Make Your Way 5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Now read this poem. Try to remember your first days at primary school and tell your partner(s) about the following: 22 What did the teacher look like? • What do you remember about the building? • Were you nervous, afraid, happy? • Did you make friends quickly? • In this poem a young child expresses her worries on her first day at school. Finish the sentences about her worries: First Day at School A millionbillionwillion miles from home Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?) Why are they all so big, other children? So noisy? So much at home they Must have been born in uniform Lived all their lives in playgrounds Spent the years inventing games That don’t let me in. Games That are rough, that swallow you up. And the railings. All around, the railings. Are they to keep out wolves and monsters? Things that carry off and eat children? Things you don’t take sweets from? Perhaps they’re to stop us getting out Running away from the lessins. Lessin. What does a lessin look like? Sounds small and slimy. They keep them in glassrooms. Whole rooms made out of glass. Imagine. I wish I could remember my name. Mummy said it would come in useful. Like wellies. When there’s puddles. Yellowwellies. I wish she was here. I think my name is sewn on somewhere. Perhaps the teacher will read it for me. Tea-cher. The one who makes the tea. Roger McGough to swallow sb. up: jmdn. verschlingen railing: Schutzzaun to come in useful: sich als nützlich erweisen welly: Gummistiefel puddle: Pfütze, Lacke sewn [ sWïn ] on somewhere: irgendwo aufgenäht She felt as if ... • She wondered why ... • She imagined that ... • She thought ... • She wished ... • She was afraid that ... • She remembered that ... • She hoped ... • 119 6 Extensive unit 6: Poetry alive Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv