图解英语 · 第一本
100 These are apples. These are oranges. Apples and oranges are fruit. Does Mary keep the fruit in the icebox? What is the time? The time is five (5:00). It is five. Mary will make the soup. What is the time? It's five-thirty (5:30). Mary is making the soup. The potatoes are in the pot. The water in the pot is boiling. It is five-forty (5:40). Mary has a fork in her hand. She is putting the fork into the potatoes.
101 The potatoes are hard. The fork does not go into them. It is five-fifty (5:50). Mary is putting the fork in again. She is doing it again. The potatoes are soft. The fork goes into them. She is taking them out of the pot and putting them on a plate.
102 The potatoes are on the plate. They were in the pot. They were hard. They are soft now. Mary is crushing them with a fork. They are not hard now. They are soft. Bread is soft. Meat is soft. Glass is hard. Butter is soft.
103 John has a bit of cheese in his fingers. He is putting the bit of cheese in his mouth. Now it is between his teeth. This is his mouth. This is a tooth. These are teeth. The cheese is not soft. It is hard. John's teeth do not go into the cheese.
104 Mary put the potatoes and the milk and other things into the pot. This is salt. She put the pot over a low flame. She put the cover on the pot. The low flame is under the pot. This flame is low. This flame is high. This building is high. This building is low.
105 What is the time? it is six (6:00). Mary is tasting the soup. It has a good taste. The soup is ready. Now she is putting the soup in the plates. It was in the pot. Now it is in the plates. She made the soup. She put it in the plates. She took them to the table. The plates are on the table. The soup is ready. It is good soup. Mary made it.
