《新版新概念英语第二册(英音)Lesson (76)》歌词

[00:00:01] --- lesson 76 april fools' day

[00:00:06] --- first listen and then answer the question.

[00:00:13] --- what was the joke?

[00:00:17] 'to end our special news bulletin,' said the voice of the television announcer,^“

[00:00:24] 'we're going over to the macaroni fields of calabria.^“

[00:00:29] macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years.

[00:00:35] two of the leading growers, giuseppe moldova and riccardo brabante,tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual.

[00:00:52] here you can see two workers who, between them, have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brown macaroni stalks.

[00:01:04] the whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year's crop before the september rains.

[00:01:14] on the right, you can see mrs. brabante herself. she has been helping her husband for thirty years now.

[00:01:23] mrs. brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed.

[00:01:32] this last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest: the famous calabrian macaroni-eating competition!

[00:01:43] signor fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1991.

[00:01:51] and that ends our special bulletin for today, thursday, april lst.

[00:01:58] we're now going back to the studio.

[00:02:03] --- end