Travel

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Unit 8
Travel
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Unit 8 Travel

• Pre-reading Tasks
• While-reading Tasks
• Post-reading Tasks
• Leisure Time

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Pre-reading Tasks

1. Where is the author living?
2. How did the author feel when he/ she decided to
   stop by and take a look at Niagara Falls through
   the eyes of a tourist?
3. Have you ever had the same kind of experience as
   the author did?

(Script P.341)
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Pre-reading Tasks

• Few of us have had the chance to visit an
  out-of-the-way place such as a jungle, desert, or
  remote mountainous area. Would such a trip be
  worthwhile? Annie Dillard figured it would.

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About the Author
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard (1945--) A nature writer and
Pulitzer Prize winner Text A is taken from
Teaching a Stone to Talk (Expeditions and
Encounters) (1988).
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About the Author
Annie Dillard
This book is a collection of her "Expeditions
and Encounters" as the subtitle quickly informs
us. She takes expeditions to the Pole, to the
jungle, to a solar eclipse, to a cabin in the
woods she encounters a weasel, silence in a
field, God in a doorway, mirages, and a
nine-year-old girl. And she grabs hold of each
expedition and encounter, not daring to let it
go, ever.
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About the Author
Annie Dillard
Dillard's writing career began early in high
school when she began composing poetry. She has
an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Often she
reads over 100 books a year, on just about any
topic imaginable. She's been this way from her
childhood on.
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About the Author
Her works include An American Childhood and
Teaching a Stone to Talk, The Living, and
Mornings Like This. But Dillard is perhaps best
known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, the book which
won her the Pulitzer Prize at age 29. "By the
time I finished the book, I weighed about 98
pounds," Dillard said. "I never went to bed. I
would write all night until the sun was almost
coming up." She admits that she has changed since
then, but says she does not regret "fanaticism of
youth."
Annie Dillard
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About the Author
Annie Dillard
In 1982 she was honored with an invitation to
take part in a cultural delegation of scholars,
traveling with them to China.
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While-reading Tasks

• Text A In the Jungle
• Annie Dillard tells of her visit to the Napo
  River in the jungle, one of natures most
  unspoiled places.
• What is the function of the two phrases out of
  the way (Para 1) and in the way (Para 18) ?

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While-reading Tasks

• Text Organization (P.273)
• Part One (Paras 1-5)
• Part Two (Paras 6-8)
• Part Three (Paras 9-18)

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Text Analysis and Language Study

• Part One (Paras 1-5)
• Main Idea
• Description of the Napo River and surrounding
  jungle scenery at night, together with the
  authors reflections on it
• Cultural Notes
• Language Study
• Questions

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Cultural Notes
Amazon (P.285 Cloze B)
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Cultural Notes

• Amazon (river) river in northern South America,
  largely in Brazil, ranked as the largest in the
  world in terms of watershed area, number of
  tributaries, and volume of water discharged.
  Measuring 6,400 km (4,000 mi) from source to
  mouth, it is second in length only to the Nile
  among the rivers of the world. With its hundreds
  of tributaries, the Amazon drains a territory of
  more than 6 million sq km (2.3 million sq mi),
  roughly half of which is in Brazil the rest is
  in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela. It is
  estimated

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Cultural Notes

• that the Amazon discharges between 34 million
  and 121 million liters (9 million and 32 million
  gallons) of water per second and deposits a daily
  average of 3 million tons of sediment near its
  mouth. The annual outflow from the river accounts
  for one-fifth of all the fresh water that drains
  into the oceans of the world. The outpouring of
  water and sediment is so vast that the salt
  content and color of the Atlantic Ocean are
  altered for a distance of about 320 km (about 200
  mi) from the mouth of the river.

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Language Study 1. out-of-the-way (L1)

• (1) (a) far away from cities and difficult to
  reach remote far-off far-away
• ---We have bought a little cottage, quite out of
  the way.
• (b) exceptional uncommon
• --- He has done nothing out of the way.
• (c ) well resolved
• --- I feel better, now that one problem is out of
  the way.

