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Employment and finances 
6 3


8 Youth
AimS: 
Talking about re m e m b e rin g , childhoo d I Using past tenses, used to, w ould 
P ro n u n cia tio n : Past tense -ed endings, d iphtho ngs 
Exam te ch n iq u e : Fluency
Vocabulary: R em em bering
Listen and complete the texts below with the words you hear. The words form part
11 
of collocations and phrases connected with rem em bering - the other words in the
CD2 
collocations and phrases appear in italics.
1
When I hear music from the 70s, 
it rea lly [
1 )
______________
me back.
It makes me feel
like I'm a teenager again, the 
m em ories
are so (2)_______________So many things
from that period of my life 
le ft a
(3)______________
im pression on me,
like meeting my
firs t g irlfriend and sitting my A levels in sweltering heat. 
It's s till
(4)______________
in
m y mind.

I can
[1 )______________
rem em ber
what I did yesterday let alone events from my
childhood. Well, having said that, I have some (2)______________
m em ories.
I
rem em ber a teacher I really liked called ... oh, the name (3)______________
me.
But
she was so b rillia n t at explaining things and was really kind when my brother was
taken ill. Oh, what was her name? 
It's on the tip o f m y [A )
______________ ! Anyway, as I
said, I have a bad memory.
3 I often reminisce about 
the
(1)______________
old days.
You have to be careful, though,
because it's easy to get sentim ental and see everything through rose-tinted glasses. 
Things w eren't perfect back then but you often only rem em ber the good times. I love
looking at old photos. They remind me of people I'd (2)______________
forgotten
about
and then 
it a ll comes
(3)______________
back,
like my old friend Alice who passed
away ten years ago. Can it really be that long? 
Doesn't tim e
(4)______________ !

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