Demosthenes

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Speech Therapy by Plutarch

Demosthenes was about sixteen when he decided he wanted to be a lawyer, but he was the most unpromising advocate imaginable.

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Saddled : Use these words in sentences, and see if you can use one of them as a verb.
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Approachable : Replace the verb ‘can’ with these alternatives, and explain how the meaning of the sentence has changed.
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If I Had But Two Little Wings : Samuel Taylor Coleridge holds on to those precious moments when loneliness is a problem for tomorrow.
Red Eye : Reconstruct the speaker’s original words from these reports.
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