This document summarizes a key memory from the author's childhood. It describes how at age 8, the author's favorite animal on their family farm was a goose named Mabel. However, one very cold winter the author realized to their horror that Mabel had been prepared for their family's traditional Christmas lunch. The author immediately became upset and spent the rest of the meal crying over the loss of their friend Mabel.
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This document summarizes a key memory from the author's childhood. It describes how at age 8, the author's favorite animal on their family farm was a goose named Mabel. However, one very cold winter the author realized to their horror that Mabel had been prepared for their family's traditional Christmas lunch. The author immediately became upset and spent the rest of the meal crying over the loss of their friend Mabel.
This document summarizes a key memory from the author's childhood. It describes how at age 8, the author's favorite animal on their family farm was a goose named Mabel. However, one very cold winter the author realized to their horror that Mabel had been prepared for their family's traditional Christmas lunch. The author immediately became upset and spent the rest of the meal crying over the loss of their friend Mabel.
THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY I remember in all Vocabulary: W o r d b u i l d i ng (Revision)
my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Sullivan, came to me. It was three months before I was seven years old. On the afternoon of that day, I knew that Use the endings below to make adjectives from the something was happening. I went outside and group of words ( a - k ) . Some groups can have more than waited on the steps of the house. I could feel the one ending. sun on my face and I could touch the leaves of -y, -ed, -ing, -ful, -(i)ous, -ish, -(i/a)ble, -less, -al, -(t)ic, the plants. Then I felt someone walking towards -istic, -(e/a)nt, -ive me. I thought it was my mother and she picked me up and held me close. This was my teacher a mood, stuff, happiness, cloud g mystery, ambition, who had come to teach all things to me and, b hope, care, help danger above all, to love me. c practice, nature, logic h romance, sympathy, d ideal, real, individual science The next morning, the teacher took me into her e decision, create, imagination i like, rely, sense room and gave me a doll. When I was playing f importance, tolerate, difference j interest, tire, bore with it, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled the word k self, child 'd-o-l-l' into my hand. I was interested and I imitated the movements with my fingers. I learned Make adverbs from the adjectives in a, b and c. Then try a lot of words like this, but only after my teacher to add more adjectives and adverbs to each group. had been with me for several weeks did I Check spellings. understand that everything has a name. One day, I didn't understand the difference Look at the words in Exercise 3. In which of them is between 'mug' and 'water'. I became angry and there a change in word stress? threw the doll on the floor. In my quiet, dark Example world I didn't feel sorry for doing it. Then my ideal - idealistic, science - scientific teacher took me out into the warm sunshine. We walked down to the well where someone was Listen and check your answers. drawing water. My teacher put my hand under the water and spelled the word 'w-a-t-e-r' Put the underlined words in the correct form. at the same time in my other hand. Suddenly, I felt an understanding. The mystery of language I have some very 1 please memories of my 2 child. We was revealed to me. I knew then that 'w-a-t-e-r' lived in a 3 romance cottage in the country with 4 love was the wonderful cool something flowing over views of Lake Windermere. We had a 5 wonder garden with my hand. That living word awakened my soul, lots of animals. However, I 6 memory one year 7 extreme gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! well. I was eight and one of my 8 favour animals was a goose called Mabel. After coming back from school, I used to 9 food Mabel. With me, she was 10 usual very quiet and II friend. With everybody else though, Mabel was very nasty and 12 aggression. That winter was very cold and the snow was nearly a metre 13 depth. On Christmas Day, we had a 14 tradition lunch - goose and Christmas pudding. I was 15 cheer until I realised that the goose was ... Mabel! My 16 happy immediately disappeared and I spent the rest of the meal in tears.
Choose a memory from your life. Write notes about
these things:
your age, place and time, who you were with,
what happened, how you felt, what happened in the end
Work in pairs. Tell your partner about your memory.
(Biblical Scholarship in North America 25) Christopher R. Seitz, Kent Harold Richards - The Bible As Christian Scripture - The Work of Brevard S. Childs-Society of Biblical Literature (2013)