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The Ransom of Red Chief
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Understand humorous storytelling and descriptive phrases.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
Audio and answer checking: https://joy-english.com/listening-lessons/the-ransom-of-red-chief
Words to know
- supplies
- Food and other things you need for a trip or a job.
- cave
- A large hole in the side of a hill or mountain.
- opposite
- On the other side, facing something.
Answer key
- It looked like a good thing.“Looked like” means seemed. The storyteller hints that the plan was a mistake.
- But wait till I tell you.“Till” is a short, informal form of “until”. The storyteller is building suspense.
- We stored our supplies in that cave.“Stored” ends with a d sound. Supplies are the things they need.
- The boy was in the street, throwing rocks at a cat on the opposite fence.A long sentence: listen for the action “throwing rocks” and the place “on the opposite fence”.
- The boy hits Bill directly in the eye with a piece of rock.The story suddenly uses the present tense “hits” to make the action feel immediate.