LISTENING COMPREHENSION VARIANT 9 Little Women. On a cold evening in December the girls are sitting near the fire in the dining-room. Their mother has not come home yet, and the girls are talking about the New Year and the presents they want to give to their mother. Margaret is sixteen years old. She teaches small children in the family of their friends. She gets some money for her work and helps her family. She is going to be a teacher. Josephine or Jo is fifteen. She wants to write stories and be a writer. Now she works at the house of an old woman. She looks after the woman, helps her in the house, reads books to her and gets some money for the work. Elizabeth is thirteen. She likes music and is learning to play the piano. She wants to teach music. She helps their mother in the house-dusts the tables, the chairs and the bookcases, sweeps the floor and washes the dishes. Amy is twelve. She goes to school. Some girls laugh at her old dresses and she does not like school. She wants to be an artist. Amy helps her mother in the kitchen.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION VARIANT 9 Listen to the text and decide if the statements are true or false. Amy, Jo, Elizabeth, Margaret are old women.
Jo, Elizabeth, Margaret go to school.
These girls are sisters.
Elizabeth wants to be a teacher of music.
Their mother needs financial help.
The girls want to buy presents for themselves.
The story happens in January.
The girls are sitting in the room and waiting for their friends.
Jo writes stories.
Amy wants to be a doctor.
Choose the correct answer to complete the sentences.
