Listening Texts
I fashioned a stylish shirt for my brother But he cut it up into dish rags for mother The lampshade I crafted from grasses and bark Transmitted no light – plunged us all into dark. But I won’t be dissuaded. I won’t be deflated. One day I’ll be famous for a thing I’ve created. Leonie Bennett Unit 8 Speaking and listening (page 97) Read part 1 of the story aloud. You may change the spoken words into your local dialect. Part 1 : Elias ran out to join the other boys playing football. He knew he should have left his cell phone at home. He couldn’t be bothered to take it back so he put it carefully inside his cap next to a pile of bags on the ground. Then he threw himself into the game. Tyler got the ball from Elias. Elias chased after him. Tyler swerved to the left, tripped and stumbled into the pile of bags. He picked himself up and laughed to show he was ok. Elias saw red. The cell phone! Tyler had stamped on it and now he was laughing! Discuss the questions on page 97 before reading part 2. Part 2 : Elias was furious. He pushed Tyler and yelled at him. “If yo mash up me phone, me go mash yo up.” “Me nah bin know e phone bin day!” shouted Tyler. “Yo ah wan fool fu leave e pan e grung.” Elias pushed him again. Tyler threw Elias to the ground and tried to pin down his arms. Unit 8 Assessment (page 102) Read this extract from ‘Juice box Scandal’ by Jamaican author Hazel D. Campbell. Explain that a scandal bag is a Jamaican supermarket plastic bag. The text uses Jamaican Creole. You may ask students to compare it with the Creole used in your country. The words in red are spoken by passengers. It may help students follow the exchanges if you speak them in a different voice from the voice you use for the driver.
The juice box dropped with a loud plop on the road-way and the minibus instantly screeched to a halt throwing the passengers against one another. “Driver, you mad?” “Who do dat?” The driver turned around to face the passengers angrily. “Do what?” People looked around in surprise. They didn’t know what he was talking about. “Man, drive de bus.” Me haffi go home go cook dem pikney dinner.” “Who throw de juice box through de window?” the driver demanded. “What!” There were exclamations of disbelief. “But wha’ kinda driver this?” “So what?” “Not on my bus. You see all dem nastiness? Not on my bus. See scandal bag right beside me fi put the garbage. Mi seh, a who throw de box out de window?” he asked again as he got up from his seat and faced his passengers. Valdeen tried to look smaller than he actually was. He hoped nobody had seen him. He knew better than to throw things through the bus window but he had been thinking so hard about how to get on his school football team that he had absent-mindedly just tossed out the box when the juice was finished. Extract from Juice Box Scandal by Hazel D. Campbell Unit 10 Speaking and listening (page 116) Ask students to listen to the talk about C. Everard Palmer, the author of ‘A Cow called Boy’. Before reading it a second time, ask them to make notes in answer to the questions on page 116. The well-known children’s author, C. Everard Palmer, was born in Jamaica. He worked as a teacher and as a journalist before going on to write more than 15 books for young readers. His family were farmers and the books Mr. Palmer wrote were based on his rural childhood. He told an interviewer that “This is the period of my life which has meant the most to me, – the part I like to borrow from to create
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