A tightrope walker in South Korea (Rhett Sutphin CC BY 2.0)
When you go to the circus, you might see a tightrope walker. A tightrope walker is a person who walks on a rope, a string. The rope is very thin, so they have to walk slowly and carefully. Most people cannot walk on tightropes, because they will fall off. So it is very exciting to watch a tightrope walker.
Water drops leaking out of a tap (Photo by Joe Zlomek on Unsplash)
When it rains a lot, water might come into your house. This is a leak. If you have a hole in your roof, your roof will leak, and water will come into the house. Leaks are very bad, because you don’t want water in your house!
Water, and other liquids, fall in drops. So a glass of water is made of many drops of water. When it rains, lots of drops of water fall from the sky. If water falls very slowly, we can say that it falls drop by drop—you can see each drop because they are so small.
When something happens suddenly, it happens very fast, and you are surprised. Maybe you are driving your car, and a child suddenly runs into the road. You will have to stop very quickly because you don’t want to hit the child. Or maybe you live in the UK, and it suddenly rains very often.
When you walk, you take steps. A step is when you move your foot. Your phone can tell you how many steps you take in a day. Some people try to take 10,000 steps a day, because they think that is healthy. If you are moving slowly, you can say that you are moving step by step.
When you are very worried, you can say that you are worried to death. ‘Death’ means dying. So you are so worried that you might die. Personally, I don’t get worried to death, but I do get worried.
When you imagine something, you see something that isn’t real. For example, maybe you are hungry, so you imagine a hamburger. You see a hamburger in your head, but of course it isn’t real. Aww! Children often imagine friends and tell everyone about their imaginary friends, but of course other people can’t see them, because the child imagined them.
Beauty means being beautiful. For example, some people think that there is beauty everywhere. Some people think that it is easy to find beauty in nature, but difficult to find beauty in cities.
A US soldier shooting a gun
When you shoot a gun, and the past tense is shot, you hold the gun and press the button, and the gun goes BANG! You shoot a gun, or a pistol, when you want to kill someone. Or maybe you shoot them in the leg so that they can’t move. Shooting people isn’t nice!
Police use handcuffs on people when they arrest them (NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan CC BY-SA 2.0)
When you steal things, kill people or make big problems, you break the law, and the past tense is broke the law. If you break the law, the police will come and take you to prison. First, they will arrest you. When the police arrest you, they take you to prison, and then later you will talk to a judge and the judge will decide if you really broke the law or not, and how long you will be in prison for. So: I think it’s better not to break the law, but if you do break the law, don’t get arrested!
A tightrope walker in South Korea (Rhett Sutphin CC BY 2.0)
When you go to the circus, you might see a tightrope walker. A tightrope walker is a person who walks on a rope, a string. The rope is very thin, so they have to walk slowly and carefully. Most people cannot walk on tightropes, because they will fall off. So it is very exciting to watch a tightrope walker.
Water drops leaking out of a tap (Photo by Joe Zlomek on Unsplash)
When it rains a lot, water might come into your house. This is a leak. If you have a hole in your roof, your roof will leak, and water will come into the house. Leaks are very bad, because you don’t want water in your house!
Water, and other liquids, fall in drops. So a glass of water is made of many drops of water. When it rains, lots of drops of water fall from the sky. If water falls very slowly, we can say that it falls drop by drop—you can see each drop because they are so small.
When something happens suddenly, it happens very fast, and you are surprised. Maybe you are driving your car, and a child suddenly runs into the road. You will have to stop very quickly because you don’t want to hit the child. Or maybe you live in the UK, and it suddenly rains very often.
When you walk, you take steps. A step is when you move your foot. Your phone can tell you how many steps you take in a day. Some people try to take 10,000 steps a day, because they think that is healthy. If you are moving slowly, you can say that you are moving step by step.
When you are very worried, you can say that you are worried to death. ‘Death’ means dying. So you are so worried that you might die. Personally, I don’t get worried to death, but I do get worried.
When you imagine something, you see something that isn’t real. For example, maybe you are hungry, so you imagine a hamburger. You see a hamburger in your head, but of course it isn’t real. Aww! Children often imagine friends and tell everyone about their imaginary friends, but of course other people can’t see them, because the child imagined them.
Beauty means being beautiful. For example, some people think that there is beauty everywhere. Some people think that it is easy to find beauty in nature, but difficult to find beauty in cities.
A US soldier shooting a gun
When you shoot a gun, and the past tense is shot, you hold the gun and press the button, and the gun goes BANG! You shoot a gun, or a pistol, when you want to kill someone. Or maybe you shoot them in the leg so that they can’t move. Shooting people isn’t nice!
Police use handcuffs on people when they arrest them (NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan CC BY-SA 2.0)
When you steal things, kill people or make big problems, you break the law, and the past tense is broke the law. If you break the law, the police will come and take you to prison. First, they will arrest you. When the police arrest you, they take you to prison, and then later you will talk to a judge and the judge will decide if you really broke the law or not, and how long you will be in prison for. So: I think it’s better not to break the law, but if you do break the These buildings did not belong to the tightrope walker. He had entered them without asking. He had thought that the people would love him, so it did not matter.
But one man did not have an open heart. He had a closed, cold heart. He had reached the top of the building, and he looked at the tightrope walker. The tightrope walker waved at him, waved at the policemen. The people laughed. But the cold man did not laugh.
‘Shoot,’ he said.
And the policemen shot. The tightrope walker stopped. He was three quarters of the way there. He had been three quarters of the way there. But now he could not take another step.
Blood was coming out, drop by drop. It was falling down, hundreds of metres, to the street below. The people saw the tightrope walker’s blood falling, and they screamed.
The tightrope walker did not scream. He did not make any sound. He could not believe what was happening. He was still standing on the tightrope, and he had been shot in the leg. But he did not fall.
‘Why?’ said the tightrope walker.
‘You’re breaking the law,’ said the cold man.
The tightrope walker laughed. ‘I know. But if you just wait a bit, I’ll make it to where you are. Then you can arrest me. How’s that?’
‘I don’t like waiting,’ said the cold man.
The world watched below. They could not hear the words, but they imagined what they were saying.
‘Don’t arrest him!’ shouted a boy. ‘You can’t arrest him!’
Other people started shouting. Soon, everyone was shouting. But the cold man did not listen to them.
‘I don’t like waiting either,’ said the tightrope walker. ‘I’ve been waiting ten years to walk this tightrope. So please, just wait a bit.’
And the tightrope walker started walking again. He was so close to the building. He could make it!
‘He’s going to make it!’ the people cried. And again, they imagined how it would feel when he took the last step.
But the cold man did not like waiting, or imagining things, or being happy.
‘Shoot him in the heart this time.’
The cold man turned around to leave. He waited for the sound of the man being shot.
But the sound did not come.
‘What are you doing?’ said the cold man. ‘Shoot him!’
The policemen looked at the tightrope walker, and then at the cold man.
‘No,’ one of them said. ‘He’s so close.’
‘He’s breaking the law,’ said the cold man. ‘He broke the law when he entered the building. That’s enough reason to shoot him or arrest him.’
‘But it’s so beautiful!’ said the policeman. ‘Can’t he live? Why do we have to do this?’
‘You’re not a real policeman!’ shouted the cold man. ‘Do your job!’
‘No,’ said the policeman. He put down the gun. ‘I won’t shoot him.’
‘Then I’ll do it for you!’
The cold man tried to take the gun, but the policeman wouldn’t give it to him. The cold man pulled the gun out of the policeman’s hand. The policeman fell back.
‘Oh no!’ said someone on the street
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