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Unit 1 Starting out
Inside view
Conversation 1
Porter
Good afternoon.
Janet
Good afternoon.
Porter
New student?
Janet
Yes.
Porter
Welcome to Hertford College.
Janet
Thank you.
Porter
Can I have your
family name, please?
Janet
Yes, it's Li.
Porter
Er, L-double E?
Janet
No, L-I.
Porter
And what's your first name, Ms Li?
Janet
Janet.
Porter
Janet Li... ah yes,
there you are. Here are your keys.
Janet
Where's my room?
Porter
You're in
Staircase 6 Room 5.
Janet
Who am I
sharing
with?
Porter
Nobody. You have your own room.
Er...there's a Ms Santos in the room next to you.
Janet
Oh. My own
room? In China we usually have several people in a
dormitory.
Porter
Well, here you don't have to share with
anyone.
Janet
Thank you Sir.
Porter
No need to call me
sir, Ms Li. Everyone calls me Stewart.
Janet
Please call me Janet!
Porter
OK,
Janet, um, can you just sign for your keys,
please?
Conversation
2
Kate
Hi, have
you just arrived too?
Janet
Yes!
Kate
I guess
we're neighbours. My name's Kate Santos.
Janet
I'm Janet
Li. Where are you from?
Kate
From New York. How
about you?
Janet
I'm from Anshan in China.
Kate
Is Janet your real
name?
Janet
No,
it's my English name. My Chinese name is Li Hui.
Is Kate your full name?
Kate
No, it's short for Catherine.
Janet
So do I call you
Catherine or Kate?
Kate
Everyone calls me Kate.
Janet
Nice to meet you.
Kate
OK, Janet. See you
later.
Janet
Bye!
Conversation 3
Kate
Hey! This is awesome!
Look at the size of this dining hall.
Janet
Is this where we have
all our meals?
Kate
I guess.
Mark
You just arrived?
Girls
Yes!
Mark
Me too. By the way, I'm
Mark. Nice to meet you.
Kate
Hi, I'm Kate.
Mark
Hi Kate, I guess you're
from the States.
Kate
Right! How can you tell? You're
British, huh?
Mark
Yes, I'm from London. And you are ...?
Janet
I'm Li
Hui. I'm from China. But you can call me Janet.
Mark
Hi Janet.
Welcome to England. What are you reading?
Janet
English.
Mark
How about
you, Kate?
Kate
My major is law. And you?
Mark
I'm studying PPE.
Kate
That's a special Oxford
subject, isn't it?
Listening in
Passage 1
Interviewer
Can you tell me
something about the Ivy League? You're a professor
at Harvard, is that right?
Professor
That's right, yes.
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Interviewer
Tell me how many
universities are there? How many institutions?
Professor
In
total
there
are
eight
institutions:
There's
Harvard,
Yale,
Brown,
Columbia,
Cornell,
Dartmouth,
Princeton, and
the University of Pennsylvania.
Interviewer
Ah, OK. And
what's the sporting ... I believe there's some
link with sports.
Professor
There
certainly
is,
yes.
Originally
the
Ivy
League
referred
to
the
sports
teams
from
the
universities
which competed against each other,
especially in
football, basketball and
ice hockey. Now
sometimes these
universities, institutions, chose their
students on the basis of their skills at these
particular sports. But in the last
50
years, Ivy
League schools have accepted
a
wider range of students because it
wasn't possible to be both
world-famous
for research and also top class in sport.
Interviewer
And
what
about
their
academic
importance?
I
gather
they're
academically
very,
very
important,
they're very well-known.
Professor
Absolutely
at
the
top.
They're
near
or
at
the
top
of
the
USA
colleges
and
university
rankings.
And
they're almost always in
the top one per cent of the world's academic
institutions for financial resources.
Interviewer
And what does it
mean socially to go to an Ivy League university?
Professor
Certainly if
you've been to one of these institutions, you are
presumed or assumed to be at the top end of
the
scale.
The
Ivy
League
institutions
have
a
reputation
for
social
elitism,
many
of
the
students
are
rich,
intellectual, white
Anglo-Saxon, protestants. Not all of them of
course, but quite a lot of them.
Interviewer
And do you know
... why's it called the Ivy League, what's the
origin of the name?
