Bài hát: Listening Practice Through Dictation CD 4-34 - V.A

Unit 34 A Nice Cup of Tea
M: Could I offer you a cup of tea?
W: Yes, thank you very much. What kind do you
have?
M: I have Earl Grey, English Breakfast, Irish
Breakfast, and Darjeeling.
W: Those are all black teas. Do you have any green
tea?
M: I’m sorry, I don’t really like green tea. W: How could you not like green tea? It’s so much
easier to drink than black tea.
M: I just don’t think green tea tastes as good as
black tea. Green tea has a simple flavor, but
black tea has many kinds of flavors.
W: Well I don’t taste many flavors when I drink
black tea. It just tastes bitter to me.
M: Then you should drink more black tea, because
after drinking it for a while, you begin to
appreciate its flavor.
W: Whatever its flavor, black tea can’t be nearly as
healthy as green tea. I read about a study last
week that showed people who drink green tea
are less likely to get serious diseases, like cancer
or heart disease.
M: Well, history tells us that in the past, good black
tea has been considered more valuable than gold. Wars have been started over it.
W: Really? Which wars?
M: The American Revolution.
W: The American Revolution had nothing to do
with tea!
M: One of the things that started the Revolutionary
War was an incident where a group of
Americans dumped a British shipment of tea
into the ocean in Boston. This was called the
Boston Tea Party, and it had nothing to do with
green tea!