Listen to the passage and write it down, paying attention to the correct punctuation

. – full stop

, - comma

‘ - apostrophe

- - hyphen

: - colon

You will hear the same passage broken into short sections first and then in longer sentences. Listen and repeat each phrase/sentence with the correct intonation. After that, read the whole passage through.

Word list: drab

Cynthia

Text 5

Read the story through and put one of the words from the box into each gap. Listen and check your answers. Break the passage into sense-groups and mark the intonation. Practise reading the passage aloud.

to at about off to from at in in

My friend Susie met her husband in a strange way. She was traveling to Eastern Europe by train one summer. For some time she looked _____ the handsome young man sitting opposite her. Finally he smiled ________ her and said ‘Hello’. It was a long trip and they talked _______ a lot of different things. He came ________ Hamburg, and was very interested ______ politics and English. When he got _____ the train in Hamburg, Suzy felt a little sad because she didn’t even know his name. Then she noticed a book on the floor. It had an address, but no name _______ it. She didn’t know if it belonged ______ the handsome German man, but she decided to write _____ the address in the book. After a couple of weeks she got a reply. The following summer he visited her in England, and last year they got married.

Text 6