Professor
There are a number of stories,
derivations, but possibly it's based on four
universities, and IV, the letters
IV,
that's the Roman numeral for four. Another more
likely story is that ivy plants, which are
symbolic of the
age of the
universities, you know,
would be grown
at the walls of these universities, these
institutions, they
cover the walls of
the buildings. The term was created by a sports
journalist, I think in the 1930s.
Interviewer
Right, OK. And
which is the oldest university?
Professor
The oldest goes
back to the 17th century, that's Harvard which was
founded in 1636. And the youngest
of
the institutions is Cornell which was founded in
1865.
Interviewer
And which
has the largest number of undergraduates?
Professor
Cornell has the
largest number, about 13,000, 13,500
undergraduates. The institution with the smallest
number is Dartmouth College with a
little over 4,000.
Interviewer
And what about the acceptance rate? Is
it hard to get into?
Professor
That ranges from about seven per cent
to 20 per cent.
Interviewer
And any famous alumni? Famous old boys?
Professor
Hundreds! Hundreds
of them. But I suppose worldwide, the two that
would be definitely known all over
the
world would certainly be George Bush who went to
Yale, and John F Kennedy, President Kennedy, who
was at Harvard.
Interviewer
Thank you.
Passage2
Andy
Did
you see the film on television last night?
Jane
No, I was out. What was
it?
Andy
A
Beautiful Mind.
It's about John Forbes
Nash, the mathematician who won the Nobel Prize.
Jane
I've heard about that
film, yes. He's played by Russell Crowe, isn't he?
I like Russell Crowe, he's great.
Andy
That's the one, yes.
Jane
What's it about?
Andy
Well, the story begins
in the early years of Nash's life at Princeton
University as a graduate student.
Jane
That's one of the Ivy League schools,
isn't it?
Andy
Yes,
it's
all
set
in
New
England,
lovely
old
buildings,
beautiful
autumn
colours.
It's
lovely
to
look
at.
Anyway,
Nash
meets
his
roommate
Charles,
a
literature
student,
who
soon
becomes
his
best
friend.
Nash
admits
to
Charles
that
he
is
better
with
numbers
than
people,
and
the
main
thing he's
looking
for
is
a
truly
original
idea for his thesis paper.
Jane
So he's not interested in having fun?
Andy
Well, yes, but he's not
very good with people or successful with women,
that's all. But, you know, it's one of
these bad experiences with people which
ultimately inspires his brilliant work in
mathematics.
Jane
No good at
relationships, so he becomes a genius at maths?
Andy
That's
about
right,
yes.
So
when
he
finishes
his
studies
at
Princeton,
he
accepts
a
job
at
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Five years
later, he meets Alicia, a student who he falls in
love with and eventually
marries.
Jane
Ah! At last, the love
interest!
Andy
Yes,
but
wait
a
moment.
Nash
believes
that
he's
been
asked
to
work
by
William
Parcher
for
the
US
Department of Defense on breaking
Soviet codes. At one point he's chased by the
Russians, and it's after this
that he
becomes mentally ill.
Jane
I
think I've seen this in the trailer to the film.
Andy
So when he's put in a
psychiatric hospital, he thinks the Soviets have
captured him. He's given this painful
treatment
which
affects
his
relationship
with
his
wife.
And
his
intellectual
skills.
So
he
stops
taking
the
medicine.
Jane
It
sounds quite hard to watch.
Andy
Well, it is, but it's well acted and
directed, and so, you know, there's a-bit of
distance between the audience
and
what's happening on film.
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Jane
So what happens next?
Andy
Well, then his illness
returns, so he and his wife decide to try and live
with it. It all gets a bit complicated,
because we're no longer sure if
Charles, you know, his old friend, or even Parcher
were real, or if they were
just people
that existed only in Nash's mind.
Jane
That sounds awful. He must have been so
ill,
Andy
Actually, I'm kind
of giving away the twist in the story. Anyway,
later in his life, while he's using the library
at Princeton again, he asks his rival
Martin Hansen if he can start teaching again. And
so the story ends when
he goes on to
win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Jane
Well, it sounds like a great film.
Andy
Yes, you should see it
sometime.
Unit 3 Learning
to think
Inside view
Conversation 1
Mark
Hi, what're you doing?
Janet
Oh, nothing much ...
