My Bike
Arjun can't ride to school with his friends because he doesn't have a bike, but then his mom opens the garage door.
- A1 level
- 169 words
- about 3 min
- 4 questions
My name is Arjun. I am twelve. My friends their bikes to school every day, but I can't. I don't have a bike.
One Saturday, Mom opens the door. In the , there is a very old green bike. "This is my old bike," she says. "It's thirty years old!"
The bike is very , and the are . The seat is , and the can't ring. "Can you it, Mom?" I ask. "Yes," she says, "but I need your help!"
Every weekend, we work on the bike together. First, we clean it. Mom can fix a lot of things. She puts air in the tires and puts on a new seat and a new bell.
I can't fix things, but I can paint. I paint the bike yellow, and it looks new!
Now I ride to school with my friends. My new bell can ring, and I ring it a lot!
There is only one problem. On Sundays, Mom wants her bike !
Key words in this text
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- rideverb
to sit on a bike and make it go
- garagenoun
a room or small building for a car, next to a house
- cornernoun
the place where two walls meet
- dirtyadjective
not clean
- tiresnoun
the round black parts on the wheels of a bike or a car; they have air in them
- flatadjective
here: with no air in it
- brokenadjective
it does not work, or it is in pieces
- bellnoun
a small thing on a bike; it makes a "ring, ring" sound
- fixverb
to make something work again
- backadverb
here: Mom wants to have her bike again and ride it
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