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English USA
Lesson 74, Part 2

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ALAN:

Hi, everybody.

 

 

 

CAST:

Hi. Hello, Alan. You're back.

 

 

 

ALAN:

What are you doing?

 

 

 

SUE:

We're watching the news.

 

 

 

ALAN:

What were you doing?

 

 

 

SUE:

We saw the saddest story. There was this girl. And she got lost from her parents.

 

 

 

ALAN:

It doesn't sound very cheerful.

 

 

 

SUE:

It wasn't.

 

 

 

EILEEN:

You know it's time for you to go to bed, Sue. Tomorrow is a school day.

 

 

 

SUE:

But I'm so unhappy.

 

 

 

ALAN:

Why are you unhappy? Because it's a school day?

 

 

 

MARTIN:

Or because it's bed time?

 

 

 

EILEEN:

You men don't understand. Aren't you ever unhappy?

 

 

 

SUE:

Don't you ever cry? I'm melancholy.

 

 

 

EILEEN:

No, you're not. That's too much sadness. It was just a story. We had a good cry, and now we feel better, don't we?

 

 

 

SUE:

I suppose. Can I watch some of the news?

 

 

 

ALAN:

That will make you sadder. There are always unhappy events on the news. They make me sad.

 

 

 

SUE:

But I want to watch.

 

 

 

EILEEN:

Come along now, Sue. You know it makes me unhappy when you don't go to bed. You have school tomorrow. I want you to do well in school.

 

 

 

SUE:

But I need to know about the news for school.

 

 

 

EILEEN:

I'm getting unhappy.

 

 

 

SUE:

Sad, or angry?

 

 

 

EILEEN:

Angry! I want you to say "good night" and go to bed!

 

 

 

SUE:

OK. Good night, daddy.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

Good night, Sue. Sleep well.

 

 

 

SUE:

Good night, Alan.

 

 

 

ALAN:

'Night.

 

 

 

EILEEN:

Good night. I'll come in later.

 

 

 

ALAN:

Why is everyone unhappy?

 

 

 

MARTIN:

We're not unhappy.

 

 

 

EILEEN:

Some of us are sad because we watched a sad story.

 

 

 

ALAN:

Ohhh, I see. What was it about?

 

 

 

EILEEN:

It was about a little girl. Her mother died from a very bad disease.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

You aren't going to tell the whole, sad story, are you?

 

 

 

EILEEN:

No, not all of it. The little girl lived in the country. One night she thought she heard her mother calling. She went into the woods and got lost.

 

 

 

ALAN:

No wonder Sue was sad. She's afraid of the dark, and she doesn't like forests.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

She's a city girl.

 

 

 

ALAN:

Why did you watch that story?

 

 

 

EILEEN:

It was very good.

 

 

 

ALAN:

But it made you unhappy.

 

 

 

EILEEN:

Yes, but we liked the story.

 

 

 

ALAN:

Why?

 

 

 

EILEEN:

It's important to know other people's feelings. We need to feel unhappiness.

 

 

 

ALAN:

Why?

 

 

 

EILEEN:

We want to know how our friends feel when they are unhappy. I need to understand unhappiness when you and Sue are unhappy.

 

 

 

ALAN:

Well, I'm not sad now. I'm just hungry.

 

 

 

EILEEN:

Why are you angry?

 

 

 

ALAN:

Not angry. Hungry.

 

 

 

EILEEN:

Oh, hungry. You're always hungry. Let's go to the kitchen.

 

 

English USA L74P2J
Courtesy of Voice of America