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Unit 2 Getting older, getting wiser?
Listening to the world
Sharing
Scripts
P
= Pasha; M1 = Man 1, etc.; W1 = Woman 1, etc.
Part 1
P: Hi. I’m really
excited about the next few months. I’m DJing on
the banks of the River Thames
in
the heart of London and
I’m playing some beach parties. Today I’ve come to
Covent Garden
to find out
how people feel about their lives. What are you
looking forward to in the future?
Part
2
M1: Er, I’m looking forward to having
a family: I don’t have a family right now. Er, I’m
looking
forward to buying a
house
–
er, I
actually live in the United States right now and I
haven’t
bought a house
there, so I’m looking forward to that. And I guess
I’m looking forward to um,
more travel.
W1: Finding a
job that I’
m really passionate about.
M2: Er, near future, I’m looking
forward to a holiday next year. I’m going to Vegas
with a family
that I haven’t
been away with um, for about five or six years
now.
W2: Getting a good job,
and finishing university.
M3: Nothing
really. I kind of enjoy my life at the moment. Um,
I ... I live in Australia now, and
I’ve
got things the way we like them at home, and
life’s good.
M4: Starting a
new job next summer.
Part 3
P: Is there anything you aren’t looking
forward to?
W1: No, no,
th
ere’s nothing I can think about that
I’m not looking forward to in the
future.
M2: The one thing
that I’d have thought most people say is dying.
Quite serious, but, other than
that, no
–
I kind
of embrace life to the full; look forward to most
things.
W3: Um, I have to say, the
premise of getting older, and with getting older
you have more
responsibilities, so
that’s one thing I won’t ... I’m not looking
forward to.
M1: Well, I’m
not looking forward to retiring: Um, I like my job
and I like working, and I t
hink
I’ll be a little bored when I
retire.
W2: It’s quite
stressful looking for jobs and going to job
interviews, so I do get nervous about
that.
M3: Getting older.
Your body’s starting to fall to bits. Not looking
forward to that, but it’ll
happen.
Part 4
P:
People say that your schooldays are the best days
of your life. Do you think that’s true?
W1: Absolutely. I do, yes, because
you’re, the world is your oyster. You have so much
hope, so
many dreams, and
you believe, you believe you can achieve anything.
So yeah, definitely, I
think so, yeah.
M3: No. Schooldays were hell on earth
for me. It was (They were) the worst days of my
life.
W2: Um, they’re quite stressful
because you have exams, but I do think they’re
fun: being able to
be with
your friends every day. So I do think that
schooldays are ... are good days in your
life.
M1: Looking back on
it, I had a great time at school. I’m sure at the
time it seemed a little
difficult, um, you know, trying to fit
in, but now when I look back on it, they were fun
days
and, you know, I ... I ... I look
at them very fondly.
M4: For me,
personally, my, er ... my schooldays were my
favorite because I’ve still got friends
from, going back 20-odd years.
W3: That’s when I’ve created most ...
the most valuable relationships
I have
in my life.
M2: For most people, yes,
but when I left school at 16, I was a fulltime
footballer at Ipswich
Town Football
Club for two years. So, living away from home with
friends and doing, kind
of, the best
thing I could do in my life, were the best two
years of my life.
Listening
Scripts
Part 1
OK
... so ... I’ve got the date ... “Thursday, the
20th of May, 2004. Dear the future me, I
hope
this letter has found
its way to you / me. As I write this, I am 16 in
Year 11; and as I read it, I am
20.
Wow! I will have changed so much. I can only guess
what I will be like at 20. I envisage to
myself at Oxford Uni, sitting ...” oh,
this is embarrassing ... “sitting under a tree by
the river in the
college
grounds. I think I’ll be wearing
something floaty and a bit indie, but I bet when I
get this,
it’ll, it’ll be
raining.”
“
As I
read this, I’ll have already remembered that I
fancied Tom Squires ...” there you go,
Tom ... I’m looking at him now. “I
wonder if I’ll ever have the guts to tell him. ...
I know, I’m a
romantic.
I
hope
that
hasn’t
changed.
My
plans
for
myself
in
the
following
years
are
to
find a
man,
someone good-looking,
romantic and intelligent, who, who shares my
interests
–
or just Tom.
Either
way, um, I hope I’ll
have someone.” I don’t remember this, “... and
then I think I’ll have
three
children with long brown hair and green
eyes.”
