Lesson 14 · History and Civilisation

History and Civilisation

EnglishSubject
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A. Answer the following questions.

  • Write any three most memorable things about your early childhood days.
  • Do you wish you could be a young child again? Why?
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B. Listen to the audio and complete the sentences with the correct words/phrases.

  1. The speaker remembers the house where he
  2. The Sun used to come at the window in the morning.
  3. It used to wake neither too nor late.
  4. The roses were in colour.
  5. The laburnum tree was set by his brother on
  6. As a boy, he thinks that he is of the heaven.

C. Listen to the audio again and choose the correct answer. (Seven questions follow: where the robin built its nest, the lilacs; which tree is still living, laburnum; how he felt while swinging, like the swallow; which flower is NOT mentioned, tulip; what his spirit is like now, heavy; what he thought about the fir treetops, they almost touched the sky; how he feels remembering his boyhood, filled with little joy.) Then D. Recall your most favourite memory from your early childhood and describe it to your friends.