- •Unit one
- •I will teach you in my verse
- •I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
- •Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
- •Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
- •Is a paling stout and spiky?
- •It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
- •Islington and Isle of Wight,
- •I like them all!
- •Unit two
- •I'm Joe Linn, I come from San Francisco. I'm leaving for Peking.
- •I'm going to learn Chinese. I know some words already
- •I hope you like Peking.
- •Unit three
- •It’s cuz we're concentrating
- •Is reality’s accordion. Unexpectedly
- •I thought this was
- •I took drama
- •Into my own hands and alongside
- •I told you not to do it and you did it again!
- •Unit four
- •Violently engaged. But it was the artists
- •I looked left toward the little bridge,
- •Incredibly enough, being led
- •In servizio sulla Linea Mediterraneo - Nord America sailing 1968
- •Unit five
- •It was “about breeding.”. Breeding yes, I flashed the thought of all the deaths
- •In the birdcage
- •In the face of “what counts
- •It’s pennies”. In o-eight
- •Unit six
- •In the feminist fable
- •Into activist or choose to manifest
- •In smokey loops
- •Unit seven
- •Is That Why They Call Them Flower Children?
- •In a high school senior play, shouting
- •In broken English and rapid Greek about tanks
- •Into citizens, just now, in the streets of Prague.
- •I was running
- •In the gutters
- •I still see blue sky and sea under sun and wind
- •Is a little dock, still a black rock beach, footprints
- •Unit eight
- •In search of Athena and Apollo’s
- •In different, steaming jungles in Vietnam.
- •Unit nine
- •Voice spilling. He will not
- •Voices soften thick air and as they sing every
- •If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
- •Unit ten
- •In rural Turkey?
- •I feel sure that was the afternoon
- •Unit eleven
- •In Athens the Greek music
- •I squint myself into your eight and ten year old eyes to conger
- •Into a monster. Other answers are better buried.
- •Sideducking Your Question
- •Family Game
- •Irresistible
- •Is a room whose boundaries invite me to compose
- •Is a room
- •Answering Machine
- •Into the room where only
- •The Business of a Clean Sweep
- •The Night House
- •Into half truths. Simply an issue of light.
- •In her house in the middle
- •University Weather
- •Clinic Wait
- •Is in an exam.
- •The Baroness of Ballard
- •In hers. He says
- •Is dying but she is hanging-on.
- •Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden in Germany
- •I forget where we were headed but it rained.
- •It was dark, a musty smell and the guide’s voice
- •Passages in the Bad-Hotel Zum Hirsh
- •Milltown Maltbay, Cookery School
- •Fourth Day at the Literary Seminar
- •In pink overstuffed
- •You Hated to Practice
- •Our Teacher Says Music is Her Mission
- •In a room that is the color of ice. First Rehearsal of the Opera, "Andrea Chénier"
- •Emanuel Ax, Hunger & Taste
- •Barometric Pressure
- •Its little ledges of blue slow motion
- •Inflaming the cheek after the slap.
- •The Question of the Color of the Walls
- •In splats of blistering gold & refresh ourselves in grapefruit.
- •Eau de California
- •The Perfumer
- •Afterimage of the Bird of Passage
- •The Most Important Thing to Save When the House is Burning Down
- •I needed that.
I'm Joe Linn, I come from San Francisco. I'm leaving for Peking.
When are you going to go there?
Sometime in March this year.
You need a reservation? I’ll make it for you here.
What are you going to do there?
I'm going to learn Chinese. I know some words already
"thank you", "hello" and "please".
Thanks for your help, miss Crisco.
My pleasure, mister Ling. I hope you like your stay there.
I hope you like Peking.
Exercise 8. Imagine you are at the café. Answer the waiter. Repeat for clarity of articulation:
How do you like your coffee?
-How do you like your coffee?
-Black, black.
-How do you like your tea?
-With lemon, please.
-How do you like your steak?
-Medium, rare.
-How do you like your eggs?
-I don't care.
-Sunny-side up?
-I don't care.
-Poached on toast?
-I don't care.
-Scrambled, with bacon?
-I don't care.
-Over-easy?
-I don't care.
-Soft-boiled, hard-boiled?
-I don't care.
-How about an omelette?
-I don't care.
-Come on, tell me, this isn't fair.
-I told you the truth, I really don't care.
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Exercise 9. Imagine that you have lost your way. Ask the passerby to help you get to Greenwich village. Repeat for clarity of articulation:
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Pardon me, please tell me
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how to get to Greenwich village.
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My good friend Caroline
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lives at bank street number three.
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First turn right at the light,
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walk two blocks, stop at the corner,
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then turn left at the zoo.
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That’s the Greenwich Avenue.
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Walk two blocks, straight ahead
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pass the school and pass the market.
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Then turn left at the store,
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that’s the street you are looking for.
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Now I know where to go .
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I’ll just follow your directions.
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Thank` so much. Now I’m fine.
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You’re quiet welcome any time.
Exercise 10. Describe the house where you live. Continue the story. Underline all the prepositions; use them in sentences of your own:
In front of my house there's a tree,
My cat likes to climb it with me.
In back of my house there's a hill,
Where I go hiking with Bill.
Next to my house there's a creek,
Where I catch fish every week.
Across the road there's a lake,
Where I go swimming with Jake.
Near my house there's a park,
I don't go there after dark.
Around my house there's a lawn,
On weekend I keep it well-done.
On top of my house there's a nest,
The bird living there is the best.
Under the porch there's a mouse,
Sometimes it comes in the house.
Over the door there's a light,
It helps you to find me at night.
Inside my house there's a lot more
To see it just knock at my door.
Exercise 11. Read, translate, and transcribe the poem by C. Levin. Give comparative and superlative of adjectives:
The Fastest Men in the World Win the Two Hundred Meter Dash
(Mexico City 1968)
As the band played see U.S. Olympic gold
& say O see Olympic bronze.
as John Carlos
& Tommie Smith
revealed their full height
& bowed
their heads like prayer
lifted on the podium
saying more than pride
saying more than thank you
saying: more
to Black Power.
Not singing the blues that day
their fists in black gloves
extending suspending
clenched proud in the salute
that slashed their title
their feat suspended
and ooh say
they are hands of the banished.