Pracrise Listening 35 - Thấm Tâm Vy

Thẩm Tâm Vy, May 4, 2019 PRACTISE LISTENING 35

PRACTISE LISTENING 35 Speaker 1 We went to some incredible places, a place which has the most famous mosque in the whole of North Africa. We went in and then some boys came and, well they wanted to show us around. Well, we were a bit dubious but they did anyway. After that, they asked us to come to a carpet museum, and they said, really, you have to see that, it’s wonderful, there are old Tunisian carpets. So we decided to go with them. And guess what! The museum turned out to be a carpet shop, owned by the father of one of the boys. And of course, he wanted to sell us a carpet. We actually didn’t want to buy one because we didn’t have enough space in our backpacks, but finally he managed to persuade us to buy one. So my friend, yeah, she bought one. To thank us for that, the boys guided us around the town and we ended up going down these really narrow alleyways, and we had no idea where we were because this whole city was like a maze. Then we came to a house and we realised it was the house of one of the boys and we were invited in by his family and we had tea, coffee, nice biscuits, and it was a really, really good experience. Speaker 2 My story is actually a bit bizarre. I was going to Florida and first we took a plane to New York and then to Florida and during the trip from New York to Florida I felt that I had to go to the bathroom. And in front of me there was a girl, she was about, perhaps twenty-five, very good-looking, who went into the bathroom, but she didn’t lock the door, it was still on the er,... it wasn’t completely locked. And I thought that maybe I should knock on the door and tell her that her door wasn’t completely closed, but I didn’t. And I also had a funny feeling that this wouldn’t turn out well. And I was right because about thirty seconds later, the door flew open and there she was on the loo, and she gave out a loud shriek and me and the rest of the queue just stood there in disbelief, totally in shock. Speaker 3 Four years ago I went to Indonesia with my parents and my sister, which was, of course, a very beautiful holiday. First, we went to Sumatra and er, there we met a man who wanted to show us his village. So we went off with him. The village was very small, perhaps five hundred inhabitants, maybe less. And it was

very special because the people there had never seen tourists before. So they acted like, yeah, they treated us like very special people, which we aren’t, of course. They were a bit shy at first but then somehow we managed to communicate, and what I realised is that people, good people, are the same perhaps the world over. Speaker 4 Well, with a few friends from my rowing club, we went on a weekend in the middle of winter in Holland. When we got there we couldn’t even get out on the water, it was way too cold and we were in this big er, shed, the size of a football pitch. There was no heating, the water was coming through the roof. The whole time it was windy and terrible. We went there by bike and it was about three hours, I think. And we just, you know, went on automatic pilot and went on and on and on. And in this shed we couldn’t get warm and people started getting really irritable and we started fighting over stupid, stupid things, for example, who has to cook dinner, who has to do the dishes, and we were really nasty to each other. And we had to sleep all together in one corner; otherwise we’d freeze to death. There were about twenty-five of us all huddled together, trying to sleep and hating each other. Speaker 5 Whenever people talk about dolphins, they always say they’re very intelligent creatures but I never really grasped the idea of how intelligent they are until this summer when I went to Zanzibar, which is a little island off Africa. And one of the things I did there was actually swimming with dolphins. When you go there, there are a few locals and you go on a boat with them, and even before you’ve seen anything their …