Number 59, exercise 30A.0:05
Listen to the text and say where Dick's parents were born.0:11
When Dick was six years old, he went and stayed with his great grandparents on their farm for a few weeks in the summer.0:23
The farm was situated on the bank of the mighty Mississippi, which rises in the north of the U.S.0:33
dick talked a lot with his great grandmother while he was there, and she told him a lot of interesting things about their family which he had not known before.0:41
When he came home again to his own parents, who lived in New York City of skyscrapers, he said to his father, is it true that I was born on the shores of Lake Michigan?0:54
Yes, it is, Dick, his father answered.1:09
And were you really born in Germany?1:13
Yes, that's right, his father answered, I was.1:18
And is it true that Mummy was born in Ireland, in a small village on the coast of the Irish Sea?1:23
Dick continued, his father said, yes, it is.1:32
It was a very small village then, without any attractions, but for beautiful green meadows stretching for long distances and a small chain of hills.1:37
But why are you asking me all these questions?1:47
Dick answered, because when Granny told me all these things while I was with her, I couldn't understand how we had all met with such a mixture of birthplaces.1:51
B. Listen to the text again and do the tasks from the section.2:08
Let us listen and discuss in your student's book.2:14
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