Section 3
Task 1 Learning to predict.
1.Why do the actors wear roller-skates? Well, they're all playing trains, you see. Trains? Yes, singing trains and they have to skate all around the audience at very high speeds.
We've decided special lightweight costumes for them out of foam rubber, otherwise (pause), they'd be exhausted at the end of each performance.
2.I found it took me rather a long time to get into the book. I mean, I kept wondering when we were going to begin with plot, when we were going to get the actual story. Apart from that, I must say that (pause) I enjoyed it very much.
3.I found it very exciting and moving. I couldn't put it down and (pause) I stayed up very late to finish it.
4.Well, I do agree with Jane that the book a long time to start. In fact for me, it's only honest to say that (pause) the book never really got started at all.
5.I'm one of those impatient readers who want to get straight into a book from the beginning. Otherwise, (pause) I tend to skip parts that don't really hold my interest.
6.I'm afraid I did quite a lot of skipping with Alan Bailey's novel. And with over 500 pages, it was a bit of disappointment really. Yes, I must admit that (pause) it was rather long.