Intermediate English
Lesson 13 - The City
Reading
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- Read an excerpt from a novel.
- Match opposite words from the reading.
- Describe and compare two cities from your country on our blog.
English Reading Exercise
| Key Words | ||
| best worst age wisdom foolishness epoch belief |
incredulity season light darkness spring hope winter |
despair everything nothing Heaven noisiest evil degree |
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities is a very famous historical novel that Charles Dickens wrote in 1859. In the book he describes life in two cities, London and Paris, at the time of the French Revolution. The following is the first paragraph in the novel. If you are interested in reading the entire novel, you can click HERE.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
Instructions
Match the opposite words from the reading.
WritingDescribe and compare two cities from your country. Write on a paper or on our blog. |
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