English Listening B1 Episode 31 -
Fill in the Blanks Exercise
TRACK 2
Sara: Grandma, did you listen to when you were young?
Grandma: Oh, yes! There were in those days.
Sara: Really? What did you listen to?
Grandma: I remember when I was a teenager. It was a in 1969. My parents had a colour TV. Colour TVs were in 1969. Before then, television was only in black and white.
Sara: Black and white TV?
Grandma: Yes! So this colour TV was . There was a music show called and The Beatles were on. They played songs from their , Abbey Road. Oh, it was an amazing performance! They played really well. Abbey Road is still my .
Sara: I know that album. Dad still plays it. It's cool. But I didn't know it was .
Grandma: I loved The Beatles... everyone loved The Beatles. The whole world when that album came out.
Sara: Oh, Grandma, there's something I want to ask you. Can I again?
Grandma: The blue one? But it's .
Sara: I know it's old, but that now, and it matches my jeans.
Grandma: I'll just go and get it for you...
Sara: Thanks, Grandma. So what kind of clothes did you your age?
Grandma: Girls wore dresses in those days. and colourful tights are what I remember from the early 1960s. I had a cool pair of trousers too, with .
Sara: And the guys?
Grandma: The men wore smart clothes at the start of the 1960s but by the time Abbey Road came out in 1969, the fashion for men was for and beards, and colourful, ...
Sara: And - er - the jacket?
Grandma: Oh, yes, the jacket. Here it is. I made this jacket in... I think it was.. !
Sara: No way! That's amazing! I never knew you were , Grandma.
Grandma: Well, now you know!
