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Page 47 - Exercise 4

Part B - Listen again. What do these three people have in common?

1 - Sally

• One thing that was really a turning point for me, was when I learned Spanish. I was always kind of scared of learning a foreign language. Yet I was really envious of kids who could speak another language, but when I started learning Spanish. I found I was actually pretty good at it, and the moment I reached that breakthrough stage, you know when you discover you can actually speak and communicate with people in the language, I felt really proud of myself. I realized that learning a foreign language wasn’t an impossible thing after all. Now I can speak three, Spanish, Italian and German. And I’m taking Korean this year.

2 - Henry

• I’m a twin. And my twin brother and I have always been very close. We always did everything together and we were never apart for any time at all, until we were 18. Then we went to different colleges in different towns. And that was the first time we’ve ever really had to cope on our own. I think it was good in a way, because we both became more confident and independent. Until then, I’d always had my brother to depend on, whenever I ran into a problem. But once I went away to college, I realized I was actually capable of working things out on my own.

3 - Debbie

• I guess I was always pretty shy in school, and I didn’t share a lot of things with people, not even with my parents. Then one time it was awards day at school. I didn’t think I was getting any prizes or anything, and neither did my parents. So we were all pretty surprised when the principal announced that I was the top student in my class. Afterward I didn’t think too much about it, but then people suddenly started treating me differently. You know, I think some of the kids in school started looking up to me, and I became a lot more outgoing after that.