LEF07 - XM4 - K18 - Note 1 - Einsendeaufgabe ILS/SGD - Lösung

At the beginning of lesson 28 we dealt with the problem of silent letters. Let’s do
a test. Can you pronounce the following words?

2. Please read the following passage.
For an old man, with such a background, it is difficult to feel at home in a world of
atomic bombs, communism, and American supremacy. Experience, formerly a help in
the acquisition of political sagacity, is now a positive hindrance because it was acquired
in such different conditions. It is now scarcely possible for a man to acquire slowly the
sort of wisdom which in former times caused elders to be respected, because the lessons
of experience become out of date as fast as they are learnt. Science, while it has
enormously accelerated outward change, has not yet found any way of hastening
psychological change, especially where the unconscious and subconscious are concerned.
Few men’s unconscious feels at home except in conditions very similar to those which
prevailed when they were children.

3. Do you feel that the modern world is changing too fast?
Give reasons for your answer. Talk for about 1–2 minutes.