NARRATOR：

Listen to a conversation between two students.

MALE STUDENT：

How's it going, Marie? Weren't you away this past weekend?

FEMALE STUDENT：

Yeah, I flew out to see my family in Boston for the weekend. Just got back from the airport, actually.

What a mess...my flight was delayed several hours 'cause of bad weather.

MALE STUDENT：

Yeah, there was that big storm out east, huh.

FEMALE STUDENT：

Right. So I was at the airport like all night waiting for my flight to leave.

I was supposed to arrive back on campus last night,

but instead I got in early this morning.

MALE STUDENT：

You must be exhausted.

FEMALE STUDENT：

I am. I hardly got any sleep¡ªjust a short nap on the plane.

And I'm supposed to, I can't believe it,

I'm supposed to give a presentation in my history class today,

an hour from now.

MALE STUDENT：

What kind of presentation?

FEMALE STUDENT：

It's a ten-minute presentation on a paper I wrote,

and then there's an answer...a question-and-answer session afterward...

where the professor and other students ask me questions about my history paper and stuff.

MALE STUDENT：

Well, I bet if you told your professor what happened,

how the flight was delayed and you didn't get any sleep...

I bet the professor would let you do the presentation on a different day.

FEMALE STUDENT：

Yeah, she'd probably let me reschedule.

I just don't know if I want to put it off...

I've got a lot of other stuff coming up,

big assignments.

MALE STUDENT：

Oh.

FEMALE STUDENT：

I could just give the presentation today. I mean, I did prepare for it a lot last week.

So I don't know,

maybe I should just grab a cup of coffee or something and go through with it.

MALE STUDENT：

Well, if you feel OK with that.

FEMALE STUDENT：

Well, I'm definitely tired...

I wouldn’t be as quick or as sharp as I normally am,

but I've got an hour to go over my notes. And the coffee should help wake me up.