Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• once upon a time: A conventional phrase used to begin fairy tales and other stories.
• upon a time: An introductory phrase used to begin a story, typically a fairy tale.
• down with: Suffering from an illness.
• come down with: To become ill with a disease or illness
• out of the window: To be discarded or no longer applicable or relevant.
• lay in: To provide stocks (e.g. for the winter)
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• on to: Toward something; forward
• in any case: Whatever happens; regardless of what has happened or may happen.
• in the wind: Something likely to happen or be revealed soon.
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• lie: To be in a horizontal or flat position
• live: To be alive
• wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
• die: Cube with dots numbering 1-6 on it used in games
• strong: (Of tea or beer) dark or thick
• night: Time when sun does not shine
• hope: When you wish something will happen; what you wish
• paint: To make a picture with colored liquids
• open: To make accessible or able to be used, e.g. road
• medicine: Something used in treating illness or pain
• poor: Inferior; below the normal standard
• leaf: Page in a book
• ill: Not well or sick
• quietly: In a quiet manner; making little sound or fuss