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The lighthouse keeper
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Follow a dramatic story with past perfect and past continuous.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- lighthouse
- A tower with a strong light that warns ships.
- stormy
- With strong wind and rain.
- lamp
- A device that gives light.
Answer key
- For most of his life, the old man had looked after the lighthouse.“Looked after” means taken care of.
- One stormy night, the electricity suddenly failed.The stress in “suddenly” is on “sud”.
- Without the light, a fishing boat was heading straight for the rocks.The t of “straight” is hardly heard before “for”.
- He climbed the stairs with an oil lamp and held it high in the window.“Climbed” has a silent b.
- The next morning, the fishermen came to thank him for saving their lives.Here “lives” rhymes with “hives”.