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Practice dictation & shadowing on the daily life story: Pretending
Dictation & Shadowing: Pretending
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Pretending.
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I'd like to pretend.
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I'd like to make up things that aren't real.
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I use my imagination.
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I was pretending that I was in a time machine.
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I set the date for a prehistoric time.
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I turned on the time machine and it buzzed and whirred and spun madly.
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When it stopped spinning, I opened the door and stepped out into a very thick jungle.
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I listened carefully to the sounds of the jungle.
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I could hear strange animal noises and the leaves were rustling.
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I wasn't sure if I'd gone back in time or just landed in a jungle somewhere in the 21st century.
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It didn't take me long to realize that I had indeed gone back in time.
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A very strange birdlike creature with a large beak flew overhead.
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I'd never seen anything like it in my life.
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I took a few steps out into the long grass and ferns.
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I didn't want to go too far away from my time machine.
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I heard a noise over on my right side.
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There was a man who looked quite different from me.
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He was dressed in an animal skin and he carried a big stick.
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I didn't want him to see me, so I hid behind a tree.
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He didn't speak any language that I could understand.
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He grunted at someone who must have been in the distance.
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Then I felt the earth shake beneath my feet.
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I heard giant thumps on the ground as the floor of the jungle shook.
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The man in the animal skin began to run.
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I saw why he was running.
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A giant dinosaur appeared above the tops of the trees.
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It was bigger than anything I had ever seen.
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My heart began to pound in my chest.
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It was coming toward me.
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I ran toward my time machine and jumped in.
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I set the dial for the 21st century, the machine whirred and buzzed.
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My time machine landed in the 21st century.
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I got away just in time.