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EXERCISES

I. Listen to the beginning of the short story once more and tick the correct answer. If you can’t watch the broadcast again, use the pool of phrases below to complete the text and do the exercise a second time. The numbers are identical with those of the gaps.

1. The blue sky was covered with clouds.

2. The gardener had already been up early in the morning mowing the lawn.

3. The daisies (Gänseblümchen) had been cut and only the rosette-leaves had been left.

4. The green bushes of the roses bowed down deeply.

5. After the family had finished breakfast the men came to put up the tent.

6. Meg could not supervise the men as she still sat in her green turban.

7. Jose was in her petticoat.

8. Laura likes eating out of doors very much.

9. The workmen carried garden chairs and tables.

10. The workmen carried schoolbags on their back.

11. Laura went red in her face.

12. Laura sounded so natural, not at all ashamed.

13. She stammered like a little girl.

14. The tallest of the men was slim with pale brown spots on his face and skin.

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II. Now use the pool of phrases below and complete the text. Then check your answers. You need not know every single word as long as you understand the general meaning of the text.

1) was veiled with a haze of light gold

2) since dawn, mowing the lawns

3) where the daisy plants had been

4) bowed down as though they had been visited by archangels

5) to put up the marquee

6) supervise the men

7) in a silk petticoat

8) for eating out of doors

9) They carried staves

10) had big tool-bags slung on their backs

11) She blushed

12) so fearfully affected

13) stammered like a little girl

14) a lanky, freckled fellow