Read and Write Greek

 

The following story is based on the idea of F. K. Smith and T. W. Melluish who published a similar story in their textbook of classical Greek.

 

Debra and Edgar were exploring the . They dined on , drank a delicious  and , listening to the . After dinner they went to  to see  and .

 

Next morning after finishing her , Debra wandered down to the  of the  to write  of her . It was a  day. The  and  were in bloom and she thought about her  with Edgar the last night.

 

After writing her  and getting her , Debra became  of Edgar; they  and thought that their  will be happy. Shortly after their  Debra's  was published as a  and Edgar finished his studies of  and  with specialization in  and became a .

 

However, one day Debra started to feel  in her . Her physician, after careful , made  that Debra contracted  of . One winter day Debra fell into  and died.

 

Edgar  to live  and the year following this personal  entered a . Debra's  covered with heavy  lies buried under an old . In spring,  nest close to its , their songs providing the only .

Vocabulary

 

, metropolis, mother-city

, philosophy, love of knowledge

, ambrosia, food of the immortals

, mathematics

, nectar, drink of the immortals

, geometry

, dancing, as in choreography

, teacher, as in pedagogy

, orchestra

, pain, as in analgesia

, moving pictures, cinema

, stomach, gastric

, comedy

, analysis

, drama

, diagnosis

, cosmetics, makeup

, bacteria

, base, foundation

, cholera

, crater

, coma

, synopsis

, hate, as in misanthropy, misogyny

, thesis

, alone, single, as in monologue

, beautiful, as in calisthenics

, catastrophe

, rainbow, iris, the rainbow flower

, monastery

, star, aster, the start flower

, skeleton

, conversation, dialogue

, stone, as in lithography

, diploma

, tree, as in dendrogram

, bride, nymph

, birds, as in ornithology

, marriage, marry, as in gamete

, acme, the highest point, summit

, life

, epitaph

, book, as in bibliography

 

 

Writing Greek

Start writing the letter at the point indicated by the asterisk.