Remembering and sensing
Exercise 54.1
These people are all talking about their memories of childhood. Use words from A to complete the collocations. The words in brackets give the meaning of the word you need.
Well, my (first) memory is of sitting in our garden on my
mother’s lap. I (not very clearly) remember that there was
a cat or dog there too, but I can’t remember much else.
I used to have a memory when I was young, but I’m 82
now, and as you get older your memory (memory for
things that happened long ago) is very clear, but your
memory (memory for things that happened recently) is less good. Sometimes I
can’t remember what happened yesterday. But I can
(very clearly) remember my first day at school as a child.
My mother sometimes tells me things I did or said when I was little
but which I’ve (totally) forgotten. One embarrassing
memory which I’d rather out (avoid remembering) is
when I took some scissors and cut my own hair. It looked awful!
Seeing schoolchildren often up all kinds of memories
(makes old memories come to the surface) for me. I wasn’t happy at school
and I have some (unpleasant) memories of being forced
to do sports, which I hated. Sometimes, when I hear certain songs, memories
come back (lots of memories return).
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