There are many firsts in everyone’s life, including the first time on a plane, the first time doing magic, the first time...but among my first times, the most unforgettable one is Just cooking.
Speaking of the first time I cooked, it starts when I was seven years old. My parents went to work, and I finished my homework at home, and my stomach was already growling with hunger. What to do? Is there any food available from the kitchen chef? Who would have thought that God would have trouble with me, not even a little bit. Looking for the kitchen, fortunately there are still some garlic sprouts.
. So, I learned how my mother cooked, washed the garlic sprouts, and discarded the rotten ones. Once done cut everything. But when I was cutting the garlic sprouts, I cut my hand clumsily. At that time, the blood flowed out, and it all flowed on the other garlic sprouts. I panicked, and only then did I think of bandaging. After bandaging, I endured the pain and washed the garlic sprouts again.
Then, I cleaned the pot, put the pot on the stove, and poured oil into the pot. After a while, when the oil was hot, I put the garlic sprouts in. But accidentally, oil splashed on the wound. Hot oil dripped through the toilet paper onto the wound. That hurts! I still remember it now. At that time, I sat down on the ground and burst into tears. After crying for a while, I smelled something sticky. Following the smell of paste, I took a look, oh! It’s blurred, it’s blurred! I was very sad...
When my mother came back, she laughed loudly when she saw the food I cooked, and my face turned red in an instant. However, I feel that this dish is still very delicious, and I am happy. Because I learned to cook, this is the fruit of my labor, it is sweet.
Through this incident, I realized how hard it was for my parents to cook, and I secretly made up my mind: I will definitely help my parents do whatever I can in the future and repay them with excellent results.
The De'ang Water Splashing Festival is similar but different from the Dai Water Splashing Festival. It is mostly held around mid-April in the Gregorian calendar. As the festival approaches, people are busy making new clothes, making rice cakes, and making water dragons, buckets and other water-splashing tools. Elderly believers gathered at the Buddhist temple to build a hut and set up a water dragon for washing the statue of Sakyamuni during the Water Splashing Festival. The water dragon is carved from a thick piece of wood, about four or five meters long, and is newly painted with notches on it. When splashing water, the girl carries a bucket and a basin, pours the auspicious water into the trough, and flows to the Buddha statue in the hut to wash away the dust of the Buddha. Then, the respected elders held flowers, dipped them in water and sprinkled them gently on the surrounding crowd, blessing everyone and congratulating them on the beginning of the new year. At this time, people began to get excited and congratulated each other on the New Year. Young people raised the buckets high above their heads and sprinkled water drops on the hands of the elderly, wishing people a happy, healthy and long life. The old people stretched out their hands, held water sticks in their hands, and recited congratulations to the young people. After this ceremony, people would line up in long queues, led by elephant foot drums, and rush to the springs and rivers, singing, dancing, chasing each other, and splashing water. The Water Splashing Festival is not only a New Year ceremony for the Deang people, but also a good time for young men and women to fall in love and find their sweethearts. It is popular among the De'ang people to give bamboo baskets to girls. They give the baskets to the girls they like in the dead of night. The most beautiful one should be given to the girl they like the most to express their love. Test the other person's reaction. Therefore, each girl can often receive several bamboo baskets at this time, but who does the girl fall in love with? It all depends on who the girl is carrying on the day of Songkran Festival who gave her the bamboo basket. On this day, each girl carries an exquisite and beautiful bamboo basket on her back, but whose basket belongs to it? The young men were very busy now. They opened their eyes wide and stared at the bamboo baskets on the girls, carefully identifying whether the bamboo basket their sweetheart was carrying was the bamboo basket they gave to her.
