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Day 5 · City & Technology · A2 Level

Moving Day

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⏱ Time target: 4-5 minutes 📖 Reading + Vocabulary ✅ 10 True / False questions
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Today is movingmove (verb)To change from one place to live in another.Synonym: relocate🇺🇿UZ: ko'chib o'tmoq🇷🇺RU: переезжать day for the Rashidov family. Boxesbox (noun)A container, usually with straight sides, for holding things.Synonym: carton🇺🇿UZ: quti🇷🇺RU: коробка are everywhereeverywhere (adverb)In or to every place.Synonym: all over🇺🇿UZ: hamma joyda🇷🇺RU: везде, and everyone is runningrun (verb)To move quickly on foot.Synonym: dash🇺🇿UZ: yugurmoq🇷🇺RU: бегать around, tryingtry (verb)To make an effort to do something.Synonym: attempt🇺🇿UZ: harakat qilmoq🇷🇺RU: пытаться to finish before the trucktruck (noun)A large vehicle used for carrying goods.Synonym: lorry🇺🇿UZ: yuk mashinasi🇷🇺RU: грузовик arrivesarrive (verb)To reach a place.Synonym: get there🇺🇿UZ: yetib kelmoq🇷🇺RU: прибывать.

"Where are the kitchen boxes?" shoutsshout (verb)To speak or call out very loudly.Synonym: yell🇺🇿UZ: baqirmoq🇷🇺RU: кричать Malik's mother from the hallwayhallway (noun)A passage inside a house leading to different rooms.Synonym: corridor🇺🇿UZ: yo'lak🇷🇺RU: коридор. "I'm carryingcarry (verb)To hold and move something from one place to another.Synonym: transport🇺🇿UZ: ko'tarib yurmoq🇷🇺RU: нести them right now!" Malik shouts back, walkingwalk (verb)To move on foot at a normal speed.Synonym: stroll🇺🇿UZ: yurmoq🇷🇺RU: идти slowlyslowly (adverb)Not quickly; taking a long time.Synonym: gradually🇺🇿UZ: asta🇷🇺RU: медленно with a heavyheavy (adj)Weighing a lot; not light.Synonym: weighty🇺🇿UZ: og'ir🇷🇺RU: тяжёлый box in his armsarm (noun)The part of the body from the shoulder to the hand.Synonym: limb🇺🇿UZ: qo'l🇷🇺RU: рука.

His littlelittle (adj)Small in size, especially younger in a family.Synonym: small🇺🇿UZ: kichik🇷🇺RU: маленький sister, Feruza, is sitting on the floorfloor (noun)The flat surface of a room that you walk on.Synonym: ground🇺🇿UZ: pol🇷🇺RU: пол, refusingrefuse (verb)To say clearly that you will not do something.Synonym: decline🇺🇿UZ: rad etmoq🇷🇺RU: отказываться to move. "I don't want to leaveleave (verb)To go away from a place.Synonym: depart🇺🇿UZ: tark etmoq🇷🇺RU: покидать this flat," she says. "All my friends live here." "I know," their mother says gentlygently (adverb)In a soft, kind, and careful way.Synonym: softly🇺🇿UZ: muloyimlik bilan🇷🇺RU: нежно, "but you'll make new friends too."

Outside, their fatherfather (noun)A male parent.Synonym: dad🇺🇿UZ: ota🇷🇺RU: отец is talking to the truck driverdriver (noun)A person who drives a vehicle.Synonym: operator🇺🇿UZ: haydovchi🇷🇺RU: водитель, who is checking his scheduleschedule (noun)A plan that shows when things will happen.Synonym: timetable🇺🇿UZ: jadval🇷🇺RU: расписание on his phone. "We're running a little latelate (adj)After the expected or usual time.Synonym: delayed🇺🇿UZ: kech🇷🇺RU: поздний," the driver says, "but we're still loadingload (verb)To put things into a vehicle to be carried.Synonym: pack🇺🇿UZ: yuklamoq🇷🇺RU: загружать the truck on time."

Malik is currentlycurrently (adverb)At the present time; now.Synonym: at present🇺🇿UZ: hozirda🇷🇺RU: в настоящее время carrying the last box to the door when he tripstrip (verb)To catch your foot on something and fall or stumble.Synonym: stumble🇺🇿UZ: qoqilmoq🇷🇺RU: спотыкаться over a cablecable (noun)A thick wire or cord, often for electricity.Synonym: wire🇺🇿UZ: kabel🇷🇺RU: кабель. "Carefulcareful (adj)Paying close attention to avoid danger or mistakes.Synonym: cautious🇺🇿UZ: ehtiyotkor🇷🇺RU: осторожный!" his mother callscall (verb)To say something loudly to get attention.Synonym: shout🇺🇿UZ: chaqirmoq🇷🇺RU: звать, catchingcatch (verb)To take hold of something moving through the air.Synonym: grab🇺🇿UZ: ushlab olmoq🇷🇺RU: ловить the box just in time. "Sorry," Malik laughs, "I'm not usually this clumsyclumsy (adj)Moving awkwardly and often knocking or dropping things.Synonym: awkward🇺🇿UZ: epchil emas🇷🇺RU: неуклюжий!"

By the afternoon, the old flat is completelycompletely (adverb)Totally; in every way.Synonym: entirely🇺🇿UZ: butunlay🇷🇺RU: полностью emptyempty (adj)Containing nothing; not full.Synonym: vacant🇺🇿UZ: bo'sh🇷🇺RU: пустой, and every box is in the truck. Feruza looks around the empty roomsroom (noun)A separate part of a building with its own walls.Synonym: chamber🇺🇿UZ: xona🇷🇺RU: комната one lastlast (adj)Coming after all others; final.Synonym: final🇺🇿UZ: oxirgi🇷🇺RU: последний time. "Goodbye, old flat," she whisperswhisper (verb)To speak very quietly and softly.Synonym: murmur🇺🇿UZ: pichirlamoq🇷🇺RU: шептать.

As they drivedrive (verb)To control and operate a vehicle.Synonym: operate a car🇺🇿UZ: haydamoq🇷🇺RU: водить away, Malik puts his armarm (noun)The part of the body from the shoulder to the hand.Synonym: limb🇺🇿UZ: qo'l🇷🇺RU: рука around his sister. "The new flat has a balconybalcony (noun)A platform on the outside of a building, above ground level.Synonym: terrace🇺🇿UZ: balkon🇷🇺RU: балкон," he says. "You're going to love it." Feruza smiles a little. "Maybe," she says.

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