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English Speaking Exercise (All Levels)

Course 202, Unit 10, Lesson 2

Grocery Items

Instructions: Please recite the following paragraph. Press the 'add audio submission' button to record and submit this exercise.

The peaches are not available at the market yet. I made chicken with rice and broccoli for tonight’s dinner. Please buy some fruit, vegetables and meat at the store tomorrow. I used to love pears, but now I enjoy apples more. Why are you eating so much garlic? She grows celery, cauliflower and onions in her garden. The boy was looking at the spinach on his plate with great disgust.

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  • LouisValley
    Mochapoints: 13779  |  Teacher Score: 5493 (93%)
    Here is text. My favorite book is shuǐ hǔ zhuàn, which is called The Water Margin, also Outlaws of The Marsh, or All Men Are Brothers in English. The author of book is Shi Naian. The Water Margin is well-known as one of the four greatest Chinese novels in history. It tells stories of a group of heroes, who stand for different classes of people daring to struggle against the evil. There are 105 men and 3 women in all, but actually there are many unknown people, who are oppressed by the corrupt and unjust official and then rise up. These stories take place at the end of the North Song period, describing various vivid pictures of farmers' uprising full of love and hate, ties of friendship, kind and enmity, etc. The heroes do lots of good deeds to help the poor by blundering the evil. But later, they surround themselves to the official, obeying to fight with other kingdoms. Finally, most of them die or hurt badly.
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  • Ronny Bryson 彭瑞...
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    In this you will need to forgive my pronunciation.

    There are a 105 men and 3 women.

    officials

    obeying should be agreeing( i think)

    kindness

    blundering? needs another word

    A very good effort
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  • rollinhard2
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    Louis it was kind of muffled but I re-recorded it for you. Good Effort
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  • ted2008
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    Louis, I could understand some but a lot I could not understand. Think the best way is to do 2 sentences each time and I will tell you what to focus on. Would be healpful if you could give me the text you are reading so I can see any words I cannot understand.
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  • Anthony
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    Muchof this difficult text is impossible to understand. Much practice of every single word, word by word, is needed. Here are some corrections of the text.

    My favorite book is Shuǐ Hǔ Zhuàn, which is called The Water Margin, also Outlaws of The Marsh, or All Men Are Brothers in English. The author of the book is Shi Naian. The Water Margin is well-known as one of the four greatest Chinese novels in history. It tells stories of a group of heroes who stand for different classes of people daring to struggle against the evil. There are 105 men and three women in all, but actually there are many unknown people who are oppressed by the corrupt and unjust officials and then rise up. These stories take place at the end of the North Song period, describing various vivid scenes of the peasants' uprising, full of love and hate, ties of friendship, kindness and enmity, etc. The heroes do many good deeds to help the poor by confronting the evil. But later, they surround themselves with officials, following orders to fight against other kingdoms. Finally, most of them die or are badly hurt.
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  • Laura
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    Great work, Louis! It was very smart of you to include the written text for us to follow. I am very impressed that you have written such a long piece about the book, too. You are working hard, and it shows. :-) Here is *the* text. My favorite book is shuǐ hǔ zhuàn, which is called The Water Margin, also Outlaws of The Marsh, or All Men Are Brothers in English. The author of *the* book is Shi Naian. The Water Margin is well-known as one of the four greatest Chinese novels in history. It tells *the* stories of a group of heroes, who stand for different classes of people daring to struggle against *(you don't need "the" in front of evil because it is a general, vague concept)* evil. There are 105 men and 3 women in all, but actually there are many unknown people, who are oppressed by the corrupt and unjust official and then rise up. These stories take place at the end of the North Song period, describing various vivid pictures of *the* farmers' uprising, full of love and hate, ties of friendship, kind and enmity, etc. The heroes do lots of good deeds to help the poor by *fighting* (or maybe *tricking* ?) the evil *people*. But later, they *surround the official*, obeying *the command* (?) to fight with other kingdoms. Finally, most of them die or *are* hurt badly.
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  • Laura
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    As far as your pronunciation....you are improving, keep practicing! I noticed the following words that you need to work on: classes heroes struggles period describing vivid other It really helps that you are going slowly and focusing on each word. It also really helps to have the text to follow.
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