Face To Face After 56 Years
FACE TO FACE AFTER 56 YEARS
Practice English with your teacher
Warm-up
Talk about these questions with your teacher.
선생님과 이야기해 보세요.
- If you could go back to one moment in your past, when would it be?
과거의 한 순간으로 돌아갈 수 있다면 언제로 가시겠어요? - Have you ever made a decision that you later wished you could change?
나중에 바꾸고 싶었던 결정을 한 적이 있나요?
Vocabulary
Listen and repeat after your teacher.
선생님을 따라 읽어보세요.
Reading
Read the passage with your teacher.
선생님과 함께 지문을 읽어보세요.
ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - In 1941, the Nazis entered Russia. Anna Babken, 17, was pregnant and living Luzhsky, near St. Petersburg. The Nazis destroyed her town and burned down her house, so she gave birth to her daughter, Ludmilla, outdoors in a field.
In 1942, the Nazis took Anna to a labor camp in Germany. She lost Ludmilla. “I don’t know who took my daughter from my arms,” she says.
Anna lived through the war. Afterwards, she reached for Ludmilla, but couldn’t find her. She emigrated to the U.S. and had two more children. But she couldn’t stop thinking about Ludmilla. Was she alive? Where was she? Anna always put an empty chair at the dinner table for her lost daughter.
Year after year, Anna wrote letters to the Soviet government. Finally in 1963, she found out that Ludmilla was alive and living in Russia. They started writing, but there were restrictions against travel into or out of the Soviet Union. As a result, they couldn’t get together.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, they began to make plans for a reunion. Finally, in 1998, after 56 years , Anna and Ludmilla met face to face in Boston. It was a dream come true. “I knew someday I would find her,” says Anna, now 74. “Now my empty chair is filled.”??
Questions for discussion
Comprehension Check
Answer the questions about what you read.
읽은 내용에 대한 질문에 답해 보세요.
- Why did Anna give birth to her baby outdoors?
- What happened to her in 1942?
- What did Anna do right after the war? Was she successful?
- After Anna cam to the U.S., what couldn’t she stop doing?
- Who did she write to year after year?
- What did Anna find out in 1963?
- Why couldn’t she and her daughter get together?
- When did they finally meet face to face? How did they feel? Complete the story Fill in the blanks with idioms. Put the verbs in the correct from and tense. A Dream Come True Face to face think about year after year Give birth to search for a dream come true Find out Beijing, China in 1928, a woman in Wuhan, China, (1)_____________ twin girls, Zhou Qunying and Peng Meiying. The family was so poor that they had to give baby Zhou to an orphanage. Zhou was adopted by a vegetable farmer and his wife, who never told the child about her past. According to the China Daily, young Peng (2) _______________ her twin sister all the time. When she was older, Pemg (3)____________ Zhou (4) ____________, to no avail. But in 1995, Peng’s daughter saw an old woman selling tea in a city park in Wuhan. She noticed that the tea seller looked just like her mother! Peng went to the park to see the tea seller. After 67 years, the two sisters met (5) _____________. Peng and Zhou had a medical check and (6) __________ they had the same blood type. The probability of their being twins was 99.9999 percent. For Peng, it was (7) _______________. Idioms and Expressions1. face to face- in direct contact; in person
- be pregnant- be going to have a baby 3. burn something down- destroy something by fire
- give birth (to a baby)- have a baby 5. live through something- survive something
- search for someone or something-learn or discover something
- think about someone or something- remember: consider someone or something
- year after year- regularly for many years
- find something out- look everywhere for someone or
- get together- meet and spend time with someone something
- make plans for something- plan to do something
- a dream come true- a dream that has become a reality
Korean Trap! / 한국인 실수 교정
Common mistakes Korean speakers make.
한국인이 자주 하는 실수를 알아봅시다.
조건절(if절)에는 "will"을 쓰지 않습니다. 현재시제를 사용합니다.
Discussion
Share your thoughts with your teacher.
선생님과 의견을 나눠보세요.
- Do you think Laura made the right choice by traveling instead of going to college right away?
로라가 대학에 바로 가지 않고 여행한 것이 올바른 선택이었다고 생각하시나요? - Is it more important to have financial security or to follow your passion?
경제적 안정과 열정을 따르는 것 중 어느 것이 더 중요한가요? - Would you give up your career for your spouse like Rachel did? Why or why not?
레이첼처럼 배우자를 위해 직업을 포기하시겠어요? 이유는요? - If you could give advice to your younger self, what would you say?
어린 시절의 자신에게 조언할 수 있다면 무엇을 말하시겠어요?
Lesson Summary / 수업 요약
Today's Topic: FACE TO FACE AFTER 56 YEARS
Level: High Intermediate (H.I)
Review this lesson before your next class! / 다음 수업 전에 복습하세요!