Up at five — farm day
Land and animal words: plough, fertile, produce — old words that still feed everyone.
New core words in this lesson
basketcartcommonfeatherfertilefowlholehornlandleafnetploughproducerangespadetailwastewhipwingworm
Read the sentences below, then practice the whole lesson with audio.
- 1Up at five — on a farm, the day doesn't wait for you.
- 2This land has been in our family for a hundred years.
- 3It's fertile earth — black, soft, and full of life.
- 4Take this spade and make a line of holes down this side.
- 5See the worms? That's a good sign — they keep the earth living.
- 6The plough goes up and down till the whole field is open.
- 7Now the fowls — give them their food, but watch the little white one.
- 8She comes at you with her wings out and feathers flying!
- 9Mind the cow — soft eyes, hard horns, and a tail that talks.
- 10Put the eggs in the basket one at a time, son.
- 11The old cart takes the apples down — the horse knows the way.
- 12That whip on the wall was my father's — we never use it.
- 13The net over the fruit trees keeps the birds off our produce.
- 14We waste nothing here — every dead leaf goes back into the earth.
- 15Look at that range of mountains — common land, open to all of us.
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