Modul 5: Hangutánzó szavak: 11 Thunder Nerves

Hi. Let’s look at some more sounds.

In previous stories we have used the sound ‘fluttering’. The fluttering of flags and the fluttering of wings. When the motion of a flutter is magnified, becomes bigger,  it becomes a flap. Flutters are short and precise whereas flaps are more chaotic movements. An example of flapping could be a pair of curtains when wind blows through the window. The curtains will flap.

How else can weather create sounds? Well, when there is lightning in the sky during a storm, there is the sound of thunder that comes with  it. The sound that thunder makes is a roar. A roar of thunder. It is a loud scary sound.

A sound that is not so scary is a ‘bubbling’. When water is boiled, it will bubble. That is what is happening in this photo. The water is bubbling.

The Story: Thunder Nerves (with explanation)

Mrs Hannigan is cooking her dinner. She is making her favourite, Roast Lamb.

A traditional English Roast Dinner is made up of carrots, peas, potatoes, parsnips, broccoli, yorkshire puddings and a meat that has been roasted in the oven. For Mrs Hannigan’s dinner, she is having Roast Lamb, because it is her favourite.

Whilst she waits for the water to get hot enough that it starts to bubble, she peels her potatoes and chops up her carrots.

Whilst she waits for the water to get hot enough that it starts to bubble, she peels her potatoes and chops up her carrots.

Mrs Hannigan is a little on edge tonight because she knows that the weather forecasts a thunderstorm, and she has a huge phobia of thunder and lightning.

If someone is on edge, they are tense or nervous about something. What is Mrs Hannigan nervous about? Mrs Hannigan is a little on edge tonight because she knows that the weather forecasts, the weather predicts, a thunderstorm. Does she like thunder? Nope. She has a huge phobia of thunder and lightning.

By repeating the recipe over and over in her mind, she is able to focus her mind on the dinner rather than on the storm that is fast approaching.

A recipe is a list of instructions of how to cook certain meals and Mrs Hannigan is repeating her Roast Lamb recipe over and over in her mind so that she focuses on her dinner rather than on the storm that is fast approaching. When something is approaching, it means it is  getting nearer. So, if the storm is fast approaching, that means that the thunderstorm will start any minute now.

Boil the potatoes for 7 minutes until slightly soft, drain the water and then shake the saucepan to make the potatoes fluffy, she says to herself whilst dropping the potatoes into the, now, bubbling boiled water.

She begins repeating the recipe in her head. Boil the potatoes for 7 minutes until slightly soft, until they are a little soft. What next? Drain, pour out the water and then shake the saucepan to make the potatoes fluffy, soft, on the outside. She says to herself whilst dropping the potatoes into the, now, bubbling boiled water.

As the potatoes are falling into the water, she hears a strange noise and turns around to see what is making this strange flapping noise. She is alone in the house, so she’s a little scared, but she can’t see anything strange.

As her fluffy potatoes are falling into the, now boiling, water she hears something strange. She turns around but can’t see what is making the strange flapping noise. Is someone else making the noise? No, she is alone in the house and this makes her scared.

As she turns back to her cooking, she hears the flapping noise again. Quickly, she looks back around and sees the curtains flapping by the slightly opened window.

She hears flapping noise again as she turns back to her cooking. She quickly turns back around and sees the curtains flapping by the slightly opened window. The window is only open a little bit, so we say that it is slightly opened.

There is a draught coming in from outside as the storm begins to brew.

A draft is a cold air that blows through an indoor area from outside. The draught is coming in through the slightly opened window. The storm is brewing. The storm is growing, it is almost ready.

Mrs Hannigan rushes to the window to shut it, but as she grabs the handle of the window, she sees a bright light followed by a huge roar of thunder. She screams and runs back into the kitchen.

As Mrs Hannigan rushes to the window to shut it, she sees a bright light and hears a roar of thunder. When does this happen? When she grabs, takes hold of, the handle of the window. What does she do? She screams! She shouts out of fear and runs back into the kitchen.

The Story: Thunder Nerves (2nd reading)

Let’s take a look at the story again. 

Mrs Hannigan is cooking her dinner. She is making her favourite, roast lamb. Whilst she waits for the water to get hot enough that it starts to bubble, she peels her potatoes and chops up her carrots. Mrs Hannigan is a little on edge tonight because she knows that the weather forecasts a thunderstorm, and she has a huge phobia of thunder and lightning.

By repeating the recipe over and over in her mind, she is able to focus her mind on the dinner rather than on the storm that is fast approaching.

“Boil the potatoes for 7 minutes until slightly soft, drain the water and then shake the saucepan to make the potatoes fluffy”, she says to herself whilst dropping the potatoes into the, now, bubbling boiled water. As the potatoes are falling into the water, she hears a strange noise and turns around to see what is making this strange flapping noise. She is alone in the house, so she’s a little scared, but she can’t see anything strange. As she turns back to her cooking, she hears the flapping noise again. Quickly, she looks back around and sees the curtains flapping by the slightly opened window. There is a draught coming in from outside as the storm begins to brew. Mrs Hannigan rushes to the window to shut it, but as she grabs the handle of the window, she sees a bright light followed by a huge roar of thunder. She screams and runs back into the kitchen.