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--- Lesson 76 April Fools' Day |
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--- First listen and then answer the question. |
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--- What was the joke? |
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'To end our special news bulletin,' said the voice of the television announcer,^“ |
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'we're going over to the macaroni fields of Calabria.^“ |
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Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years. |
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Two of the leading growers, Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante,tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual. |
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Here you can see two workers who, between them, have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brown macaroni stalks. |
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The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year's crop before the September rains. |
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On the right, you can see Mrs. Brabante herself. She has been helping her husband for thirty years now. |
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Mrs. Brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed. |
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This last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest: the famous Calabrian macaroni-eating competition! |
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Signor Fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1991. |
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And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April lst. |
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We're now going back to the studio. |
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