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Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,GRAMMAR FOR READING,Geoff Barton,Tuesday,October 8,2024,www.geoffbarton.co.uk,Grammar for reading is,About reading,not grammar,Based on a rich variety of texts,Rooted in reading for pleasure,Not about analysis,Always linked to writing,Grammar for reading is,About reading,not grammar,Based on a rich variety of texts,Rooted in reading for pleasure,Not about analysis,Always linked to writing,England won the first corner straight off in the first minute,and from the clearance coming out,Gazza fired in a rocket of a volley that looked to be just curving wide but Illgner lunged to push it away anyhow,and we had a second corner.And then we had a third our football was surging and relentless we were playing like the Germans did,and the Germans didnt like it.Bruises and knocks,sore joints and worn limbs,forget it theres no end to the magic hope can work.Wright had Klinsmann under wraps;Waddle released Parker,Beardsley went through once,and then again Hassler took the Germans first serious strike,and it deflected away from Pearce for their first corner but Butcher towered up,and headed away.Then Wright picked a through ball off Klinsmanns feet;the German looked angry and rattled.You could feel their pace,their threat but still we had them,and the first phase was all England.,No question:England could win this.,The press box was buzzing.Gazza tangled with Brehme;he got another shot in,then broke to the left corner,won a free-kick,Lets all have a disco,Lets all have a disco.,It was more than a disco,it was history.,England won the first corner straight off in the first minute,and from the clearance coming out,Gazza,fired,in a,rocket,of a,volley,that looked to be just curving wide but Illgner lunged to,push,it away anyhow,and we had a second corner.And then we had a third,our,football was surging and relentless,we,were playing like the Germans did,and the Germans didnt like it.Bruises and knocks,sore joints and worn limbs,forget it,theres no end to the magic hope can work.Wright had Klinsmann under wraps;Waddle released Parker,Beardsley went through once,and then again Hassler took the Germans first serious strike,and it deflected away from Pearce for their first corner but Butcher towered up,and headed away.Then Wright picked a through ball off Klinsmanns feet;the German looked angry and rattled.You could feel their pace,their threat but still we had them,and the first phase was all England.,No question:England could win this.,The press box was buzzing.Gazza,tangled,with Brehme;he got another shot in,then broke to the left corner,won a free-kick,Lets all have a disco,Lets all have a disco.,It was more than a disco,it was history.,The Life of Charles Dickens,Chapter 1,CHARLES DICKENS,the most popular novelist of the century,and one of the greatest humorists that England has produced,was born at Lanport,in Portsea,on Friday,the seventh of February,1812.,His father,John Dickens,a clerk in the navy pay-office,was at this time stationed in the Portsmouth Dockyard.He had made acquaintance with the lady,Elizabeth Barrow,who became afterwards his wife,through her elder brother,Thomas Barrow,also engaged on the establishment at Somerset House,and she bore him in all a family of eight children,of whom two died in infancy.The eldest,Fanny(born 1810),was followed by Charles(entered in the baptismal register of Portsea as Charles John Huffham,though on the very rare occasions when he subscribed that name he wrote Huffam);by another son,named Alfred,who died in childhood;by Letitia(born 1816);by another daughter,Harriet,who died also in childhood;by Frederick(born 1820);by Alfred Lamert(born 1822);and by Augustus(born 1827).,DICKENS,CHARLES DICKENS was dead.He lay on a narrow green sofa but there was room enough for him,so spare had he become in the dining room of Gads Hill Place.He had died in the house which he had first seen as a small boy and which his father had pointed out to him as a suitable object of his ambitions;so great was his fathers hold upon his life that,forty years later,he had bought it.Now he had gone.It was customary to close the blinds and curtains,thus enshrouding the corpse in darkness before its last journey to the tomb;but in the dining room of Gads Hill the curtains were pulled apart and on this June day the bright sunshine streamed in,glittering on the large mirrors around the room.The family beside him knew how he enjoyed the light,how he needed the light;and they understood,too,that none of the conventional sombreness of the late Victorian period the year was 1870 had ever touched him.,All the lines and wrinkles which marked the passage of his life were new erased in the stillness of death.He was not old he died in his fifty-eighth year but there had been signs of premature ageing on a visage so marked and worn;he had acquired,it was said,a“sarcastic look”.But now all that was gone and h
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