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So, here Eric an’ Zully are trying to get rid off the weeds. That’s why Z says ‘they’ve picked them meaning that they have taken them out of the ground. They’ve also prepared the soil. ‘Soil’, as I mentioned earlier, is another name for dirt or earth, it’s what you put the seeds into by planting them.
‘To dig’ means to make a hole in the earth to… usually put something in there.
The past tense of dig is dug. Dig has other meanings which you can find in our learning guide.
‘Seeds’ we’ve already mentioned also are a small part of the plant that has all of the necessary genetic information to reproduce or to make a new plant or a new tree. A ‘hole’ you, probably, know as an aria with nothing in it, surrounded by something else. You can have a hole in the wall. You have the wall but then you have a circle let’s say that has nothing in it, there’s no wall. That’s your hole.
So, Z. says they’ve already picked the weeds, prepared the soil an’ done the holes for the new seeds an’ flowers.
I’m taking the flowers out of their pots now. An’ I’ll have them in the ground in a minute.
A ‘pot’ is usually a round small container like a small bucket that you put soil into, dirt into. An’ you can grow plant in this little pot an’ you can move the pot from one part of the house to another.
In this case Z.’s planting flowers that are in small pots. She will take them out of the pots an’ put them in the ground in the garden, so they can grow bigger. After putting the flowers in the ground she says that all we have left to do is
to plant the new tree. The word ‘left’ here is not the opposite of ‘right’. ‘Left’ here means ‘remaining’ or still available. For example, if you have five cookies an’ you eat two of the cookies, I can ask you, ‘How many cookies do you have left? How many are remaining? An’ the answer, of course, is one...
So, Z. is saying they’ve almost finished an’ tells E. to keep digging, keep taking dirt out of the ground, making holes so they can plant the flowers. E. says ‘are you sure the hole needs to be this deep?’. To be deep means to be below the surface, going far below something.
If you die an’ they burry your body they will dig a deep grave. A grave is a place where you put a dead body. The grave has to be deep, it has to be a hole that goes down far into the earth.
E. is asking Z. if the hole has to be very deep, this deep. Z. says ‘yes’. The book says that the roots need to have room to grow. The roots of the plant or tree are the parts of the plant or tree that are below the ground, that you can’t see. ‘To grow’ is when a living thing becomes bigger, older. Z. says they need this deep hole so that their roots have room to grow, have place to grow.
‘Direct sunlight’ – obviously, it is when sun like goes right on something. There’s nothing in between the subject an’ the sun.
‘To fall of’ means’ - they (*hands) are about to come off of his body, to leave or become disconnected of his body, cos’ it’s a joke.
