Number 29, exercise 60.0:02
Listen to the text Drive in the Motor Car and do tasks B and C in your student's book.0:05
Drive in the Motor Car.0:15
After Roald Dahl at the end of December, my mother came over to St. Peter's School to take me and my trunk home for the Christmas holidays.0:18
After the term at the boarding school, the family reunion was especially happy.0:29
There were warm embraces, and tears of happiness flowed down my old nanny's wrinkled cheeks.0:35
The weather was exceptionally mild that Christmas holiday, and one amazing morning our whole family felt thrilled and excited as we were going to go for our first drive in in the first motor car we had ever had.0:43
This new motor car was an enormous, long, black French automobile, and the driver was to be my half sister, who was 21 years old.0:59
She had received a couple of driving lessons from the man who sold the car, and in the year of 1925, it was believed to be quite enough.1:11
Nobody had to take a driving test.1:22
As we all climbed into the car, our excitement had become really great.1:25
Will it do fifty miles an hour?1:34
It'll do sixty, the sister answered, pulling on her driving gloves and tying a scarf over her head, as was the driving fashion of the period.1:38
Besides, driving bareheaded was not very pleasant, as our car was an open one.1:50
We were all trembling with fear and joy as the great long black automobile leaned forward and slowly clattered down the road.1:57
Are you sure you know how to do it?2:08
I've got to concentrate.2:16
Down the drive we went.2:18
Our destination was the village of Llandaff.2:20
Fortunately, there were very few vehicles and the road was not rough, so there was little danger of colliding with anything else.2:24
Go on, make her go faster.2:36
We're only doing 15 miles an hour.2:39
Encouraged by our shouts, the driver began to increase the speed.2:44
The engine roared and the car vibrated.2:49
The driver was clutching the steering wheel as though it were the hair of a sinking man, and we all watched the speedometer needle creeping up to 20, then 25, then 30.2:53
We were probably doing about 35 miles an hour when we came suddenly to a place where the road turned.3:06
Our driver, who had never faced a situation like this before, shouted, help.3:14
And stepped on the brakes and turned the wheel wildly round, after which we went crashing into the hedge.3:20
Glass flew in all directions, and so did we.3:28
My brother and one sister landed on the bonnet of the car.3:34
Someone else was catapulted out onto the road and at least one small sister landed in the middle of the hedge.3:39
But fortunately, nobody was hurt.3:47
My face had been badly cut as I went through the windscreen.3:51
My first acquaintance with a motor car had turned into a nightmare.3:55
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