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Vocabulary
Bubbles/thick plaits/shall distinguish
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A teacher came to a new school, looks at a group of pupils and thinks to herself:
I must notice every little difference, for there is nothing
that children dislike more than to be called out of their
names. There’s a head of hair that could have belonged to
the child who was the model for ‘Bubbles’, and next to it
two wonderful thick plaits; there ’s a boy with noticeably
prominent ears, and then, of course, the one with glasses.
I shall distinguish them in time, and wonder that I ever
found them confusing, just as I did in Entuba.
I assume that "Bubbles" is some modelling agency?
I take it to mean that there was a child with a head of hair and next to that child was someone else who had "two wonderful thick plaits"?
I'm wondering now whether the author wanted to say "I should have distinguished them in time" (at once when I came to this school) or "I should distniguish them in time" before we have classes together in the future?
A teacher came to a new school, looks at a group of pupils and thinks to herself:
I must notice every little difference, for there is nothing
that children dislike more than to be called out of their
names. There’s a head of hair that could have belonged to
the child who was the model for ‘Bubbles’, and next to it
two wonderful thick plaits; there ’s a boy with noticeably
prominent ears, and then, of course, the one with glasses.
I shall distinguish them in time, and wonder that I ever
found them confusing, just as I did in Entuba.
I assume that "Bubbles" is some modelling agency?
I take it to mean that there was a child with a head of hair and next to that child was someone else who had "two wonderful thick plaits"?
I'm wondering now whether the author wanted to say "I should have distinguished them in time" (at once when I came to this school) or "I should distniguish them in time" before we have classes together in the future?
Top answer
-- Bubbles was Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee. If not that, then it refers to some other fictional or well-know character. -- Yes.
- -- Bubbles was Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee.
- If not that, then it refers to some other fictional or well-know character.
- -- Yes.
- -- No.
- Shall = will.
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I assume that "Bubbles" is some modelling agency?-- Bubbles was Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee. If not that, then it refers to some other fictional or well-know character.
I take it to mean that there was a child with a head of hair and next to that child was someone else who had "two wonderful thick plaits"?-- Yes.
I'm wondering now whether the author want
I take it to mean that there was a child with a head of hair and next to that child was someone else who had "two wonderful thick plaits"?-- Yes.
I'm wondering now whether the author want
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