Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

glorious: herrlich drowsy: schläfrig the tide goes out: die Ebbe setzt ein boozy: betrunken twilight: Dämmerung “Cider with Rosie”, by Laurie Lee, is a novel about a child growing up in England in the 1920s. This extract describes a day out at the seaside. As you read the extract, put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or into the appropriate -ing form (participle or progressive form). 13 Choose one of the people in the picture. Write a paragraph in which you imagine what the person in the picture is/was thinking. 14 We (spend) a glorious afternoon on the beach, (play) football on the sand, (swim) and (wander) among the rock pools (look) for crabs and other small sea creatures. Then the tide (go) out and evening (fall), and we (return) to the bus. People (come) from all directions and (get) on the bus, Mr Jones (check) the names and (count) the heads. We had a long homeward trip, (drive) through the red twilight, through warm land- scapes, the engine (hum), the small children (sleep), and the young girls (eat) shrimps. At sunset, we (stop) at a pub for the men to have one more drink. This (last) till all of them (turn) bright pink and (start) embracing their wives. Then we (get) back on the coach, everyone (get) drowsy and we (drive) home through the darkness. Someone (play) a harmonica; we boys (lay) our heads on our mothers’ laps, and (sleep), to the dull sound of the bus engine and the men’s thick boozy singing. 16 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv