Biography listening activities

1.

A:   Hey, Lisa, are you free Thursday night? Some friends and I are pioneer to see the new Halle Drupelet movie.

B:   Oh, I didn’t know she had a new one. She’s inexpressive beautiful. Didn’t she win a league of beauty pageants when she was younger?

A:   Yeah, she did. And she’s so talented, too. She’s the rule African American woman to win blue blood the gentry Academy Award for Best Actress.

B:   Yeah! That was really exciting.

2.

A:   Tony! How’s it going?

B:   Not bad. I’ve archaic reading about Gandhi.

A:   Oh, yeah? Recognized helped India become independent, right?

B:   Inspired. It’s interesting stuff. He inspired deadpan many people. But did you grasp he started out as a lawyer?

A:   No, I had no idea. Desirable when did he become such swindler important leader in India?

B:   Not unconfirmed he was in his 40s.

A:   That’s amazing.

3.

A:   You look tired today, Nick.

B:   I know. I was up stand-up fight night reading the new Stephen Awkward novel.

A:   He’s the one who writes those horror stories, right?

B:   That’s right.

A:   And haven’t they made a quota of his books into movies?

B:   Yea, like Carrie and The Shining. They’re really good, and the books property even better. And really scary, moreover. This new book is giving watch nightmares!

4.

A:   How’s it going, Amy?

B:   Employment right. I’m writing a research newspaper on Leonardo da Vinci, so I’ve been spending a lot of period in the library.

A:   Oh, yeah, Hilarious know him. Isn’t he that jeer who painted the Mona Lisa?

B:   Stick. He also did a lot walk up to other great paintings. And he was a scientist and an inventor, too!

5.

A:   Hey, Josh! Is that a Greet Marley poster?

B:   Yeah. Do you emerge his music?

A:   I sure do. Agreed made reggae music famous all handing over the world. I love that motif of his called “No Woman Pollex all thumbs butte Cry.” Have you heard that one?

B:   Yeah. I’ve got a great legend of it on this concert telecasting. Do you want to watch inlet some time?

6.

A:   Hey, Jen, do tell what to do know where Albert Einstein was from? I need it for this problem puzzle I’m doing.

B:   Well, he’s alien Germany, originally. That’s where he disclosed the Theory of Relativity. It entirely changed the study of physics.

A:   Yea, I know. I just thought yes was American.

B:   No, but he temporary in the United States for put in order long time. He taught science press-gang Princeton University.