Page 4 - MM2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEjIoAyvwX0

Lesson and Explanation
RUSH hour crowds jostle for position on the underground train platform. A slight girl,
looking younger than her seventeen years, was nervous yet excited as she felt the
vibrations of the approaching train.
jostle: push roughly
slight: small and thin

The scene is of the train platform- it is underground and there is a huge rush at the
platform, people are pushing each other to get way. There is a small thin girl, it is Evelyn.
Evelyn is standing at the railway platform waiting for the train. And just as she feels the
vibrations of the approaching train, she realizes that the train is about to come, she gets
nervous and excited. This is the train that will take Evelyn to London. She is going to
London to learn music as she has got admission in the Royal Academy of Music. Right
now, Evelyn is in Scotland. (Evelyn belongs to Scotland. Scotland is a country in Europe.
Life in Scotland is not as fast as in London. London has a very fast life. It is urban whereas
Scotland has farms and countryside.) So that is why Evelyn is nervous because she is
leaving Scotland for London. And she is excited also because she is doing something that
she always dreamt of. She is going to the Royal Academy of Music to learn music.

It was her first day at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London and daunting
enough for any teenager fresh from a Scottish farm.

daunting: frightening, Scary
teenager: a person who is in his teens

Evelyn is seventeen years of age. She is a teenager and she is fresh from a Scottish farm.
As Evelyn is from Scotland which has more of farms and country side, so, she has not
seen fast life. That is why she is nervous and the writer says that she is fresh from a
Scottish farm.

But this aspiring musician faced a bigger challenge than most: she was profoundly deaf.