LISTENING PODCAST MATH OR MAGIC
Belkis Mora PART ONE
1) Where did his mother grow up?
2) Complete: I´m going to _______ ________ this ____. You have to meet _____ _____ and she was ______ to make ___ _____
3) where were his parents invited to?
4) what the word used by Tobin to refer to ugly people?
5) Complete . He met ___ _________..... It was like this ______ ____ ___ _______
6) Match the two pairs of sentences
His mom was
19 years old
his dad was
18 years old
Their fisrt date was
at the same college
They ended up
at a French restaurant
They kissed
at a local pub
7) when did his parent get married and how long have they been together?
PART TWO
8) COMPLETE : Or I´d convince myself that I ____ _____ the magic , and then think everything, ____ _______ ______, were _____ of that magic.
9) Who was on each of his shoulder ?
his mum
his best friend
his dad
one of his best friends
10) who is on the practical approach?
11) How do they refer to her dates?
12) COMPLETE:
Elizabeth's advice for me went something like this. _____ is like ____ an anthropologist. You go on a _____ of dates. You notice the ____ and _____that maybe you liked from each guy, slowly _______ the picture of what type of person you ____ have a successful relationship with. For her, going on a lot of ___dates was just part of the _____.
13) what did his friend advise hm not to feel ?
PART THREE
14) when did zarna story start?
15 Where was she living ?
16) what was her feeling about being single ?
17) what TV programme did she hate ?
18) COMPLETE:
Because no one was ____ _____ married. They were _____ they were not _____, they were on a _____, they were ____the break, then they were dating other people _____ the same friend group. Like, to somebody like me, who came from the world that I came from, that was a ______show.
19) Underline the mistakes in the paragraph
Zarna moved to the US in her own when she was 15, leaving behind her family in India and a unikely arranged marriage. She wanted to be independent and to go to University. She got into law school in Cleveland, so she was very much trapped.
PART 3
PART 4
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