detention - in schools this was (is?) a punishment for children. We had to stay in a classroom during the lunch-break and do extra homework
1) to feel faint
2) Naturally,
3) tremble with excitement
4) hit it off
5) stick together
6) stand by somebody
The vowels (a, e, i, o, u) have been taken out (unless the word begins with a vowel). Read the definition and guess the word in bold.
1) uncmfrtbl adj. a chair, for example, that is not nice to sit in because it is too hard etc.
2) blvd v. thought something was true
3) cmplnd v. said he didn't like something
4) aplgy n. saying sorry
5) mngd t v. was able to
6) astnshd adj. very surprised
7) rvrsng v. going backwards
8) trvl adj. not serious at all
9) pndng v. beating hard e.g. your heart
10) bd-tmprd adj. angry, in an angry mood
1) to feel faint
I felt faint, sir. I needed some fresh air. I apologise. I’ll go back to class now, sir.
2) Naturally,
Naturally, I had no need to remain there in that classroom. I could have stood up and ran out. This teenage school life was not my world any more.
3) tremble with excitement
My parents. Both had died some years before of cancer, no less! Yet, would I now be able to see them once more as young and healthy as they had been when I was just fourteen years old? The idea made me tremble with excitement.
4) hit it off
My mental state, which I felt was becoming more and more teenage by the minute meant that I hit it off immediately with my childhood companions.
5) stick together
Friends who stuck together whatever happened...
6) stand by somebody
...friends who stood by each other until the end
1) uncomfortable
2) believed
3) complained
4) apology
5) managed to
6) astonished
7) reversing
8) trivial
9) pounding
10) bad-tempered
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