[00:00.00]Lesson 22
[00:08.52]Text A
[00:09.95]If Don't Do Anything Else
[00:12.67]Yesterday motning Paul said to himself.
[00:16.38]"I've gotto writ that economics paper today.
[00:19.28]If I don't do anything else,I've goot to write that pater.
[00:23.35]He sat down at his desk and put a sheet of paper intohis typewriter.
[00:28.68]He looked out of the window,ate a piece of candy,got up to get a drink of water
[00:34.61]brushed his teethmand sat down at his desk again.
[00:38.14]"I haven't written my family since Thanksgiving,he said to himself."I'll write them a letter first."
[00:45.30]Paul wrote his family a long letter."My typewriter needs a new ribbon.
[00:51.83]I've got to change this ribbon before I write my economics paper."
[00:55.75]The ink from th typewriter ribbon gothis hands very dirty,so he washed them and washed them.
[01:02.69]While he was washing his hands,he noticed that his fingernails were much too long.
[01:08.05]He cut them very carefully and then went back to his desk.
[01:12.41]He put a sheet fo paper into his typewriter,looked out of the window,and looked at his watch.
[01:19.02]It was noon.
[01:20.64]"I'll get some lunch now,"he said to himself.
[01:24.11]"After lunch I'll write that paper,if I don't do anything else."
[01:29.39]Text B I'll find my way
[01:34.15]The day of Uncle George's arrival is here.
[01:37.12]Everything is ready,but Uncle George and his family haven't arrived.
[01:41.59]Uncle George can't find his way to the Miller home.
[01:45.12]Mrs Miller gives him specific directions on the telephone.
[01:49.37]Mrs Miller:Please answer the telephone,Mary.
[01:52.20]Mary:Hello,Uncle George?Where are you?Wait a munute,please.
[01:57.66]I'll call Mother.Mother,it's Uncle George.
[02:01.70]Mrs Miller:George,dear.Where are you?At the corner of Pine and State Street?
[02:07.66]Wait there.Michael can come and get you.
[02:10.95]Uncle George:No.It's not necessary.We drove the car.
[02:14.97]Give me the directions.I'll find my way.
[02:17.61]Mrs Miller:Go north on State Street to Main Steet.There's a large statue there.Turn left.
[02:24.51]Continue to Grove Avenue.Turn right .Continue on Grove Avenue to Seventh Street.Turn left.
[02:32.03]We're in the middle of the block.Can you repeat the directions,George?
[02:36.68]Uncle George:I think so.I have to got notrth on Strth on State Street to Main Street.
[02:41.85]I turn left to Grove Avenue.I continue on Grove Avenue.
[02:46.22]I turn right.I continue on Grove Avenue to Seventh Street.
[02:51.10]I turn left and go to the middle of the block.
[02:54.52]Mrs Miller:That's it.I'll see you soon,George.Mary,is the table set?
[03:00.66]Mary:Yes,Mother.Come and look.
[03:02.83]Mrs Miller:It looks very pretty.Think you,Mary.
[03:06.12]7. Read the following passage once.
[03:11.50]Underline the key words while reading and retell the story to your partner.
[03:17.04]A Break in the Routine
[03:19.97]Jonathan Rivers lived alone in a neat,two-storey,semi-detached house in Compton Street.
[03:27.83]Like many bachelors approaching middle age,he was getting rather set in his ways.
[03:34.62]He caught the same train to London every morning,
[03:38.67]ate his lunch in the same crowded restaurant near the office where he worked
[03:43.03]and always came home on the 6:00 train. People were so used to seeing Jonathan set off
[03:50.74]at a quarter past eight, dressed in a simple dark suit, wearing a black bowler hat
[03:56.85]and carrying a rolled umbrella on his arm, that they said you didn' t need to wear a watch
[04:03.04]if you lived in Compton Street.
[04:04.92]Ever since Jonathan had set up house in Compton Street, he had looked after it very carefully.
[04:13.18]He worked hard in the garden every Sunday and set out to impress the neighbours with his flower beds and lawn.
[04:20.94]Before he left the house in the mornings, he carefully dosed all the doors downstairs,
[04:27.73]opened some windows to let the air in and locked the front door.
[04:31.86]Everything Jonathan did was tidy and systematic.
[04:37.26]One summer evening Jonathan returned home as usual at five minutes to seven precisely.
[04:44.37]When he opened the front gate he immediately noticed something strange.
[04:49.78]There was a heavy footprint in the earth in one of the flower beds.
[04:54.61]Jonathan was just going to blame the milkman or the postman
[04:59.08]when he noticed that one of the white lace curtains in the front room downstairs was out of place.
[05:05.29]Jonathan never left anything out of place.
[05:08.51]He walked up to the front door and opened it quietly.
[05:13.26]He listened carefully for a few moments but could hear nothing. The front-room door was half-open.
[05:20.55]Jonathan studied it thoughtfully, wondering if he had forgotten to close it that morning.
[05:26.58]He had never forgotten before. He stepped silently across the hall to the door and looked inside the room.
[05:35.73]The shadow of a man was clearly reflected on the far wall in the evening sunlight.
[05:41.52]He had obviously been standing behind the door since Jonathan' s return' Jonathan grabbed the door-handle,
[05:50.33]slammed the door and turned the key. Then he calmly picked up the telephone in the hall and set about calling the police.
[05:59.39]The burglar, a tall, thick-set, bearded fellow, tried to climb through a window to get out but Jonathan had expected that.
[06:09.50]He set about him with his umbrella, using it like a sword. Three minutes later the police arrived on the scene.