Listening. Read the dialogue filling the missing words

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Read the dialogue filling the missing words. In pairs, use your names to act out similar dialogues.

A: Tell 1) _____, what do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
B: 2) _____ enjoy drawing and painting.
A: You know how to draw and paint?
B: Yes, I do.
A: When did you learn how to do that?
B: I learned back in high school.
A: Oh, so you took an art class?
B: Yeah, I loved that class.
A: I see that you 3) _____ pretty talented.
B: Thank you very 4) _____.
A: I wish I had a talent like that.
B: I 5) _____ sure you have a talent. It's just hidden.

Listen to the song “The Starry night” filling in the missing words.

The Starry Night
by Anne Sexton, read by Anne Sexton

Starry, starry night.
1) _____ your palette 2) _____ and 3) _____,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
4) _____ the trees and the 5) _____,
6) _____ the breeze and the winter chills,
In 7) _____ on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them 8) _____.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night.
Flaming 9) _____ that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's 10) _____ of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain,
Weathered 11) _____ lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving 12) _____.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them 13) _____.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you,
But still your love was 14) _____.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often 15) _____.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was 16) _____ meant for one
As 17) _____ as you.

Starry, starry night.
18) _____ hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless 19) ______,
With 20) _____ that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that 21) _____'ve met,
The ragged men in the ragged 22) _____,
The 23)_____ thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin 24) _____.

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them 25) _____.
They would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...

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