Ploy’s Corner Café · Episode 2: Dust, Wood and Paint
30 items · 20 minutes · Word Forms in the Story (20 items) · Find the Wrong Form (10 items) · one continuing story
How it works. Each set is one episode of a continuing story about Ploy, who leaves her office job in Bangkok to open a small café in her grandmother’s old shophouse in Chiang Mai. Instead of labeling words as nouns or verbs, you choose the form that does the right job in a real sentence, the way fluent speakers do. Read the whole episode first, then choose. Press Check My Score to see why each answer is right and how each wrong form should be corrected.
แต่ละชุดคือหนึ่งตอนของเรื่องเล่าต่อเนื่อง เล่าชีวิตพลอยที่ลาออกจากงานออฟฟิศในกรุงเทพฯ มาเปิดร้านกาแฟเล็ก ๆ ในห้องแถวเก่าของคุณยายที่เชียงใหม่ ผู้เรียนจะไม่ได้ฝึกแค่บอกชื่อชนิดของคำ แต่ฝึกเลือกรูปคำที่ทำหน้าที่ถูกต้องในประโยคจริง แบบที่ผู้ใช้ภาษาคล่องทำ ควรอ่านทั้งตอนก่อนแล้วจึงเลือกคำตอบ ทำให้ครบแล้วกด Check My Score เพื่อดูคำอธิบายและวิธีแก้ทุกข้อ
Word Forms · Bringing the shop back to life
Choose the word that fits each gap. All four choices come from the same word family, so ask what job the word does in the sentence: is it a noun, a verb, an adjective, or an adverb?
On Monday morning, Uncle Somchai, a carpenter from the next street, arrived with a box of tools. He walked around the empty shop, knocking on the walls and listening. ‘The structure is ,’ he said at last, ‘but the floor needs a complete .’ Ploy felt . A new floor was expensive, but it was not a .
For the next two weeks, the shop was full of noise. Grandma Bua watched every step of the . , she gave advice from her chair. Uncle Somchai worked and never complained about the .
Ploy wanted the café to feel , so she the walls with plants and old photographs of the bakery. Her younger brother, Jay, came to help on Saturday. He was but not very . He spent most of the day taking for social media.
By the end of the second week, the floor was , and the whole room smelled . Ploy thanked Uncle Somchai , but he refused to take for the last day. ‘Your great-grandmother fed my family for years,’ he said. ‘This is my thank-you.’
Find the Wrong Form · A yellow door
Each sentence continues the story and has four underlined words. Choose the one that is in the wrong form and must be changed.
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