A New Life - Vocabulary Usage

Alla Inga Spara

• There are a lot of overseas students in London. They come from all over the world.
• He had never seen anything like the streets that appeared after they went past the university gates, streets so smooth and tarred that he itched to lay his cheek down on them.
• The hedge needs cutting.
• Ugwu wondered if she, too, could feel the coal tar getting hotter underneath, through her thin soles .
• He smelt something sweet, heady , as they walked into a compound.
• The bushes were shaped like slender hills.
• His eyes glistened with tears.
• I listened attentively to the teacher.
• His mum's hut still bore the faint patterns of moulding fingers.
• The light grew dim as they talked.
• The shelves were crammed with books.
• He remained oblivious as the party went on around him.
• His complexion was very dark.
• It was Igbo coloured by the sliding sounds of English, the Igbo of one who spoke English often.
• Master grunted in respons.
• He watched Ugwu and his aunty with a faintly distracted expression.
• Ugwu's aunty patted his shoulder.
• The room was silent except for the rustle of Master's page turning.
• Ugwu stood for a while before he began to edge closer and closer to the bookshelf.
• He looked up at the ceiling, so high up, so piercingly white.
• He would sit on these sofas, polish this slippery-smooth floor, was these gauzy curtains.
• Ugwu had imagined an older man, somebody frail , and now he felt a sudden fear that he might not please his master who looked so youthfully capable.
• Ugwu entered the kitchen cautiously, placing one foot slowly after the other.
• The stars were shimmering in a cloudless sky.
• He touched the chicken again and licked his finger before he yanked the other leg OFF.
• There was a gush of blood coming from his nose.
• Master came over and turned the metal tap .
• His walk was brisk , engergetic, and he looked like Ezeagu.

Alla Inga Spara