part 5

47 This is a button. This is a button-hole. This is a needle. This is thread. What are you doing with your needle now? I am putting this button on the coat. And I am making the button-holes.

48 The girl will put the end of the thread through the needle. She has the needle in the fingers of one hand and the thread in the fingers of the other hand. This is the end of the thread. This is the hole in the needle. It is the eye of the needle. The end of the thread is not going straight. It is not going through the hole in the needle. The thread did not go through the needle. It is not through the hole in the needle now.

49 It is on one side of the needle. It is on this side of the needle. Now the girl is doing it again. Is the end of the thread through the hole? No, it is not. It is on the other side of the needle. The girl is making another attempt. This time the thread will go through the hole. The end of the thread is straight. It went through. The girl is taking the end of the thread in her fingers. The thread is through the needle.

50 Where are your scissors? Here they are. This blade is narrow. This blade is wide. Narrow? This is a narrow street. This is a wide street. These trousers are wide. These trousers are narrow.

55 The earth goes round in twenty-four hours. There are twenty-four hours in every day. The sun comes up and goes down every day because the earth is turning round. The earth goes round the sun in a year. There are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year. Three hundred and sixty-five days make a year. There are seven days in a week. Seven days make a week. Here are the names of the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Monday is before Tuesday. Tuesday is after Monday. There are thirty-one or thirty or twenty-eight days in a month. Here are the names of the months: January (31) February (28) March (31) April (30) May (31) June (30) July (31) August (31) September (30) October (31) November (30) December (31). January is before February... February is after January...

56 These are the winter months: December, January, February. These are the summer months: June, July, August. These are the spring months: March, April, May. These are the fall months: September, October, November. In the North, the earth is cold in the winter. The wind is cold. Snow comes down from the sky. There are no leaves on the trees. There is ice over the water. The days are short. In the North, the earth and the air are warm in the summer. There are leaves on the trees. The days are long. There is no ice or snow. In the spring the leaves come out on the trees. Plants come up out of the earth, and flowers come out on the plants.