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My name is Peter. I am a student. I am 19 years old. I am from London. I have 2 brothers and a sister. My father is a doctor. My mother is a teacher. 

My name is Peter. I am a student. I am 19 years old. I am from London. I have 2 brothers and a sister. My father is a doctor. My mother is a teacher. 

Question 1. How old is Peter? 

My name is Peter. I am a student. I am 19 years old. I am from London. I have 2 brothers and a sister. My father is a doctor. My mother is a teacher. 

Question 1. How old is Peter? 

Narrator

Listen to a conversation between a girl and a boy. Listen carefully. You will hear the conversation only once. After listening, you will answer some questions.

Girl

Hey, could you save me a seat at the school talent show tonight? I’ll be backstage at the start of the show, helping with the stage production.

Boy

Yeah, no problem. Let me think... Seat numbers aren’t assigned on our tickets, so I’ll get there early and get us some spots in the back left corner of the auditorium. I’ll try to get seats at the end of the aisle.

Girl

Great, that way I won’t have to walk in front of people when I come to sit down.

Boy

Yeah, you don’t want to distract anyone during the show.

Girl

Yeah, Edison would often create whole systems to go along with his inventions. These systems helped him to sell his inventions. Like ... when he invented electric lights? Well, he also built a power station to power the lights.

And take the phonograph he invented. A phonograph is like an old-fashioned record player. With both a record player and a phonograph, the record spins, and the machine uses a tiny needle to play the music on it. Edison realized that you could only sell phonographs if there were records to play on them. So he created records, and recording equipment, and even the machines needed to make those things. The girl mentions two industries that Thomas Edison created. Which two industries does she mention?