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The new girl at school
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Follow a short story about making friends.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- shy
- Nervous about talking to people.
- invite
- To ask someone to join you.
- together
- With each other.
Answer key
- On her first day, the new girl felt very shy.The t of “felt” is soft.
- Nobody sat with her at lunch.The h of “her” is weak.
- Then a boy invited her to play football.The h of “her” is weak.
- Soon, all the children were playing together.The stress in “together” is on “geth”.
- Now they are best friends.The t of “best” is almost silent.