Speaking practice Part-ii (GK-16)

Daily

Practice

English

speaking

Through

Stories

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Part ii 

 

 

One of my favorite cities is

         Newyork.

 

One of my

favorite cities is

New York.

 

I spent two weeks

there last summer,

and

every day I went to

a different museum,

Play,

musical performances,

or did poetry readings.                                 

 

The only thing

I don’t like

about New York is

the traffic noise

you can hear

cars driving

and

honking

all night long.

 

 

meanings:

 

favorite:

 

(a)

ප්‍රියතම

 

(n)

වල්ලභ වූ තැනැත්තා,

ප්‍රියතමයා  

     

 

spent:

(Past verb

of spend)

 

(a)

වෙහෙසට පැමිණි,

යෙදූ,

ගෙවූ, 

ශක්තිහීන,

වියදම් කළ, ලැගි.

 

 

summer:

 

(a)

ග්‍රීෂ්ම ඍතුවට සුදුසු,

 ග්‍රීෂ්ම ඍතුවට අයත්

 

(n)

(වයස දැක්වීමේදී) අවුරුද්ද,

ගිම,ග්‍රීෂ්මය, 

ග්‍රීෂ්ම ඍතුව, 

නිදාඝය.ගිම්හානය,

 

 

museum:

 

(Aes)

කටුගෙය

 

 

WHEN I WENT

TO HAWAI:

 

When I went to Hawaii,

I spent the first five 

days in Honolulu.

 

Everything was really

expensive there, 

especially in restaurants.

 

Four dollars for a Soda! 

But the beaches

were wonderful.

 

The sands were

so soft

and the water

was so clean.

 

meanings:

 

everything:

 

(pron)

සියල්ල 

 

expensive:

 

(a)

බොහෝ වටිනා,

මිල අධික 

 

 

especially:

 

 

(adv)

විශේෂයෙන්ම 

 

 

restaurant:

 

(Law)

අවන්හල

 

(n)

ආපණය,

භෝජනාගාරය,

ආපණශාලාව,

ආපන ශාලාව 

 

 

dollar:

 

(n)

ඩොලරය 

 

 

beach:

 

 (n)

වැල්ල,

වෙරළ

 

(v)

ගොඩට අදිනවා.

 

 

wonderful:

 

(a)

ආශ්චර්‍යමත්,

ආශ්චර්‍යවත්

ආශ්චර්‍ය ජනක,

අසිරිමත්,

අද්භූත,

අරුම පුදුම,

අපූර්ව, 

අපූරු ,

පුදුම,

පුදුම සහිත.

 

 

soft:

 

(a)

සුමුදු,

සුකොමල,

ස්නිග්ධ,

සිලිටු ,

සිලුටු,

සිනිදු,

ළාමක,

ළතෙත්,

මෘදු,

දුර්වල,

සෞම්‍ය,

මොලොක්,

මෙලෙක්,

කොමළ,

කොමල,

ශිථිල,

පහසු   

 

(adv)

මොලොක් ලෙස

 

 

Bonus

words:

 

These presses

are used

very often

situations:

 

නිතර නිතර

භාවිත වෙන 

වාක්‍යංශ

කිහිපයක් 

 

I met friends

 

at the park. 

 

Goodbye!

 

Go back.

 

Good morning!

 

Good afternoon!

 

Good evening!

 

Good for you!

 

Go straight ahead.

 

How old are you?

 

How are you?

 

How have you been? 

 

Help!

 

Hamsters like to sleep

 

during the day.

 

Hello!

 

How much

 

do I owe you?

 

How was your journey?

 

How long does

 

Does the delivery take?

 

How can I get there?

 

How far is this venue?

 

Have you been

waiting long?

 

Have fun!

 

Here you go.

 

How may I help you?

 

How do you get there?

 

Have a safe trip.

 

How are things?

 

How do you

 

pronounce this?

 

Hurry up!

 

How's the weather?

 

Have a nice day!

 

How long will it take?

 

Hold on one moment,

please.

 

How was your day?

 

Have you done this before?

 

How long will it take?

 

He feels really sad.

 

He was surprised.

 

How was it?

 

Here you are.

 

How much is it?

 

He is leaving now.

 

How can we fix this?

 

Here is my contact number.

 

Have you ever been

here before?

 

 

Past perfect 

අතීත නිමවූ විධියේ

වාක්‍යය කිහිපයක්.

 

1.

 

 

He looked

 

 

really sad,

but I didn't

know

what

had

happened.

 

2.

 

Had Tim

already left 

when you

rang 

the doorbell?

 

3.

 

 

I looked

in the

letterbox

last night,

and

the letter

still

hadn't

arrived.

 

4.

 

 

This building

is very old.

It was

built over

a hundred

years.

 

5.

 

 

When I left

the house,

I realized

that 

I'd left

my keys

inside.

 

6.

 

 

When

the police

arrived

the thief

had

escaped.

 

7.

 

 

They

left before

I'd

spoken

to them.

 

8.

 

 

I called

his office

but

he'd 

already

left.

 

9.

 

 

He didn't

feel 

like 

another 

coffee

 as

he'd just

had

one.

 

10.

 

 

I opened

the door

and

went

inside.

 

 

Bonus:

 

විධාන වාක්‍යය: 

 

විධාන වාක්‍යය

ඉතාම පහසුය.

ඉංග්‍රීසියෙහි

විධාන වචනය

යෙදෙන්නේ 

වාක්‍යයේ

මුලටය.

 

ශිෂ්‍යයාට උගන්වන්න

යන්න යෙදෙන්නේ 

උගන්වන්න ශිෂ්‍යයාට

යන ආකාරයටය. 

 

උදාහරණ:

 

ශිෂ්‍යයාට උගන්වන්න.

පොත ගෙනෙන්න.

පෙට්ටිය ගන්න.

බෝලය විසිකරන්න. 

වතුර බොන්න. 

 

Teach the pupil.

 

Bring the book.

 

Take the box.

 

Throw the ball.

 

Drink water.

 

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