Well, I'm just doing this quiz here in the
newspaper.
Mark
Let's have a look then.
Janet
Here. It's called,
Mark
OK, might
as well. I'm not busy.
Janet
Right. Look, I'll read
the statements. Then you have to answer
Mark
Yea.
Janet
OK.
Physical exercise improves your memory. True or
false?
Mark
True, I suppose. It sounds like the
right answer.
Janet
You're
right,
exercise
does
improve
your
memory.
Next
statement:
30
per
cent
of
people
have
a
visual
memory.
Mark
That sounds about right. True?
Janet
No, wrong,
I'm afraid. In fact, 60 per cent of people have a
visual memory.
Mark
Really? Actually, I've got a pretty
good memory.
Janet
Have you? OK ... Next one ... When
you're tired, it's more difficult to remember
things.
Mark
That's true, obviously. I can't
remember a thing when I'm tired.
Janet
Correct! If you do one
activity for a long time, your memory will
improve.
Mark
I'm not sure ... True?
Janet
Actually, it's false.
Mark
Oh!
Janet
Eating
fruit and vegetables can improve your memory.
Mark
I read
something in
The Times
about
that. True.
Janet
True, it says here.
Mark
Oh, no! I've got a
lecture. I'd forgotten. I'd better get going!
Janet
Oh, Mark!
What a good memory you have!
Conversation 2
Kate
You're looking a bit down, Janet.
What's up?
Janet
Well... I'm finding studying at Oxford
quite hard.
Kate
You're telling me! There's so much
work!
Janet
It's
not the amount of work
- but
everything's so different. In China, generally
we have large classes,
we
don't have tutorials. And mostly, our
teacher tells us what we should do. So I'm not
used to asking questions or
discussing
things. I find it difficult.
Kate
You have to memorize a
lot, don't you?
Janet
Yes, but I'm good at that.
Kate
You're lucky. There's
so much to remember studying law! I have
difficulty sometimes, I really do.
Janet
Yes, well, we've been
trained to do that. But we don't have so much
training in critical thinking.
Kate
What do you mean by
critical thinking?
Janet
Let me think ... I think it's giving
your opinion and then justifying it.
Kate
Yes, I suppose that's
what our teachers have always encouraged us to do.
Janet
I am
getting better at it, I suppose.
Kate
Hey! How about this?
Let's pretend I'm your tutor. I'll make a
statement. Your task is to examine it and then
ask questions.
Janet
OK.
Kate
Everyone is capable of
learning a second language. Go on, ask a question!
Janet
Why do you
say that?
Kate
That's what the research tells us. Now
ask another one.
Janet
Can you give an example of some
research?
Kate
Um ... No!
Look, I'm starving and I can't think at all when
I'm hungry.
Listening
in
Passage 1
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Interviewer
With us today
is Martin Downes, a carpenter, who's 51. A
year ago, Martin had a stroke. But he's
been lucky enough to make a full
recovery from it. Can you tell us how it all
began, Martin?
Martin
I'm
very happy to - not that I remember much at all. I
was at a customer's house, building a cupboard,
and
the next thing I knew, I woke up in
hospital with people in white coats bending over
me.
Interviewer
It must have
been very frightening.
Martin
It was. But what was really frightening
was that I couldn't speak. I couldn't say a
word. And I couldn't
understand much that people said to me.
Interviewer
How awful!
Martin
Yeah! I don't know
what would have happened to me if I hadn't had my
family. But they were there for me,
they really were. I had something
called aphasia, where the part of your brain gets
damaged that affects your
speech
and
language.
But
they
started
treatment
for
the
condition
almost
immediately.
This
speech
and
language therapist came to see me every
day for 12 weeks. They made me do all these
exercises.
Interviewer
What
kind of exercises?
Martin
I
had to match words and pictures and say their
names. You see, I'd also forgotten the names of a
lot of
things. She had this thing
called a word board and I could point to words and
phrases on it that I wanted to say.
I
had to repeat words up to 20 times - boy, it was
hard, so hard.
Interviewer
Could you say anything to begin with?
Martin
I
could
say
three
words.
and
That
was all.
And
there
were
a
lot
of
words
I
couldn't
understand -1 had to learn their
meanings all over again.
Interviewer
It must have been very frustrating.
