Listening I: Trains and Travel

Listening II: Travelling abroad

Listening III: Bad Town

Anita, Taiwan
What is bad about my hometown? I'm from Taiwan and I come from Taipei, and
Taipei is a very ______________ in Taiwan but it's very dirty and the air is bad,
the _____________ is bad. I don't feel like living in Taipei, so that's why my
mom and dad choose to live in the side city near Taipei.

Al, England
My hometown is called Stevenich and there's nothing I ___________ say that's
positive about my hometown. It has no _______________, no cultural
icons and really nowhere to go, so don't go there.
Barbara, Australia
One thing bad about my hometown, well, my hometown is Perth, in Western
Australia, and I guess the only bad thing I can think of is the _______________
system, the buses, they really don't run on time. There's not enough of them.
The bus fleet is fairly old. That's really one bad thing about my _____________.
Jeff, Canada
What's one bad thing about my hometown? I live in a _______________ on the
east coast of Canada and there's not much there. There's not much
entertainment. There's no ______________. There's no movie theaters, so it's
very quiet. Some people would say very ___________, but I think you have to
find other things to do like hiking or you learn how to play the guitar and play
music and reading and writing so I think the bad thing about my hometown is
there's not much to __________, but it makes you ____________ other things
and do other things.
Listening IV: Stop Wasting Time