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Reading

1 Gloria Spitz, who is English, describes how she met her American husband, Hank, in the 1940s. Complete the text using the words in the box.

time we danced didn't talk was very worried our lives changed

I couldn't look at him gave us chocolates came back for me

'Well, I was sixteen. It was 1942 and my mother and I lived in a small village in the country. My father wasn't there. He was away in the war. 'Suddenly, on 26th January, (a)___________________ Hundreds of American soldiers, GIs*, came to the village. Ooh! We girls in the village loved them! They were so different from English boys. They talked to us. They (b)________________________ about cars and football. They (c) ___________________ and nylon stockings. Every day was like Christmas Day! 'And the way they danced! Oh, they danced like in the films. I met Hank at the Saturday dance. I think I fell in love the first (d)______________. I was so shy that (e)_________________________, but he took me to the dance every Saturday after that. He told me he loved shy English girls. My mother (f)__________________. We didn't know American people then.

"In 1943 Hank went to France, but we wrote to each other. We wrote for two years and at the end of the war he (g)_________________________. He took me to the States, to his home in Arizona. Well, now we have four children and twelve grandchildren!'

*GI – stands for Government Issue Am. Soldier

Follow up

Bring some photos of your parents or grandparents. Write about their love-story.

LESSON 10

FROM NINE TILL FIVE

LISTENING AND GRAMMAR

  • Listen to Wanda telling her friend Nicola about her amaizing holiday story. Fill in the gaps with the verbs in the Past.

An amazing thing happened!

N= Nicola

W= Wanda

NHi, Wanda. _____ you have a good holiday?

WOh, yeah, we _____ a great time. But I have to tell you – the most amazing thing ___________.

NReally? What _____ that?

WWell, Roy and I ______ at the beach near the hotel and we were swimming in the sea - it _____ our first day – and this huge wave ________ along and ____________ my sunglasses into the water. I…

NWhy were you swimming in your sunglasses?

WOh, I don’t know. I’d just left them on top pf my head. I’d forgotten they were there. Anyway, they were gone. I ________ find them anyhere. I _____ really upset. You know Roy had given me those glasses for my birthday. And they _______ really expensive.

NI remember – nearly £100.

WYeah. Anyway, I had to have sunglasses, so I _________ a new pair – just a cheap pair this time. The next day I was lying on the beach, sunbathing. Then, suddenly another huge wave…

NYou ________________ another pair of sunglasses?

WNo,no. I’ll never believe this. There was another huge wave. It completely _________ me. I was so wet and…

NAre you sure this was a good holiday?

WYeah – but listen! When I ___________ down, there on the sand, right next to me, were my expensive sunglasses. The ones I had lost the day before. I couldn’t believe my eyes!

NYou’re joking! That is amazing!

Reading and speaking

1 Write the correct verb in the chart. Add more words to each column. Make sentences of your own with word-combinations.

___________

___________

___________

___________

___________

breakfast

medicine

to work

homework

dressed

a bath / shower

a nap / rest

the children to school

to the doctor’s / gym

sport / exercise

housework

to work

ready for bed

the dog for a walk

home

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