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🔊After walking around the night market for a while, one of my favorite stops is the juice vendor. It is just the right place to cool off, quench your thirst, and take a break from all the shopping and game playing. Most vendors offer a wide variety of fresh fruit juices and other drinks. Fresh fruit, ice and water are put into a blender and blended until the ice is finely chopped. Sometimes they add milk for a creamier flavor or mix in a bit of honey to sweeten it up. Watermelon juice or watermelon milk is very popular as is tomato juice with a bit of honey, but I think papaya milk is the best.

🔊This farmer is picking green grapes off the vine. Every row has to be picked and it is a time-consuming job. Each bunch is picked from the vine and placed into a yellow basket on a cart. When the baskets on the top are full, they are stacked on the ground and replaced with empty ones from underneath the cart. When the harvest is finally completed, the grapes will be loaded onto a truck and shipped to a market or a buyer.

🔊Dennis is crying uncontrollably. He has lost his favorite doll. Tears stream down his face and even onto his little overalls. The wailing goes on for a few minutes until he realizes that he has drawn a crowd. The river of tears slows and his sobs turn to nothing more than sniffling.

🔊A young girl in the crowd holds up a doll and asks, “Is this yours, little boy?”

🔊His eyes light up. The tears begin to roll again, as he is reunited with his Barbie doll. This time, though, they are tears of joy.

🔊“Oh Barbie! I love you,” he says from the bottom of his heart, “I thought I had lost you forever! 15”

🔊Shawna wonders if the new diet she is on is paying off. She steps onto a scale in the bathroom. The scale reads 15 kilograms. She thinks the scale may be wrong, so she steps off and then steps onto it again. But according to the scale, she still weighs 15kg. There is nothing wrong with it.

🔊Shawna is wasting away to skin and bones. Apparently the diet is working too well. She can now hide behind a broom. She is officially a human bookmark. She had better go and eat something soon or she is going to blow away!

🔊“Umm,” Cara sighs as she closes her eyes and lifts the full spoon up to her nose, taking a big whiff of the broth. It smells so good and it immediately brings a smile to her face.

🔊In front of her the hot pot sits on a tray, along with some cabbage, a few other vegetables and a bowl of rice. The pot is kept warm with a small flame that is fueled with paraffin wax.

🔊Cara enjoys hot pots because it is like cooking her own little dinner right at the table. She decides what goes in the pot and what doesn’t. Nothing makes Cara happier than eating a hot pot.

🔊These students are jumping rope. Jumping rope, or skipping as it is sometimes called, is good exercise. It is a cheap way to get in shape, too because all you need is a rope. You can do it by yourself with a short rope or with friends using a longer rope. Jumping rope can help to improve your coordination as well. However, if you are clumsy, you might tie your feet together when you are swinging the rope around and end up on your bottom!

🔊Oliver is watering the plants along the road in front of his house. He takes pride in his plants. He finds it very relaxing to sprinkle water over them with the watering can. Occasionally he will add fertilizer to the water to make sure the plants get all the nutrients they need.

🔊The beautiful flower bed runs the length of the fence that guards his house. There are many different colorful plants and flowers contained within this bed. They need a good watering from time to time just like you need to eat and drink. Without it, they would wither, or wilt, and die.

🔊Picture 1 Myles has a small bunch of bananas. He breaks one off and gives it to his youngest brother, Kyle. He then breaks the last two apart. He keeps one for himself and saves one for George, the middle brother.

🔊Picture 2 The boys look like three little monkeys trying to eat bananas. Kyle may be the smallest of the three, but he has peeled his banana the fastest. George has just dropped some of the banana peel on the table and is now looking at the fruit as if it is more trouble than it is worth. Myles has one third of his banana peeled, but he stops when he notices the camera watching his every move.

🔊Picture 3 Kyle stares off into the distance as he fills his mouth with banana. George never even finished peeling his banana and has taken off in search of better things to do. Myles, on the other hand, has started goofing off for the camera. He is pretending to be in love with his banana and is kissing it instead of eating it. What a goof!

🔊Picture 1 All the students are working in groups making posters. Two of the boys are cutting out shapes while another leafs through a book looking for something to use. There are many scraps of paper lying in the middle of the table beside the poster they are making. It looks like they are making a big mess.

🔊Picture 2 The entire class is working in groups making posters. This group of two girls and two boys are finished cutting and are now gluing different colored shapes onto a big piece of paper. The girl on the left is carefully adding another piece while her classmate to the left intently watches. The group behind them are holding up their poster to see how it looks.

🔊Wheelchair ramps make buildings more accessible for physically disabled people. They can be found in many public and government buildings. The gradual slope makes it easier to get into buildings with a wheelchair. But they are not just for wheelchairs. Elderly people, people on crutches, people who use walkers and others who find stairs difficult to climb, can also use them. Not all wheelchair ramps have nice handrails like this one, but any wheelchair ramp is better than no wheelchair ramp, isn’t it?