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out-of-the-way (L1)

• (2) out of sight (L69) --- The woman didnt go
  into the house until her daughter drove away and
  slowly faded out of sight.
• (3) out of range(L86) --- too far away to be
  reached, seen or heard
• ---in/ within / out of /beyond (firing) range
  ?????(??)
• ---She was out of range (of my voice).

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out-of-the-way (L1)

• (4) out of action(no longer able to operate or
  function), out of date, out of doors, out of
  hand(out of control), out of breath, out of
  order, out of place, out of print(???), out of
  proportion, out of season(not in season), out of
  shape(not having the usual shape unfit ???), out
  of the ordinary (unusual exceptional), out of
  the question(not worth discussing impossible),
  out of practice(??)

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2. stump (L3)

• (1) ??????
• the stump of a cigarette, a pencil, a tooth, a
  limb
• (???,???, ??, ??)
• (2) sapling??, trunk, bark, shade of a tree /
  tree shade, shadow of the trees, wart??,
  tree-crown??, crotch of a tree / fork??, leaf,
  annual ring, branch, bough???, twig??, knot??,
  the tip of a tree / treetop??, limb???

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3. spatter (L11)

• (1) v.
• (a) It suggests larger amounts of paint, mud,
  blood, etc being thrown at sb. and making him or
  her dirty.
• spatter sth. on /over sb./sth. spatter sb./sth.
  with sth.
• ---spatter oil on ones clothes / spatter ones
  clothes with oil
• ---The bus spattered them with mud as it passed
  in the rain.

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3. spatter (L11)

• (b) fall or rain down in drops
• ---We heard the rain spattering down on the roof
  of the hut.
• (2) n. ----sprinkling small shower
• e.g. the spatter of raindrops on the roof

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spill, splash, sprinkle, spray

• spill ---Its no use crying over spilt milk.
• ---The ink has spilt on the desk.
• ---Dont spill the soup.
• splash We splash liquids when we spill them
  accidentally(????).
• ---Dont let the acid splash on your hand.
• ??? ---splash-ink(??)
• ---splash water on the floor
• ---splash water over each other

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spill, splash, sprinkle, spray

• sprinkle Sprinkle is used with water, sand,
  salt, etc and indicates intentional scattering,
  usually over a small area .
• ---the Water-Sprinkling Festival of the Dai
• ---Sprinkle a little salt on the food.
• ---The priest sprinkled holy water on the babys
  forehead.
• ---Sprinkle some water before you sweep.

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spill, splash, sprinkle, spray

• spray We spray small drops of paint, perfume,
  chemicals, etc, usually with an aerosol(??????)
  or a spray-gun(??), in order to cover an area
  completely.
• ---spray herbicide
• ---spray paint on ones car

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4. illumine (formal) illuminate (L12)

• (1) shine light on
• ---The sky was illumined by flashes from the
  volcano.
• ---Torches illumined the picnic areas.
• (2) decorate sth. with bright lights for a
  special occasion
• ---All the streets are illumined at Christmas.
• (3) make sth. clear help to explain
• ---This book illuminates the whole problem.

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5. tangle (L14)

• (1) v. (a) (cause sth. to) become twisted into a
  confused mass
• ---His hair tangles easily.
• (b) tangle with sb./sth.---become involved in a
  quarrel or fight with sb./sth.
• --- I wouldnt tangle with him, if I were you.

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5. tangle (L14)

• (2) n. (a) confused mass (of string, hair,
  etc.)
• --- The wool got in a fearful tangle.
• --- Her hair was full of tangles after being out
  in the wind.
• (b) confused condition
• --- His mind was in a complete tangle.

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6. stir (L17) (L105)

• ? ---stir the soup with a spoon
• ---I put milk in my tea and stirred.
• ? (cause sth. to) move slightly
• ---A gentle breeze stirred the leaves (her hair,
  the curtains).
• ---Not a leaf stirred.
• ?excite or arouse (a person or his feelings,
  etc.)
• ---The story stirred the boys imagination.
• ---Old memories stirred as she looked at the
  photographs.

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6. stir (L17) (L105)

• ? stir-fry v.(???)??
  n.(???)??
• ?stir n. --- Give the soup a stir.
• ---?? The book caused quite a stir.(??????)
• ?stirring very exciting
• ---He made a stirring speech and everyone
  cheered.

