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Funeral Blues - W.H. Auden




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PICTIONARY OF COMMON PHRASAL VERBS - set 1
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SUPER ENGLISH VERBS! PART 1:GET - 1 PAGE GRAMMAR-GUIDE (top 10 uses of �get�; �get� as a phrasal verb with meanings and examples and collocations with �get�)
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Phrasal Verbs & Key
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PICTIONARY OF COMMON PHRASAL VERBS - Set 2
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PICTIONARY OF COMMON PHRASAL VERBS - Set 3
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SUPER ENGLISH VERBS! PART 5: GO - 1 PAGE GRAMMAR-GUIDE (top uses of �go�, �go� as a phrasal verb and collocations with �go�)
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FUNERAL BLUES

W.H. Auden


Watch the video�and put the lines in each stanza in the correct order.

�Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
�Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

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�Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,�
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Silence the pianos and with muffled drum�

�Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
�Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
�Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
�Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
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�My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
�I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
�He was my North, my South, my East and West,
�My working week and my Sunday rest,�
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For nothing now can ever come to any good.
�Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;��
�Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,�
�The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
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Vocabulary - Phrasal Verbs
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Match the columns.
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(1) bring out���� � �to collect things and put them where you keep them
(2) cut off��������� � �to remove
(3) pack up���� ��� �to�expose; reveal
(4) pour away������to remove people from an area
(5) put out���������� �to halt the operation of; disconnect
(6) sweep up����� �to (cause �to) flow quickly and in large amounts��
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