The presidential election is every four years. My parents have been away for the campaign trail. They support their favorite candidate. "Are you going to vote this year?" my mom asked. "Yes, I will fill out my ballot at the booth," I said. Last election, I didn’t vote because I wasn’t old enough. This year, I must join the party and follow the political trail. "Which candidate is the most popular?" I asked. "He is very far ahead," my dad said. "Have you ever voted for a presidential candidate?" "Yes, but I haven’t filled the paper correctly yet." "Don’t worry, I will help you," my mom said. The election isn’t next week, but I am going to the booth soon. "Do you support any candidate?" my friend asked. "Yes, but she isn’t the favorite," I said. Who will win? We must wait and see.
Election Night With Mate
English
Last night, I watched the election results with my mate. "Do you understand the electoral college?" he asked. I didn't, so he tried to explain. "The president-elect isn't always the most popular candidate," he said. "Some states, like Florida, are swing states. They decide the winner." This year, the debates were very important. The well-known candidate won, but his opponent wasn't happy. "Who will be president?" I asked. "We must wait for the inauguration," my mate answered. "Did you vote?" I asked. "No, I haven't been chosen to vote this year," he said. "If I vote next year, will you watch the debates with me?" "Of course, mate!" I said.
The Future Is White
English
The election was very exciting. Our state had the first caucus, and many people visited. The White House was full of guests. "Who will be the nominee?" people asked. "Have you met the president-elect yet?" She was a lady who gave a great speech. "If I win, I will change many things," she said. But the vice president wasn't happy. "What will happen to me?" he thought. The primary vote was close. "Does our nominee have enough power?" people wondered. The president had been in office for one term. "Would you run again?" someone asked. "No, I have decided to limit my time," he said. The house was full of hope. "How much can one person do?" a voter asked. "A lot!" said another. The meeting was over, but the work wasn't. The new president-elect had to prepare. "You must work hard," people told her. "I will," she promised. The future was white with possibilities.
Sample flashcards 20
�မ္မတရွေးကောက်ပွဲ→the presidential election
�မ္မတရွေးကောက်ပွဲက လေးနှစ်တစ်ကြိမ်ကျင်းပပါတယ်။→The presidential election is every four years.
ဒီနှစ်မှာ သမ္မတရွေးကောက်ပွဲရှိလား။→Is the presidential election this year?
နောက်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ→the next election
နောက်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ ဘယ်တော့လဲ။→When is the next election?
နောက်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲက မဝေးတော့ဘူး။→The next election isn't far away.
�ွေးကောက်ပွဲမှာ မဲပေးရန်→to vote in the election
ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမှာ မဲပေးမလား။→Will you vote in the election?
�ူမနောက်ဆုံးရွေးကောက်ပွဲမှာ မဲမပေးခဲ့ဘူး။→She didn't vote in the last election.
�ဲပေးသည့်အခန်း→the voting booth
မဲပေးသည့်အခန်းထဲဝင်ဖူးလား။→Have you ever been in a voting booth?
ကျွန်တော့်မိဘတွေက မဲပေးသည့်အခန်းကို မသုံးရသေးဘူး။→My parents haven't used a voting booth yet.
�ဲရွေးစာရွက်→the ballot paper
�ဲရွေးစာရွက်ဖြည့်ရန်→to fill out the ballot
မဲရွေးစာရွက်ကို မှန်မှန်ကန်ကန်ဖြည့်ပြီးပြီလား။→Did you fill out the ballot correctly?
�ူမဲရွေးစာရွက်ကို မဖြည့်ရသေးဘူး။→He hasn't filled out the ballot yet.
�ရွေးခံယောက်ျား→the candidate
မင်းအကြိုက်ဆုံးအရွေးခံယောက်ျားက ဘယ်သူလဲ။→Who is your favorite candidate?
ဒီအရွေးခံယောက်ျားက သိပ်မကျော်ကြားဘူး။→This candidate wasn't very popular.
�ိုင်ငံရေးပါတီ→the political party
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