Grammar homophones
In first class Ask the students to read One child's World War I1 for homework and to correct all the wrong spellings.
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ONE CHILD'S WORLD WAR II I was born and bread in North Wales. When ltaly declared wore on Britain, my father, who was ltalian, was scent to a British concentration camp on the Isle of Man where he spent from 1940 t o 1943. My mother took me to visit him every six months and maybe my first memory was that I through my teddy bear at the British officer who was always present when they met. I no this maid my parents laugh! I think my father rote t o my Mum once a month, but this is hazy. Like many Second World War children, I was tolled that if I eight carrots I would really be able t o sea in the dark. The problem was I couldn't bare the taste of carrots. In spring 1943 the Italian Government decided t o flea Rome. ltaly changed sides in the war and my Dad one his freedom. By then I had groan into a sturdy three-year-old and when I herd from my Mum that he was coming back I was gob-smacked. We had a honeymoon period, him and me. When I was four I court whooping cough and very nearly dyed of it. I remember the way the cough would sheik my whole body. I remember how I would moan and groan at night. Somehow I new inside that I was very ill. The cough had warn me out. Anyway I did recover and am here today to tell you the tail! O Cambridge Un~versityPress 1995
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