UNIT IX: LISTEN & SPEAK

 

 Listen to a poem: Give me a simple life 


Give me a simple life
With a book by the fire 
A stool to rest my feet on 
And a cushion for my head. 

Free me from mobiles, emails, iPods, 
Phones, computers, cars, pollution, 
Hospitals, Work or Job Centres, 
Motorbikes or cars with screaming sirens. 

Give me a simple life 
With a book by the fire 
A stool to rest my feet on 
And a cushion for my head. 

Don’t throw at me Self-Assembly kits 
Where I have to hunt for all the bits 
Don’t tell me I can order online 
Or phone 0870 and wait in a queue. 

Give me a simple life 
With a book by the fire 
A stool to rest my feet on 
And a cushion for my head! 

© Mags Scorey 3-Dec-06


Reference: Poem: Give Me a Simple Life

Vocabulary:
 stool



 cushion

 scream: make a loud, high sound.

 siren: a device that makes a long loud sound as a signal or warning.


 Self-assembly: is used to refer to furniture and other goods that you buy in parts and that you have to put together yourself.



 bit: a small piece or amount of something.

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