15 December

Teacher Josephine is laughing.

It’s late at night. Teacher Josephine is looking at her watch. Her neighbors are making noise, and Teacher Josephine is laughing.

Her neighbors downstairs are watching a program on television: the people are yelling and the music is loud. Her baby neighbor across the courtyard is crying and screaming. The dogs outside are howling.

Why is Teacher Josephine laughing?

Yesterday, Teacher Josephine taught her English students a story about Arthur and his noisy neighbors. Arthur’s neighbors were dancing, vacuuming, playing the drums, listening to loud music, barking, and having a big argument. Arthur was very angry.

Teacher Josephine is laughing because Arthur has six noisy neighbors and she has only three. Arthur was angry, but Teacher Josephine is laughing. She can’t wait to tell her students this story.