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7. twine (L18)

• (1) v. (cause sth. to) twist, coil or wind round
  sth.
• ?, ?, ? ---She twined her hair into braids.
• ---He made a rope by twining strings.
• ?? ---The vine twines around the tree.
• ?? ---A snake twined over the ground.
• (2) n. strong thread or string made by twisting
  two or more strands of hemp, cotton, etc together
  ????????

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8. dissolve ( L20)

• ?---Water dissolves salt.
• ---Salt dissolves in water.
• ---Dissolve the salt in water.
• ? fade away disappear
• ---The view dissolved in mist.
• ---The mountains dissolved behind a thick curtain
  of clouds.
• ---All his hopes dissolved at the terrible news.

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8. dissolve ( L20)

• ? (cause sth. to) come to an end
• ---Parliament dissolved (or was dissolved).
• ---dissolve a business partnership, a marriage,
  an agreement
• (4)dissolve in sth. ???? (cant help doing
  sth.)
• --- dissolve in tears/laughter/giggles

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Questions

• 1. How does the author describe the summer night
  in the jungle?
• 2. There is an abundance of sensory impressions
  in the essay. Find out the sensory impressions in
  Part One.

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Text Analysis and Language Study

• Part Two (Paras 6-8)
• Main Idea
• Recalling what happened to her at their arrival
  at the village and what others felt about the
  Napo River and the people there
• Language Study
• Questions

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Language Study 9. disembark (L25)

• ---disembark from a ship, a plane
• ---disembark passengers , goods from the plane
• the prefix em ????,?
• emplane (?)????????
• embay ????, embed??
• bark (????)(?)??
• embark (?)????? ??

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dis ( prefix )

• ????
• dishonest, disloyal, disadvantage, disbelief,
  disproof (??), disprove (prove to be wrong or
  false ????), dispraise, disembark (L25)
• ???, ??
• disarm (????) --disarm the enemy (of his
  weapons) (??) --The superpowers are unlikely to
  disarm completely. --nuclear disarmament
• disburden (relieve of a burden) , disbud
  (remove buds from ?????)

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dis (prefix)

• ???, ?, ?
• dissolve (L20) (????????), dissect (????),
  distract (???), dispel (??), dispense
  (????(?)), distribute
• disdi digress (wander from the main topic ??),
  divorce
• ??????????, ????
• discourage, dispirit, discredit (?????), discolor
  ( ?)??

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10. slump (L25)

• (1) v. (a) sit or fall down heavily
• ---He slumped onto the sofa , completely
  exhausted.
• (b) ( of prices, trade, business activity) fall
  suddenly or greatly
• ---The companys shares slumped last month.
• ---Sales slumped by 20 last year.
• (2) n. period when business is bad, sales are
  few,etc depression

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11. be dying to do sth. / for sth. (L29)

• desire (to do) sth. eagerly
• ---She was dying to tell them the good news that
  she had won first prize in the speech contest.
• ---Im really dying for a drink on a day like
  this.

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Questions

• 1. What made Dilliard loose her hair from its
  braids in the middle of night? What had happened
  before that?
• 2. What did the Manhattan writer think about
  their spending time in the jungle?
• 3. Find out the sensory impressions in Part Two.

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Text Analysis and Language Study

• Part Three (Paras 9-18)
• Main Idea
• Detailed description of journeying in the jungle
  and her feelings about it
• Language Study
• Questions

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Language Study 12. fringe (L44)

• (1) n. (a) (BrE)(AmE) bangs (plural) the part of
  your hair that hangs over your forehead ???
• ---Mary has straight shoulder-length hair and a
  short fringe / short bangs.
• (b) decorative edge on a garment, rug,etc.
  ??,??,??
• (c ) the outer edge or limit of sth.
• --- The new suburbs were springing up on the
  fringes of the city.
• (2) v. be fringed by/with sth. have sth. as a
  border
• --- The estate was fringed with stately elms.
  ????????????

