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Radio English Course

Week Twenty Six

This week on New Dynamic English, Kathy and Max review their conversations with guests from past shows: Simon Tompkins, Pat Miller, Denise Collins and Mike Johnson. Then Kathy talks on the telephone with these guests. In the final show, Kathy asks Max questions about his life.

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Phone Conversation with Simon Tompkins

Listen to the conversation. Fill in the missing words.

Kathy: Hello, Simon?
Simon: Yes?
Kathy: This is Kathy... at the New Dynamic English radio program.
Simon: Oh, hi, Kathy. How are you?
Kathy: Just fine. And you?
Simon: Oh, just           .
Kathy: What are you doing?
Simon: Oh, Tony and I were watching television.
And now I'm           dinner.
Kathy: What were you watching?
Simon: Oh, nothing much.
We were watching a baseball game, but it was          .
So we turned it off.

Phone Conversation with Pat Miller

Listen to the conversation. Fill in the missing words.

Kathy: How was the radio play?
Did it go well?
Pat: Oh, yes. It was a great success.
Kathy: What           you working on now?
Pat: Well, next week we're going to do one of Shakespeare's plays.
We're going to perform on campus.
We           going to perform outdoors, in front of the library.
But they say it's going to rain all next week.
So we're           to perform indoors, in a small theater.

Phone Conversation with Denise Collins

Listen to the conversation. Fill in the missing words.

Kathy: How are you?
Denise: Not bad, but my           Kristen isn't feeling well.
Kathy: Oh, that's too bad.
What's the matter?
Denise: Oh,           has a bad cold.
So she stayed home from school today.
Kathy: Did you go to work?
Denise: Yes, I did, but my husband stayed           with Kristen.
Kathy: Well, I hope she feels better soon.
Denise: Thanks, Kathy.

Phone Conversation with Mike Johnson

Listen to the conversation. Fill in the missing words.

Mike: Loans Department.
Mike Johnson speaking.
Kathy: Hello, Mike.
Mike: Yes?
Kathy: This is Kathy at New Dynamic English.
Sorry to bother you at work.
Mike: Oh, no problem. I was just reading my          .
I wasn't with a customer.
What can I do for you?
Kathy: Well, I'm just calling to say "hi."
We were           to recordings from your visits to our show.
And we wanted to know how you were doing.
Mike: Well, I'm doing          .
Work is going well.
And this weekend, I'm going on a long bike ride with some friends.

Answers to last week's Study Activity

  Martin Luther King, Jr. César Chávez
1. He was born in Arizona.      x 
2. He was born in 1929.  x     
3. His father was a farm worker.      x 
4. He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia.  x     
5. He attended more than 30 elementary schools, because his family moved from place to place.      x 
6. He graduated from college in 1948.  x     
7. He got married in 1953.  x     
8. He led farm workers in their fight for better working conditions.      x 
9. He led the fight for civil rights for African Americans.  x     
10. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.  x     
11. He died in 1993.      x 

Last Week's Practice 1: Answers

  1. Einstein's first job was  as  a clerk.
  2. He was a clerk in a government office in Switzerland.
  3. He worked there  for  seven years,  from  1902 to 1909.
  4. In 1912, he moved back  to  Germany.
  5. He became a professor  at  the University of Berlin.
  6. He stayed  in  Germany  for  almost twenty years.

Last Week's Practice 2: Answers

Kathy: Did Einstein  ever  return to Germany?
Max: He  never  returned to Germany.
From 1933  until  his death, Einstein lived in the United States.
Kathy: Did he  become  an American citizen?
Max: Yes, he did. In 1941 he  became  an American citizen.

Last Week's Practice 3: Answers

  1. How  did  Einstein get interested in science?
  2. What  was  so interesting about a compass?
  3. Einstein wondered why  it  always points in the same direction.
  4. Why  does  (or  did ) it work?
  5. How  old  was he when he saw the compass?
  6. That's how  he  became interested in science.
  7. He was interested in how  things  work.

Missing words from last week's Daily Dialog: cowboy, stars, cows, love.

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