My dear Sean,
How lvl to get your letter! umm is right!
I will really enjoy helping yu with your schoolwork, and I will try very hard to rmmbr what it was like when I was little gir1 ll those years ago. When the war started, I was just five and Ill nvr forget watching m grandfather dig big black hole in the back garden. This was ur air raid shelter. At first I was rll scared of going into it. Every time the siren went off, I started trembling and I was sick, actually sick with fear. I refused to lv m bed. I didnt find it easy to get used to sleeping in that shelter. But soon, living in the cities was so dangerous that the government decided to send ll the children away to the countryside. I think I was lucky because I was bl to go away to m aunts. Some children were forced to stay with total strangers. aunt lived in small town, called Alston, high in the hills, not too far from Newcast1e. And guess what Sean, she had sweet shop! Mrs. Crosiers Sweet Shop. But, oh dear m, at first I was so unh, I couldnt stop crying because I couldnt help worrying about m mother back hm. aunt let m have as mn sweets as I wanted, but I was too miserable to eat mn. Silly m! Most children didnt have the chance of getting lots of sweets because sweets were rationed. That meant that you couldnt buy ll you wanted. Yu were only allowed to buy small amount. Lots of other things were rationed, too. It was almost impossible to get butter, rm, meat, fruit, vegetables, and petrol. We did without lot of things during the war. Can you believe that just after it ended someone gave m banana and I didnt know what to do with it?
Sean, I h this is useful. Im longing to see you ll. Give m lv to umm, Daddy and Liam. Dont worry; hell b much mr fun soon.
Lots of lv and kisses, Grandma
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IV Listen to the text. On board
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome n board this British Airways f1ight to Rome. In very short time, just as soon as we hv received permission, well b taking off. When we hv reached our cruising speed of 550 miles an hour, we will be f1ying at 35,000 feet. Our f1ight time today is two and half hours, so we will b in Rome in time for lunch! h cabin crew will b serving refreshments during the f1ight, so just sit back and relax. We h you will enjoy the f1ight. If you need n assistance, just press the button and f1ight attendant will m to help you. If you look out of the right-hand side of the plane, you will see Mont Blanc. In few moments time, the crew will be coming round with duty-free goods. We will also b giving out immigration forms. When you hv filled them in, please place them in your passport. hy will b collected as you go through passport control. In twenty minutes time we will b landing. Please put your seats into the upright position. You are requested to remain seated until the plane has m to complete standstill. Before you lv the ln, please look around to make sure you havent left n of your possessions.
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IV Listen to the text. David Livingstone, African explorer
David Livingstone was one of the most important Victorian explorers. spent thirty years traveling in Africa. was born in Scotland in 1813. studied medicine, and in 1841 h sailed to South Africa to join Christian mission in Botswana. married soon after he arrived, and with his wife he traveled into regions where Europeans had ever been. went to the Kalahari Desert, the Zambezi River, and the Victoria Falls. His second expedition, u the Zambezi River b canoe, was disaster. His wife, Mary, died of fever, and mn other lives were lost. few years later h set out to discover the source of the River Nile n foot. vanished, and some people thought he had died. In 1871 the American journalist Henry Morton Stanley greeted him n the shore of Lake Tanganyika with the famous words Dr Livingstone, I presume. died in 1873, in modern Zambia. His followers buried his heart t the foot of the tree where h died. His remains were buried t Westminster Abbey, in London.
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