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Practise the words

Vocabular: Exersarea termenilor legați de trecut. Completează propozițiile folosind cuvinte noi despre greutăți materiale și economii casnice. Aceste exerciții de engleză fixează termenii potriviți pentru a descrie contexte istorice.

Практика лексики: быт прошлых лет. Заполните пропуски словами о материальных трудностях и домашней экономии. Эти упражнения по английскому закрепляют нужные термины для описания исторических контекстов.

Practise the words — Our grandparents' lives

Complete the sentences with the words from the box

walk miles to school · wartime · coal fire · resourceful · outside toilet · rationing · hardship · generation · washing day · make do and mend · thrift

  • Every ____ family in London experienced severe hardship during the blitz.
  • Strict ____ in Manchester limited sugar and meat purchases.
  • Grandmother learned how to ____ when clothes were scarce in Boston.
  • Their incredible ____ allowed them to save money in Seattle.
  • Overcoming financial ____ shaped my grandfather's resilient character.
  • Being ____ helped families in Chicago survive the coal shortages.
  • Visiting the cold ____ at night was never pleasant in Portland.
  • Stoking the morning ____ kept the living room warm in Denver.
  • Monday was always ____ in our old house in Oxford.
  • Children used to ____ across the hills in York.
  • Each ____ in our family values hard work and education.

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