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LESSON CONTENT:

WORDS:
сохнуть (to get dry)
жечь (to burn something)
вешать (to hang)
гореть (to shine)
падать (to fall)


THE LESSON:
Бельё ещё не высохло.
(The laundry is not yet dry.)
высохнуть is just сохнуть with the prefix вы- added to it and is one of the perfective forms of сохнуть.

Они сожгли все книги.
(They have burnt all the books.)
жечь in the perfective form is сжечь which becomes сожгли in the past tense third person plural.

Он вешал его шляпу на стойке.
(He hung his hat on the rack.)
Incidentally another word besides вешать which means to hang is висеть.

Звезды горит в небе.
(The stars shine in the sky.)
Another word meaning to shine is сиять and it's third person singular past tense form is сияют.

Она упала в озеро.
(She fell into the lake.)
The perfective aspect of падать is упасть.

Яблоко от яблони далеко не падает.
(The apple never falls far from the tree.)
Here we use the word яблоня which means apple tree. More generically this phrase could be restated as:
Фрукты не падают далекие от дерева.
(The fruit does not fall far from the tree.)