The Wrong Train
Kofi jumps on a train to his sister's birthday party, but half an hour later he can see the sea from the window.
اقرأ النص الإنجليزي على مهل وحاول فهم فكرته العامة أولًا. اضغط على الكلمات المظللة لمعانيها الإنجليزية، أو استمع إلى النص وتابع الجمل المظللة. يمكنك قياس وقت قراءتك ثم الإجابة عن أسئلة الفهم.
On Saturday morning, Kofi late. It was his sister Ama's birthday, and her party was at one o'clock. Ama lived in a small town in the , two hours from the city by train.
Kofi ran to the station with a chocolate cake in a box. A train was waiting with its doors open. He didn't stop to where it was going. "That's my train," he thought, and he .
He sat down by the window with the cake on his . But after half an hour, he looked outside and saw the sea. Ama's town was in the mountains, not by the sea! He was on the wrong train.
Kofi at the first stop. It was a small, quiet station by a beach. There was no train back until three o'clock, so he couldn't go to the party. He felt . He called his sister.
"I'm so sorry," he said. "I took the wrong train, and now I'm at the sea!" Ama was quiet . Then she laughed.
"It's cold and rainy here," she said. "Is it sunny there?" "Yes, and it's much warmer," said Kofi. "Then stay there!" said Ama. "We're going to come to you."
In the afternoon, two cars stopped in front of the little station. Ama and her friends got out with food, and a guitar. They had the party on the beach. The cake wasn't perfect anymore, but everybody loved it.
"This is my best birthday ," said Ama. "Next year, please take the wrong train again!"
مفردات أساسية
الكلمات ومعانيها التعليمية باللغة الإنجليزية.
- got upphrasal verb
got out of bed
- mountainsnoun
very high hills
- checkverb
to look at something to be sure that it is right
- jumped onphrasal verb
got on a train or bus very quickly
- kneesnoun
the middle parts of your legs; when you sit, you can put a bag or a box on your knees
- got offphrasal verb
left a train, bus or plane
- terribleadjective
very bad
- for a momentphrase
for a very short time
- blanketsnoun
big pieces of soft, warm material; you can put them on a bed or sit on them
- everadverb
at any time; "my best birthday ever" means better than all my other birthdays
تحقق من فهمك
الأسئلة والخيارات باللغة الإنجليزية؛ يظهر تفسير الإجابة بالعربية بعد اختيارك. ارجع إلى النص عند الحاجة.