Lesson 51 Mother Knows best Yesterday Gretel ant on an excursion with the Clarks. Mother was driving so that she could get some practice and father as sitting beside her. He wasn't always very helpful! We must get on to the A3, he said. That's the ro...
Lesson 49 Father tells a joke Father is teaching mother to drive the car. He's very impatient. Mother says he's the worst teacher in the world. Father says woman drivers are terrible. He told mother a joke about a woman driver he knows. This lady dro...
Lesson 47 Television Day: The sea TV Commentary: If you looked at the Pacific from a space-capsule you might think that the world was all water. You would hardly be able to see any land at all. Water covers most of the earth's surface. The sea contai...
Lesson 45 The typical English gentleman Yesterday morning gretel went to the City of London. She wanted to see St.Paul's Cathedral. She was surprised to see so many Englishmen who looked alike. They were all wearing dark suits and bowler hats. They w...
Lesson 43 Presents Although it's January 7th Sandy and Sue are still in holiday. Thty don't go back to school until next week. They received some lovely presents for Christmas. Their parents bought them a table-tennis set. They've been playing ping-p...
Lesson 41 Television Day: The baobab tree TV Commentary: Today our programme is about the baobab tree, which grows in West Africa and Australia. As you can see, it is a very strange-looking tree. Its enormous trunk sometimes measures as much as ten m...
Lesson 39 A merry Christmas and a happy New Year! In a few days' time it will be Christmas Day. Sandy and Sue are so excited that they can hardly wait. They broke up on December 17th and since then they've been helping mother. Yesterday they decorate...
Lesson 37 Not in front of the children! Narrator: Mr Blake is going to take Timmy to his office today so that the may see it. Narrator: At the moment the Blakes are having breskfast. Mr Blake is looking at some letters. He isn't very pleased. Mrs Bla...
Lesson 35 Television Day: Blondin The great acrobat, Blondin, was very famous in the 19th century. He used to walk on a tight-rope the Niagara Falls. On September 8th, 1860, a crowd of about 300,000 people gathered at Niagara to watch Blondin carry a...
Lesson 33 The underground Gretel loves the underground in London. She always prefers to travel on the underground because it's very fast. She doesn't find it difficult now, as she's got used to it. Gretel knows the underground map very well. Each lin...
