Year 11 Standard English #1: Listening and Media Writing task
Click to listen to the except “Dear Amanda” from Steve Martin’s novel, Pure Drivel.

You may listen to the excerpt as many times as you like, pausing and making notes as you see fit.

Note: If you have difficulty playing the audio clip, it probably means you are on a slow connection or don’t have a basic browser plug-in.  Not to worry. Download the Amanda Clip, saving it onto your thumbdrive and play it on your own computer as you would any mp3 file.  The file is about 4 MB.