Shadowing Practice: What were you doing at the time of the murder? (Past tenses) – A2 English Listening Test - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Are you Mrs Lucille Carrington?
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Yes, that's right.
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And your husband is, or I should say,
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was Mr James Carrington, who died two days ago at your home, 180 Portland Street.
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Yes, James was my husband.
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Doctors have carefully studied your husband's body.
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They have found that someone murdered your husband.
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No. How?
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A knife in his heart.
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We believe that he was sleeping at the time.
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He had taken sleeping pills.
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I can't believe it.
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It's true.
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So, Mrs Carrington, where were you on the day of his death, the 5th of June?
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I was staying with a friend in Stanhope.
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It's a village about 50 miles from my home.
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My friend had been in hospital.
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I was looking after her.
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I was there from the 3rd of June until yesterday when I heard the news.
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Your friend's name is?
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Joanna Miller.
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Joanna Miller.
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And on the afternoon of the 5th of June, what were you doing?
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I went into the city.
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Joanna was feeling tired and ill.
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I went to buy her some tea.
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Here, I have the receipts.
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Did you go there alone?
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Yes, I did. By car.
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And did you also return to your house that afternoon?
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No. Your neighbour, Mrs Box, disagrees.
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She says that she saw you enter your house.
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You were wearing a long brown coat and a hat.
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She says she heard loud voices in the house.
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A man and a woman were arguing.
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It wasn't me.
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Oh, then who was it?
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I don't know, but I believe that my husband had a lover.
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I think he was seeing another woman. Who?
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I don't know, but I have believed it for some time.
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I had smelled perfume on his clothes, and once I found a receipt for dinner for two people in his coat pocket.
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But James loves, loved me.
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I'm sure.
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Maybe she asked James to leave me, and James refused, so she got angry and killed him.
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Or maybe you got angry because he had a lover and you killed him.
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No!
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We will find the truth.

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