Listen to a conversation between a student and his history professor.(male student) Hi, Professor Clark. Um, is this a good time? You\'d mentioned that you had a book that you thought might be helpful for my oral report, the Osborne book on Athenian democracy?(female professor) Hi, Peter. Yes, I’ll get it for you. Keep it for as long as you need. Um, but while I have you here, did you get my email about the Tuesday seminar?(male student) Oh, uh, I\'m, I\'m sorry, yes. You\'re going to be out of town, so you\'re scheduling the class that\'s in 2 weeks?(female professor) Yes. I’ll be at a conference on ancient societies out on the west coast.I don\'t want to just cancel class because we have a packed syllabus.And I don\'t want things to start snowballing and readings to pile up this early in the semester.So, I\'m offering two replacement evening sessions next week. You can attend either one of the two.(male student) Right. Yeah, and I meant to get back to you, but I needed to check my schedule. Then I forgot, sorry.But I can come to the second session on Thursday. I have a biology lab on Wednesday.(female professor) Good. The Thursday evening session is also at 7:00 pm I wanted us to have a couple of options because many people have other commitments in the evenings.(male student) Okay. Oh, but my oral report it, it\'s scheduled for that week on the week you\'ll be away.Somehow this didn\'t occur to me when I saw your email. Should I plan on presenting during the replacement class?(female professor) Well, part of the point of the oral report is to present them to the entire class.And since the students will be split between the two replacement sessions, it\'s best to wait until the following week. I hope you don\'t mind.(male student) I\'m sure I could use the extra time. You said the Osbourne book isn\'t the easiest to read.(female professor) Yes, it\'ll take time to work through, uh, but the good news is that it\'s a collection of articles. And they won\'t all be directly related to your topic.He has several articles that discuss the Athenian economy and its relation to Athenian democracy.So, you would probably skip those unless you\'re interested, of course. (male student) Oh, okay, good to know. Thanks.