700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 10
700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 10
It is regrettable that we so often hear it said that young people get themselves into situations of trouble and difficulty simply because they do not know how to spend their time usefully and happily. This is a very poor state of things when we consider for a moment how many useful and pleasurable things there are for us to do today. There are many happy ways of passing the time, both at home and out of doors: there are things we can do to help ourselves and, equally important or even more important, there are many things we can do to help others. When I was growing up there was no TV but we had a radio set and, of course, we had records. These were the old kind of record now known as 78, and one side of a record played for about two and a half minutes. My mother liked all of the family to be at home on Sunday evenings; she did not like us to go out but we were free to ask to the house any of our friend. The number of young people who sat down at table for the evening meal was sometim…
