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  Fill in the Gaps
IF -poem-
Video page https://multimedia-english.com/videos/esl/if-poem-5911
Focus Listening
Description
Instructions Write the suitable word/s inside the gaps to complete the sentence. Use the -TAB- key on your computer keyboard to move from one box to the next.
 
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If you can ____________________________ your head when all about you Are losing theirs and ____________________________ it on you; If you can ____________________________ yourself when all men ____________________________ you, But ____________________________ for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be __________ by waiting, Or, being __________ about, don't __________ in lies, Or being hated don't give __________ to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too __________;
If you can __________________---and not make dreams your __________________; If you can think---and not make thoughts your __________________, If you can meet with __________________ and __________________ And __________________ those two __________________ just the same.
If you can ______________ to hear the truth you've spoken ______________ by ______________ to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And ______________ and build'em up with ______________-out tools;
If you can make one ____________________________ of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of ____________________________, And lose, and start again at your ____________________________, And never ____________________________ a word about your loss:
If you can __________ your heart and nerve and __________ To serve your __________ long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the __________ which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with ________________________ and keep your ________________________, Or walk with Kings---nor lose the ________________________, If neither ________________________ nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men ________________________ with you, but none too much
If you can fill the ______________________ minute With sixty seconds' worth of ______________________ run, Yours is the ______________________ and everything that's in it, And ---which is more--- you'll be a ______________________, my son!
Total number of items: 8
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