Martin
It was, but I was
determined to get better. I was in hospital for
three and a half months. When I got home I
got a special computer programme that I
worked with every day. And slowly my language came
back to me. It
was a struggle, a big
struggle. I had to learn to read and write again
too.
Interviewer
Why do you
think that you were able to recover completely?
It's not that common, is it?
Martin
I was lucky. I was given the right drug
at the right time. And I had 12 weeks of therapy,
five days a week.
That's very
important, apparently.
Interviewer
And now that you're better how do you
feel about your life?
Martin
What can I say? I'm just grateful to
have my life back.
Passage
2
Interviewer
In
1907
an
Italian
educator
called
Maria
Montessori
opened
a
school
in
Rome
that
taught
young
children using methods that were very
different from traditional teaching. Today, the
Montessori method, as
it's
known,
is
used
in
nursery
schools
in
countries
such
as
America,
Canada,
Britain
and
Germany.
Recent
research shows that children educated
at a Montessori nursery do better later on at
school than other children in
all
subjects. We asked two Montessori teachers,
Claudia Rosella and Sarah Harrington, to explain
what makes
their nursery school
different. Sarah...
Sarah
I
think the first thing to say is that a Montessori
classroom is very quiet, very clean. Everything
stays in the
same place. So the
children are calm and quiet as a result.
Interviewer
So they're not
encouraged to be noisy.
Sarah
No, definitely not...
Interviewer
Claudia?
Claudia
Yes, the classroom's
very important. Another important principle is
that children direct their own learning.
They choose what they want to do.
Interviewer
So the teacher
doesn't tell the child what to do?
Sarah
Not at all. While a
child is doing an activity we observe them. Then
we work with the child for a short time
and then leave them to work on their
own.
Interviewer
That sounds
excellent. And what about your equipment? It's
often made of wood, isn't it?
Sarah
Yes, and a piece of equipment is often
designed for one activity only.
Claudia
Right. It's so that the child can see
if they're getting something right or wrong.
Interviewer
So they don't
need the teacher so much
Sarah
That's right. Another Montessori
principle is the importance of physical activity.
Children learn by doing, so
when
they're learning to read, for example, the letters
are made of sandpaper so that children can feel
the shape
of the letter.
Interviewer
Do you think
there are disadvantages with Montessori methods?
Claudia
Yes,
there
are.
Maria
Montessori
didn't
understand
how
important
it
is
for
children
to
use
their
imagination.
If
she
was
alive
today,
she
would
recognize
that.
But
still,
the
fact
is,
her
methods
are
very
successful.
Unit 4 Person to person
Inside view
Conversation 1
Kate
Oh, I must make a quick
call.
Jacky
Hello, Jacky
Gordon speaking.
Kate
Hello,
can I speak to Abbie, please?
Jacky
I'll see if she's in, can you hold on?
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Kate
Sure.
Jacky
Hello? She's out, I'm
afraid. Can I give her a message - er ... or I can
ask her to call you back?
Kate
Could you ask her to
call me back?
Jacky
Sure. Who's calling?
Kate
Kate Santos.
Jacky
Kate
Santos, OK. Does Abbie have your number?
Kate
Yes, she
does.
Jacky
I'll
tell her you called.
Kate
Thanks.
Janet
Abbie? I know a girl called Abbie. She
reads English, doesn't she?
Kate
Yes, how do you know
her?
Janet
She
has a tutorial just after me so we chat a bit. We
get on really well.
Kate
Yes, everyone likes Abbie. I think it's
because she's really interested in people - she's
a very good listener.
She should be,
she works for Nightline.
Janet
Nightline?
Kate
Oh, I haven't told you,
I've joined it.
Janet
What is it? I've never heard of it.
Kate
Look, I've
got a leaflet about it.
Janet
So
...
Kate
It's a
university helpline for students who are having
problems. I'm training to be one of the people
they can
call to talk to.
Janet
You mean, you're a
volunteer?
Kate
Yes.
Janet
Oh, that's great, Kate.
Conversation 2
Abbie
Hi, Abbie speaking.
Kate
Hi, Abbie, it's Kate
Santos.
Abbie
Hi! I'm sorry
not to have called you back. I've got a lot on at
the moment. How's things?
Kate
Fine. I just wanted to
let you know I won't be able to come to the next
training session.
