The Plane Tree

by Aesop Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest. As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree. "How useless is the Plane!" said one of them. "It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves." "Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree. "You lie here in my cooling...

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Omusubi Kororin (The Tumbling Rice Balls)

A Folktale from Japan Once upon a time, an old couple lived in the countryside. They were happy, but they were poor. One day, the old man went to work in the forest and took his usual lunch of three rice balls. During lunch, he dropped a rice ball, and it rolled into a hole in the ground. He heard happy singing coming from the hole, so he dropped the other two rice balls into it. Inside the hole,...

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Vocabulary Skills

aggressive (adj) - ရန္လိုေသာ big-headed (adj) - မိမိုကိုယ္ကို အထင္ႀကီးေသာ compatible (adj) - လိုက္ဖက္ေသာ cruel (adj) - ရက္စက္ေသာ၊ ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္ေသာ neat (adj) - ေသသပ္ေသာ punctual (adj) - အခ်ိန္ကိုက္ျဖစ္ေသာ၊ ေနာက္မက်ေသာ ေအာက္ပါကြက္လပ္တို႔တြင္ အထက္တြင္ေပးထားေသာ Adjective တို႔ျဖင့္ မွန္ကန္စြာျဖည့္ေပးပါ။ a. ____________ carefully arranged and looking nice b. ____________ behaving in a way that...

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The Key to Happiness

Read this text. Then choose which statements you can infer. The key to happiness may be great relationships with family and friends, or it might be a full and busy life. It could be having a job that you really enjoy. But whatever the key is for you, you must try to make it happen! If you're not happy, you should ask yourself why and try to change things. Think about your abilities and interests....

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ဘာသာျပန္အပိုင္းအစမ်ား (၂) ႐ု႐ွားစစ္ေလယာဥ္မ်ားအား စံုစမ္းေထာက္လွန္ဖို႔အတြက္ RAF ဂ်က္တိုက္ေလယာဥ္မ်ားအား အေရးေပၚေစႊလႊတ္ခဲ့

RAF fighter jets scrambled to investigate Russian planes ႐ု႐ွားစစ္ေလယာဥ္မ်ားအား စံုစမ္းေထာက္လွန္ဖို႔အတြက္ RAF ဂ်က္တိုက္ေလယာဥ္မ်ားအား အေရးေပၚေစႊလႊတ္ခဲ့ (2) Fighter jets were scrambled after two Russian military aircraft were spotted approaching UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said. Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets took off from RAF Leuchars in St Andrews, Fife, on Wednesday. ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔က ...

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Common Verbs to Study by Heart = အလြတ္က်က္မွတ္ရန္အသံုးမ်ားေသာ ႀကိယာမ်ား

Common Verbs to Study by Heart = အလြတ္က်က္မွတ္ရန္အသံုးမ်ားေသာ ႀကိယာမ်ား Come = လာသည္ Go abroad = ႏိုင္ငံျခားကိုသြားသည္ Close = ပိတ္သည္ Open = ဖြင့္သည္ Sit = ထိုင္သည္ Stand = မတ္တပ္ရပ္သည္ wake up = အိပ္ရာမွ ႏိုးသည္ Get up = အိပ္ရာမွ ထသည္ Eat = စားသည္ ...

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