The White Room
Preparation
We suggest you do the vocabulary activity below before you read or listen. Then read and/or listen to the poem and do the task to check your comprehension.
Text
The White Room
I am now feeling
like a lost camel
in the Sahara Desert.
I am very young
and I've got a lot of things
to learn.
Sometimes
I think:
I don't know anything
I should go to my house
and begin to study.
But, then, I think
Why? A lot of the time
knowledge flies after studying.
Will I fly with English
out of this white room?
by Irene Soriano Flórez
With kind permission of the poet, previously published in Poetry as a Foreign Language, edited by Martin Bates, White Adder Press, 1999
Task
Choose the best answer for each of the questions.
