TAPE TRANSCRIPTS FOR ENGLISH 9
UNIT 1: A visit from a pen pal
Tim: Are you hungry, Carlo?
Carlo: Yes.
Tim: Okay. Let’s go to a restaurant downtown. If we go through the park, we can catch a bus on Ocean Drive.
Carlo: That’s fine. I really like walking in the park. You’re lucky to have a place like this close to your home. It’ s so beautiful with all the trees an flowers and a pond in the middle.
Tim: Carlo! Be careful. You’re walking on the grass. The park keeper is growing some more-you’ll kill the new grass!
Carlo: Oh, sorry. I didn’t see the sign.
Tim: Come on. It’s time we caught the bus.
Carlo: Is that our bus, Tim?
Tim: No. That’s a 103 bus. We want the number 130.
Carlo: Where are we going to eat?
Tim: It’s up to you. There’s a new Mexican restaurant in town.
Carlo: Oh, no. I can eat Mexican food at home. I love American food. I’d rather eat hamburgers.
Tim: Okay. I know exactly where we need to go!

UNIT 2: Clothing
Announcer (on Public Announcement)
Attention please. Here is a special announcement. A little girl is reported missing. She was lost seen 20 minutes ago near the main entrance to the Car Fair. Her name’s Mary and she is 3 years old. She has short dark hair. She’s wearing shorts- blue shorts and a long-sleeved white blouse. She’s wearing a pair of shoes- brown shoes. She’s may be carrying a large doll. If you see Mary, please bring her to the Information Desk. Her father’s waiting for her there. Thank you.

UNIT 3: A trip to the countryside
At 6.30 in the morning, the bus collected Ba and his family from their home. After picking everyone up,
the bus continued north on Highway Number 1. It crossed the Dragon Bridge and stopped at the gas station to get some more fuel. Then, it left the highway and turned left onto a smaller road westward. This road ran between green paddy fields, so the people on the bus could see a lot of cows and buffaloes. The road ended before a big store beside a pond. Instead of turning left towards a small airport, the bus went the opposite direction. It didn’t stay on that road for very long, but turned left onto a rod which went through a small bamboo forest. Finally, the bus dropped everyone off at the parking lot ten meters from a big old banyan tree. It parked there and waited for people to come back in the evening.

Unit 4: Learning a foreign language
Host: Kate, can I introduce you to Ng? She’s studying English here in London.
Kate: Hello, pleased to meet you.
Nga: Pleased to meet you, too.
Kate: Where are you from, Nga?
Nga: I’m from Vietnam.
Kate: Why are you studying English here?
Nga: I need it for my job.
Kate: Really? So, what do you do?
Nga: I work for a bank, an international bank in Hanoi.
Kate: Oh, I see. Did you learn English a school?
Nga: Yes, and at university, too. But I’ve forget er…forget..
Kate: Forgotten.
Nga: Yes, of course. I’ve forgotten a lot of it. I want to improve my writing skills. You know…sometimes I have to write letters in English.
Kate: What about listening, Nga?
Nga: It’s terrible. This is my biggest problem. People talk very quickly and I can’t understand them.
Kate: Do you like understand English?
Nga: Oh yes. It’s an interesting language and it’s very useful; and I can talk to people from all over the world …and I can understand the words of my favorite songs, too Kate: Well. That’s very good. Good luck to you, Nga.

Unit 5: The media
Chau: Dd, I’m doing an assignment. Can you help me with the information?
Chau’s father: What is the assignment about?
Chau: It’s a bout the important dates of the media. Where and when did the first printed newspaper appear, Dad?
Chau’s father: It first appeared the 7th or 8th century AD, in China.
Chau: And when the telegraph invented?
Chau’s father: Perhaps it was in the late 19th century. Do you know what two new forms of news media appeared in the early 20th century?
Chau: Radio and newsreel?
Chau’s father: Excellent! And when did television become commercially viable, can you guess?
Chau: In the 1940s?
Chau’s father: No.