[00:00.00]Lesson 15
[00:02.90]Text A
[00:04.26]A Welcome Surprise
[00:06.27]Let's now visit Mary Miller.Mary and her mother are happy today.The postman has brought a letter from Mrs Miller's brother.
[00:15.23]He's coming to visit the Millers with his family.Mary and Mrs Miller have to plan meals and festivities.
[00:22.78]Mary offers to go shopping to help her mother.
[00:25.94]MRS MILLER:Mary,please go to the door.I hear the bell.
[00:30.09]MARY:It's the mailman,Mother.Here's a letter from Uncle George.
[00:34.74]MRS MILLER:Give it to me ...How wonderful!He's coming to visit us.
[00:39.76]MARY:When's he coming?
[00:41.56]MRS MILLER:He's coming by car on the twenty-fourth.He's staying from the twenty-fourth to the twenty-sixth.
[00:48.64]MARY:Let me book at the calendar.Good!The twenty-fourth is a Saturday.Is he coming alone?
[00:55.12]MRS MILLER:No,he's coming with Aunt Cynthia and the girls.
[00:58.88]MARY:Mother,I don't remember the girls.How old are they?
[01:04.13]MRS MILLER:Your cousin Fay is fifteen.Rosemary is older than Fay.She's seventeen.
[01:10.92]MARY:Are they going to stay here with us?
[01:13.48]MRS MILLER:Of course.The girls can stay in your room with you.
[01:17.19]MARY:Mother,may we have a party?
[01:20.43]MRS MILLER:If you like,but now we have to think about meals and many other things.
[01:25.84]MARY:Prepare the list,Mother.I can go shopping.I can go to the small stores.Everyone knows me there.
[01:34.01]Text B
[01:40.15]I'll Start in Three Months'Time
[01:42.79]Rose left school when she was seventeen and went to a college for a year to learn to type.She passed her examinations quite well
[01:52.46]and then went to look for work.She was still living with her parents.
[01:56.82]A lot of people were looking for typists at that time,so it was not difficult to find interesting work.
[02:03.79]Rose went to several office,and then chose one of them .It was near her parents'house.She thought,"I'll walk there every morning.
[02:13.54]I won't need to go by bus."She went to the office again and said to the manager,"I want to work here,but what will you pay me?"
[02:22.13]"We'll pay you 27 pounds now ,"the manager answered,"and 30 pounds after three months."
[02:28.72]Rose thought for a few seconds before she answered.Then she said,"All reght,then I'll start in three months'time."
[02:38.48]7.
[02:40.91]Read the following passage once.Underline the key words while reading and retell the story to your partner.
[02:48.75]Wht a Language!
[02:50.87]First Frenchman:I once haeard someone shout,"Look out."I put my head out of a window and a bucketful of water fell on me.
[03:01.32]It seems that"look out"may mean"don't look out."
[03:06.07]Second F:I was once on a ship and head the captain shout,
[03:11.35]"All hands on deck."I put y hands on the deck and someone walded on them.
[03:17.59]Third F:I once called early on an English friend and the maid who came to the door said,
[03:24.38]"He's not up yet.Come back in half an hour.
[03:27.96]"When I went again for him,she said,"He's not down yet."I said,
[03:34.00]"If he's not up and he's not down where is he?"She said,"He's still in bed.
[03:40.58]When I say 'He's not up I mean he has not yet got up,so he has not yet come down-stairs."