Msbs book dictation Activity Unit 1: The Olympics Listening Practice

Listening Practice 3 (CD 2, Track 3)
Hello, everybody. Good afternoon. Today, I want to ______ ________ a very interesting _________ ___________ in America. It is _________ in many other Western _________ too. The tradition is that every bride ___ ___________ ___ wear “____________ _____,” “something _____,” “something __________,” and “something _______” ___ her wedding day. The ________ ________ _______ an old English _________ ________. “Something old” helps the bride _____________ her _______ _________. It is often a piece of _________ from the bride’s grandmother. “Something new” is a _________ of the __________ new life. It is usually the bride’s _______, but it could be anything. “Something borrowed” ___________ the __________ of friends in a __________. It can be anything ________ to the bride by her __________ _________ friend. Finally, “something blue” is ________ because the color blue _____________ ________ and _________. It can be anything from a piece of __________ to a _________. This tradition has _______ _________ for many years and is _______ very __________.


Listening Practice 4 (CD 2, Track 4)
Maria: Hey, Billy. What did you ________ ___ the wedding _________?
Billy: It was pretty cool. It was my first time ___________ a Peruvian wedding, so a lot of the ________ and traditions ______ _____ ___ ____.
Maria: Did you think ______ ____ the ___________ were interesting?
Billy: Well, to be __________, I didn’t ____________ a lot of them. For ________, why were there ________ in the cake? And why did all those girls _______ ______ ____?
Maria: Oh. That is an old tradition. One of those strings had a ______ _________, and those girls who ________ them out are still _________. People say that the girl who _______ the ring will _____ __________ very soon.
Billy: Does it ever actually _________?
Maria: ____________, but it is more ______ ____ ______.
Billy: Yeah, we have a ___________ tradition _______ ________ in the US.