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The document discusses a fair at La Linea, highlighting various experiences and emotions associated with it. It includes descriptions of the girl's excitement about her new dress, the atmosphere of the fair, and her reflections on the sights and sounds. The narrative contrasts the joy of the fair with moments of disappointment, ultimately capturing a sense of nostalgia for simpler times.

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Chapter 1 - Extract 3

The document discusses a fair at La Linea, highlighting various experiences and emotions associated with it. It includes descriptions of the girl's excitement about her new dress, the atmosphere of the fair, and her reflections on the sights and sounds. The narrative contrasts the joy of the fair with moments of disappointment, ultimately capturing a sense of nostalgia for simpler times.

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Extract 3: The fair at La

Linea
Chapter 1
1. Words & meanings
a- strutted: To walk in a proud way
trying
to look important

b- tawdry: Looking bright and attractive


but in fact cheap and of low
quality

c-Joie de vivre: A feeling of great


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happiness
 d- anaesthetised your senses: To make a
person unable to feel pain

 e- sedately: Slow, calm and relaxed

 f-slivers: A very small thin piece of


something,
usually broken off something
larger
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 g- itinerant: Travelling from one place to


2. She was excited about wearing a
new
dress. She wore white shoes that
became dusty very easily. The girl
wore a white gypsy dress with red
dots
on it and a thick ruffled hem.

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3. The shows couldn’t start on time
because they couldn’t afford to
start
until all the seats are sold out.

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4. It was meant that the drum’s beating
was
used to urge people to take a ride on
the
Ferris wheel. It attracted and excited
the
customers.

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 5. Because she realized that how many
times
the oil was used, and reused
throughout the
nine days and the slices of potato kept
below in a bucket of water under the
stall.

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6. It was like the fair itself, some parts
were good, and some bad.

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 7.
a- She loved the wear her new gypsy dress and
the
white shoes she had. The little trained dogs that
do small tricks to the applause and the curling,
crackling potato delights. She loved the smell of
grilled octopus and when the time in the
morning after coffee and churros.

b- She didn’t like her hair pulled back in an


uncomfortable bun, and the disappointment that
she was too young to ride certain rides at the fair.
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8. To get the reader’s attention and to
be
part of her whole experience that
“she
is tired and busy falling asleep”.

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9. “Dusty fairground” It reminds you
of a
fair, always
dusty.

 “I strutted a little” She wanted to


let
everyone see her new
dress.
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 “Sad lions” She’ll remember the lions
seemed sad in their cages.

 “Sequined costumes that didn’t quite


glitter” She saw the costumes of the
trapeze artists which didn’t
glitter.

 “Battered your ears” The drums and the


music she heard was noisy.
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10. She expressed that she was in her own
‘life’ and that she enjoyed it at the Fair
and was pleased with it just the way it
was. Now she is referring it as ‘innocent
times’ which tells that nowadays she
doesn’t go to any fairs anymore or when
she did, she would remember all the
things she saw, heard, smelt and felt
when she was a young girl.
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