Abbie
Um ... It's quite an important session.
Oh, can you hold on a moment. There's someone at
the door.
…
Abbie
Hi, I'm sorry, look, can I call you
back later?
Kate
Sure. What
time?
Abbie
Is three o'clock
OK?
Kate
Three's fine.
Abbie
OK, I'll call you
then. Speak soon.
Kate
Bye.
Abbie
Bye.
…
Kate
Abbie's my Nightline
trainer.
Janet
You're saying
she's your Nightline trainer! But she's still a
student.
Kate
Well, experienced students train new
students, that's the way it works.
Janet
Oh, I see.
Kate
It's great! At the
moment, she's training us in listening skills.
Janet
Listening
skills? What do you mean, listening skills?
Kate
Um ... The
ability to really listen to someone and make them
feel you're listening. It's very important.
Janet
I've never
thought about that before.
Kate
Yes, for example, one
thing you can do is listen carefully and then
repeat what someone says but maybe a
little differently.
Janet
So what you're saying
is, repeat what someone says but maybe not the
exact same words?
Kate
Yes. You see, when you do that, you
check you've understood and you show them you're
really listening.
Janet
So they know you've really heard them.
Kate
Very good,
Janet. I can see you've got it already! Hi,...
how's it going?
Listening
in
Passage 1
John
Are you packed?
Mike
Yup. Everything's
there.
John
Sure you've
packed your mobile?
Mike
I'll look again, John ... yes.
John
Well, we've got another
ten minutes before we need to leave, so we might
as well relax. You know someone
told me
an amazing story yesterday about these Australians
who got completely lost in some national park.
Mike
And don't tell me, they
used their mobile to get help?
John
That's right!
Mike
So what happened?
John
Well, it was this guy with his son and
niece -I think she was about 14 - and they were
hiking in this really
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rugged country and they got completely
lost - no idea where they were at all.
Mike
That's not going to
happen to us.
John
No, it
isn't. Anyway, the guy had his mobile and he
phoned the emergency services
—
it wasn't dark yet -
and they sent out a search party, but
they couldn't find them. And then -this is the
interesting bit - the guy sent
photos
of the place where they were.
Mike
I'd have thought of that.
John
Yes, well it's pretty
obvious, really. And in the photos there were
mountains in the background, and the staff
at the emergency service centre were
able to identify exactly which mountains they
were. And they used the
photos to
pinpoint their location, you know, to get the
exact location.
Mike
How did
they do that?
John
They used
mapping software.
Mike
Right.
John
Anyway, by then it had got dark and
really freezing. So they slept behind this ridge
and covered themselves
with leaves. And
you know what the young girl said afterwards? She
said,
Mike
Really, wasn't
she frightened?
John I don't
think so.
Mike
So
- is there a happy ending?
John
Yes, well they sent out helicopters as
soon as it was daylight and the helicopter hovered
over the area, and
the man kept talking
to them till they were able to pinpoint his
location. And when they finally found them
they were only 400 metres away from
where they'd expected them to be.
Mike
Amazing!
John
And
that's because they'd moved 400 metres away from
where they'd taken their photos because the ground
was too rough to sleep on.
Mike
Incredible!
John
And the moral of the
story is-
Mike
Always take
your mobile phone with you when you go hiking.
John
And take one that has a
camera.
Mike
Hey, I think we
should go, John.
John
Yes,
OK. You think we're going to get lost?
Mike
No chance, mate!
Passage2
Social
networking - it's the 21st century way of having
fun - online. And if you're under 40, you probably
use
a social networking site - maybe
when you should be working. It's well-known that
-. office workers spend up to
two
hours
a
day
on
a
site,
exchanging
messages
and
photos.
And
do
students
ever
do
anything
else?
Different
social networking
sites are used by different age groups.
For people in their 20s, the most
popular site is Facebook, the online
phenomenon started by an American
student in 2004. It's taken only four
years to make Facebook a huge success - and the
website's made its founder,
Mark
Zuckerberg, a very rich man indeed.
What's extraordinary about Zuckerburg
is that he started Facebook when he was only 18.
He was a student at
Harvard,
one
of
America's
top
universities,
when
he
launched
the
Facebook
website,
working
from
his
college
room. In only two weeks, more than two-
thirds of his college had signed up and in a year,
thousands of colleges
were using it.
