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a Discuss the following questions with your partner.
1 Do you have a funny memory from your primary

school years?
2 What kind of activities did you do in Arts and Crafts?

b Read the following anecdote and underline c Look at the words and phrases below. Write
the time phrases, beginning and concluding them in the correct columns. Some of them can
expressions. be used in more than one column.
I’m a trouble magnet. Weird things always happen in other words every other day
to me wherever I go. Listen to this! When I was ten as in short one day
years old and a primary school student, on one after a long time finally
of school days, our teacher told us to bring some while when I was... once
materials to make a ‘Grass Head’. The next day, I two years ago after that
went to a store and bought the necessary things first of all when whenever I...
for the activity before I went to school. In the last last year in those days first
lesson, we started to do the activity. We put the I remember when… then
grass seeds carefully into the socks with our teacher. to conclude to start with
After that, we put them in front of the window. We second in the past yesterday
were so impatient that we couldn't help checking after all all in all to sum up
and watering them almost every day. After two
weeks, some of them started to get green, but mine Beginning Concluding Time
didn't. After a few days, every sock got green, but Phrases Phrases Phrases
mine was still bald. I was both disappointed and
confused. After about three weeks, when I totally one day
forgot about it, one of my friends called me and
showed my Grass Head. It wasn’t bald any more
and you know what? The hair was curly as it was
actually a Lettuce Head! The store had sold me
lettuce seeds! After all, my classmates made fun
of it for a very, very long time. I felt uneasy and
embarrassed those days, but when I look back now,
it sounds cute and makes me smile. You know, they
say “sweet is the memory of past labour ”.

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