SEVEN YEARS. LUCAS GRAHAM

These are the sentences from the lyrics of the song that I gave you in the test:

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INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES

1       (*0.5)	Once I was seven years old and my mother told me   “Go, make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely”
2       (*0.4)	“It was a big world, but we thought that we were bigger” he explained
3       (*0.3)	“Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker” he added
4       (*0.2)	“By eleven, we were smoking herb and drinking burning liquor” he complained
5      (*0.3)	“We were not rich, so we were out to make that steady figure”  (hacer cálculos continuos)
6      (*0.6)	Once, I was eleven years old and  my daddy told me   “Go, get yourself a wife or you'll be lonely”
7      (*0.2)	“I always had that dream like my daddy had before me” he told Sarah
8      (*0.2)	“So I started writing songs, I started writing stories” he explained
9      (*0.2)	“Something about that glory (just) always seemed to bore me” he complained
10    (*0.3)	“because, only those that I really love will ever really know me” he realised
11    (*0.5)	Once I was twenty years old, my story got told   before the morning sun when my life was lonely
12    (*0.2)	“I only see my goals, I don't believe in failure” he stated
13     (*0.3)	“Because I know the smallest voices can make it major” he explained
14    (*0.2)	“I got my boys with me, at least those in favour” he thanked
15    (*0.4)	“And if we don't meet before I leave, I hope I'll see you later” he added
16    (*0.2)	“Once, I was twenty years old, my story was told” he said
17     (*0.2)	“I was writing about everything that I saw before me” he said
18     (*0.6)	“Soon we'll be thirty years old, our songs have been sold  and I can tell them stories” he explained
19     (*0.3)	“We've travelled around the world and we're still roaming “(vagabundear/deambular)he added
20     (*0.3)	“I'm still learning about life” he says
21     (*0.2)	“My woman brought children for me so I can sing them all my songs” he told his sister
23     (*0.6)	“Most of my boys are with me, some are still out seeking glory and some I had to leave behind  (like)My brother (for whom) I'm still sorry” he said
24    (*0.4)	“Soon I'll be sixty years old, my daddy got sixty-one (when he died)” he said
25     (*0.4)	“Remember life and then your life becomes a better one” he suggested
26     (*0.4)	“I made a man (my father) so happy when I wrote a letter (to him only) once” he added
27     (*0.4)	“I hope my children come and visit, once or twice a month (when I´m old)” he hoped
28     (*0.6)	“Soon I'll be sixty years old, will I think the world is cold” he asked
29     (*0.6)	“Or will I have a lot of children who can warm me” he wondered