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LESSON 6--- FACE TO FACE AFTER 56 YEARS
Lesson6: FACE TO FACE AFTER 56 YEARS
ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - In 1941, the Nazis entered Russia. Anna Babken, 17, was pregnant and living Luzhsky, near St. Petersburg. The Nazis destroyed her town and burned down her house, so she gave birth to her daughter, Ludmilla, outdoors in a field.

In 1942, the Nazis took Anna to a labor camp in Germany. She lost Ludmilla. “I don’t know who took my daughter from my arms,” she says.

Anna lived through the war. Afterwards, she reached for Ludmilla, but couldn’t find her. She emigrated to the U.S. and had two more children. But she couldn’t stop thinking about Ludmilla. Was she alive? Where was she? Anna always put an empty chair at the dinner table for her lost daughter.

Year after year, Anna wrote letters to the Soviet government. Finally in 1963, she found out that Ludmilla was alive and living in Russia. They started writing, but there were restrictions against travel into or out of the Soviet Union. As a result, they couldn’t get together.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, they began to make plans for a reunion. Finally, in 1998, after 56 years , Anna and Ludmilla met face to face in Boston. It was a dream come true. “I knew someday I would find her,” says Anna, now 74. “Now my empty chair is filled.”??

Questions for discussion

1. Why did Anna give birth to her baby outdoors?
2. What happened to her in 1942?
3. What did Anna do right after the war? Was she successful?
4. After Anna cam to the U.S., what couldn’t she stop doing?
5. Who did she write to year after year?
6. What did Anna find out in 1963?
7. Why couldn’t she and her daughter get together?
8. When did they finally meet face to face? How did they feel?


Complete the story


Fill in the blanks with idioms. Put the verbs in the correct from and tense.

A Dream Come True

Face to face
think about
year after year
Give birth
to search for
a dream come true
Find out


Beijing, China in 1928, a woman in Wuhan, China, (1)_____________ twin girls, Zhou Qunying and Peng Meiying. The family was so poor that they had to give baby Zhou to an orphanage. Zhou was adopted by a vegetable farmer and his wife, who never told the child about her past.

According to the China Daily, young Peng (2) _______________ her twin sister all the time. When she was older, Pemg (3)____________ Zhou (4) ____________, to no avail.

But in 1995, Peng’s daughter saw an old woman selling tea in a city park in Wuhan. She noticed that the tea seller looked just like her mother!

Peng went to the park to see the tea seller. After 67 years, the two sisters met (5) _____________. Peng and Zhou had a medical check and (6) __________ they had the same blood type. The probability of their being twins was 99.9999 percent. For Peng, it was (7) _______________.


Idioms and Expressions

1. face to face- in direct contact; in person


2. be pregnant- be going to have a baby 3. burn something down- destroy something by fire


4. give birth (to a baby)- have a baby 5. live through something- survive something


6. search for someone or something-learn or discover something


7. think about someone or something- remember: consider someone or something


8. year after year- regularly for many years


9. find something out- look everywhere for someone or


10. get together- meet and spend time with someone something


11. make plans for something- plan to do something


12. a dream come true- a dream that has become a reality

 

Vocabulary

Pregnant:carrying offspring within body:?carrying unborn offspring inside the body

Restrictions:something that limits:?something that limits or controls something else

Emigrate:leave to live in another country:?to leave a place, especially a native country, to go and live elsewhere

 

Example

I got pregnant when i was twenty (20) years old.

There's a lot of restrictions against my plan to put my business in Korea.

Sarah plans to emigrate in United States next year.
1.Why are there wars today? Why are the two sides fighting?
2.Do you know someone who lived through a war? Discuss.
3.Do you often think about someone far away? Will you get together in the future?
4.When and where did your mother give birth to you?
5.Anna waited 56 years for her dream to come true. Do you have a dream? When do?you think it will come true?
6.Are you making plans for a trip?

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