Hello everybody. Welcome to the American Language Center. I'm Gina Richards, your academic
advisor. You can all just call me Gina. I know today is your first day at our school, so you're probably a little nervous and maybe a little shy, too. So, I want to tell you right at the beginning: if you don't understand something, please ask questions. Okay? And listen very carefully because we're going to give you a lot of important information—information that will make your experience here enjoyable and useful. Okay, here we go.
Let me tell you about the plan for today. There are three things on your schedule. First, you will take a placement test. This test will measure your English level. You'll take a reading, grammar, and composition test. Oh, and also listening. A listening test. The whole test takes three hours.
Next, you will meet in small groups, with a teacher, for an orientation. This orientation meeting will be about important things you need to know, like where to buy your books, what type of classes you'll have, how to find a roommate, things like that. This is where you can ask a lot of questions.
Then, finally, this afternoon, you will take a campus tour. We'll show you the main buildings where your classrooms are; you'll see some of the sports facilities, you know, the tennis courts, the swimming pool, places like that; and you'll also visit the library and the computer lab. I think you'll be surprised how large and how beautiful our campus is. All right. Are there any questions before we begin?
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manager: you're all wet and muddy. what happened to you?

wife: you're not going to believe this! it's the most incredible thing! it all started when we decided to go hiking this morning.
husband: yeah, the weather was sunny and clear when we got up. so we put on shorts and
t-shirts and went hiking. half an hour later it started raining cats and dogs!

wife: so we hiked back to our tent as fast as we could. we couldn't wait to change into dry clothes

husband: right. but when we went into our tent, we couldn't find our clothes! so we went back outside to look around. and then we saw the craziest thing. two great big brown bears came out of the woods, and guess what? they were wearing our clothes!

husband: well, one bear had my t-shire around his neck. and the other one had mary's pants over his head. we still don't know where the rest of our clothes are!

manager: {laughing]

wife: i know it sounds funny, but we were so scared! those bears were big! and now we have abig problem.

manager: what's that?

wife and husband: we don't have any dry clothes to wear!