Intermediate Unit 8 Audio Script
UNIT 8 Recording 1
1 traffic jam, traffic lights
2 car park, car rental
3 shopping centre, shopping mall
4 supermarket, outdoor market
5 primary school, language school
6 sports centre, city centre
7 high street, one-way street
8 semi-detached house, terraced house
9 housing estate, industrial estate
10 duty-free shop, gift shop
UNIT 8 Recording 2
L = Lynn
L: In real life my husband and I are both artists, visual artists. We paint landscapes and portraits. Well, we’ve been using the website for about two years now. And about a year ago we started an artists’ colony on the internet, and it’s been great. There are people like us, who work in the arts but also other people. And we show our paintings, and it’s brought some business for us. It’s a very creative kind of community, and we love it. We really do.
R = Rick
R: There is definitely a community of bloggers. It’s a very twenty-first century community, which means no one knows one another personally. Bloggers might tell you their thoughts but, er, you don’t know them as people. The guy who wrote this, who says he’s a fifty-year-old American university professor, might be a sixteen-year-old girl from Bombay – we just don’t know. But the best blogs have a following, who are very loyal readers. These are people who log on every day. And they get really engaged in the content. Well, that, to me, is a community.
N = Nathan
N: The place where we live is very small. There’s only one shop, which sells all sorts of things like food, newspapers, and everything really. There’s a small school, a pub, and then not much else. Actually, our social life is based on the pub, where we have our town meetings. Anyway, when we need to buy other things we shop online. It’s cheap and it saves us an hour’s drive in the car. And yeah, I’ve bought all sorts of things there: furniture, clothes … stuff you just can’t get where we live.
A = Abbie
A: The website which I use the most is a social networking site. It’s like Facebook or MySpace. I put up pictures of me and my family and I write messages – but to be honest, I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends. And the thing that I like is you go onto your friend’s homepage to see what they’ve been doing … and er, you, you can see pictures of all their friends. And then you see pictures of your friend’s friends, and it grows and grows so you meet new people. Erm, I think it’s great. I check it at least once every day.
UNIT 8 Recording 3
1 The travel site, which we developed, is really popular.
2 Those children who spend too much time on the net don’t communicate well.
3 Video sharing sites which are free are a great resource for students.
4 On that dating site, where I met my wife, there are hundreds of single people.
5 Bloggers who write regularly often get their stories from news websites.
UNIT 8 Recording 4
1 Make yourself at home.
2 Excuse the mess.
3 Be my guest.
4 Help yourself.
5 Have a seat.
6 Put your feet up.
UNIT 8 Recording 5
Conversation 1
A: I’m really hungry. Can I have some of this?
B: Help yourself.
Conversation 2
A: Come on in.
B: Thanks.
C: Have a seat.
Conversation 3
A: Hi.
B: What a day! I’m so tired!
A: I’ll make you some coffee. Put your feet up.
Conversation 4
A: Can I just quickly use your phone?
B: Be my guest.
Conversation 5
A: Welcome!
B: Thank you. What a nice room.
A: Make yourself at home.
UNIT 8 Recording 6
W = Woman M = Man
W: Hi Dave. Sorry. Do you mind?
M: Sorry?
W: We don’t smoke in the house.
M: Oh, sorry about that. I didn’t know.
W: That’s all right. It’s no problem.
M1 = 1st man M2 = 2nd man
M1: So they’ve invited me to dinner at their home.
M2: Wonderful. And they’re also from Morocco?
M1: The same as you. From Morocco.
M2: That’ll be great.
M1: So, do I need to bring a dish? Like, bring some food?
M2: No, it’s not necessary. You can bring a small gift if you want but you don’t need to bring food.
M = Man W = Woman
M: Hello?
W: Hello?
M: Hi, I’m Richard Davies. From Exeter? I’m here to visit your offices.
W: Ah hello.
M: I’m a bit early. Is this a bad time?
W: Umm.
M: I can come back later.
W: I wasn’t expecting you so early. Can you come back in ten minutes? I just need to finish some work here, then I’ll be able to show you around.
M: Of course. Sorry about that.
W: Not at all. It’s fine.
W1 = 1st woman W2 = 2nd woman
W1: So, I walked into your parents’ house but I forgot to take my shoes off. Did I do something wrong?
W2: Oh, I see.
W1: My shoes weren’t dirty or anything but I still felt really bad.
W2: It’s OK – I’ll tell my parents you forgot. Don’t worry about it.
W1: I don’t know. Should I call them up to apologise?
W2: No, it’s nothing. You really don’t have to apologise.
W = Waiter C = Customer
W: Excuse me sir, would you mind putting this on?
C: What?
W: Put on your jacket. In this restaurant you have to wear a jacket.
C: My apologies. I didn’t realise.
Conversation 6
W: So this American family are going to stay with us for Thanksgiving.
M: For what?
W: For Thanksgiving. You know, people from the United States celebrate it.
M: So what’s the problem?
W: Americans always eat turkey on Thanksgiving, don’t they? But we’re vegetarians – we never eat meat. So, well, what should we do?
M: Um ... if I were you, I’d tell them the problem, and maybe they can cook a turkey while you and your family just eat something else.
UNIT 8 Recording 7
Extract 1
M: ...
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