Cover of the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.1 - Childhood memories for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. -
  2. Read the poem and answer the questions.
  3. Read the poem again and make notes. What can the narrator see, hear, smell, taste and feel?

Answer

b)

  1. An adult (probably an old person) who was three / a very young child at the time of the remembered event.
  2. The old lady called her over and gave her a saucer of bilberries and cream.
  3. These phrases involve the reader and make the poem more like a conversation.

c)

See

  • a dusty road
  • a mountain
  • an old house
  • tree
  • an old woman in a red shawl
  • a grey cat on her knee
  • berries and cream

Hear

  • what the old woman said to her: 'Do you like bilberries and cream for tea?'
  • the old woman humming
  • the cat purring

Smell

  • everything that used to be

Taste

  • berries

Feel

  • the sun
  • the heat on the road