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Play each part of the audio separately.
Answer all questions in the exercise.
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After that, read the dialog to make sure that you understand all word in the audio.
According to the speaker, what was the weather like where she lived?
It was very changeable.
It was colder than she expected.
It was cloudy a lot.
It was sunny almost every day.
What does the speaker think of the surfers?
They are an interesting group.
All they thought about was surfing.
They were very strange.
They spent too much time on the beach.
According to the speaker, what was one of the disadvantages about where she lived?
It was too dirty.
The houses were too small.
Air quality was poor.
It was too far to the mountains.
What does the speaker say about the seasons?
There are four regular seasons a year.
The seasons change very quickly.
The seasons are not very different.
You can experience more than one in a day.
What is the speaker mainly describing?
How moving to California changed her
Her experiences in California
Her home in California
What a part of California is like
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I loved living in California.
It was so much fun and it was so wonderful.
And the weather was great all year round.
Like ninety-nine percent of the time, it was sunny out, no clouds in the sky.
Where we were a beach community.
So we got the sea breeze and it was like seventy-five degrees maybe eighty degrees.
You could wear shorts, year round.
It wasn't that humid, maybe like twenty percent humidity, max thirty percent.
It was always sunny.
Everybody was always smiling.
There's a lot of, I guess, free people, you could say.
We we lived where there's a lot of surfers, and that's always an interesting culture.
We lived right by, this place called Laguna Beach, which is a real artsy community in southern California.
And... they have just the wackiest people there, but everybody is so cool in California.
And there's so much to do there.
There's Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain and the San Diego Zoo, the Wild Animal Park, and every single beach.
There's so many attractions there.
I think that's why a lot of people vacation there.
But it's also a great place to live.
There's a lot of traffic, and there's a lot of smog.
There's definitely downfalls living in California.
Houses are horrendously expensive.
But, I think it's worth it.
And I think everybody should... should visit it. There's a lot more in California besides beaches, and a lot people overlook that.
There's deserts and there's mountains and there's forests.
And that's what's so great about living in southern California is you can travel to any season you want to.
You can surf in the morning, and then go skiing in the afternoon.
That's what's so wonderful about California is the different climates and different atmospheres.