When Ellen was six, her brother was born. Her parents was very happy to have a son, but she was upset cause all their attention now was fixed on new baby whom called Al. As Ellen grown up, she was in difficult position. Her husband left her with three children and no money. But Al was very successful, he established a rock band that became a quite popular – they made records and earn a lot of money.
Soon Al was rich and popular, as a result he has all that wanted and spent a lot of time holding parties and taking drugs. Brother didn’t want to share his fortune with sister, but he agreed to hire her to work as a cleaning woman. Once Al returned from tour he looked very ill, also he brought some new weird friends, they shared with Ellen their crazy ideas about human life.
Glossary
- AIDS: a very serious and dangerous illness
- alarm: (n) a loud sound which tells people that something wrong or dangerous is happening
- apartment: a flat; a group of rooms in a building where you can live
- bacteria: the smallest forms of life which are found in all living and dead animals and plants; some bacteria cause illnesses
- card: a small piece of hard paper
- care: (v) to think that something is important or interesting
- clean: not dirty
- company: people who work togerher in a business
- crazy: we say someone is crazy when they do strangeor dangerous things
- cure: (v) to make a sick person well
- doll: a toy that looks like a person
- dream: (n) pictures in your head when you are a sleep
- drugs: dangerous things which people eat or inject, and which make them feel happy or excited for a short time
- drunk: (adj) doing strangeor wild things because of drinking a lot of alcohol
- electricity: power rhat can make heat and light
- fingerprints: marks that your fingers make when you touch something
- flashlight: a small electric light which you hold in your hand
- freezer: a machine that makes food (or other things) very cold
- freeze: (past tense froze) to make something very cold
- frozen: very cold, and hard like ice
- gas: anything like air, which you usually cannot see
- guilty: if you are guilty, you have done something bad or wrong
- hate: (v) to dislike very strongly; the opposite of ‘to love’
- healthy: well and strong; not ill
- heart attack: a sudden illness when the heart stops working and sometimesthe persondies
- ice: water which is very cold and hard like rock
- idea: when you think of something new
- kids: children
- law court: a place where judges and lawyers ask questions and decide if someone is a criminal or not
- lawyer: someone who helps people with the law
- look after: to take care of something; to keep it safe
- maybe: perhaps
- medicine: something to eat or drink that helps you to get better when you are ill
- motorbike: a bicycle with an engine
- record: (n) a round thing which plays music through a record player
- rock band: a group of people who play pop or rock music
- safe: not dangerous
- save: to take someone out of danger
- science: the study of natural things (physics,biology, etc. are sciences)
- shut up: a rude way of saying ‘be quiet’
- sick: ill
- swimming pool: a special place or building for swimming
- switch: (v and n) to press something (e.g.a switch on a wall) to turn electriciry on or off
- syringe: an instrument with a needle which is used to inject medicines or drugs through the skin
- tennis court: a place where people play tennis (a ball game)
- tour: (n) a journey to visit a lot of places
- training: learning how to do a lob
- trial: when people go to a law court to decide if someone is a criminal
- trust (v) to feel sure that someone is good, strong, right, etc.
- view: what you can see from a window, a mountain top, etc.
- whisky: a strong alcoholic drink, from Scotland
Dear all,
My name us Hossein, i’m Iranian, I work for Internatiol transport company, I found your side since last month, I’ve tried to learn English for 3 years, now I can read English article in intermediate level and write but I can’t speak English with my customers that who call me, I can just chat with them, I want and need to speak with them becouse I think when you are talking with your customer you can improve your business,.
I want you help me to improve my speaking.