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c) I’m afraid you can’t speak to Mr. Jones. He’s …… his office at the
moment.
d) As children, we often had to stand …… the headmaster’s study.
e) Don’t play silly games in here. Why don’t you play ……?
f) John doesn’t have any interests …… his work.
g) What are you going to get …… this?
h) We’ll go …… for five minutes or so, to let you discuss the matter
privately.
i) You should never throw anything …… the window.
Well, now you can wind down and read the following text. Get ready to answer
a question afterwards.
ANOTHER DAY BEGINS
The day on which Emily Stockwell Turner fell out of love with her husband
began much like other days. As usual, Emmy lay in bed twenty minutes later
than she should have done, with her son Freddy playing cars over her legs, and
when she finally got up it seemed as if things would never be sorted out. But
somehow breakfast was made; Freddy was fed and dressed and sent off to
nursery school in the car pool, and at length Emmy stood outside the house
watching her husband leave for work on time.
“Looks like snow,” said Turner, an instructor in the Languages and
Literature Division at Convers College, as he stood beside her on the frozen
lawn in his overcoat. It was a chilly, dark morning early in November, and
Emmy wore only an old cashmere sweater and slacks, but she was the kind that
never feels the cold.
“Oh, good; do you think so? But it’s only the first week in November. I’m
afraid it’s much too soon”.
“It probably snows early here”, Holman said, and climbed into his car and
shut the door. Through the glass he could see Emmy look round at the clouds,
smiling. What a magnificent creature she is, he thought as he frequently did. She
was a big girl, tall, tanned like a gypsy, and with a high colour. Her heavy,
bright-brown hair had not been yet done up for the day; it hung down over one
shoulder in a thick braid. She was twenty-seven, and still had, as on the day he
married her, the look of a carefully bred and beautifully groomed animal kept
permanently at the peak of its condition for some high use which has not yet
arrived and possibly never will arrive.
Emmy continued to stand beside the car, waiting for her husband to roll the
window down, so he rolled it down.
“Goodbye, darling”, she said, stooping to kiss him.
“So long, baby”, Holman replied. He rolled the window up again and drove
away down the drive.
Task: first go over the text once again to make sure that you remember the main
points, then try to record your rendering. While listening to the recording correct
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