Unit 2 English around the World ---Listening
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hello, everyone, i am buford’s teacher, jane, from britain. perhaps you didn’t quite understand everything buford said. he said that he lives in houston, a city in texas. he wants everyone to know that he doesn’t believe texas is a state in the usa but a different country. buford says that he would like to tell you a story about him when was a small child . one hot summer’s day he was swimming with big billy bob and lester. they were jumping into the water, which felt good. then he says that they saw a catfish almost the size of a house but, he adds, that the catfish was really smaller. buford says that lester thought he was going to be eaten by the catfish. he says, goodness, you should have seen lester! he says that lester got out of the water faster than lighting and climbed up a tree. buford and big billy bob just laughed a lot. to this day, he says, lester won’t visit that place.