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Why onions make you cry
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Follow a cause-and-effect explanation.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- onion
- A round vegetable with a strong smell.
- chemical
- A substance made or used in chemistry.
- irritate
- To make a part of the body sore.
Answer key
- When you cut an onion, you break its cells.“Cut an onion” links: “cu-ta-nonion”.
- This releases a chemical that turns into a gas.“Turns into a” runs together.
- The gas reaches your eyes and irritates them.The ts sound of “irritates” runs into “them”.
- Your eyes make tears to wash it away.Here “tears” rhymes with “ears”.
- Cooling the onion first can make cutting it less painful.“Cooling” has a long oo sound.