Compréhension Audio
Cross out the words which are not
uttered
more than fourteen
years / more than forty years
fifty-six /
sixty-six
an American
citizen / an American city’s end
all-American /
old American
born and bred /
bored and read
my immigrant
origins / my emigrant origins
shed that
feeling / shared that feeling
signs of other new
cameras / other newcomers
their presence /
their prisons
without my
parents / with my parents
at the end of the
century / at the turn of the century
actually hear /
actually feel
all the
understatements / all the misunderstandings
great way to hop
/ gateway to hope
towers of
paradise / towards paradise
East Side gutter /
East Side ghetto
they were
heading / they were headed
came to here /
came through here
close to this
place / closed this place
the West of
Europe / the best of Europe
tearing up the
roads / tearing up your roots
twelve days out of
Liverpool / ten days out of Liverpool
hi jack ! /
hijacked
they were tramps /
they were trapped
My God / my
guard
on this island /
Ellis Island
one lover fair /
one love affair
a hearing / a
herring
on the next day / on
the last day
a symbol of
wealth / a symbol of health
and after it /
enough to eat
to be faced / to
be free
so much intrusion / so
much confusion
doctors were
allowing / daughters were allowed in
a million
headaches / a million heartaches
their first real
sight / they first read signs
the gold and ore / the golden door