Today, Facebook has millions of users. More than
half of them visit the site at least once a day.
So what makes Facebook so special? Like
other networking sites, you create a profile with
photos, you
list
your
interests, you exchange messages and join groups
of friends. But where Facebook is different is
that it gives
you a privacy that you
just don't get on other sites. Unlike other sites,
you have a lot of control over what users can
see about you. As a result, one-third
of Facebook users give out their mobile numbers -
they know it's safe to do
so.
But you still need to be careful about
what you think is safe to show people. One reason
is that more and more
employers are
using Facebook to check out potential employees.
Is the person you've just interviewed as good as
he seems? Facebook can provide the
answer. If a 26-year-old man says on Facebook that
he's been travelling round
the world
for the last three years, and in his interview he
said he'd been working in an office - well, he
probably
won't get the job.
Unit 5 All
you need is love
Inside view
Conversation 1
Kate
Hi, Becky, how's it
going?
Becky
Good!
Mark
Guys, look, can you
help me with a problem?
Janet
Yes, of course.
Mark
The thing is, there's this girl I
really like called Jenny Sparks. She's a Fresher,
realty stunning, reads history.
I know
her name because someone pointed her out to me,
but I've never actually spoken to her. Do either
of
you know her?
Kate
No.
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Janet
No, I don't know her. Mark, how can you
like her if you haven't met her?
Kate
It's because she's absolutely gorgeous,
Janet.
Mark
That's right! I
want to ask her out, but first I've got to meet
her. Got any suggestions?
Becky
Guys! You want to order?
Mark
Sorry.
Kate
Three cappuccinos?
Becky
Sure.
Janet
Do
you know anyone who knows her? You could ask them
to introduce you.
Mark
No, I
don't, that's the problem.
Kate
Are you matchmaking, Janet?
Janet
What's matchmaking?
Kate
Making
introductions
between
people
who
might
like
each
other.
We
don't
do
that
here.
How
about
just
walking up to her and saying Hi? Why
don't you do that?
Mark
No.
Kate
Why not?
Mark
I'm not usually shy, but - she's so ...
you know ...!
Janet
Oh, Mark!
Kate
Just believe in yourself, Mark. You're
a great guy!
Janet
I understand Mark completely.
Kate
Well, it's
the only way he's going to get to talk to her.
Mark
OK, I'll
give it a try.
Becky
Solved the Jenny problem yet? ,
Girls
Thank you.
Janet
You'll be
fine. Mark. She'll like him, won't she, Becky?
Becky
Of course
she will!
Conversation
2
Mark
Hey, guess
what, guys, I've got a date with Jenny.
Kate
You did it,
you asked her out?
Janet
When are you seeing her?
Mark
Saturday. We're going
to The Eagle and Child.
Janet
Sounds great.
Mark
Yeah! The thing is, I'm
a bit nervous.
Janet
Are you?
Mark
Yes, I'm afraid I'll make a fool of
myself. I could do with some more advice.
Kate
Any ideas?
Janet
Um ... I'm
thinking.
Kate
Well... One thing is ... if you're
nervous, it's easy to talk too much, so remember
not to do that.
Mark
Good point. I'll remember that.
Janet
You should
make her feel special. Show her you're really
interested in her.
Mark
I am really interested in her.
Janet
Well, you
should show her you are.
Mark
That'll be easy! What
else?
Kate
It's
a good idea to look good.
Mark
That's
pretty
相当的
obvious!
Kate
I mean clean clothes, Mark!
Mark
Oh ... thanks, Kate!
Any more advice?
Kate
Yes,
the most important thing is, just be yourself.
Becky
How's it
going, Mark?
Kate
He's worried this girl won't like him.
Becky
She'll
love you! Ready to order?
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Passage 1
Interviewer
So - tell us
about how you first met.
Amy
How we first met... Oh, it wasn't very romantic.
David
I thought it was very
romantic.
Interviewer
Why
don't you begin at the beginning?
Amy
Good idea. Well, I was
22 and I'd just left uni and I went on holiday to
the French Alps with a girlfriend. And
someone invited us to go climbing. But
my friend got ill so I went without her. There was
this group of about
eight guys and two
girls.
David
There were four
girls.
