Empower p 34. A description of an object. Extra Cloze
Key:
I own an antique gramophone player that belonged
to my grandfather and then my father. It was made in
Germany in the 1920S and has a heavy base made of
pine wood and a large brass horn. In the days before
cassette players, CDs and iPods, this is how people
listened to music at home.
The gramophone reminds me of my childhood
because when we went to my grandfather's house
in Essex, near London, he used to play records on it.
While his grandchildren were running and bellowing
all over the house, he would be sitting there drinking
tea and listening to a scratchy recording of a Bach
sonata or Faure's Requiem.
When he died, the gramophone was handed down to
my father. It sat in the corner of the living room where
a light skin of dust settled upon it. It was a piece of
furniture, an heirloom that no one used or noticed
but that just seemed to belong there, just as now it
belongs in its own special corner of my living room. I
don't know if many people nowadays would recognise
a gramophone if they saw one, but I treasure the
object because of the memories associated with it.
Vocabulary:
gramophone /ˈɡræməfəʊn/ (an old-fashioned record player)
brass: /brɑːs/ a bright yellow metal
bellow: /ˈbeləʊ/ to shout in a loud deep voice, especially because you are angry. E.g. Do you have to bellow in my ear?
a scratchy recording (one that has been played so many times it has got damaged)
handed down (passed on from generation to generation. E.g. These skills used to be handed down from father to son. Most of his clothes were handed down to him by his older brother.)
an heirloom /ˈeəluːm/ (valuable object that has been owned by a family for many years. E.g. a family heirloom. The violin was a family heirloom).
Etiquetas:
09 Shopping,
Empower p 034,
Empower U03,
Prepositions,
Speakout 01.4 & 01.5,
Speakout U01
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