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Gardening

Date: Mar 31 2005

Intro

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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

Now that the weather is nice and we are approaching summer once again, Steph is thinking about gardening.
Now is the time to plant herbs and vegetables. Listen in as she talks to Kyle about it.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Steph

Kyle

Steph: Have you ever grown a garden?

Kyle: No. I think my mom had a garden, though, when I was a kid.

Steph: Ya know, it’s getting really popular again to, uh, have herb gardens and things like that in your apartment.

Kyle: Yeah, I don’t think I’d do much gardening myself, unless maybe I’d plant strawberries. I like strawberries.

Steph: Gosh. That would be good, just to be able to go pick strawberries right out of your little strawberry patch.

Kyle: Yeah. But you’d probably need those in your backyard, huh?

Steph: I guess so. I mean you could probably hang some out of like a garden box or something in your kitchen.

Kyle: Yeah. Then you could just pick and eat.

Steph: That would be awesome. You could invite friends over and have a strawberry party.

Kyle: Maybe I’ll plant some strawberries tomorrow.

Steph: Totally. Just in time for summer, you can make strawberry daiquiris.

Kyle: All right.

Steph: Sweet.

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Discussion

One of the greatest things about planting your own garden is that you can share with your friends and family when everything has been grown.
It’s so much fun to bust out the tomatoes and peppers that you grew yourself and whip up some salsa or some kind of salad.
I liked Kyle’s idea of growing strawberries. That’s a way to get in good with the girls. Give them fresh strawberries from your garden!