After the lovers met, they splashed water and played with each other to express their excitement and joy
Word Parts of Speech MeaningWord Parts of Speech Meaning
Unit 1 Review of units 1-6
pal (oral) good friend; partner describe v description
pen pal n pen pal look for phrase to find; seek
Canada n Canada Talk about phrase to talk about; Discussion; discussion
France n French direction n direction
Japan n Japanese unit n unit
The United States phrase United States most
Australia n Australia; Australia following a following; following
Singapore n SingaporeIn order to phrase in order
The United Kingdom phrase UK improve v improve; improve
country n country Kelly name Kelly (female name)
Sydney n Sydney Unit 7
New York n New York hair n hair; hair
Paris n Paris curly a curly; curly
Toronto n Toronto (Canadian city) straight a straight; straight
Tokyo n Tokyo (Japanese capital) tall a tall
live v medium a medium
language n language height n height
Japanese n Japanese; Japanese thin a thin
world n world heavy a heavy
French n French; French build n physique; body shape
like(pl) n hobby like prep like; like
dislike v Hate; dislike; dislike; always ad always; always
Jodie name Jodi (female name) captain n captain; leader
Andrew name Andrew (male name) team n team ;Group
Lucy name Lucy (female name) popular a popular; popular; popular
Sarah name Sarah (female name) blonde a golden color
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king name Jin (surname) good-looking a beautiful
Sam name Sam (male name) bit n a little; a little
Julie name Julie ( Female name) a little bit Phrase a little; a little
Unit 2 joke n joke; joke
post n mail; post never ad never; never
office n office; office stop n stop; terminate
post office phrase post office brown a brown; brown
library n library person n person; character
restaurant n restaurant; hotel beard n beard
bank n bank glas
ses n glasses
supermarket n supermarket look n appearance; appearance
St(=street) n street; street remember v remember; memory
pay v pay money; pay pop n pop music (singer)
pay phone n． Coin-operated public phone singer n singer; singer
park n park; parking lot say v say; speak
ave(=avenue) n street; avenue nobody pro no one
center n center; center Pete name Pete (Peter's nickname)
bridge n bridge Cathy name Cassie (female name)
mail n mail Johnny name John Nick (John's nickname)
there ad there Dean name Dean (surname)
near prep nearby Ruth name Ruth (female name)
across prep Across; on the opposite side Gloria name Gloria (female name)
across from phrase on the opposite side Teeny name dwarf (teeny, very small)
next prep close next to; close to Hugeman name giant
next to phrase next to; close to; closest to Dreamer name dreamer
between prep between (two or more) Wiseman Name wise (wise, wise; clever)
front n front; front Unit 8
In front of the phrase in front would vamp; aux will's past tense
be hind prep after I'd=I would abbreviation
neighborhood n block; neighborhood; nearby area noodle n noodles (commonly used plural)
just ad directly ; just; only; just beef n beef
straight ad directly; directly mutton n mutton
turn v turn; change direction cabbage n cabbage; cabbage
left adamp; to the left; left potato n potato; potato
down adamp; prep down; down; along special n specialties
right adamp; to the right; right drink n drink
on the right large a big; broad
open a public; size n size; size
market n market; market bowl n bowl; capacity of a bowl
clean a clean; clean he'd=he would abbreviation
quiet a quiet juice n juice; fruit drink
dirty a dirty dumpling n dumpling
house n house; residence porridge n porridge; paste
welcome n welcome tea n tea tea leaves
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garden n garden; vegetable garden green tea phrase green tea
district n district
domain; region rice; n rice rice; rice
enjoy v enjoy... fun; appreciate soup n soup
walk n walk; walk onion n onion
take a walk phrase walk fish n fish; fish meat
through prep pass through; through Tel=telephone abbr telephone
beginning n start RMB abbr RMB
tour n travel ; travelMon=Monday abbr Monday
visit v visit; visit; visit; visitTues=Tuesday abbr Tuesday
place n place; location Wed=Wednesday abbr Wednesday
fun n happy; happy Thurs=Thursday abbr Thursday
have fun phrase have fun Friday=Friday abbr Friday
if conj (statement condition) if reason n reason; reason
hungry a hungry menu n menu
arrive v arrival; arrival Annie name Annie (female name)
way n road; route; route Unit 9
take (took; taken) v ride; sit; ride (car, boat) was v past tense of is
taxi n taxi did v past tense of do
airport n airport went v past tense of go
pass v visit v visit; visit
hope v hope; look forward to test n exam; test
yours pron your; your what about... How about the phrase
Nancy name Nancy ((female name) stay v stay; stay
Unit 3 at home phrase at home
koala n koala have v do; carry out; engage in
tiger n tiger do some reading phrase reading; reading
elephant n elephant practice v practice; practice
dolphin n dolphin regular a normal; regular; regular
panda n panda verb n verb
lion n lion irregular a irregular; irregular
penguin n penguin present a present tense; present; present
giraffe n giraffe past a past tense; previous; past
zoo n zoo mountain n mountain; mountain range
cute a cute; clever geography n geography
map n map; figure spend v spend; over
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smart a smart; beautiful week n week; week
animal n animal no number; number
box n square box; box; box middle a medium
kind of phrase middle school phrase middle school
south n south; south most a most;
most; almost all
adj in the south; southern; southward go shopping phrase shopping
Africa n Africa had v past tense of have
bingo n past tense of saw v see
ugly a ugly; ugly talk n talk show; conversation; conversation; speech
clever a clever ; clever talk show phrase interview show
friendly a friendly write v past tense of write
beautiful a beautiful; wonderful song n song; song
