Lesson Eight.Hello,Sam.For this lesson,you need a pencil and a piece of poaper.
[00:08.80]Listen to the conversation.between Susan and Carol at Edna's exercise class.
[00:28.34]Pretend this is a camera.Look at the camera.
[00:34.98]Look at your notes,but don't read them.Smile at the camera.
[00:42.34]OK.Try something.
[00:46.71]All right.Ummm....two men entered a bank and stole five million dollars.
[00:55.17]There was a fire on Fifty-Seventh Street last night.
[01:01.05]Good.But look at the camera.Try it again.
[01:07.29]OK,Sam.Now some pronunciation practice.Listen and repoeat.
[01:16.85]look look at Look at the camera.
[01:24.79]look look at your Look at your notes.
[01:32.24]Very good,Sam.Now we're going back to Edna's exercise class.
[01:39.00]Hello there.Welcome to my exercise class.
[01:44.57]Hello,Edna.This is Sam.
[01:49.11]Hi,Sam!Well,let's beging,Edna.What do you want us to do?
[01:56.77]Just do what I say.Ready,Sam? Here we go.Smidle!
[02:06.01]Come on,Sam.Smile!
[02:10.69]Look at the door.Look at the table.Look at the window.
[02:20.43]Look at the floor.Close your eyes.
[02:27.59]Come on,Sam.Close your eyes!
[02:33.16]Open your eyes.Look at your left hand.Look at your feet.
[02:45.83]Look at your book.Look at your watch.Smile.
[02:54.79]OK,OK.That's enough for now.Whew!
[03:03.25]That was very good,Sam.Now Susan calls Carol to see how her audition went.
[03:12.39]Listen to the telephone conversation.Just listen.
[03:18.58]Hello,Carol? Hi,Susan.
[03:28.33]Well?How did it go?Were you nervous?
[03:33.29]Not really.It went OK.I wore the dress.
[03:39.64]The one I gave you? Yeah.It looked great.
[03:46.09]I'm sure you were terrific.Did they say anything?
[03:52.15]Mike said it was good. Really?That's great.
[03:58.63]OK,Sam.Listen and repeat.
[04:04.19]It went OK. Carol wore
[04:10.75]Carol wore the dress.
[04:14.82]the one
[04:18.06]The one Susan gave her.
[04:21.90]Mike said Mike said it was good.
[04:27.96]That was easy,wasn't it,Sam?
[04:32.12]Now I say,"Did Carol's audition go badly?"And you say....
[04:47.87]No,he said it was good.
[04:52.55]Ready?Let's begin.Did Carol's audition go badly?
[04:58.92]No,it went OK. Did Mike say it was awful?
[05:06.78]No,he said it was good. Did Carol wear a skirt and sweater?
[05:14.93]No,she wore a dress.
[05:19.69]The one Linda gave her? No,the one Susan gave her.
[05:26.64]Did it look terrible? No,it looked great.
[05:33.17]Very nice,Sam.Now we're going to the Boston Garden
[05:39.54]where the Celtics are playing the Los Angeles Lakers.
[05:45.00]Listen.Just listen.
[05:49.36]Welcome,basketball lovers.It's halftime here at the Boston Garden
[05:59.94]where the Lakers are losing to the Celtics,forty-eight to forty-two.
[06:06.89]I'm talking to Edna here.Hi,Edna. Hi.
[06:13.05]Edna's from Stamford where she teaches exercise classes.
[06:19.22]That's right.I came to Bosteon just for the game.
[06:25.15]I was here last week when the Celtics played against the Pistons.
[06:31.63]What a great game!
[06:35.78]Yeah,great game.The Celtics lost that one.The score was--
[06:42.55]No.They won.They beat the Pistons.
[06:49.31]The score was Celtics ninety-eight,Pistons ninety-four.
[06:55.27]Two weeks ago they lost against the New York Knicks.
[07:01.43]Maybe you're thinbking of that game.
[07:05.69]It was Knicks one hundred,Celtics ninety-nine.
[07:12.07]Billy Miles scored in the last two minutes to win it for the Knicks.
[07:18.91]Oh.Last month the knicks played against the Pistons in New York.
[07:26.85]They lost that one. The Pistons lost?
[07:32.10]No.The poistons won.They beat the Knicks,one hundred six to eighty-eight.
[07:42.08]Maybe you're thinking of the game
[07:46.02]where the Pistons played against the Lakers last Thursday.
[07:51.59]The Lakers won that game.The score was ninety-six to-
[07:57.54]OK.Thank you very much,Edna.
[08:02.72]Pistons,ninety-Thank you,Edna.Have a nice trip back to Stamford.
[08:10.48]That's all for now.Back to the game...
[08:15.20]OK,Sam.Edna loves basketball.
[08:23.95]She knows all the games and the scores.
[08:28.81]Take a piece of paper and a pencil,and write the information,
[08:35.76]that is,game numbers,names of feams,places where the teams are from,and scores.Ready?
[08:46.21]Well,first here are the two teams in game one.
