First Listening
Having ideas about a story before you read it is an important reading skill. Please listen to a very short piece of recording.
A man who leaves his garage at night carrying some KFC is attacked by a thief who steals his money and his watch at gunpoint. The thief's partner appears with an even larger gun and orders the man to stop looking at them. They force the man to the ground, their guns at his head. He thinks he will die. Then the thieves find and take his KFC and just as suddenly as they appeared, they fade away again into the night. The man phones the police and later goes to the station to look at photos to try to identify the thieves. He sees so many young men's faces flow by his eyes he feels as if they are a raging river that eats up all the things we value.
Second Listening
Now listen to the recording for the second time and try to the best of your ability to answer the following questions.
1. How many things did the thieves steal from the man? What were they?
2. What saved the man's life?
3. What is the raging river?