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13. smear (L51)

• (1) spread a greasy or sticky substance on
  sth./sb.
• smear sth. on /over sth./sb. smear sth./sb. with
  sth.
• ---The tablecloth was smeared with jam.
• ---She smeared suntan lotion on her face.
• (2) make sth. dirty or greasy smudge
• ---The window was all smeared after the rain.
• (3) (fig) damage (sb. or sb.s reputation)
• ---smear sb.s reputation

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14. repute (L53)

• (1) v. believe, consider (If you say that sth.
  is reputed to be true, you mean that people say
  it is true, but you dont know if it is
  definitely true often used in passive a formal
  word.) ????,????
• ---He is reputed as / to be the best singer in
  the city.
• ---He was reputed to be a millionaire.
• (2) n. (formal) reputation

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15. hug (L59)

• ?---Mary threw her arms around him and hugged him
  tight.
• ?keep close to
• ---The road hugs the river.
• ---We hugged the wall to avoid being seen.
• ?hug oneself ??, ????
• hug oneself on / for sth.??????
• ?cling firmly to and take pleasure in (opinions)
  ???????(??,??,??)---hug ones opinions, beliefs

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16. vault (L69)

• (1)jump in a single movement over or onto an
  object with the hand(s) resting on it or with the
  help of a pole
• ---He vaulted (over) the fence and ran off into
  the night.
• ---(fig , fml)vaulting (i.e. boundless,
  overreaching) ambition ??
• ---vaulting horse ??, ??
• ---pole-vault v. n. ???
• (2) vaulter (person who vaults)
• ---a good pole-vaulter

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17. clatter (L82)

• (1) v. move quickly and noisily (cause to )make
  continuous loud noises by hitting objects against
  each other
• ---She dropped the bucket and it went clattering
  down the stairs.
• ---His boots clattered on the stairs, attracting
  our attention.
• ---Don't clatter your knives and forks.
• (2) n. ?????
• ---the clatter of horses hoofs, a typewriter ???
  ???????

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18. dangle (L92)

• (1) hang or swing loosely
• ---I dangled my feet in the clear blue water.
• ---Earrings dangled from her ears.
• ---A bunch of keys dangled at the end of a chain.
  ?????????????
• ---dangling participle (?)???? (e.g. Walking
  home, an accident was seen.)

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18. dangle (L92)

• (2) dangle sth. before /in front of sb.
  ---offer sth. temptingly to sb.
• --- The prospect of promotion was dangled before
  him. ???????????
• ---The promise of an ice-cream cone was dangled
  in front of us, as a reward for washing the car.

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Questions

• 1. What is the point of going to the Napo River
  in Ecuador according to the author?
• 2. What did they eat that night in the village?
  And what did they see there?
• 3. Find out the sensory impressions in Part
  Three.

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Post-reading Tasks

1. Exercises
2. Reciting a short part from the text ( at least 50
   words ), and explaining why it is your favorite
   part.
3. Discussion If you had both time and money, what
   places would you like to visit most? Why?

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Exercises for Unit 8

• Directions For each of the following sentences
  there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.
  Choose the one that best completes the sentence.
• 1. When bees ______ , hundreds of them come
  together in a great mass.
• A. swarm B. sway
  C. swallow D. swindle
• 2. The dancers _______ over the floor of the
  room.
• A. gleamed B. glimmered
  C. glided D. sliced
• 3. After a whole night of argument we ______ the
  following plan.
• A. thrashed through B.
  thrashed out
• C. thrashed about D.
  thrashed at
• 4. I felt his report was deliberately opaque.
  Here opaque means ____.
• A. distinct B. obscure
  C. instinct D. clear

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Exercises for unit 8

• 5. When he was young he could ______ onto the
  back of a horse.
• A. slide B. put C. stumble
  D. vault
• 6. She is reputed to be very healthy. Here
  reputed can be replaced by
• ______.
• A. considered B. refuted C.
  denied D. required
• 7. You must _____ this ointment over the wound.
• A. smear B. smash C.
  slump D. swell
• 8. His prospects for winning the elections were
  dissolving rapidly.
• Here dissolving means _______.
• A. rising B. disappearing C.
  appearing D. coming
• 9. How can you be indifferent _______ the
  sufferings of starving
• people?
• A. at B. from
  C. to D. in

