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TRACK 34 (Practice 5, Activity 34) the blades. It says here counterclockwise, what
is that?
Narrator: Voice 2: I’m looking it up in the dictionary and
1. When I was in high school, one of my biggest it says it goes in the opposite direction in which
desires was to leave my house. I just wanted the hands of a clock move, that is, they turn to
to live alone... Yes, my mom used to ask me to the left. It also says in British English the word
clean my room, to go buy tortillas... My father used is anticlockwise. Look at the arrow again,
always asked about my grades, asked me to go do you get it?
to bed early, would not let me drive his car... My Voice 1: You’re right. And now, take a look at
younger brother was always bothering me... this. I can follow the direction of the infographic
from the beginning with the wind turbine until it
2. When I was in high school, one of my biggest reaches the transmission towers you can see on
desires was to leave my house. I had nothing the picture.
against my family, I just wanted to live alone, Voice 2: We use pylon, since it is the British word
learn how to be an adult Yes, my mom used to for transmission tower.
ask me to clean my room, to go buy tortillas. My
father always asked about my grades, asked me
to go to bed early, would not let me drive his PRACTICE 7
car… My younger brother was quite silly and he
was always bothering me but no, I had nothing
against my family... TRACK 36 (Practice 7, Activities 1, 3 and 6,
Practice 7, Reader´s Book)
3. When I was in high school, one of my giant
wishes was to leave my house. I had nothing Woman: Long before the Europeans came, we
against my family, I just wanted to live alone, had our own native trees and the water was
learn how to be an adult Yes, my mom used to plentiful because every river was flowing.
ask me to clean my room, to go buy tortillas. My As the population grew, we cut down more and
father always asked about my grades, asked me more trees for building, for farming. The land
to go to bed early, would not let me drive his and rivers dried up. Things started getting bad.
car My younger brother was quite silly and he So there are generations who never saw the
was always bothering me but no, I had nothing springs filled with water.
against my family... Wangari Maathai: Around the mid-1970s, I was
working at the University of Nairobi as a lecturer.
4. When I was in high school, one of my biggest I was doing research in the field and I saw a lot of
desires was to leave my house. I had nothing deforestation and soil loss.
against my family, I just wanted to live alone, I heard many rural women complain about the
learn how to be an adult. Yes, my mom used to fact they didn’t have firewood; they were also
ask me to clean my room, to go buy tortillas. My complaining that they did not have enough
father always asked about my grades, asked me water.
to go to bed early, would not let me drive his They had put too much of their land into
car. My younger brother was quite silly and he cash crops like coffee and tea, and the children
was always bothering me, but no, I had nothing were suffering from diseases associated with
against my family... malnutrition. “Why not plant trees?” I asked the
women. “Let’s plant trees!” And the women said,
“Well, we would plant trees, but we don’t know
PRACTICE 6 how.” And that started the whole story of, “Yeah,
ok, let’s learn how to plant trees.”
And we called the foresters, they came in
TRACK 35 (Practice 6, Activity 22) and they talked to the women. They did not
really see why I was trying to teach women how
Voice 1: Look, here we can see how the arrow to plant trees. They said that to plant a tree you
indicates the direction in which the wind turns need a diploma. I said, “Well, I don’t think you
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