[00:04.30]Listening
[00:05.27]My first public performance
[00:09.46]2 a) You are going to listen to a comedian
[00:13.32]describing his first stage performance
[00:15.69]in a school play.
[00:17.36]Use the following words and phrases
[00:19.60]to predict the story.
[00:21.93]b Listen and see how close your prediction
[00:24.80]was to the real story.
[00:27.51]I thought my first performance was a disaster.
[00:30.58]It was when I was 14
[00:32.04]and had only been juggling for 6 months.
[00:34.89]After taking my juggling balls to school
[00:36.99]to show my friends what I would do,
[00:39.17]word got around that I was a juggler.
[00:41.60]It was Miss Penny, my favourite teacher,
[00:43.86]who asked me to play the part of the court
[00:46.01]clown in the school play,
[00:47.40]The King's Men.
[00:49.26]The play was about King Arthur and his knights
[00:51.58]and it told the story of how each knight
[00:53.59]became one of the King's men.
[00:55.94]The scene that I would open
[00:57.38]was a banquet in the King's Court
[00:59.52]where a young man saved the King's life.
[01:02.39]An evil man was plotting to kill the King
[01:04.72]and he had paid one of the servants
[01:06.33]to put a few drops of poison
[01:08.00]in the King's royal cup.
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