What's the Matter with You?

[00:00.00]Lesson4
[00:03.19]Text A
[00:04.75]What's the Matter with You?
[00:06.84]MRS WELSH:Good afternoon,Dr Dawes.
[00:09.64]DR DAWES:Good afternoon,Mrs Welsh.
[00:11.70]MRS WELSH:Please come this way,Doctor.Peter's in this room.
[00:14.63]DR DAWES:Well,Peter.I'm sorry you're ill.What's the matter with you?
[00:19.30]PETER:I don't know,Doctor.I'm ill.I have a headache and a stomachache.
[00:25.36]DR DAWES:Show me your tongue.What did you eat yesterday?
[00:29.07]PETER:Well,Doctor,I...
[00:31.76]DR DAWES:Did you eat any cake?
[00:33.57]PETER:Yes ,I ate some cake.
[00:35.45]DR DAWES:Did you eat any ice cream?
[00:37.43]PETER:Well,yes,I did.I ate some ice cream.
[00:41.09]DR DAWES:Did you eat any candy?
[00:43.08]PETER:Well,yes,I did.I ate some candy.
[00:46.24]DR DAWES:Young man,tell me everything you ate yesterday evening.
[00:50.23]PETER:Well,Doctor.I went to a birthday party.
[00:54.02]DR DAWES:I see!How many pieces of cake did you eat?
[00:57.42]PETER:Three,Doctor.
[00:59.04]DR DAWES:How many plates of ice ream did you eat,young man?
[01:02.64]PETER:Gosh,Doctor.I had only three plates of ice cream.John had four.
[01:07.89]Text B
[01:12.67]How Did You Lose Your Way?
[01:14.42]Mrs Brown's old grandfather lived with her and her husband.
[01:20.56]Every morning he went for a walk in the park and came home at half past twelve for his lunch.
[01:26.02]But one morning a police car stopped outside Mrs Brown's house at twelve o'clock,
[01:31.32]and two polecemen helped Mr Brown to get out.One of them said to Mrs Brown,
[01:37.12]"The poor old gentleman lost his way in the park and telephoned to us for help,
[01:42.09]so we sent a car to bring him home."
[01:44.67]Mrs Brown was very surprised,
[01:47.83]but she thanked the policemen and they left.
[01:50.21]"But,Grandfather,"she then said,"you have been to that park nearly every day for twenty years.
[01:57.32]How did you lose your way there?"
[01:59.20]The old man smiled,closed one eye and said,
[02:02.80]"I didn't quite lose my way.I just got tired and I didn't want to walk home!"
[02:08.60]7.
[02:12.86]Read the following passage once.
[02:16.15]Underline the key words while reading and retell the story to your partner.
[02:21.53]One morning a man was crossing a narrow bridge when he saw a fishermand on the shady bank of the deep,
[02:29.86]smooth river under him,so he stopped to watch him quietly.
[02:34.51]After a few minutes,the fisherman pulled his line in.
[02:39.90]There was a big,fat fish at the end of it.
[02:43.19]The fisherman took it off the hook and threw it back into the water.
[02:48.52]Then he put his hook and line in again.
[02:51.60]After a few more minutes he caught anothehr big fish.
[02:56.14]Again he threw it back into the river.
[02:59.10]Then,the third time,he caught a small fish.
[03:03.72]He put it into his baskt and started to get ready to go.
[03:08.87]The man on the bridge was very suprised,so he spoke to the fisheman.
[03:14.69]He said,"Why did you throw those beautiful,big fish back into theh water and keep only that small one?"