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Dramatic Listening... the podcast where you learn English by listening to radio plays


DL045: Archie - Bankrupt Rumor , Part 1

August 20, 2015

Rumor has it...
For the next 6 episodes of Dramatic Listening, we’ll be listening to the radio episode, Bankrupt Rumor. A rumor is interesting information that gets people talking. It gets passed around from person to person. Some people forget some facts and other story-tellers add to the story to make it even more interesting. As a result, rumors are stories we might hear about people we know, but we don’t know if they are true or not. This particular rumor is about bankruptcy – that is when a person or a business loses all their money and cannot pay their debts. As we listen in on conversations in Archie’s home and between Archie and his friends, we begin to see how the rumor got started, and how it grew…
 
Explaining the rules of Scrabble:
In this episode, Part 1 of Bankrupt Rumor, Archie's mom is teaching Archie's dad how to play a popular new game at the time, Scrabble.
Bonus PDF
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Quizlet: 
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