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The old photograph
Name:Date:
Follow a short personal story in the past tense.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
Audio and answer checking: https://joy-english.com/listening-lessons/the-old-photograph
Words to know
- attic
- A room under the roof of a house.
- photograph
- A picture taken with a camera.
- married
- Joined as husband and wife.
Answer key
- While cleaning the attic, I found a box of old photographs.The l of “while” runs straight into “cleaning”.
- One showed a young woman standing by the sea.The stress is on “sea”.
- On the back, someone had written a date and a name.The t in “written” is soft.
- It was my grandmother, before she was married.“Married” has two syllables: “mar-rid”.
- I had never seen her looking so happy and free.The h of “her” is weak.