Let’s start from the very beginning!
- Ok, I know, it’s a very good place to start.
- If you want to know how to read, 
you have to learn the English alphabet.

As long as we are not in a race,
you can face 26 letters in one phrase.
“The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”.
Now we’ll have some dialogue.

You’ll see how new words appear,
I hope everything will be clear.
For example: to admire – admiration,
to inspire – inspiration.

Now you, please!
And pray be at your ease!
- To desire – desiration.
- Oops! My voice whoops!

Well, when you study English,
you have to distinguish:
one goose but many geese.
-What about a moose?
Are they meese?

- A lone mouse can transform into…
a whole set of mice,
but… It’s impossible for a single house
to become a whole block of hice.

- Ok, a house – houses.
Why not a mouse – mouses?
- A tooth but teeth, a foot but feet.
If I speak of a foot
and you show me your feet.

- And if I give you a boot
would a pair be called beet?
Can I say a root
and in plural form reet?
- Let’s make this question complete!

There are a lot of exceptions
in the language of the British nations.
Anyway, the rules are the tools
for learning the language,
and together with the exceptions
it is something like a sandwich.

Let’s go on! - said my teacher with a yawn.
A lot of time has already gone,
I am not going to stay here until dawn.
Do you like to read?

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  - Of course! The books are the source of information
  to learn the language formation.
  - Ok, then you are a reader.
  - If I like to write, I am a writer, am I not?
  - Oh, yes! Something I forgot.

  
  Let’s take an easy word, “ball”.
  - Yes, I like to play football.
  - Good! Now open the ball!
  - What do you mean by that?

  
  I am not a rat so that to cut the ball.
  It’s not funny at all.
  - You are kidding!
  - Oh, no! I am not a kid!

  
  I would like to know

• where the meaning of that “ball” leads.
  - Ok, in that phrase “ball” has the meaning of a party,
  but… a bit more arty.

  
  - There are a lot of other English words I can’t understand.
  Why do they call all men gentlemen?
  Are they all gentle?
  This word looks so fundamental.

  
  If a man is rude, can I say a rudeman?
  I wouldn’t like to look like a clown
  That’s why I ask you again:
  Will the difference remain

  
  If I say: shut up or shut down?
  I would also like to know:
  If we say a teacher taught
  why can’t we say: a preacher praught?

  
  If people from Poland are called “Poles”
  Why aren’t people from Holland called “Holes”
  - Ok, I think our time has gone
  and the whole picture of English was not yet drawn.

  
  But at the end of our lesson, I would like to say:
  You were lying all day.
  - Oh, no! That’s not true!
  I lay on the sofa several times.
  You had better tell me:
  With what “lie” rhymes?

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