English Listening B2 -Episode 10 - Track 04
Fill in the Blanks Exercise
[1] I had my photo in a German newspaper
. I was thirteen or fourteen and my class was
in a school exchange. The school in Germany was in a village called Wendlingen - it's in the
of the country, near Stuttgart. Anyway, when we landed at the airport, my ears were really hurting after the flight and I just wanted to go somewhere
. I suppose I must have realised that someone was taking photos, but I didn't really care
. So, it was a bit of a shock to see my photo in the paper the next day. In the photo, I'm
with my host family and looking extremely uncomfortable.
[2] There was a photo of me when I was really
in our local free magazine. I must have been about six at the time, because it was my
at a new school - we'd just moved house, you see. You can see me standing at the
of the queue in the playground, waiting for the teacher to take us to our classroom. I'm wearing a black and yellow tracksuit and carrying a folder with my
on it. It's a pretty good photograph actually, as it captures the
of the day: the children wandering around, looking a bit lost, and the teachers walking towards them, wondering what the
will bring. I'd love to know who took it.
[3] I always used to love sports day at school - not because we didn't have any lessons in the
, but because it was the day that I could show everyone that I was
something. You see, I was the best in my class at running - I was the best in the
, in fact, so I would always win the 100 metre and 200 metre races. The races were fun, but the best part of the day was getting the medals and having my
. I always felt on top of the world during the medals ceremony, and you can see that
in the photos. There's one in particular where I look as if I've just won an Olympic Gold!
[5] The only time I've had my photo in the newspaper was when I was about
. It was the awards ceremony of a programme run by the libraries in my city called the Good Readers Circle. You had to get a thousand points by reading different books - each book was worth six, eight, ten or twelve points,
on how difficult it was. Anyway, about twelve of us received the award, and after the ceremony, we had our photo taken with the mayor. I was really looking forward to seeing the photo but I couldn't believe my
when I opened the newspaper. The only person you could see properly was the mayor, and the rest of us were completely
behind him.
