[00:09.09]Lesson 53 1.Read and act
[00:15.73]Hey Zhao Fend,wait up!
[00:19.17]I just got this new stamp from Brussels.Take a look.
[00:25.73]Ooh,this is cool.
[00:29.39]I'll swap the rat stamp of 1996 for your Brussels stamp.
[00:36.05]I don't know.This is a pretty cool stamp.
[00:40.91]I'm not sure what I want to swap it for.
[00:45.27]Let me think about it.
[00:48.43]Well,which of my stamps do you want?
[00:53.16]Because I'm a dragon,I'd really like the dragon stamp of 1988.
[01:00.53]Mmm,I don't know if I want to do that.
[01:05.07]My grandpa gave me that stamp for my birthday.
[01:09.75]Oh,never mind then.
[01:12.99]I don't want to swap anything that has a lot of meaning for you.
[01:18.45]Thanks.I'm sure we can come up with some kind of a swap.
[01:24.01]Yeah,but now it's time for afternoon classes.
[01:28.69]I'll talk to you after school about it,OK?
[01:33.36]Sure,I'll meet you at the north gate of the school after our last class.
[01:40.31]See you later. See you.
[01:43.97]Lesson 54 2.Read Collecting
[01:57.63]In every country a l ot of people like collecting all kinds of things.
[02:03.87]During the 1930s people in America didn't have much money.
[02:10.35]Many didn't ahve enough money for food,let alone buy toys for their children.
[02:17.20]Boys often got together and played a game with the caps from milk bottles.
[02:23.46]Often the caps had pictures on them.
[02:27.59]Boys would pile up the bottle caps on the ground.
[02:32.32]Then they would hit them will something heavey,like a small rock or a coin.
[02:38.88]They picked up those that turned over and kept them.
[02:43.74]Pretty soon they started collecting the caps with the coolest pictures on them.
[02:49.90] Another thing that boys liked to collect was baseball cards.
[02:55.36]These were cards that told about different baseball players with their pictures.
[03:01.73]They cards came with a piece of bubblegum.
[03:06.17]In the old days,boys would pay about one cent
[03:11.45]and get a piece of bubblegum and a baseball card.
[03:16.60]Today people all over the world collect cards.
[03:22.03]However,the cards don't just have baseball players on them
[03:27.88] but also football,basketball,and soccer players
[03:33.76]as well as famous movie stars and pop singers.
[03:39.04] Girls often collect dolls.
[03:42.98]In Western countries,it is very popular to collect Barbie dolls.
[03:49.15]A Barbie doll looks like a teenager.
[03:53.61]There are lots of clothes that girls can buy for her.
[03:58.26]They can even buy a house and a car for her.
[04:03.02]Anything that they can buy for Barbie can be collected.
[04:08.48]At first Barbie just had blonde hair,and was American.
[04:13.94]Now Barbie is made so that she looks like people form all countries of the world.
[04:20.41]There is an African Barbie,an Indian Barbie,
[04:25.27]a Russian Barbie,and even a Chinese Barbie!
[04:30.84] Indeed,people collect as many things as they can find in the world.
[04:37.00]They collect paintings,coins,buttons,ties,shoes,books,toys,
[04:44.87]signs,key rings,watches,radios,phones,CDs,match boxes,stones...
[04:54.14]You name it,and I'm sure someone,somewhere collects it!\
[05:03.07]Lesson 56 2. Read and say
[05:10.02]Tracy,do you collect anything?
[05:14.46]Yeah,I collect signs. Signs? Why do you collect signs?
[05:21.83]I like signs because they are very colourful.
[05:26.97]Do you collect anything?
[05:30.34]I don't know how to collect things.I've never tried before.
[05:36.40]Well,first think of something you are interested in. What do you like?
[05:43.17]Hmm,let me think.I like the pictures on phone cards.
[05:49.52]I agree with you.There are some really cool pictures.
[05:55.11]But what do I do with them when I start to collect them?
[06:00.25]You can do whatever you like.
[06:04.09]I hang my signs up in my room.
[06:08.54]You should come over sometime and see them.
[06:12.79]I have a pretty colourful room! Yeah,
[06:17.76]I could make picures with my phone cards by putting them together
[06:23.63]or keep them in a notebook.
[06:27.47]I can do anything I want with them.
[06:31.55]Thanks for the idea.
[06:34.79]Hey,I know.One day,you show me your phone cards,and I'll show you my signs!
[06:42.55]6.Read
[06:46.49]Mrs Jones has been living in China for four years.
[06:52.84]While in China,she has learnt to love drinking chinese tea.
[06:59.60]But what she loves more,is the tea boxes.
[07:04.96]She likes the beautiful pictures on the boxes.
[07:10.52]She often has friends over for tea,
[07:15.10]so she can drink the tea faster,and buy a new tea box.
[07:21.94] Now Mrs Jones is returning home to Australia.
[07:28.10]She has been packing for two weeks.
[07:32.86]She can't believe how many tea boxes she has.
[07:38.74]She tried packing them all in one box,but they wouldn't fit.
[07:46.00]Then she tried putting some in one box and then another,
[07:52.76]still they wouldn't fit.
[07:56.84]She wants to take them all home,but she doesn't know how to pack them all |