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Talk with your family members about elderly people who you have been intimately connected with and who are not there with you now. Write a short description of someone you liked a lot. - English Core

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Talk with your family members about elderly people who you have been intimately connected with and who are not there with you now.

Write a short description of someone you liked a lot.

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Solution

(Students may develop the answer using the given guidelines.)

The relation and the loss of a close elderly relative can be discussed under the points listed below.

  • Your relation with the person

  • The time period spent with the person

  • Things you both did together

  • Things you got to learn from the person

  • Reasons for the development of intimacy

  • Reason for you not being with him/her

  • The message left behind

  • Life without him/her

  • Ways to recollect old memories

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