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 Understand Others
- Same Meaning
Table of Contents

Page Description
75 Understand Others
77 Different Words
79 One Story at a Time!
81 Bird Flies Nearby
82 Everything is Familiar
83 Big Storm
84 Everything is Different
85 Ask Directions
86 Moo
87 Maw
88  Can’t Understand
89 Quack
90 Gaap
93 Croak
94 Ope
95 Speak Different Words
96 Same Meanings
97 Work Together
100 Bird Flies Back Home
101  Understand Each Other
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 Understand Others
Buddy Book
- Syllables, Stress, “S” and More
Table of Contents
Page Description
102 Buddy Book
103 ‘a’ & ‘e’ Sounds
104 ‘i,o,u’ Sounds
105 Different Than Spell
106 Spell ‘ur’ sound
107 Noun
108 Action words
109  Describe words
110 Different Words
111 Different Meanings
112 Same Meanings
113 Activity #3 Same Words
114 Oppoosites
115 Word Parts
116 Stress
117 Short Sign ( ‘)
118 “s, es, ies’ nouns
119 “s” to some verb
120 “You & I” Break rules
121 Different review
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Lessons 4 & 5

Understand
Others /

Syllables,
Stress
& ‘S’

The Start
75
 Action!

Read the short story

called “Understanding Others”
Next, practice the words in
the “Buddy Book” called,
“Sylables, Stress and S.”
Remember, on the first read,
to skip the parts with “Doctor
Know.”

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Lessons 4

Understand Others
- Different Words

Written by Douglas J. and Pakaket Alford

Illustrated by Chanita Worakhan

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 Understand Others
- Different Words

© Copyright Manufacturing Application Konsulting Engineering

(MAKE) 2016. All rights reserved.
Teachers may copy this book for classroom use.

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 Learn English,
One Story
at a Time!

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79
Learn each others’ words.
See how we are all the same.
Understand where we are different.

80
 Close by, a green bird
flies in the clear blue sky.

81
familiar

The bird looks down.

Everything is the same.

82
 Suddenly, a big storm
blows the bird far, far away.

83 huge storm
The bird is not hurt.
The bird looks down again.
This time, everything is
different.

84
 The bird is lost. It
flies down to the ground
to ask directions.

85
The bird asks a
cow,“moo, moo, moo”
that means which
way is my home?

86
 “Maw, maw, maw,”
said the confused cow
from the new country.

87 ‘Maw, rhymes with saw.

The bird said, “I can’t
understand you. Cows
here don’t speak the
same words as cows
where I come from.”

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 Next, the bird sees a yellow
duck. “Quack, quack quack,”
said the bird to the
newly met duck.

89
“Gaap, gaap, gaap,” said
the happy but confused duck.

90
 The bird said, “I can’t
understand you. This is not
how ducks in my country talk.”

91
Bird sees a frog and
flies over to talk with it.

92
 “Croak, croak, croak,”
said the bird to the
newly met frog.

93
“Ope, ope, ope,”
said the friendly
but confused frog.

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 The bird wonders, “Why
don’t the animals in this
new country speak the same
as where it comes from?”

95
The bird learns that other
countries use different words
which have the same meanings.

96
 The animals work together
to learn each others languages.

97
Soon, the bird can talk
with its new friends.

98
 The new animals
teach the bird which
way to fly home.

99
As it flies away from
the new country, the
bird thinks ...

100
 Different words are
just ways to learn
more about each other.

The End
Understand Others
101 -Different Words
 Lessons 5
Understand Others
- Different Words
Buddy Book
Syllables, Stress,
“S” and More

The Start
102
 ‘ a ’ Sounds

‘ ā ’ ‘ ă ’
a as
name ask
same can

‘ e ’ Sounds
‘ ē ’ ‘ ĕ ’

green met
me stress
mean
see
we

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‘ i, o, u ’ Sounds
‘ ī ’ ‘ ĭ ’
I is, it
time big

‘ ō ’ ‘ ŏ ’
home frog
blow not

‘ ū ’ ‘ ŭ ’
blue but
use duck

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 Say Different
Than Spell
way [wā]

said [sĕd]

my [mī]

look
(“oo” sound takes practice. Try
to say “food” and “good” too.)

moo [mū] soon [sūn]

come [kŭm] from [frŭm]

moo

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Spell ‘ur’ sound

word way-to-say:
bird [burd]
shirt [shurt]
word [wurd]
work [wurk]
hurt [hurt]

The bird is not hurt.

