Pracrise Listening 35 - Thấm Tâm Vy

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1. very special because the people there had never seen tourists before. So they PRACTISE LISTENING 35 acted like, yeah, they treated us like very special people, which we aren’t, of Speaker 1 course. They were a bit shy at first but then somehow we managed to We went to some incredible places, a place which has the most famous communicate, and what I realised is that people, good people, are the same mosque in the whole of North Africa. We went in and then some boys came perhaps the world over. 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 Speaker 4 said, really, you have to see that, it’s wonderful, there are old Tunisian carpets. Well, with a few friends from my rowing club, we went on a weekend in the So we decided to go with them. And guess what! The museum turned out to be middle of winter in Holland. When we got there we couldn’t even get out on the a carpet shop, owned by the father of one of the boys. And of course, he water, it was way too cold and we were in this big er, shed, the size of a football wanted to sell us a carpet. We actually didn’t want to buy one because we didn’t pitch. There was no heating, the water was coming through the roof. The whole have enough space in our backpacks, but finally he managed to persuade us to time it was windy and terrible. We went there by bike and it was about three buy one. So my friend, yeah, she bought one. hours, I think. And we just, you know, went on automatic pilot and went on To thank us for that, the boys guided us around the town and we ended up and on and on. And in this shed we couldn’t get warm and people started going down these really narrow alleyways, and we had no idea where we were getting really irritable and we started fighting over stupid, stupid things, for because this whole city was like a maze. Then we came to a house and we example, who has to cook dinner, who has to do the dishes, and we were really realised it was the house of one of the boys and we were invited in by his family nasty to each other. And we had to sleep all together in one corner; otherwise and we had tea, coffee, nice biscuits, and it was a really, really good experience. we’d freeze to death. There were about twenty-five of us all huddled together, trying to sleep and hating each other. Speaker 2 My story is actually a bit bizarre. I was going to Florida and first we took a Speaker 5 plane to New York and then to Florida and during the trip from New York to Whenever people talk about dolphins, they always say they’re very intelligent Florida I felt that I had to go to the bathroom. And in front of me there was a creatures but I never really grasped the idea of how intelligent they are until this girl, she was about, perhaps twenty-five, very good-looking, who went into the summer when I went to Zanzibar, which is a little island off Africa. And one of bathroom, but she didn’t lock the door, it was still on the er, it wasn’t the things I did there was actually swimming with dolphins. When you go there, completely locked. And I thought that maybe I should knock on the door and there are a few locals and you go on a boat with them, and even before you’ve tell her that her door wasn’t completely closed, but I didn’t. And I also had a seen anything their enjoyment really rubs off on you. They’re laughing all the funny feeling that this wouldn’t turn out well. And I was right because about time and when they find some dolphins, they’re really proud of themselves thirty seconds later, the door flew open and there she was on the loo, and she because they’ve found some dolphins and they know that you’re really going to gave out a loud shriek and me and the rest of the queue just stood there in love it. What you have to do then is, you have to jump in the water, when the disbelief, totally in shock. boat stops you jump in the water, and if you’re lucky, the dolphins come straight at you, and then they dive really deep in the water so you can’t see Speaker 3 them any more. They hide themselves and then they come back. And when you Four years ago I went to Indonesia with my parents and my sister, which was, see the look in their eyes, you see they’re just making fun of you! And for me of course, a very beautiful holiday. First, we went to Sumatra and er, there we that’s proof of how smart dolphins really are. 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 Thẩm Tâm Vy, May 4, 2019 PRACTISE LISTENING 35