put any onion on my burger. It just doesn’t agree with my stomach.”
My favorite movie when I was a kid was “The Jungle Book.”
I wonder what the length of that rope is that the cowboy has in his hand.
Oh please, when is that kid going to stop singing “Mary Had A Little Lamb?”
The dictionary says that the word “straightforward” means “very clear and easy to understand.”
The leadership in that country will probably stay in power for at least another decade.
The story in this movie is about a kingdom in a far away galaxy. A palace is under attack by an evil alien creature.
The maximum loan that you can qualify for is ten-thousand dollars.
We saw a policeman at the festival today. I believe that he was there to make sure that no one would get out of line.
We couldn’t live on another planet if it didn’t have enough oxygen.
I don’t feel any moisture in the soil of this house plant, so I’d better water it right away.
I have a nasty cold, and I hope that I recover from it quickly.
I tried to explain poverty to my young child, and I said that it meant that you didn’t have enough money to live a very pleasant life. I know that’s very simple, but she’s only four years old, after all.
The hospital nurse said, “I just took lunch to all of the patients on the second floor.”
I said to my dear wife, “Honey, you look absolutely radiant, and you’ll be the most beautiful woman at the party tonight.”
The research is very clear, and it says that eating lots of junk food is not good for you!
Check out that view! The sun has just started to come up above the ocean, and it’s a gorgeous deep orange color.
Did you have any problems finding our house? There are a couple of one way turns that mess a lot of people up.
I go to the gym regularly on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday.
The bread will have finished rising in about an hour, and then I’ll put it in the oven to bake.
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