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Exercises for Unit 8

• 10. To her, this wounded soldier was not an enemy
  _____ a suffering
• human being.
• A. but rather B. rather than C.
  rather D. would rather
• 11. She _____ through the mist, trying to find
  the right path.
• A. glared B. peeped C.
  stared D. peered
• 12. Now that the boy was earning his own living
  he could ______his
• fathers strict rules.
• A. deny B. defy C.
  overlook D. neglect
• 13. Here in Chicago, for instance, the movement
  was growing by
• ______and bounds.
• A. leaps B. heaps C.
  lumps D. junks

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Exercises for Unit 8

• 14. Dr. Salk failed many times but he finally
  ______ to find a
• successful polio vaccine.
• A. brought through B. passed
  through
• C. passed by D. broke
  through
• 15. The teacher asked a difficult question, but
  finally Ted ______
• a good answer.
• A. came up B. came out
  at
• C. cried out with D. came up
  with
• 16.The workers marched through the streets with
  banners to ______
• against the rising cost of living.
• A. prove B. disapprove C.
  protect D. demonstrate
• 17. A thirsty man will drink great ______ of
  water.
• A. quantity B. quality C.
  quantities D. deal

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Exercises for Unit 8

• 18. Jeans got very ______opinions about food,
  so she wont eat
• anything new or foreign.
• A. critic B. conventional
  C. strict D. disciplined
• 19. The latest information ______ me in the
  belief that he is
• to blame.
• A. approves B. establishes C.
  confirms D. sets
• 20. Many English words are _____ from Latin and
  Greek words.
• A. derived B. obtained C.
  got D. attained
• 21. This story is not real, it is only ______.
• A. imaginable B. imaginary C.
  imaginative D. image
• 22. By _____ of the position he held , he was
  able to move about
• freely.
• A. account B. virtue C.
  consideration D. thought

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Exercises for Unit 8

• 23. A passing truck _____ mud on my new coat.
• A. sprayed B. spilled
  C.shattered D. spattered
• 24. Vicki never worried or hesitated about
  anything, she just _____
• it and almost always got whatever she
  wanted.
• A. went for B. went by C. went over
  D. went with
• 25. It can be said without exaggeration that no
  part of the United States is not easily
  accessible by car, by train, or by air, and
  ______ by all the three of them.
• A. more often than not B. more
  often than
• C. no more often than D. less
  often than
• 26. The worsening of the countrys economy could
  mean _____ public
• support for the ruling party.
• A. crippled B. subtracted C.
  fluttered D. diminished

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Exercises for Unit 8

• 27. Certainly in our society teachers dont enjoy
  the respect that is ____ to doctors and lawyers.
• A. rewarded B. accorded C.
  designated D.transferred
• 28. The chances of the disease being _____ to
  humans are extremely
• remote.
• A. exposed B. commuted C.
  migrated D. transferred
• 29. Climate is especially important ______
  articles that are readily
• affected by moisture.
• A. in case of B. in the case of
  C. in case D. in this case
• 30. Although he was jumping so well, he failed to
  win the first prize
• and had to ______ the second.
• A. settle down B. settle on C. settle
  for D. settle with

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Exercises for Unit 8

• Key to Exercises
• 1----5 ACBBD
• 6---10 AABCA
• 11---15 DBADD
• 16---20 DCBCA
• 21---25 BBDAA
• 26---30 DBDBC

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Leisure Time (A Poem)

• The Lake lsle of lnnisfree
• (by William Butler Yeats)
• I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
• And a small cabin build there, of clay and
  wattles made
• Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the
  honey bee,
• And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
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Leisure Time (A Poem)

• And I shall have some peace there, for peace
  comes dropping slow,
• Dropping from the veils of the morning to where
  the cricket sings
• There midnights all a glimmer, and noon a purple
  glow,
• And evening full of the linnets wings.
•  
• I will arise and go now, for always night and day
• I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the
  shore
• While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements
  grey,
• I hear it in the deep hearts core.

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Leisure Time (A Poem)

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