Number 18 Exercise 5.0:04
Listen to the descriptions of people's behaviour which are taken from popular legends and say in which of them.0:08
A Becomes an outsider in his community.0:17
B demonstrates kindness C Gets punishment for his disobedience D doesn't know what sympathy is.0:22
E can't resist his desire.0:36
Many people know the story of Daedalus and his son Icarus before the story begins.0:46
The wife of King Minos has been made by the gods to fall in love with a bull and has given birth to a monster, half bull and half human, called the Minotaur.0:53
King Minos employs Daedalus to build a maze or labyrinth to imprison the dangerous creature.1:04
Daedalus does as he is asked, but later he angers the king and finds himself locked with his son Icarus in his own labyrinth.1:11
But the man is incredibly skillful, and soon the wings that can carry him and his son in the sky are ready.1:19
But Icarus doesn't follow his father's warning never to fly too close to the sun.1:27
Thinking he is invulnerable, he approaches the sun and dies.1:33
One day a skilled blacksmith made a beautiful silver box.1:44
It was a divine piece of art, and the gods filled it with something and forbade the man to open it.1:48
The blacksmith's bosom friend saw the box and was amazed by its beauty.1:54
It was a real masterpiece.1:58
The friend wanted to have the box in his possession, and the blacksmith couldn't help giving it to the person he loved so much.2:00
But he instructed his friend never to open the box.2:07
The latter agreed, admiring the box every evening before going to bed.2:10
Its new owner grew more and more restless as he wanted to know what was hidden inside.2:15
So one night the blacksmith's friend understood he could no longer bear the torture.2:21
His whole body trembling, he knelt down beside the box and opened it.2:26
And at once all the problems of the world that had long been kept locked up exploded into the world.2:31
There was once a large Indian village situated on the border of a lake, and in it there dwelt an old man, a widower with two sons.2:44
The youngest was very small, weak and often ill, which didn't prevent his brother from treating him with great cruelty.2:55
He would burn the other's hands and face with hot coals.3:03
When their father, coming home, asked why the child was so disfigured, his brother would promptly say that it was the fault of the boy himself.3:07
He had been forbidden to go near the fire, but he had disobeyed and fallen in.3:17
Once there was a young man who was very poor.3:29
His parents had died when he was only a boy and he was brought up by his grandparents.3:32
But now they were dead too, and he was lonely and unhappy.3:38
He had no cattle, no fine clothes, no valuable belongings, and because of this, the people of his village ignored him.3:42
One day the poor man decided he had had enough of this unfriendly village.3:51
He would set off, it didn't matter where, to see if he could have better luck in another Part3:55
five Once a man set off towards a faraway village.4:03
He walked for miles across the dusty plain and by midday he was hot and tired.4:09
Luckily there was a tree nearby, so he sat under it and rested in the shade.4:15
Feeling hungry, he opened his bag and took out a hunk of meat he had.4:21
Just as he was pulling it out, he heard something scratching the ground behind him.4:27
He looked around and there was a scrawny looking hyena eyeing the meat.4:32
Excuse me, it said, but do you think you could spare the bones when you have finished the meat?4:39
You see, I haven't eaten for two days.4:46
The man decided to share his meat with the animal.4:51
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