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A Piece of Red Calico
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Understand reported speech and a sequence of past actions.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- calico
- A cheap cotton cloth, often with a printed pattern.
- sample
- A small piece that shows what something is like.
- trouble
- Difficulty or extra work.
Answer key
- I told her that it would be no trouble at all.“Told her that it would be” reports what he said. “No trouble at all” means very easy.
- During the day, I stopped in at a large store.“Stopped in at” means made a short visit to.
- She looked at it and gave it back to me.Two past actions are joined with “and”: “looked” and “gave”.
- I next went into a store a few doors up the street.“A few doors up the street” means a short distance along the street.
- A man there looked at my sample on both sides.“On both sides” means on the front and the back.