Here are some words and concepts that will be covered in Lesson Three of the downloadable Lesson Guide (267K PDF file).


Problem: a disagreement between two people, difficult situation, or source of trouble or perplexity

• There are different types of problems, such as social problems, math problems, and puzzles.

• When you say that you believe a person, it means that you believe what they are telling you.
• When you say that you can't believe your ears or your eyes, it means that you don't believe what you are hearing or what you are seeing, even though it is right in front of you.
• The expression "Believe it or not" is a way of beginning a sentence to emphasize that something is true, even if it doesn't seem that way.
• Other expressions are "seeing is believing" and "make-believe."

• The opposite is "possible."
• The letters "im" in front of a word mean "not," and turn a word into its opposite, such as "impatient" and "impolite."

• Other things that can be electric (and in some cases only run with electricity) are typewriters, toasters, lamps, some cars, radios, lamps, computers, and vacuum cleaners.

• "Strike" can mean knocking down all ten pins in bowling, or a call in baseball.
• "To strike" can mean to light a match, or to hit someone or something.

• Places that can be closed include a school, a store, the post office, the library, a pool or the beach, a bank, or a road.
• Things that can be closed are doors, windows, books, drawers, eyes, and mouth.
• "Closed" can also mean the past tense of "to close."
• Closed-captioned television means you need a decoder to make the captions show up on your TV.