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A. Listen carefully to complete the text below!

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON


Kevin continues sleeping. The people on the train continue reading.
Another common expression which means almost the same as carry on
is go on. The alarm clock goes on ringing. The man with the mobile
phone goes on talking.
When I was 1) thinking about what to say in this podcast, I 2) did a
Google search for carry on and found an interesting story. In 3) 1939, at
the outbreak of the Second World War, the British government 4) printed
millions of posters to send simple propaganda messages to the people.
The posters 5) appeared on billboards and in shop windows and railway
stations and places like that. They tried to 6) encourage and cheer people
in the face of bombing raids, food rationing and other hardships. However,
one of the posters was never used. It was the poster which would tell
people what to do if the Germany army actually invaded Britain. At the
end of the war, the government 7) destroyed all the copies.
Well, not quite all, because in the year 2000 a second-hand book
seller found a copy in a box of old books which he had 8) bought. The
poster said simply, Keep calm and carry on. In other words, do not panic,
carry on as normal go to work, look after your families, and so on. This
was the very British message that our government wanted to send to the
people if our country was invaded.
Since it was rediscovered, the poster has 9) become very popular.
You can buy copies on line, and mugs and t-shirts with the slogan Keep
calm and carry on. Perhaps people feel that this simple slogan means as
much today as it did 70 years ago. We have so many problems today
economic crisis, 10) environmental problems and wars in many parts of
the world. What can we do? Keep calm and carry on!
B. Answer these questions with the good answer!
11.
What is recount text?
12.
Are there any functions of recount text? What are they?
13.
What is the tense that should be used in recount text?
14.
What should you write on the reorientation of the recount
text? Explain it!
15.
Write one sentence that contain of recount text!

C. Change the bracket word into past form!


11.
The radio station was (be) full of fans last night.
12.
When I (arrive) at the table, I was speechless.
13.
I didnt (think) it was really cool by seeing him to act like a
normal person.
14.
My family and I had (spend) our time by visiting the
grandparents house.
15.
(do) you come to the meeting last Monday?
D. Change the bracket word into appropriate tense!
My sister and I went to see
a film last night.
It (21. be) an American
movie called The Lost Fight. It
showed how people can quickly
change when they have to look
after themselves in the jungle. It
was an interesting film about a
plane which (22. crash) on a small
empty island in the Pacific Ocean.
Although,
the
entire
passengers were safe, nobody
(23. know) where the plane
crashed. So, the passengers had
to learn how to hunt for food in
the jungle. They also (24. learn)
how to catch the fish from to sea

to be eaten. After a few weeks,


the passengers were eating raw
fish and meat. After they had
been on the island for two
months, three of them made a
boat to sail away. They wanted to
find a help, but the boat (25. sink)
and those three were drowned.
The film ended without
saying whether the passengers
were rescued or not. However, my
sister and I enjoyed the film.

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