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Lesson 8

Preparation

Brushing

I have a friend who doesn’t like to brush his teeth.

He always complains and murmurs a lot
whenever I tell him to brush.

Sometimes, he gets on my nerves for being stubborn.
I told him that he would get cavities

and tooth decay if he doesn’t do so,
and he will lose all his teeth. He didn’t listen.

Because he didn’t brush his teeth,
they fell out of his mouth.

Now, he has no tooth to brush.

Keywords

brush / complain / fell
Grammar

*A parable is a story that illustrates a lesson. It uses human actors or agents
as centers of the story, and the moral is usually directly communicated, or it
can be lightly symbolic.
. ► The Parable of the Prodigal Son, in the bible.
► The Blind Man and the Lame, by Ignaci Krasciki.
► Parable of the Cave, by Plato

Questions

1. Do you know someone who doesn’t like brushing?
2. What is a murmur?
3. How do you feel when someone gets on your nerves?
4. Do you get stubborn sometimes?
5. What will happen if a person has cavities and

tooth decay?
Vocabulary &
Sample Answers Expressions

1. Yes, I do. My little brother hates brushing his Complain: to express dis-
teeth. satisfaction, pain, uneasiness,
censure, resentment, or grief
2. It means to whisper a complaint. Brush: an implement consist-
3. I feel irritated, and I get angry very easily. ing of bristles, hair, or the like,
4. Yes, I do. set in or attached to a handle,
used for painting, cleaning,
5. His teeth will look ugly and he will have a hard polishing, grooming, etc.
time eating.

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