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June is over and July on its way. The lazy days of summer beckon. Why not take your laptop into the garden and wile away the hours with some reading, grammar or poetry!

Did you know that Gapfillers has a resident poet?

Our resident poet Cecilia Brabin, not only allows Gapfillers to use her poems on the site but also chooses other poems to put in our archives.

See her poetry in the Poetry archive.

Here are two to get you started!

City Living

Gus the Theatre Cat

Why not visit Cecilia's blog for more of her poems!

Poetry is in the arena at the moment. See the BBC season on poetry.

Summer

by Christina Rossetti

Winter is cold-hearted,
Spring is yea and nay,
Autumn is a weathercock
Blown every way.
Summer days for me
When every leaf is on its tree;

When Robin's not a beggar,
And Jenny Wren's a bride,
And larks hang singing, singing, singing
Over the wheat-fields wide,
And anchored lilies ride,
And the pendulum spider
Swings from side to side;

And blue-black beetles transact business,
And gnats fly in a host,
And furry caterpillars hasten
That no time be lost
And moths grow fat and thrive,
And ladybirds arrive

Before green apples blush,
Before green nuts embrown,
Why one day in the country
Is worth a month in town;
Is worth a day and a year
Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion
That days drone elsewhere.

So, what's new on Gapfillers?

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There are some very active English language teachers on Gapfillers giving lots of language information - worth a visit!

Berni Wall - Gapfillers creator - has a new blog!

It gives tips for Advanced students on aspects of English grammar and usage. Have a look!

Themes:

Our current theme is Jobs and we will be running this through June and July.

Look out for reading and listening exercises featuring different jobs. We will also do some word of the day weeks on job related vocabulary.

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