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David

Todd

Todd: Tennessee!
Tenn: Yes!
Todd: We're gonna talk about sports.
Tenn: OK. I'm not big on sports, but...
Todd: OK, well, that's OK. So you, you don't like sports?
Tenn: Well, I like sports but I'm just not an avid sports watcher. You know I would usually rather watch a movie or some kind of history program.
Todd: Oh, OK. So you're into history?
Tenn: Oh, yes!
Todd: OK. What kind of history?
Tenn: That's a kind of a difficult question. I would say, ah, interested, primarily I interested in ancient and medieval but I also like studying the history of the countries that I have visited. It makes it more interesting when I go sight-seeing.
Todd: OK. What countries have you visited?
Tenn: I've been to 26 countries.
Todd: Really?
Tenn: Yeah!
Todd: Oh, OK. Yeah, you can't name them all.
Tenn: The big ones I would say, I've been over a good bit of Europe, ah, Mexico, Peru, I spent almost a year in Egypt and I went to Isreal, Jordan, and now I'm here in Japan. I've been here in Japan for a year and a half. And while I have been here, I visited Korea for about a week.
Todd: OK. Wow. That's a lot so did you do the Pyramids in Egypt?
Tenn: Oh, yes. Actually, I climbed the pyramids.
Todd: Oh, really. Nice. What's it like on the top?
Tenn: Very, very interesting. You can see, ah, it was during the summer so the visibility was rather low.
Todd: Oh, OK.
Tenn: But, to see... we were on The Great Pyramid, and the second Pyramid, Kefron, was right near by, and it is a very different perspective to see it from, interesting to be eye-level... to be on the same level as the top of that second pyramid.
Todd: OK. Wow! So you were in Peru, right?
Tenn: Yes.
Todd: OK. What's the big thing people see in Peru?
Tenn: Machu Pichu.
Todd: Machu Pichu. OK. So what is Machu Pichu?
Tenn: Machu Pichu is the ruins of a city that was built by the Inca People.
Todd: OK.
Tenn: Over maybe three...six hundred years ago, and was lost, no one knew what happened to it. until it was recently discovered about a hundred years ago.
Todd: OK. Wow. Nice. Alright, thanks a lot David.
Tenn: Sure!
Todd: Or Tennessee.

Comprehension Quiz
Read or listen to the text and answer the questions below.

1) What does David like to watch on TV? 

 a) Sports
 b) Movies
 c) Cooking shows

2) How many countries has he visited? 

 a) 26
 b) 24
 c) 27

3) What did he do in Egypt? 

 a) Ride a camel
 b) Eat snake
 c) Climb the pyramids

4) What did he see in Peru? 

 a) Inca people
 b) Kefron
 c) Machu Pichu

5) When was it made? 

 a) 600 years ago
 b) 6,000 years ago
 c) No one knows