Tyler, the Garbage Producer
In this listening activity, you would want to write out a transcript of the aural passage but leave blanks to be filled out by the students. Students would first print the passage with the blanks present and then as they listen to the passage they would fill in the missing key words.
Hi, My name is Tyler, I am ________ and I have seven _______ ranging in age from one to sixteen. Today was one of the worst days of my life. Why? 'cause it was ________ and here in Louisiana _________ is a _______ any time because of the bugs...________...ohhh...anyway, we try to ________ in our family but with this many kids it is a ________. We have ________, we have __________ we have __________ we have everything including cats and rabbits with their _________ and then of course you have all the things that the little kids __________ in the __________ that I don't even know about. I don't have time to _________ every day. I have time to __________ and to do ___________ for all these kids and they're never here to help me so what's a woman supposed to do? I know the ___________ hates me but he has to come here anyway.