Chapter 3 – Describing Things

Reading 3-1: Iman Loves Cars
Listen:

My name is Iman, and I love cars. I am a mechanic, so I fix cars every day. I have four cars. One car is a Toyota. It is small and red. Next, I have a Honda. It is very comfortable. Also, I have a Corvette. It is very fast and powerful. Finally, I have a Mustang. It is loud, but it is a lot of fun to drive. All of my cars are beautiful. They are clean and shiny because I wash them every week. My wife likes my cars. She likes to ride in them. My children like my cars, too. They always sit in the back seat. My wife and I sit in the front. We like to drive the Corvette in the summer because we can put the top down. It is my most expensive car. I love my cars! They are very special to me.

Reading 3-2: Meena Loves to Paint
Listen:

My name is Meena, and I love to paint. I am an artist, so I make beautiful art every day. I have an art studio in my house, and I sell my paintings. Most of my paintings are made with oil paint. I like to paint pictures of nature. For example, I like to make paintings of the sea, forest, and flowers. My paintings of the sea make me feel peaceful. I use blue, white, and black to make water. My paintings of the forest are beautiful. I like to paint the trees with different colours and use different paint brushes. Finally, my flower pictures are very colourful. I use many colours to make the flowers look natural. I always feel calm when I paint pictures.

Reading 3-3 John is a Dentist
Listen:

My name is John, and I am forty years old. I am a successful dentist, and I love my job. I use small, long, metal tools. These tools are very useful. They help me do my job well. I also use a very bright, tiny light to help me see inside people’s mouths. This light is high-powered and expensive. Finally, my patients sit in a special chair. This chair is motorized and comfortable, so I can move people up and down when I look at their teeth. Sometimes, the teeth I see are dirty, old, and gray. This is a problem because it usually means that I need to remove them. People who brush their teeth regularly have beautiful, clean, white teeth.

Vocabulary
Clean
Colourful
Comfortable
Expensive
Natural
Peaceful
Powerful
Shiny
Special
Tools
Media Attributions
- “Adult male posing next to a Corvette and Mustang in front of a mechanic shop. The man is of middle eastern descent and around 38 years old” prompt, by Adobe Firefly, 2 July 2025, was artificially generated using Adobe Firefly and is, therefore, shared under CC0 1.0.
- a woman with a ponytail by Valentina Ivanova is licensed under the Unsplash License.
- Man in White Dress Shirt Holding Dental Tools by Andrea Piacquadio is licensed under the Pexels License.
References
Adobe. (2024). Adobe Firefly [Image generator].
Arizona State University. (2024). EdPlus Voiceover Generator [Voiceover audio generator].
Artificial Intelligence Disclosure
- Adobe Firefly was used to generate images, where indicated.
- The Arizona State University EdPlus Voiceover Generator was used to create the audio recording of Reading 3-1 and Reading 3-3. Adaptations include modification of speed and/or timing, and comping of output takes.









