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the /ðǝ, ði; strong form ði:/ def art ❍ SCHOOL 1 ၁။ (ေဖာ္ျပၿပီး လူ၊ အရာဝတၳဳစသည္ကို ရည္ၫႊန္း ရာတြင္သံုးသည္။ ) A boy and a girl were sitting on a bench. The boy was smiling but the girl looked angry. ❍ There was an accident here yesterday. A car hit a tree and the driver was killed. ၂။ (တစ္စံုတစ္ခု၊ တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္ဟု ေဖာ္ၫႊန္း ရာတြင္သံုးသည္။ ) the house at the end of the street ❍ the birds of Borneo ❍ We still haven't solved the main problem. ❍ The people I met there were very friendly. ❍ Do you like the food in this country? ❍ ( infml ) The way she talks, you'd think she was an expert. ၃။ (သိသာသည္ကို ျဖစ္ေစ၊ ပံုမွန္ ျဖစ္ေနက် ကိုျဖစ္ေစ ၫႊန္းရာတြင္သံုးသည္။ ) The milkman was late this morning. ❍ Have you seen the paper? ❍ The children are in the garden. ❍ Did you enjoy the play? ❍ Would you pass the salt, please? ၄။ (အသာလြန္ဆံုး အဆင့္ နာမဝိေသသန first, last, next စသည္တို႔ႏွင့္ သံုးသည္။ ) the best day of your life ❍ the hottest day of the summer ❍ What was the last thing I said? ❍ The scarf was exactly the right colour. ၅။ (အစဥ္ျပကိန္း ေရွ႕တြင္သံုးသည္။ ) for the third time ❍ the 4 th of July ❍ during the nineteenth century ❍ You're the third person to ask me that. ၆။ (တစ္ခုတည္းသာရိွေသာအရာကို ၫႊန္းရာတြင္ သံုးသည္။ ) the sun/moon/sky/stars ❍ the town centre ❍ the top of the mountain ❍ the Pacific Ocean ❍ the Queen/President. ၇။ (နာမဝိေသသနကို အမ်ားဆိုင္နာမ္ျပဳရာ တြင္သံုးသည္။ ) The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. ❍ the elderly/the unemployed ❍ the French. ၈။ (မိသားစု တစ္စုလံုးကိုျဖစ္ေစ၊ ဇနီးေမာင္ႏွံ သက္သက္ကိုျဖစ္ေစ ရည္ၫႊန္းရန္ မိသားစု အမည္ေရွ႕ တြင္ သံုးသည္။ ) Don't forget to invite the Jordans. ၉။ (မ်ဳိးစိတ္ဝင္တစ္ခုအားျဖင့္ မ်ဳိးစိတ္တစ္ခုလံုးကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳ ရည္ၫႊန္းရာ၌ သံုးသည္။ ) The chimpanzee is an endangered species. ၁၀။ (ပစၥည္း၊ ကိရိယာ တန္ဆာပလာ အမ်ဳိးအစားတစ္ရပ္လံုးကို ၿခံဳ၍ ၫႊန္းရာတြင္ သံုးသည္။ ) Who invented the toilet? ❍ The computer has changed our way of life. ❍ I heard it on the radio. ၁၁။ (တူရိယာ၊ ကနည္း စသည္ အမ်ဳိးအစား တစ္ရပ္ကို ၿခံဳ၍ၫႊန္းရာတြင္သံုးသည္။ ) learn how to play the cello ❍ dance the polka. ၁၂။ လိုအပ္ သည့္ပမာဏ။ He hasn't got the intelligence (required). ❍ I wanted it but I didn't have the money. ၁၃။ (ႏႈန္းထား အေျခခံပမာဏ အၫႊန္းေရွ႕တြင္ သံုးသည္။ ) တစ္…လွ်င္။ တစ္…ႏႈန္းျဖင့္။ My car does forty miles to the gallon. ❍ I work freelance and am paid by the hour/word. ၁၄။ (အခ်ိန္ကာလကို ေယဘုယ်ျပရန္သံုးသည္။ ) I'm usually out during the day. ❍ in the 1990s. ၁၅။ (ရည္ၫႊန္းေသာ ပုဂၢိဳလ္၊ ကိစၥသည္ ထင္ရွားေၾကာင္း၊ အေရးပါေၾကာင္း ျပရာ၌ သံုးသည္။ ) Michael Crawford? Not the Michael Crawford? ❍ The family reunion was the social event of the year. ❏ the more, less, etc… the more, less, etc… [ IDM ] … ေလ … ေလ။ The more she thought about it, the more depressed she became. ❍ The more luxurious the hotel, the more expensive it usually is. ❍ The less said about the whole affair, the happier I'll be.

Examples

1. Have you locked the door?
2. I have to look after the children.
3. A nurse brought me some bread and coffee
4. but the bread was stale and the coffee tasted of soap.
5. The sun was hidden behind a cloud.
6. The US president
7. I’ll meet you outside the main entrance.
8. I looked up at the ceiling.
9. Suddenly all the lights went out.
10. A place to shelter from the wind and the rain
11. The average university student is not very interested in politics.
12. People have come to depend on the car as their only means of transport.
13. Take the top of the piece of paper and fold it so that it is even with the bottom.
14. He has a gunshot wound in the neck.
15. The 4th of July
16. The next day he flew back to Paris.
17. [the 1930s/the eighties etc] : Popular music of the 1960s
18. Who was the actor who played Romeo?
19. We live in the house with green shutters.
20. We shall be interviewing Peter Carey
21. the author.
22. The destruction of a whole city
23. The death of Princess Diana
24. The burning of several houses
25. The Pacific Ocean
26. The Thames
27. The Sahara
28. The Alps
29. The Town Hall
30. The Science Museum
31. [the impossible/supernatural/unthinkable etc] : Are we attempting to achieve the impossible?
32. A belief in the supernatural
33. The best hotel in Paris
34. It was the first time I’d ever met a real live film star.
35. [the rich/poor/young/unemployed etc] : A policy of taxing the rich to help the poor
36. [the French/British/Japanese etc] : The Japanese eat a lot of seafood.
37. She’s been living with the Wilsons for nearly three months.
38. He didn’t have the strength to go on fighting.
39. I’d like to start my own business – that’s what I’d do if I had the money.
40. Lorna plays the violin.
41. ‘The man’s name was Alfred Hitchcock.’ ‘Not the Alfred Hitchcock?’
42. For night-life
43. Juan-les-Pins is definitely the place.
44. I’d like the salmon
45. please.