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Listening Activity. People Talking About Their Childhood
Listening Activity. People Talking About Their Childhood
Todd: OK, 25, so, do you have any early childhood memories? What's the
earliest thing you can remember from Childhood?
Lois: Uh, my memories from my childhood aren't very good. I can't remember that much, but I do
remember one thing. I must have only been about 3 or 4, I'm not sure, and I was on
holiday with my family, and my grandparents and I had an ice cream and I wanted to climb to the top
of this hill, and my parents were like," No, No, No. Wait until you finish your ice cream, and then you
can go" and I was like, "Nope, I'm going to go now" so I climbed to the top of the hill. It was only a
small hill, I was only little and then I decided it would be great to run down the hill really fast, which I
did, and I ran to the bottom of the hill, fell over, ice cream all over me, and I don't think I got another
ice cream after that.
Lois: I think I also remember pushing my brothers around in my brother's pram and him falling out
and banging his head and there being lots of blood. I think I might have got is a lot of trouble for
that one.
Todd: Oh, OK
Lois: So I'm the middle child, which is not always good because when we used to go on holiday my
brothers would always fight in the car, so I always had to sit in the middle of them so if they were
fighting I could stop the fighting, so I didn't like being the middle child.
Todd: Well, I sure you served a good purpose for your parents.
Lois: Well, I hope so, but still my brothers are now 27 and 23 and they still fight now, so I didn't
actually manage to stop that.
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