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I Shall Never Fly Again
Tom Jackson and Charles Brown are talking about ttheir summer holidays. TOM: Where are you going for your holidays , Charles ?
CHARLES: To Australia. Im going to ...
I Shall Never Fly Again
Tom Jackson and Charles Brown are talking about ttheir summer holidays. TOM: Where are you going for your holidays , Charles ?
CHARLES: To Australia. Im going to visit my uncle in Brisbane for three weeks.
TOM: Good gracious! You certainly are lucky. How are you going there?
CHARLES: By air, of course. It takes over two weeks to go by sea.
TOM: I once went to Singa pore by air. It was very exciting-but never agaim.
CHARLES: Why? Did you feel frightcned?
TOM: For a short time. One of the engines caught fire.
CHARLES: What did thc pilot do?
TOM: He put it out and flew back to the airport. Then he asked the pcople at the
airport where the emergency runway was.
CHARLES: Did you land safely ?
TOM: Yes, we did. But I shall never fly again.
7. Read the following passage once. Underline the key words while reading and retell the story to your partner.
It was a dark day when we got our report cards Thesky was full of gray clouds and it was sprinkling rain. I was over to Clydes house and Gloria and Kitty were there. Sam probably would hade been there, too, only he had got a two-week job in the afternoons helping out at Freddies. actually he only did it so that his mother would let him be on the track team again. Sam and his mother had this little system going He would do something
good-doing and shed let him do something that he wanted to.
Clydes report card was on the kitchen table and we all sat around it like it was some kind of a big important document. I had got a pretty good report card and had wanted to show it off but I knew it wasnt the time. Clyde pushed the card toward me and I read it. He had all satisfactory remarks on the side labeled Personal Traits and Behavior. He had also received Bs in . music and art appreciation. But everything else was either a C or a D except mathematics. His mathematics mark was a big red F that had been circled. I dont know why they had to circle the F when it was the only red mark on the card. In the Teachers Comments section someone had written that Clyde had "little ability to handle an academic program. "
"A little ability is better than none," I said. No one said anything so I figured it probably wasnt the right. time to try to cheer Clyde up.
I knew all about his switching from a commercial program to an academic program, but I really hadnt thought hed have any trouble.