Basic 4-Lesson 28 Listening Focus

Today I ' m talking to Olivia Richardson , who was in central Italy when two metres of snow fell in 24 hours . Where exactly were you , Olivia , when that happened ? Near Capricotta , in the mountains . There ' d already been some light snow and we stopped for a _____ _______ before carrying on to a crossroads , but there we took a wrong turning and got completely lost . Then , while we were trying to decide how to get back to the main road

some really heavy snow ______ _______ down . Was that frightening ? At first , I was quite certain it wouldn ' t last long . It was March in Italy so I wasn ' t worried .

Of course , it was_______ ________ we ' d gone the wrong way , but I couldm' t blame Mum and Dad because it ' d been my idea .

And we were still moving , ___ ____ very fast .

When did you have to stop ? Well , it was ______ _____ difficult to see

...and we nearly crashed ______ a parked car.

There was more and more snow on the road , so when we tried to go up a steep hill the wheels started going round really fast ___ ___ ____ so deep , the car just wouldn't move forwards .

It looked as if we ' d be stuck there , but we didn ' t have much petrol left so we switched off the engine . Dad tried to ______ ___ help but couldn ' t get through .

How did you stay warm ? With the car heater ? That meant having the engine on , so we only used it a____ . Instead we got all our jumpers , trousers and socks from our suitcases and wore them all night .

We were still frozen, ______ , and wished we had some coffee or tea with us .