UNIT IX: LISTEN & SPEAK

 Listen to a poem: Give me a simple life 

Give me a simple life

With a book by the fire 

A stool to rest my feet on 

And a cushion for my head. 

Free me from mobiles, emails, ipods, 

Phones, computers, cars, pollution, 

Hospitals, Work or Job Centres, 

Motorbikes or cars with screaming sirens. 

Give me a simple life 

With a book by the fire 

A stool to rest my feet on 

And a cushion for my head. 

Don’t throw at me Self-Assembly kits 

Where I have to hunt for all the bits 

Don’t tell me I can order online 

Or phone 0870 and wait in a queue. 

Give me a simple life 

With a book by the fire 

A stool to rest my feet on 

And a cushion for my head! 

© Mags Scorey 3-Dec-06

Reference: http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?77854-Phoo-to-New-!

 Vocabulary:

stool

cushion 

sream: make a loud, high sound.

siren 

Self-assembly is used to refer to furniture and other goods that you buy in parts and that you have to put together yourself.  

bit: a small piece or amount of something.