Junior Vocab
Conversation Between Mia and Arjun
Mia: "Arjun, stop tapping your pencil! It's so loud."
Arjun: "But I'm bored. And your humming is loud too."
Mia:spoiling it." "I'm humming because I like this drawing. Your tapping is
Arjun: "Well, your humming is spoiling my cricket thoughts."
Mia: "Uff, you’re like the autos outside, honking non-stop."
Arjun: "And you’re like the pressure cooker at Amma’s house, always whistling."
Mia: "Miss will get mad if we fight again."
Arjun: "Yeah, like yesterday, when she called us 'two volcanoes'."
Mia: "Fine, I’ll say one thing that bugs me, then you say one."
Arjun: "Okay. Your humming bugs me."
Mia: "Your pencil tapping bugs me."
Arjun: "Your eraser bits on my book bug me."
Mia: "Your chair shaking bugs me."
Arjun: "These are not big fights, just small annoyances."
Mia: "Annoyances are like tiny stones in your shoe, na?"
Arjun: "Yeah, irritating, but we can take them out."
Mia: "So I’ll keep my humming inside my mouth."
Arjun: "And I’ll keep my pencil quiet on the desk."
Mia: "Then our annoyances won’t jump around so much."
Arjun: "Deal. Now pass the yellow. Your sun looks like a boiled egg."
Mia: "That’s another annoyance, Arjun. But a funny one."