1 Reading: AUTUMN

Autumn is the season that falls between summer and winter. There are many changes
that begin in this fascinating season. Days become shorter. Leaves of trees turn from
green to vibrant red, yellow and orange. Trees need sunlight to keep their leaves a lively
green. Without sunlight leaves turn colors. The grass is no longer blanketed with dew
but with frost, almost every morning, as temperatures reach the freezing point. Animals
start storing up a food supply to last through the long winter months. These changes occur
as we adjust from the heat of the summer to the chill of the winter.
Autumn is traditionally harvest time when the farmers would cut their crops to prepare
them for storage or to sell. A lot of farmers plow their fields in the fall so it will give them a
head start for the spring. September is also the time that farmers plant winter wheat. It
grows until it gets cold and then it goes dormant, which means it stops growing, until
spring when it starts growing again.
Most farm animals love corn, its store extra body fat,but it has to pick at just the right
time so the farmers can have a supply all winter long. Most corn today is picked with a
picker-sheller or a combine, both machines shell the corn off the cob and then the farmer
dumps it in a gas batch dryer which dries it to certain hardness, otherwise it will get moldy
in storage. Some farmers still just pick the whole ear with a regular corn picker and store it
in a corn crib, if they are going to just pick it, they leave it in the field longer so it will dry.
They test the moisture by shelling the corn off the cob and putting a handful into a
moisture tester.
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Reading taken from:http://www.teach-nology.com/workshets/language_arts/reading_comp/elem/ver12/


2 Reading: NICOLE KIDMAN


Actress Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1967, her father, an
Australian is a student in Hawaii at the same time. When she is 4, the family
returns to Australia, and Kidman grows up in a suburb of Sidney. Nicole Kidman
interest in acting early on, her first experience comes when she is 6 years old
and she plays a sheep in her school's Christmas pageant. She trains in drama
and dance through her teen years. She gets a couple of TV parts before she
makes her breakthrough in a few months, the Australian film institute names
her actress of the year for the role in her first American movie days of thunder.
Her costar is Tom Cruise. Following a whirlwind romance, Kidman and Cruise are
married in Colorado. During the marriage, Kidman's career continues grows. She
and Tom adopt two children, and they work hard to balance their career and
family life. Unfortunately the marriage doesn't last. Kidman and Cruise divorce
in 2001.After divorce Kidman throws herself into her work. She stars in a
number of high-profile movies including the musical Moulin Rouge. Then in
2003, she wins both academic award and a golden globe for her role Virginia
Woolf in the film the hours. And what does she feel of her fame? "Its a fleeting
moment", she has said "how long will it last?
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Reading taken from: http://www.51talk.com/text/bookcontent/Interchange2_Unit01.pdf



3 Reading: DANNY AND LIANNE

They are living in Los Angeles in California. Their parents have a house on the beach at Santa Monica. In the
summer they are very lazy. They get up at ten oclock and have breakfast. Then they go swimming. They have
lunch on the beach. In the afternoon they often go windsurfing or play ball games on the beach.
After dinner they go and meet friends at Tommys Beach Caf. They sometimes go to a disco in the evening.
They often go to bed quite late, at about ten or eleven oclock. They like Californian life a lot.


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4 Audios
Audios
A Famous Artist
Helen and Daniel at the Gym
Helen and Daniel at the soccer match
My Family
The Museum