Unit 5 Page 49 Lesson C3A

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Three, Listening and speaking, I don’t remember exactly.

A, Listen to people talk about their childhood memories. Underline the words they correct. Write the corrections on the lines.

1. We grew up in a great neighborhood. Then, um, when I was three, no wait, I think I was four, yeah four, we, um, we moved to another city for a few years. I was really happy when we moved back!

2. I loved sports when I was a kid. I played softball until I was in sixth grade. Actually, it was until I was in seventh grade. And then I got interested in other sports, like football. I was a pretty good athlete.

3. Oh, we never went shopping when I was a child. My mother made clothes for me and my brother. One time, she made me some dark blue shorts, I mean, pants. They were awful.I hated wearing them.

4. A lot of the friends I have now, they’re, um, I met them in school. I met my best friend in 1996. We were in high school together. Well, actually, it was middle school. And we’re still really close.

5. I didn’t have many friends when I was little, All the kids teased me in school because I had an unusual name. Well, not all of them, some of them. But one kid was really nice to me. I even remember his name, Alex. Yeah.