shy a shy; shy go for a walk phrase to go for a walk
other a other; other sat v past tense of sit
grass n grass down ad downward; below; go down; descend
sleep v sleep; sleep cat n cat
during prep during prep It is time to phrase it is time
at night phrase at night; at night wasn't=was not abbr
leaf n leaf; leaves no a none; very few
lazy a lazy; lazy anything int Anything; no matter what
meat n (edible) meat; meat suggestion n suggestion; opinion
relax v relax; rest Carol Name Carol (female name)
Julia Name Zhu Shanya (female name) Unit 10
Henry Name Henry (male name) New York City n New York City
Molly Name Molly (female name) camp n Camping; camp
Larry name Larry (male name) summer camp phrase summer camp
Unit 4 museum n museum
shop n store; shop guide n guide
v shopping central a central; located in the center
assistant n assistant; assistant didn't=did not abbr
shop assistant phrase clerk exam n exam; check
doctor n doctor really ad really; is it; really
reporter n reporter rainy a rainy; rainy
policeman n male policeman were v past tense of were
waiter n waiter fantastic a excellent
bank clerk phrase bank clerk unfriendly a unfriendly; unfriendly
hospital n hospital awful a extremely bad; extremely annoying
now ad now; at this time delicious a delicious
star v act as the leading role; star in expensive a expensive; expensive
policewoman n female police officer; female police officer crowded a crowded
nurse n nurse cheap a cheap; cheap
money n money; money
；Currency think of phrase consideration; having specific thoughts
give v give; grant water n water
get v get; get; buy; bring; cry n shed tears; cry
wear n wear; wear corner n corner; street corner; wall corner
uniform n uniform make v make; prompt; make near
sometimes ad from time to time; sometimes made v past tense of make
in prep during; within feel v feel; feel
dangerous a dangerous walk n walk; walk; walk
thief n thief; thief back ad return to the original place; go back
late ad late; later than usual time decide v decide; make up one's mind
out ad outside; outward wall n wall ; wall; city wall
talk v talk; talk about the Great Wall phrase Great Wall
station n station; government agency department; bureau palace n palace
TV station Phrase television station the Palace Museum phrase Forbidden City
police; n police; police square n square
police station phrase police station Tian'an Men Square phrase Tiananmen Square
newspaper n newspaper make v write; formulate; do
hard ad work hard; work hard classmate n classmate
as prep as discuss v discuss; discuss
at prep according to; according to report n report; report
summer n summer; summer sex n gender
story n story; deeds; novel Brad name Brad (male name)
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magazine n magazine; periodical Kevin name Kevin (male name)
young a young; younger Vera name Vera (female name)
play n drama; script Unit 11
news n news; news soap n soap
children n children (plural form of child) soap opera phrase soap opera
international a international sitcom n sitcom
teach v teach; teach situation n situation; situation
skill n skill; skill nothing pro nothing; none
sir n Mr.; Your Excellency ha int Ha!
madam n lady; lady stand v endure
Susan name Susan (female name) mind v mind
Betty name Betty (female name) king n king
Karen name Karen (female name) how about v
Frank name male name (male name) fact n fact; real thing
Unit 5 In fact v actually; actually; exactly
clean v clean; clear culture n culture
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d v read; read host n host
on prep pass; in the way agree v agree; agree
apartment n apartment; residence agree with phrase agree; hold the same opinion
TV show phrase TV show sunglasses n sunglasses
suread ad course; indeed belt n belt
wait v wait; wait wallet n wallet
wait for phrase waiting; waiting key ring phrase key chain
toy n toys by prep by; by
west n west; western fashion n fashion; trend
activity n activity said v past tense of say
shop v shopping; shopping article n article put (put; put) put; dress
mall n commercial street; shopping mall idea n idea ;idea
pool n pool; pond colorful a colorful
camera n camera William name William (male name)
bird n bird Jones name Jones (surname)
Steve Name Steve (male name) Taylor Name Taylor (surname)
Unit 6 Rice Name Rice (surname)
rain v Raining Jerry Name Jerry (male name)
windy a windy; windy Unit 12
cloudy a cloudy; cloudy rule n rule
sunny a sunny hallway n corridor; aisle
snow snow; snowy classroom n classroom
weather n weather; climate fight n fight; quarrel
Moscow n Moscow (capital of Russia) Ms n Ms.
Boston n Boston (American city) out side ad outside; outside
cook v cook; cook dining n eat ; eat
study v study hall n hall; auditorium
how's=how is abbreviation have to phrase must; must
bad a bad; inferior else amp; ad other; other; other
terrible a very bad; very bad; terrible sports shoes phrase sports shoes
pretty ad quite; very; quite gym n gymnasium
hot a hot; hot Dr(=Doctor) n doctor
cold a cold by prep by (sometime) before; no later than
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cool a cool wash v wash; wash
warm a warm; warm later ad later; later
humid a moist; moist Children's Palace phrase Children's Palace
vacation n vacation; vacation no talking phrase no talking
on vacation phrase loudly ad loudly
take a photo phrase
Taking pictures Alex Name Alex (male name)
lie v Lie down; lie down Emily Name Emily (female name)
beach n Beach Review of units 7-12
look at phrase look; look towards accessory n accessories; jewelry
group n group; group snow namp; v snow; snow
surprised a surprised order n order; order (dish)
heat n heat; heat opinion n opinion; opinion
relaxed v relaxed; rested Vickers Name Vickers (male name)
winter n winter; winter Lim name Lim (surname)
scarf n scarf Sue name Su; Hugh (female name; Susan's nickname)
everyone pro EveryoneAdditionalmaterial
have a good time phrase have fun; live happily order n order; order
man n man; person; human being form n form