[08:52.87]Write them down,OK?The Celtics.That's C-e-l-t-i-c-s,Celtics.
[09:08.44]They're from Boston.Then the Pistons.That's P-i-s-t-o-n-s,the Pistons.
[09:26.10]They play for Detroit.OK.In game one,
[09:33.96]it was the Boston Celtics against the Detroit Pistons.
[09:41.72]The Celtics won.The score was Celtics ninety-eight to Pistons ninety-four.
[09:53.37]That was ninety-eight to ninety-four.OK?
[10:00.82]In the next game,game two,we have the Knicks,that's K-n-i-c-k-s.
[10:14.27]The Knicks-they play for New York-against the Celtics.
[10:22.13]They beat the Celtics,one hundred to ninety-nine.
[10:29.29]That was one hundred to ninety-nine.Then.
[10:35.85]Excuse me,Edna.Are you writing this down,Sam?
[10:42.19]In the first game,the Celtics ninety-eight,Pistons ninety-four.
[10:49.64]In the second game,the Knicks one hundred,the Celtics ninety-nine.
[10:57.58]Then,in game three,it was the Knicks against the pistons.
[11:05.13]That's the New York Knicks against the Detroit Pistons.
[11:11.19]Right!The Knicks lost.The Pistons won.
[11:18.45]Pistons one hundred six.Knicks eighty-eight.
[11:25.40]That's one hundred six to eighty-eight.OK?
[11:32.38]In the last game,game four,the Pistons played the Lakers.
[11:41.31]That's L-a-k-e-r-s.The Lakers play for Los Angeles.
[11:52.25]Well,the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Pistons...
[11:59.41]Lakers ninety-six,Pistons ninety.
[12:05.76]Do you have all that,Sam? How about repoeating,Edna?
[12:12.84]OK.Game one:Celtics ninety-eight,Pistons ninety-four.
[12:24.31]Game two:Knicks one hundred,Celtics ninety-nine.
[12:33.55]Game three:Pistons one hundred six,Knicks eighty-eight.
[12:43.72]Game four:Lakers ninety-six,Pistons ninety.
[12:52.57]Do you have it,Sam? Good.
[12:57.12]Now I say,"In game four,the Pistons beat the Lakers."And you say...
[13:06.57]No.In game four,the Pistons lost.The Lakers won.
[13:15.64]I say,"In game two,the Knicks lost."And you say...
[13:24.10]No.In game two,the Knicks won.The Celtics lost.
[13:31.96]Ready?Let's beging.In game four,the Pistons beat the Lakers.
[13:41.52]No.In game four,the Pistons lost.The Lakers won.
[13:50.07]In game two,the Knicks lost.
[13:55.84]No.In game two,the Knicks won.The Celtics lost.
[14:05.09]In game four,the Pistons played against the Celtics.
[14:12.04]No.In game four,the Pistons polayed against the Lakers.
[14:19.77]The Pistons beat the Celtics in game one.
[14:26.04]No.The Pistons lost.The Celtics won in game one.
[14:33.48]The Knicks played against the Celtics in game three.
[14:39.44]No.The Knicks played against the Pistons in game three.
[14:45.92]How about in game four?Did the Pistons beat the lakers?
[14:53.86]No.In game four,the Pistons lost.The Lakers won.
[15:02.32]Did the Celtics lose in game one?
[15:07.60]No.The Celtics won.The Pistons lost in game one.
[15:15.04]Did the Pistons win in game four?
[15:20.92]No.The Pistons lost.The Lakers won in game four.
[15:28.29]That was very good,Sam.
[15:32.34]Now,here are some true-or-false game one was Celtics ninety-eight,
[15:43.57]Pistons ninety-four."And you say....
[15:49.13]True. I say,"The Knicks are from Boston."And you say...
[15:57.70]False. OK? Let's beging.The score in game one was Celtics ninety-eight,
[16:08.65]Pistons ninety-four.
[16:13.01]True.The Knicks are from Boston.
[16:18.57]False. In game three,the score was Pistons twenty-six,Knicks fifty-eight.
[16:28.13]False. The Lakers are from Los Angeles.
[16:35.21]True. In game four,the Lakers lost,thirty-six to thirty.
[16:43.68]False. The Pistons are form Pittsburgh.
[16:49.24]False. The Pistons lost two games.
[16:55.41]True. That was terrifc,Sam.
[17:02.17]Now some practice using the past tense.
[17:07.94]I say,"I drink a lot of water."And you say...
[17:15.60]I drank a lot of water.
[17:19.73]Easy,huh? Ready? Let's go.I drink a lot of water.
[17:28.79]I drank a lot of water. She has a nice boyfriend.
[17:36.37]She had a nice boyfriend. They know a lot of people.
[17:44.41]They knew a lot of people. You do excellent work. You did excellent work.
[17:54.89]You break my heart. You broke my heart.
[18:02.15]It's a good lesson. It was a good lesson.
[18:09.41]That's all for now,Sam.This is the end of Lesson Eight. |