First Listening
Please listen to a short passage carefully and prepare to answer some questions.
In a small village in Scotland the locals still drink to their “Lord Williams”. Some of the people of this beautiful village never quite trusted this rich stranger, who only visited on weekends, right from the beginning. Later many suspected he was not really a wealthy Lord after he had spent great sums of money in the village buying up and improving a large number of properties with no hope of ever getting his money back in the future. However all agree that he and “his” money helped the village back onto it’s feet. Where his money came from and why he spent it on their village would only be revealed at a later date.
Second Listening
Listen to the tape again. Then answer the following questions with your own experiences.
1. Why initially did some villagers not trust “Lord Williams”?
2. At a later date why did many villagers suspect he was not the person he claimed to be?
3. Why do the villagers still drink to their “Lord”?
