✨ Magic Tree House 스피킹 연습 기록 24

Magic Tree House: Mummies in the Morning – Chapter 4

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1️⃣ Summary
A long stick suddenly fell in front of them. It might have been the swooshing thing that dropped it. Jack noticed that it was a scepter. Annie thought the swooshing thing might be a mummy, but Jack thought it was a tomb robber.
While Jack was writing about the tomb robber in his notebook, he felt a whoosh of cold air. Annie saw an ancient Egyptian woman wearing flowers on her head and a long white dress with tiny pleats, standing in front of them. Annie nudged Jack to give the scepter to her, but it went right through her—she was made of air.

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2️⃣ Sentence Practice

Back from the dead
→ Back from the brink of failure
→ Back from the depths of despair
→ Back from the past
→ Back from history

About a foot long
→ About two feet long
→ About a foot high
→ About a foot wide
→ About a palm's width
→ About an arm's length / About the length of an arm

A dog’s head was carved on one end.
→ A black rubber piece was placed on one end of the mop.
→ A T-shape was on one end of the T-bar, and a stick-like shape was on the other end.
→ This umbrella has a candy cane-shaped handle on its end.

It’s a thing kings and queens carry.
→ It’s a thing people read and learn from.
→ It’s a thing people put something in.
→ It’s a thing people use to open doors or windows.

What kind of person would be inside a pyramid?
→ What kind of thing would you like to do?
→ What kind of drinks would keep people healthy?

✅ 구문 설명
What kind of + 명사 + would: ‘would’는 가능성, 가정, 또는 정중한 질문을 나타낼 때 사용됩니다.
예: What kind of person would do that? (그런 일을 할 사람은 어떤 사람일까?)
→ 실제로 일어난 일이 아닌, 상상이나 추측을 기반으로 한 질문입니다.

False passages were sometimes built to stop the robbers.
→ People built fences to stop the strangers.
→ The castle had lots of guards to stop the tourists.
→ Mom was holding the kids to stop them from running away.

Jack felt a whoosh of cold air.
→ I felt a whoosh of breeze.
→ I heard the whoosh of a gust of wind.
→ The wind made a whoosh going through the windows.
→ Andrew passed me with a whoosh.

A wave of terror went through him.
→ A wave of happiness went through my heart.
→ A wave of excitement went through her.

Her long white dress had many tiny pleats.
→ In ancient Egypt, women usually wore white dresses with many tiny pleats.
→ Clothes with many pleats are challenging to iron.

She was made of air.
→ Inca constructions were made of enormous stones.
→ This table is made of oak wood.

scepter

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3️⃣ Short Story
The professor told Marty he had succeeded in making a time machine. A wave of excitement went through Marty. The time capsule was made out of a car, and it looked really extraordinary .
But what kind of person would travel through time? Many had failed before—maybe the universe had created barriers to stop people from traveling through time.
But this time, Marty could do it.
Back from the past, back from the future—it was the most fantastic experience ever.
An antenna-like device, about six feet long, was mounted on top of the car. This was the thing that would carry the car through time.
When Marty got into the car and set the dial to 1955, a sudden whoosh of energy rushed through him as time began to shift.

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✏️ Today's Reflection
Today I made a story based on Back to the Future. I wanted to add more detail, but it’s still not easy. However, I got some inspiration about how to use English expressions more broadly. Maybe soon I’ll be able to create many sentences using simple and easy words.