Chapter 2 of Beginners' Book in Language. A Book for the Third Grade is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 2 of Beginners' Book in Language. A Book for the Third Grade is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
2. Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates. Will you tell it as if you were one of the bees? Or will you be a butterfly? Or will you tell the fable as if you were a bird or a field mouse that saw all that happened and heard all that was said?
Chapter 2 of Beginners' Book in Language. A Book for the Third Grade is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “bee” — any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
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warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading “Or will you tell the fable as if you were a bird or a field mouse that saw all that happened and heard all that was said?”
plural of “butterfly” — diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
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flutter like a butterfly
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plural of “classmate” — an acquaintance that you go to school with
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a deliberately false or improbable account
From this reading “Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates.”
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
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any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
From this reading “Or will you tell the fable as if you were a bird or a field mouse that saw all that happened and heard all that was said?”
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any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows
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form or compose
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
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on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Or will you tell the fable as if you were a bird or a field mouse that saw all that happened and heard all that was said?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Will you tell it as if you were one of the bees?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Or will you be a butterfly?
plural of “bee” — any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
From this reading Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates.
warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading Or will you tell the fable as if you were a bird or a field mouse that saw all that happened and heard all that was said?
plural of “butterfly” — diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
From this reading Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates.
flutter like a butterfly
From this reading Or will you be a butterfly?
plural of “classmate” — an acquaintance that you go to school with
From this reading Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates.
a deliberately false or improbable account
From this reading Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates.
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
From this reading Or will you tell the fable as if you were a bird or a field mouse that saw all that happened and heard all that was said?
past form of “happen” — come to pass
From this reading Or will you tell the fable as if you were a bird or a field mouse that saw all that happened and heard all that was said?
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
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on condition that; in the event that
From this reading Will you tell it as if you were one of the bees?
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates.
engage in
From this reading Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates.
any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
From this reading Or will you tell the fable as if you were a bird or a field mouse that saw all that happened and heard all that was said?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Will you tell it as if you were one of the bees?
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
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used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Or will you be a butterfly?
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading Or will you tell the fable as if you were a bird or a field mouse that saw all that happened and heard all that was said?
cut with a saw
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express in words
From this reading Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
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used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
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used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
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being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Make up a fable about bees and butterflies and tell it to your classmates.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Or will you tell the fable as if you were a bird or a field mouse that saw all that happened and heard all that was said?
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Will you tell it as if you were one of the bees?
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
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the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Will you tell it as if you were one of the bees?
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
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Chapter 2 of Beginners' Book in Language. A Book for the Third Grade by Harry Jewett Jeschke holds 414 sentences, grouped into 83 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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