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 Nouns

- person, place or things

sky clouds

bird

frog cow

duck
grass

107
 Action Words

look fly

ask
learn

108
 Describe Words
clear blue sky

yellow
Sun
green bird

friendly frog confused

cow
Notice: adjectives come before nouns.
109
 Different Words

Different language use different

words for the same meaning.

croak “ope”
moo “maw”
quack “gaap”

110
 Different Meanings
Words can have
more than one meanings.

close [klōz] - to shut

Close the door!
close [klōs] - near, short distance away
The store is close by.

mean [meen] - not nice

The bully is mean.
mean [meen] - define word
This word means something.
mean = action meaning = thing

stress [stres] - to make a syllable loud

Stress the 1st syllable.
stress [stres] - pressure
He has work stress.

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 Same Meanings
Different words can
have the same meanings.

Different words can have the same meaning.

big large huge
small little tiny
look see
glad happy
talk speak

large
Suddenly, a big storm
blows the bird far, far away.
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 Activity #3
Same Words

#3 Re-read the story. Write

in other words that have the
same meaning.
Page New Word
83 big ---> huge, large
86 home ---> house
88 words ---> language
90 said ---> replied

113
 Opposites
up down
big small
hot cold
on off
near far
young old
happy sad
same different
close open

What is the
opposite of a
happy duck?
__________
happy duck
sad 114
 Word Parts

Words parts that we say

together are called syllables.

# word way-to-say:
1 bird [burd]
2 country [kuhn-tree]
3 animals [an-uh-muh l]
together [tuh-geth-er]
language [lang-gwij]
syllable [sil-uh-buh l]

115 syllables
 Stress
Notice this but don’t worry
(stress) about it. One word
part is stressed or said a
bit louder and longer than
the other parts.

word way-to-say:
1st country [kuhn-tree]
1st animals [an-uh-muh l]
2nd together [tuh-geth-er]
1st language [lang-gwij]
1st syllable [sil-uh-buh l]
3rd horizontal [hor-uh-zon-tl]
Often the 1st syllable is stressed.

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 Short Sign ( ‘ )
‘ means to shorten

contraction
can not can’t
do not don’t
I am I’m
is not isn’t
will not won’t

The bird answers, “I can’t

understand you. This isn’t
how ducks in my country talk.”

‘ is an apostrophe
117
 More Than One.
“s, es and ies” nouns

single plural
bird birds
cow cows
duck ducks
frog frogs
kiss kisses
brush brushes
country countries

plural 118
 “s” to some verbs
Feature Rule
- with some single nouns:
add “s” to the verbs.

single plural
bird asks birds ask
he looks they look
she sees birds see
bird flies birds fly
bird replies birds reply
cow speaks cows speak
bird answers birds answer
bird thinks birds think
he goes they go

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 “You & I” Break Rules

Rule Breaker
- “You or I” verb has no “s”
(act like plural).

I go.
You go.
I ask a question.
I fly.
You look great.
You talk fast.
I think.
I reply, “ok”.

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 Different Words - Review

Yesterday, I flew.
Today, I’m flying.
Tomorrow, I will fly too.

Am I happy or unhappy?
glad sad
joyful
cheerful

121
A storm blows a bird to another country.
At first, the bird can’t talk with the new
animals. This is the story of learning about
languages. How can different words have
the same meanings?

The End
Understand Others
-Different Words
Buddy Book
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 NEXT
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Turtle
Jumps!
Phonics,
First
& Faces

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Illustrations are the property of Mfg Application
Konsulting Engineering (MAKE) Used with permission

Chanita Worakhan illustrated ‘Understand Others and

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C J Haacke illustrated Robin’s First Flight
Tami Ashby illustrated Turtle Jumps
Jamie Shekina Mapa illustrated Too Much TV

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