Steve's room.

Getting Set

Listen to the recording, and write the sentences of the introduction in the lines below.

1. ________Its usually nice to have your own

room_________________________________________(8 words)
2. ___ ______It’s also nice when somebody gives you
something________________________________________(8 words)
3. _____Would you want to be given something that nobody else wants?____
________________________________________(11 words)
4. ______Probably not even if it´s a private
room___________________________________________(8 words)

Turning In

Check to see if you know the meaning of these words from the monolog.

1. To give in: to stop refusing

2. Catchall: a place to keep different kinds of things.
3. Storage room: a room to keep things that you aren’t using.
4. To fix up: to put in order.
5. Rash: without thinking about the results.
6. Storm: weather with strong winds and rain or snow.
7. Thunder: the loud sound during a storm.
8. Lightning: the natural electric light during a storm.

Summing Up

Read these five statements about the monolog. Listen to the recording as many times as you like.
Then choose the best answer for each of the statements, and write the letter in the space.

1. Steve ________when he was six years old.

a. Got his own room c. has a lot of friends
b. Got a baby sister d. has a lot of toys
2. There was a bad thunderstorm ________. Steve slept in his new room.
a. a few days after c. the second night
b. a few weeks after d. the first night
3. He had ________ experienced a thunderstorm before this one.
a. Never c. often
b. once d. hardly ever
4. Steve thought that his new room was always ________.
a. Clean c. noisy
b. Dirty d. quiet
5. He thought that his parents gave him the room because _______.
a. Everybody else wanted it c. he promised to keep it clean
b. Nobody else wanted it d. he promised to take care of it
Filling In

My cousin Steve was six years old when he got his own room. Since the birth of __a_____(1)
younger sister, he's been ____sharing_____(2) a room with her. ____At_____(3) school he heard
from __some_____(4) of his friends that __they_____(5) all had their own __rooms______(6)
Naturally, after hearing this ___he_____(7) decided that he, too, __wanted______(8) his own
room.

Uh, he ___began_____(9) telling his mother and ___father_____(10) as often as possible

___that____(11) he wanted a final-, wanted ___a____(12) private room.

Finally, ____his___(13) gave in. There was ___an____(14) extra room in their __house______(15)
that they'd been using __as_____(16) a kind of catchall ___storage____(17) room. They cleaned
out __that____(18) room and fixed it ___up____(19) and finally told Steve __that______(20) it
was his. Steve ___was___(21) really happy. He made ___all___(22) kinds of rash promises
__that_____(23) he never kept especially ____about___(24) keeping it clean.

On ____the____(25) first night it… that ____he____(26) slept in his new ____room____(27), there
was a terrible ____thunderstorm______(28). It was the first ___thunderstorm______(29) that
Steve had ever ___experienced______(30). It was just awful. ____Lightning______(31) was
flashing and the __thunder______(32) was so loud that ____the_____(33) house seemed to be
_shaking_______(34).

After a few minutes, ___Steve´s_____(35) parents went to his __room____(36). They thought he'd
be __scared______(37) to death and all ____that____(38) noise.

But Steve wasn't ____scared_____(39) at all. He was ___just______(40) mad. He was so

___mad_____(41) his face was red. __He____(42) said, ”Now I understand ____why____(43) you
gave me this __room_______(44). It's so noisy here___that____ (45) no one else wanted
___it_______ (46)!”