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Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
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Fill in the blanks:

Speaker 1: When I was , children used to play in the streets. Fresh air and exercise made us very and all the time we were skipping, chasing or swinging. I remember building a hopscotch grid in the school and skipping during the until the bell rang to go to classes.

Speaker 2: I had a great with several of the games I used to play as a young child. I some of my friends at home and we built our forts and lined our knights and soldiers ready to fight each other. How different they were from Action of today!


Speaker 3: I think back to some of my favourite childhood games. In when the weather was cold I used to play “Snakes and ladders” with my brother. I that he was luckier than me because whenever he rolled his dice he climbed the ladder and reached the final square. I was really disappointed when I landed on the of a snake and I had to slide down.

Learn the words:
1. skip = πηδώ
2. fort = φρούριο, κάστρο
3. knight = ιππότης
4. “Snakes and ladders” = (παιχνίδι) Φιδάκι
5. roll the dice = ρίχνω τα ζάρια