Please make two separate recordings - the first with your natural speed and the second with your slow one - so that my students are able to imitate your pronunciation. Thank you!
Unit 6: Sports | Vocabulary and Listening: X Games: Regular and irregular verbs
X GAMES SUPERSTARS
Sports in the X Games are always exciting and often dangerous. The games started in 1995 when 500,000 fans travelled to Newport in the USA and watched sports like BMX, skateboarding and motocross.
Our programme today looks at two skateboarders who decided to learn to skateboard when they were very young. They competed in the X Games and became big stars – Tom Schaar, the youngest gold medallist in the history of the games, and Alana Smith, the youngest silver medallist.
1. She / He learned to skate when she / he was
a. four b. seven c. nine
2. She / He first went to the X Games in
a. Barcelona b. Miami c. Shanghai
3. She / He did a trick called
a. 900 b. 1080 c. 540 McTwist
4. She / He won an X Games medal when she / he was
a. ten b. twelve c. fourteen