“
Well,
I’ll stop now even though I want to write
everything I can down, but I’m running
out
of time. I hope
I’m
happy in 2008, and I hope this
letter makes me feel good about who I was, or
am, as I write this. Keep smiling, and
while I can’t really say bye, but good luck for
the future and
keep
dreaming. Don’t change too much, and be happy with
who you are –
I like who I am now
more than any other time. Love,
Laura.”
Part 2
It
all seems very shallow looking back and reading
what I thought I’d be doing or hoped
I’d
be doing. I think my
16-year-old self might have been disappointed with
where I am, but because
I
as
my 20-year-
old self have sort of grown
up and matured, I’m absolutely ecstatic with the
way
where I am, and it
doesn’t have to be this perfect
sitting
-by-a-lake kind of image.
Viewing
Scripts
N
= Narrator; B = Dr. Bradley Willcox
N:
The remote island of Okinawa is home to one of the
longest-living communities in the world.
In a population of only one million,
there are 900 centenarians, a percentage that’s
over four
times higher than
Britain and America. It’s a place where age has a
different meaning ... wher
e
people like Mr. Miyagi can expect to
live way beyond his 92nd year. Unaware of the
latest diet
or lifestyle fad, Mr.
Miyagi has developed his own way of defying the
aging process.
B: They’re not thinking
about “Gee, if I do this, I’m not gonna live as
lo
ng, if I ... I have one extra
drink or if I eat this food or ...”
–
they’re not thinking about
that at all. Most of them couldn’t
care less what the scientists think.
They just go about their business and live. They
just happen
to live a very long time.
N: The explanation for this
extraordinary phenomenon begins in the most
ordinary of places. Like
every town in
Okinawa, the fruit and vegetable shop in Ogimi
lies at the heart of village life.
It’s
here that Bradley and Craig believe the source of
the Okinaw
a miracle can be traced. For
the past 20 years, Bradley and Craig
have been analyzing the life-enhancing Okinawan
ingredients.
B: Got reds
here in the tomatoes, the peppers. You’ve got
green peppers here.
N:
They’ve identified a number of crucial
propertie
s that guard the Okinawans
from disease, from
the antioxidant rich
vegetables that protect against cell damage, to
the high quantities of soya
proteins.
In Ogimi, 100-year-old Matsu is preparing a
traditional Okinawan dish using all the
vital ingredients.
It’s only
after the food is served that the most significant
Okinawan tradition
can be
observed.
B: The Okinawans developed
also cultural habits over the years that appear to
have health
protective properties. They
have a saying called “harahachibu” –
eat
until you’re only 80
percent full.
N: In a
typical day, Matsu only consumes around 1,200
calories, about 20 percent less than most
people in Britain and America.
B: In the West we’re very much focused
on getting more for our money, and one of the
most
popular things is all
these all-you-can-eat restaurants. You go and you
load up at the, at the er,
the all-you-
can-eat restaurant, and you, you walk away with
this bloated feeling and you ... you
may have got your money’s worth, but
you probably didn’t get your, your health’s
worth,
because what you’re
doing is just digging yourself into an early
grave.
Speaking for
communication
Role-play
Scripts
P = Presenter; V =
Vince; J = Julia; D = Dan; Z = Zara
P:
And up next, it’s time for Just Tell Me I’m Wrong.
Today’
s topic: How young is too young
or,
perhaps more accurately, how old is
old enough? We’ve received hundreds of emails and
text
messages about the
right age for a child to have a mobile phone, stay
home alone, wear
make-up, get their
ears pierced, babysit
for younger kids
... and we’ve got our first caller,
Vince. Go ahead, Vince. You’re
on.
V: Hi. My situation is
that my nine-year-old kept asking me to get her a
mobile, so I bought her
one a few
months ago. Then, last week, I got a bill for over
two hundred pounds, so I warned
her I’d
take the phone away from her if it happened
again.
P: So I gather your
point is whether she’s too young to have a
mobile?
V: Yeah, yeah,
that’s right.
P: Er, surely
it’s the parents’ responsibility to set some sort
of guidelin
es ahead of time.
V: So what you’re saying is I should
have given her some rules?
P: Basically, yes, when she first got
the phone. OK, thanks Vince. Next caller is Julia.
What’s
your question, Julia?
J: About the mobile phone thing. I’ve
got an eight
-year-old, and I worry
about him all the time if
I can’t reach
him. You know ... anything could happen
...