360º LPT – Read aloud (unit 6) – level B2

Directions:

Look at the following paragragh. Read the paragragh aloud speaking clearly as in a normal conversation.

Gold fever spread like wildfire amongst all those who wanted to get rich quick. The cry, «Good-bye God, I’m going to Bodie» was only half jest. During its heyday, between 1877-1881, Bodie rose to a population of approximately 10,000 and acquired over sixty saloons and dance halls. Bodie became known as the most lawless, wildest and toughest mining camp the far west has ever known. The Bad Man from Bodie walked the seldom quiet street, and killings occurred with regularity.

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The Chicago Golf Club in 1892 was established by a group of Chicago businessmen on the site of the current Downers Grove Golf Course. The founding father of the Chicago Golf Club was Charles Blair Macdonald who was, according to Golf Journal, «a true and imposing pioneer of golf in America.» The site that was chosen was a sixty-acre stock farm owned by A. Haddow Smith. A. H. Smith was a Lanarkshire golfer who had immigrated in 1890 to the United States from Musselburg, Scotland, where the game of golf was first played in 1774.