Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could transform a bunch of old scraps into a cute new outfit? Or create a beautiful and personalized scrapbook for your best friend’s birthday of all the special memories you share? If you’re thinking “I can do that. It’s easy!” then you must be crafty.
Crafty people are good at things like sewing, knitting, and scrapbooking. They’re creative and good with their hands. They’re always thinking of unique and personal ways to decorate their houses or make cute clothes and accessories for themselves and their friends. Unfortunately, not everyone is good at crafts. Hear Jason try to teach Ella about being crafty.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Jason: Would you like to come to my craft night?
Ella: Absolutely not. I hate crafts.
Jason: But how can you hate crafts?
Ella: It just seems so tedious, and it seems like a lot of work before you get to the final product.
Jason: Oh, but it’s so rewarding, I mean, to have just taken a bunch of pieces of paper and photos and made a great scrapbook.
Ella: I don’t know, I just don’t have the patience to do the crafts. Like I’m a very quick results kind of person, and you just have to be really into detail and stuff when you’re doing knitting or sewing or scrapbooking.
Jason: There’s so many different crafts though. You’re describing a lot of crafts that are really making something from scratch, and you can also just sort of modify something. Like you could, you know, make your own picture frame by painting and gluing things to an existing picture frame. Or the same goes for like a mug or something like that.
Ella: I mean, I have ideas for modifications, but I would just rather pay someone else to do it for me.
Jason: Yeah. I guess no one could ever glue googly eyes to a mug the same way I can, so that’s why I love crafts.
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Discussion
Jason is having a special night at his house just for doing crafts like sewing, scrapbooking, and decorating. He invites Ella, but she isn’t crafty at all. She thinks crafts are boring and take too much work.
Jason says not all crafts take a lot of work. They don’t have to involve creating something from scratch. Some just involve modifying something you already have. You could decorate a picture frame, a mug, a t-shirt, a set of plates…the list goes on and on!
Nonetheless, Ella is not interesting in becoming more crafty. She would rather just pay for someone else to do something crafty for her.
Do you enjoy crafts or decorating? Is there one craft, like knitting or sewing, that you’d like to learn how to do?
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