Amy
Alright! Well,
anyway, no one had told me that the mountain we
were going to climb was - vertical - and that
we were climbing with ropes! I was
terrified, absolutely terrified, I just really
hadn't expected it.
David
She was terrified! I noticed her
immediately. She looked so scared -she was wearing
this great hat
—
but
she was white as a sheet.
Amy
Oh, I don't know about
that, but I remember I was shaking all over. David
came over and started talking to
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me and telling me how safe it was with
the ropes. And he was so sweet, you know I think I
fell in love with
him right then.
David
Yeah, it was the same
with me ... We roped up and I made sure I stayed
next to her ... I kept talking to her
and encouraging her.
Amy
It really helped. I think I would have
fallen off the mountain if you hadn't done that.
David
Rubbish! You were
perfectly safe.
Anyway,
we
got to the summit
—
it was a kind of flat area
- and Amy
just collapsed - she couldn't
stand up!
Amy
It's true, I
couldn't. I felt -1 was just - everyone ignored me
except David - everyone.
David
Quite a few people came to talk to you.
Amy
They didn't!
David
They did!
Amy
Well, you talked to me,
and that's all that mattered.
David
Thank you!
Amy
So -
David
So we climbed back down the mountain.
Amy
which was
just as bad -
David
and we
headed for the nearest village and we both had
huge pizzas.
Amy
I didn't eat a thing! I was still
feeling too sick.
David
You did, you know.
Amy
You know, you have a terrible memory
sometimes.
David
So
do
you! ...
To
cut
a
long
story
short,
we
got
married
six
months
later
and
went
on
a
three-week
honeymoon to Barbados.
Amy
Two weeks!
David
And we've lived
happily ever after.
Passage2
Presenter
And now let's move on to online dating,
a way of meeting a potential partner that's
becoming more and
more popular. James
O'Hanlan and Claire Goodall are two online dating
experts who are going to give all you
listeners advice about how to use
online dating safely and successfully. James ...
James
OK. The first thing to
say is, don't be nervous. A lot of people are and
it's very understandable. But there's
no need to be, provided you follow the
rules, which we're going to tell you right now.
Isn't that right, Claire?
Claire
Absolutely.
James
So, let's begin at the beginning. When
you join an online dating site, the first thing
you do is give some
basic information
about yourself. Now, don't be tempted to lie
- about your age, for example. If you
want a
good relationship, you need to
be honest. If you're not, you'll get found out and
that could be painful.
Claire
Another thing - it's a good idea to use
a photo, you'll get many more replies than if you
don't.
James
But use a
recent photo, not one that was taken ten years
ago!
Claire
Let's move on to
the next stage. You've had some
responses
响应
and
chosen one or two people you'd like
to
chat with. Now, the most important advice here is,
don't give out any personal information until
you're 100
per cent sure you're that
happy to do so. That includes your real name, your
phone numbers, your workplace
address
and
your
email
address.
Use
the
email
facility
设备
at
the
website
and
only
give
out
your
email
address when you feel completely safe.
James
And email for as long
as you want, it's a great way of getting to know a
person. Then, the next stage is to
talk
on the phone. Now that's very revealing, because
you'll hear the person's voice, and also because
people
have to be spontaneous on the
phone - they can't think about what they're going
to say for half a day, unlike
emails.
Claire
Then,
if
you're
feeling
really
comfortable,
agree
to
meet.
But
always
choose
a
public
place.
Don't
go
to
someone's home.
James
A cafe or bar is the best choice.
Claire
And don't forget to
tell a friend where you're going and what time you
expect to be back. That's important.
James
Another
good idea
is
to
ask
the
same
friend
to
call
you during
the
meeting
so
that
if
you
want
to
leave
quickly
you can say that something urgent's come up and
you have to go.
Claire
That's everything! If you follow this
advice you should be perfectly safe. And you may
find the man -
James
... or
woman
—
Claire
... of your dreams!
James &
Claire
Happy hunting!
Unit 6 Shop fill you drop!
Inside view
Conversation 1
Janet
So, are you looking for anything in
particular?
Mark
Maybe a T-shirt or a polo shirt.
Janet
We could go into the
covered market and have a look at the shops in
there.
Kate
And
what about you?
Janet
I need
some cosmetics
化妆品
from the
Body Shop on Cornmarket Street.
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