Listening Task 10
Roulette is a gambling game played in casinos all over the world. It is played with a roulette wheel which has a sort of clock-face with numbered slots all round it. A small ball is thrown into the wheel as it spins. The game is concerned with betting on which numbered slot the ball will come to rest in when the wheel stops spinning. The numbers are all either red or black in colour, and players can also bet on whether the ball will stop at a red coloured number or a black coloured one. Although Tom wasn't interested in gambling himself, he agreed to go to France with a friend of his, Tim, to try out an 'unbeatable' system for winning at roulette.
absolutely ludicrous
everybody else
would have stumbled on it
indefinitely
in order to
convince himself
data
a minimum stake
to hold his hand
very skeptical
terribly amusing
eager
aristocratic people
started to build up
to drown our sorrows
absolutely cured him
would have actually been his undoing
everybody else
would have stumbled on it
indefinitely
in order to
convince himself
data
a minimum stake
to hold his hand
very skeptical
terribly amusing
eager
aristocratic people
started to build up
to drown our sorrows
absolutely cured him
would have actually been his undoing
Here are some points for you to track the idea of the story:
The story is about a time when Tom was at university;
Tom's friend, Tim, sent for all the printed records of the spins of all of the leading casinos on the Continent to work out a system;
Tom went with Tim to Le Touquet because Tim wanted a companion;
They went to France for the first day of the casino being open because it was out of season;
When Tom and Tim went to the casino, they wore old casual clothes;
When the Marquis of Bath and his wife saw Tom and Tim at the casino, they ignored them;
By ten to twelve, Tom and Tim had won £350;
To double ten times and not to win was impossible;
Tom and Tim kept £3 at the end of the evening to buy drinks with;
In the notebooks which they burnt in the wood;
Tim had worked out the system he thought was unbeatable.
The story is about a time when Tom was at university;
Tom's friend, Tim, sent for all the printed records of the spins of all of the leading casinos on the Continent to work out a system;
Tom went with Tim to Le Touquet because Tim wanted a companion;
They went to France for the first day of the casino being open because it was out of season;
When Tom and Tim went to the casino, they wore old casual clothes;
When the Marquis of Bath and his wife saw Tom and Tim at the casino, they ignored them;
By ten to twelve, Tom and Tim had won £350;
To double ten times and not to win was impossible;
Tom and Tim kept £3 at the end of the evening to buy drinks with;
In the notebooks which they burnt in the wood;
Tim had worked out the system he thought was unbeatable.