IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
‘ Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!

Nothing’s impossible I have found
For when my chin is on the ground
I pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again

Don’t lose your confidence if you slip
Be grateful for a pleasant trip
And pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again

Work like a soul inspired till the battle of the day is won
You may be sick and tired, but you’ll be a man my son
Don’t you remember the famous men who had to fall to rise again?
They pick themselves up, dust themselves off and start all over again

Work like a soul inspired till the battle of the day is won
You may be sick and tired, but you’ll be a man my son
Don’t you remember the famous men who had to fall to rise again?
They pick themselves up, dust themselves off and start all over again

Start all over again

1 Where do you live if you can’t find a flat?

2 If there is a bus strike tomorrow, I drive my car to work.

3 If you will run, you’ll catch the train.

4 I won’t ring you unless I’ll be late.

5 I am going to be happy if he will do his homework.

6 She goes to the party, if she is invited.

7 If it be sunny, we’ll go to the beach.

8 I won’t go to the football match if Beckham can’t playing.

9 I would go skiing on Sunday if it is snowing.

10 It is going to be wonderful, if she will start studying English again.

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An enhanced version of President Obama’s 2012 State of The Union Address.  Subtitles are available  at a click of a button.

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In 1798 Samuel Coleridge published The rime of the Ancient Mariner in the Lyrical Ballads collection. The collection’s publication is often seen as the beginning of the Romantic Movement.

Poem and Summary.

1. (you / like pizza?)

2. (she / live alone?)

3. (they / enjoy studying?)

4. (you / drink coffee every morning?)

5. (she / smoke?)

6. (John / play football on Saturdays?)

7. (you / go shopping at the weekend?)

8. (you / eat meat?)

9. (Mary / work in an office?)

10. (Susana and Juan / study English?)

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