Forgetting: Listening Activity

Listening Activity

A. First, read the incomplete sentences given below. Listen to two interesting anecdotes about two scientists that your teacher will read aloud or play on the recorder. Then, based on your understanding, complete the sentences suitably.

i. Edison travelled  to   New  Jersey by a train.

ii. The station master enquired Edison if he had left anything behind.

iii. Edison raced back to the car, when he saw the face of his bride.

iv. Albert Einstein was working in Princeton university.

v. One day, when he was going back home, he forgot his home address.

vi. Einstein asked the cab driver if he knew Einstein’s home.

vii. The  driver  was  so  good  that  he dropped Einstein home and refused to collect fare.