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1) Listen to the short documentary made in 1962 by and fill in the blanks:
1) We have lived in the shadow of the wall for more than a year. It cuts through the heart of Berlin. We have ______ to live with it.
We refused to think it will always be this way.
2) In the beginning we __________ across the wall to our families in East Berlin.
3) It didn’t matter who watched this, but later the communist policemen came and stopped our families from _________.
4) My mother lives out there, they’ll move her away if she __________ to wave. It’s forbidding.
5) I speak to my children in East Berlin with hand signals. Making certain the guards are not watching. I don’t want them to __________ my family.
We have become good with our signals.
6) At ___________ the communists have a hard times track down, but we take chances especially at night when an escape is ___________.
7) In the beginning many people escaped in broad daylight by jumping out of windows facing the western sectors of the city.
Our firemen were there to help.
8) We remembered the woman being ______ by communist guards to prevent her from joining her family. They even threw tear gas of those who were below ready to catch her.
That’s when they decided to extend the wall and cut access to the buildings facing West Berlin.
9) They ____________ every window. Many bricklayers came over to our side of the wall rather than do that kind of job.
10) They ____________ barbed wired on the roofs to close off another way to escape.
11) Many homes along their side of the wall were ____________.
12) They ___________ us with reflecting mirrors. They threw tear gas. They tried everything to keep us away. We threw the tear gas grenades back at them.
13) They ________ mine fields in the country side. They increased their patrols. They _______ new watchtowers, but we watched them too and soon learned their weak spots.
14) Entire families escaped - women and babies. We were waiting for them. Twelve thousand people escaped in the first year of the wall.
15) At twelve o’clock of August 30th on the anniversary of the wall – West Berlin ____________ for 3 minutes of silence.
16) We still ___________ to our families in East Berlin and they still ____________ to _____________ back. We cannot be together.
1) Listen to the short documentary made in 1962 by and fill in the blanks:
1) We have lived in the shadow of the wall for more than a year. It cuts through the heart of Berlin. We have ______ to live with it.
We refused to think it will always be this way.
2) In the beginning we __________ across the wall to our families in East Berlin.
3) It didn’t matter who watched this, but later the communist policemen came and stopped our families from _________.
4) My mother lives out there, they’ll move her away if she __________ to wave. It’s forbidding.
5) I speak to my children in East Berlin with hand signals. Making certain the guards are not watching. I don’t want them to __________ my family.
We have become good with our signals.
6) At ___________ the communists have a hard times track down, but we take chances especially at night when an escape is ___________.
7) In the beginning many people escaped in broad daylight by jumping out of windows facing the western sectors of the city.
Our firemen were there to help.
8) We remembered the woman being ______ by communist guards to prevent her from joining her family. They even threw tear gas of those who were below ready to catch her.
That’s when they decided to extend the wall and cut access to the buildings facing West Berlin.
9) They ____________ every window. Many bricklayers came over to our side of the wall rather than do that kind of job.
10) They ____________ barbed wired on the roofs to close off another way to escape.
11) Many homes along their side of the wall were ____________.
12) They ___________ us with reflecting mirrors. They threw tear gas. They tried everything to keep us away. We threw the tear gas grenades back at them.
13) They ________ mine fields in the country side. They increased their patrols. They _______ new watchtowers, but we watched them too and soon learned their weak spots.
14) Entire families escaped - women and babies. We were waiting for them. Twelve thousand people escaped in the first year of the wall.
15) At twelve o’clock of August 30th on the anniversary of the wall – West Berlin ____________ for 3 minutes of silence.
16) We still ___________ to our families in East Berlin and they still ____________ to _____________ back. We cannot be together.
