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Day 9 · Family & People · A1 Level

Good Advice

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⏱ Time target: 3-4 minutes 📖 Reading + Vocabulary ✅ 10 True / False questions
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On my first week at the languagelanguage (noun)The words people use to speak, like English or Uzbek.≈ Synonym: tongue🇺🇿UZ: til🇷🇺RU: язык school, my teacher gave us some good adviceadvice (noun)Words that help you decide what to do.≈ Synonym: suggestion🇺🇿UZ: maslahat🇷🇺RU: совет. Here is what she said:

“Come to class every day. Don't be latelate (adj)After the right or usual time.≈ Synonym: not on time🇺🇿UZ: kechikkan🇷🇺RU: опоздавший, поздно. Listenlisten (verb)To pay attention to sounds or to what someone says.≈ Synonym: hear🇺🇿UZ: tinglamoq🇷🇺RU: слушать carefullycarefully (adv)With attention; not carelessly.≈ Synonym: attentively🇺🇿UZ: ehtiyotkorlik bilan🇷🇺RU: внимательно to your teacher and your classmates. Don't be afraidafraid (adj)Feeling fear.≈ Synonym: scared🇺🇿UZ: qo'rquvchi🇷🇺RU: испуганный to make mistakesmistake (noun)Something you do wrong.≈ Synonym: error🇺🇿UZ: xato🇷🇺RU: ошибка — mistakes help you learnlearn (verb)To get new knowledge or a new skill.≈ Synonym: study🇺🇿UZ: o‘rganmoq🇷🇺RU: учиться, узнавать.

Practisepractise (verb)To do something many times to get better at it.≈ Synonym: train🇺🇿UZ: mashq qilmoq🇷🇺RU: практиковать English every day, even for ten minutesminute (noun)A unit of time; sixty seconds.≈ Synonym: —🇺🇿UZ: daqiqa🇷🇺RU: минута. Read simplesimple (adj)Easy to understand.≈ Synonym: easy🇺🇿UZ: oddiy, sodda🇷🇺RU: простой books and shortshort (adj)Not long.≈ Synonym: brief🇺🇿UZ: qisqa🇷🇺RU: короткий storiesstory (noun)A telling of events, real or imagined.≈ Synonym: tale🇺🇿UZ: hikoya🇷🇺RU: рассказ. Watchwatch (verb)To look at something for some time, like a film.≈ Synonym: view🇺🇿UZ: tomosha qilmoq🇷🇺RU: смотреть English videosvideo (noun)Moving pictures you can watch.≈ Synonym: clip🇺🇿UZ: video🇷🇺RU: видео with subtitlessubtitle (noun)Written words at the bottom of a video screen.≈ Synonym: captions🇺🇿UZ: subtitr🇷🇺RU: субтитры. Write new words in a notebooknotebook (noun)A small book with empty pages for writing.≈ Synonym: exercise book🇺🇿UZ: daftar🇷🇺RU: тетрадь, and look at them again later.

Speakspeak (verb)To say words; to talk.≈ Synonym: talk🇺🇿UZ: gapirmoq🇷🇺RU: говорить English with your classmates, not only in class, but also outsideoutside (adv)Not inside; in the open air or elsewhere.≈ Synonym: outdoors🇺🇿UZ: tashqarida🇷🇺RU: снаружи. Don't translatetranslate (verb)To change words from one language to another.≈ Synonym: —🇺🇿UZ: tarjima qilmoq🇷🇺RU: переводить every word into your language. Try to understand the generalgeneral (adj)Not specific; overall.≈ Synonym: overall🇺🇿UZ: umumiy🇷🇺RU: общий meaningmeaning (noun)What a word or sentence means.≈ Synonym: sense🇺🇿UZ: ma'no🇷🇺RU: значение first.

Ask questions when you don't understandunderstand (verb)To know the meaning of something.≈ Synonym: comprehend🇺🇿UZ: tushunmoq🇷🇺RU: понимать. Don't worryworry (verb)To feel anxious about something.≈ Synonym: be anxious🇺🇿UZ: xavotirlanmoq🇷🇺RU: беспокоиться about your accentaccent (noun)The way a person pronounces words.≈ Synonym: pronunciation🇺🇿UZ: aksent, talaffuz🇷🇺RU: акцент — everyone has an accent! Finallyfinally (adv)At the end; after a period of time.≈ Synonym: at last🇺🇿UZ: nihoyat🇷🇺RU: наконец, be patientpatient (adj)Able to wait calmly without getting angry.≈ Synonym: calm🇺🇿UZ: sabrli🇷🇺RU: терпеливый. Learning a language takes timetime (noun)Minutes, hours or days that pass.🇺🇿UZ: vaqt🇷🇺RU: время. Don't give up, even when it is difficultdifficult (adj)Not easy.≈ Synonym: hard🇺🇿UZ: qiyin🇷🇺RU: трудный.” I wrote all this advice in my notebook. Now, every morning, I look at it and rememberremember (verb)To keep something in your memory.≈ Synonym: recall🇺🇿UZ: eslamoq🇷🇺RU: помнить: come to class, practise, listen, speak, and never give up.

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      languagenoun
      tilязыкUzbek is my first language.
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      advicenoun
      maslahatсоветMy father always gives me good advice.
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      lateadjective
      kechikkanопоздавший, поздноDon't be late for school!
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      listenverb
      tinglamoqслушатьI listen to music on the bus.
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      carefullyadverb
      ehtiyotkorlik bilanвнимательноPlease read the question carefully.
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      afraidadjective
      qo'rquvchiиспуганныйMy little brother is afraid of dogs.
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      mistakenoun
      xatoошибкаEveryone makes mistakes.
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      learnverb
      o‘rganmoqучиться, узнаватьI want to learn to swim.
      9
      practiseverb
      mashq qilmoqпрактиковатьI practise the piano every day.
      10
      minutenoun
      daqiqaминутаWait a minute, please.
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      simpleadjective
      oddiy, soddaпростойThis recipe is very simple.
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      shortadjective
      qisqaкороткийMy hair is short.
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      storynoun
      hikoyaрассказMy grandmother tells me a story every night.
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      watchverb
      tomosha qilmoqсмотретьWe watch football on TV.
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      videonoun
      videoвидеоWe watched a funny video.
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      subtitlenoun
      subtitrсубтитрыI watch films with English subtitles.
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      notebooknoun
      daftarтетрадьI have a red notebook.
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      speakverb
      gapirmoqговоритьDo you speak Russian?
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      outsideadverb
      tashqaridaснаружиThe children are playing outside.
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      translateverb
      tarjima qilmoqпереводитьCan you translate this word?
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      generaladjective
      umumiyобщийI have a general idea of the story.
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      meaningnoun
      ma'noзначениеWhat is the meaning of this word?
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      understandverb
      tushunmoqпониматьI don't understand this question.
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      worryverb
      xavotirlanmoqбеспокоитьсяDon't worry. Everything is OK.
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      accentnoun
      aksent, talaffuzакцентShe speaks English with a British accent.
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      finallyadverb
      nihoyatнаконецFinally, the bus came.
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      patientadjective
      sabrliтерпеливыйOur teacher is very patient.
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      timenoun
      vaqtвремяI don't have time today.
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      difficultadjective
      qiyinтрудныйChinese is a difficult language.
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      rememberverb
      eslamoqпомнитьI always remember my friends' birthdays.