[00:00.00]Unit 16 Stories

[00:06.55]Lesson 3 Autobiography

[00:10.69]Text 1

[00:12.69]THE MOST IMPROTANT DAY

[00:14.20]I remember in all my life,

[00:16.31]is the one on which my techer,

[00:18.60]Anne Sullivan,came to me.

[00:20.89]it was three months before

[00:22.05]I was seven years old,

[00:24.42]On the afternoon of that day.

[00:26.25]I knew that something was happening.

[00:28.70]I went outside

[00:29.74]and waited on the steps of the house.

[00:32.07]I could feel the sun on my face.

[00:34.15]and I could touch the leaves of the plants.

[00:37.43]Then I felt someone walking towards me.

[00:40.51]I thought it was my mother

[00:41.72]and she picked me up and held me close.

[00:44.83]This was my teacher who had come to teach

[00:47.06]all things to me and ,above all,to love me.

[00:51.90]The next morning.

[00:52.92]the teacher took me into her room

[00:54.51]and gave me a doll.When I was playing with it,

[00:58.06]Miss sullivan slowly spelled the word

[01:00.67]"D-0-L-L"into my hand .

[01:05.71]I was interested and I imitated the movements

[01:08.28]with my fingers.

[01:10.38]I learnt a lot of words like this,

[01:12.68]but only after my teacher had been with me

[01:15.01]for several weeks.

[01:16.18]did I understand that everything has a name.

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