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will even exist for my _______ to see. Did you have to
_______ of these things when you were my age? All this
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is happening before our _______ and yet we act as if
we have all the _______ we want and all the _______.
I’m only a _______, and I don’t have all the solutions. I
want you to realize, neither do you. You don’t know how

to _______ the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know
how to _______ the salmon back up a dead stream. You
don’t know how to bring back an _______ now extinct.
And you can’t bring _______ the forest that once grew where there is now
a _______. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop _______ it.

Let’s Speak

A. Hold a classroom discussion in a panel of four to six students
on ‘Dealing with tardiness (lateness) in school?’ The teacher
will moderate the discussion.

B. Practice the following dialogue with your friend.
Sanjita : Hi Milan.

Milan : Hi Sanjita. What’s up?
Sanjita : I’m looking for the airport.
Can you tell me how to get
there?
Milan : No, sorry. I don’t know.
Sanjita : I think I can take the taxi to
the airport. Do you know
where the taxi stand is?
Milan : Sure, it’s over there.
Sanjita : Where? I don’t see it.
Milan : Across the street, near the

corner.
Sanjita : Do you know if there’s a rest room around here?
Milan : Yes, there’s one here. It’s in the store.
Sanjita : Thank you very much.
Milan : My pleasure.

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