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LESSON
AUDIOSCRIPT for page T83 (A Listen for main ideas)

BEFORE YOU LISTEN CONVERSATION 1

M: Martha! You’re back!
A 4:15 Vocabulary F: Yeah.
M: So tell me about your cruise!
Suggested 2–3 Your actual F: Well, there isn’t much to tell.
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M: What do you mean?
F: Well, I didn’t really have a very good time.
Vocabulary Flash Card Player M: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that.
F: What can I say . . . The food was horrible.
M: Oh, no.
• Point out to students that the first two Vocabulary items F: My room was too small. And the entertainment was terrible.
in each category use the simple past tense of be and the M: Sorry to hear that.
last two in each category use the simple past tense of F: Well, I’ll never do that again.
regular and irregular verbs. M: I don’t blame you.
• Have students look at the sentences and the Irregular CONVERSATION 2 [M = French]
Verb Chart on page 122. Ask: F: So did you do anything nice for your vacation?
What is the present tense form of stole? (steal) M: Yeah. Nina and I took the kids to Miami.
F: Miami? How was it?
What is the present tense form of lost? (lose)
M: It was fantastic! The hotel was great—the people were really
What is the present tense form of found? (find) nice. And the food was wonderful. But you won’t believe
• To practice the Vocabulary, say I’m going to describe a bad what happened.
travel experience. Change the experience to make it good. F: What?
M: Someone stole our car!
Say and elicit:
F: No way!
The weather was horrible. (The weather was amazing.) M: It’s true. We looked and looked, and it wasn’t there.
The people were so unfriendly. (The people were so F: That’s terrible!
friendly.) M: But it wasn’t so bad. They found it the next day.
They lost my luggage. (They found my luggage.) F: That’s incredible.
Someone stole my wallet. (Someone found my wallet.) M: It was. And it didn’t stop us from having a great time in
Miami. The kids loved it.
FYI: Awful, horrible, and terrible have the same meaning.
Pretty bad isn’t as harsh as the other three words. Warm CONVERSATION 3
F: Matt! You look great! When did you get back from vacation?
and cold can be used to describe how friendly people are. M: Just yesterday.
F: So tell me about your trip! How was it?
B Look at the pictures . . . M: Don’t ask.
F: What do you mean?
Suggested 3 Your actual M: Everything went wrong. When I got there, I found out that
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they lost my luggage. When I asked about it, the people
• Tell students to complete the sentences with the were very unfriendly. They didn’t help me at all.
F: Oh, no.
Vocabulary from Exercise A. There is more than one
M: Two days with no clean clothes! It was a very bad start.
correct answer to items 2, 3, and 4. F: Too bad. How did the rest of your vacation go?
Option: (+ 10 minutes) For a challenge, ask pairs of students M: Well, the hotel was beautiful. I had a great room. But on the
third day, someone stole my laptop.
to talk about a time one of these bad things happened to
F: Oh, no!
them; for example, One time, someone stole my purse. I was M: It was pretty hard to have a good time after that.
downtown. I was sitting outside at a nice restaurant. I put
my purse on the chair next to me. A man walked by and took CONVERSATION 4
the purse. I went to the police station, but we never found my F: Hey, I’m back.
M: Hey, how was your vacation?
purse. F: OK.
M: OK? Did you have a good time?
F: Yeah.
M: Was the food good?
F: It was wonderful.
M: How were the people? Warm . . . friendly?
F: They were great.
M: So, no problems?
F: Not really.
M: Then why do you look so unhappy?
F: It was too short.

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