Passage Transcript this summer i went to, Italy for what turned to be a three week trip with a friend of mine from college. it was a really a good experience. i have never been out of the country before and, for years i wanted to go. i had always wan...
Passage Transcript i am a captain, of an American flag football team in my scho- at my college. it's an intramural team. and it consists of fourteen to fifteen players. while seven people play, on the field at once. the object of the game_ well, it's...
Passage Transcript sometime earlier this year i took a trip to, England and France. uh, my family helped me out. uh... because i wanted to go see some friends in France. and i also had three people that i went to school with at Oxford. now, it was a...
Passage Transcript i have a mom a dad and a brother. and all four of us live in a house. and my dad is really tall. he has brown hair and he's six foot six, and he has blue eyes. and that's where i get my blue eyes. and my mom is really short. she is...
Warren / Canada speaker Yeah, I think I'm not very good at keeping clean. My wife is always getting upset that I'm leaving things out on the counter in the kitchen, or leaving my clothes in the bedroom in the wrong place, and I definitely have to imp...
Sarah / England speaker In a way, I admire Margaret Thatcher. She was the first female prime minister in England. She was a very powerful, powerful woman. She broke any normal social norms associated with politics and the female gender. So, I admire...
Lindsay / United States speaker My favorite season is summer. I love summer. There is no school. It's warm. The sun sets late. You can sit on your balcony and drink a beer and barbecue. I just think it's fabulous. My least favorite then obviously is...
Warren / Canada speaker I don't think I have enough gadgets. I think ... I don't think anyone should have too many, but I'm definitely wanting to have a few more devices to help me. Right now, I only have a regular cellphone, but I really wanted to g...
Katia / Mexico Oh, no. No, I never tried. Yeah, I'd rather fail the test than try to cheat. I wouldn't feel comfortable. Mak / Croatia speaker Yes, I did. Actually, well, I tried to cheat on our tests many times, which is not really good of me, but i...
Tim / United States speaker My school didn't have field trips that we would go to, but there were events that we would have. A big event was homecoming, which is the first major sports game of the year, so people would celebrate that a lot and go and...
Paul / England speaker The typical thing that annoys people, or annoys me, in the theater is the rustling and crunching of different food types, and also the kicking, whether it's intended or not, the kicking of the back of your seat. And also, in so...
Kat / Germany speaker My high school in Germany was really small, only about a thousand people, and it was a very close-knitcommunity. In a German high school, there are students from ten years old to twenty years old, so it's a really nice family at...
Isma / Indonesia speaker My first impression of best friend was positive. I mean, she was really nice to me, and she helped me a lot with my studies and also adapting in a university. So, she was really nice, and until now, we're still best friends....
Lindsay / United States speaker Yes, I've bought many things online. This year, I bought all of my family's Christmas presents online. I bought my mother a calendar, and I bought my father a golf bag online. And I bought my sister a gift certificate...
Rese / Botswana speaker I think.. all people learn, because they give you the opportunity to evaluate how much you know and how far you've gone with whatever it is that you're learning, and they give you a chance to also see how close you are with yo...