Ploy’s Corner Café · Episode 27: Running on Empty
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 · Too Tired to Notice
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?
By June, Ploy had worked every day for seven months without a day off. She was always , and she began snapping at Mint. One morning she forgot to order milk, a mistake for a café. Then she burned a whole batch of beans, something she had not done since her days as a . Grandma Bua watched her for a few days. Finally, she sat Ploy down and spoke . She said that an owner makes a tired café. Ploy argued that she could not to rest. Then Mint offered to manage the café two days a week. She had become far more than Ploy realized. Ploy hesitated, because letting go of was hard for her, but she finally agreed, . On her first free day, she felt strangely . Then she went for a long walk by the river and felt the leave her shoulders. When she returned, the café was running . Mint had handled a customer and a broken grinder without any help, and Ploy was proud of her. She learned that taking rest is not a sign of . It is part of being .
Find the Wrong Form · Learning to Rest
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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