Listening

Listening

Some phrases have been left out in the poem below. Fill in the missing phrases on listening to the reading or the audio played by the teacher. You may listen again, if required.

The Soldier

If I should die, think only this of me

That there’s some corner of a foreign

That is for ever England There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, 

Gave, once, her flowers to love he ways to roam;

A body of Englands breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind , no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Rupert Brooke

Parallel Reading

It Takes Courage

It takes strength to be firm, it takes courage to be gentle.

It takes strength to conquer, it takes courage to surrender.

It takes strength to be certain, it takes courage to have doubt.

It takes strength to fit in, it takes courage to stand out.

It takes strength to feel a friend’s pain, it takes courage to feel your own pain.

It takes strength to endure abuse, it takes courage to stop it.

It takes strength to stand alone, it takes courage to lean on another.

It takes strength to love, it takes courage to be loved.

It takes strength to survive, it takes courage to live.

Anonymous