SO_E_U1_PODCAST.doc

  Elementary Unit 1 Video Podcast Script

H = Hina                            W1 = Woman 1                            M1 = Man 1
F1 = Family 1

H:              Hi, I’m Hina. I work for the BBC as a researcher in London. I live in London but I come from Bahrain, a small island in the Middle East. What’s your name and where are you from?

W1:              I’m Alexis and I’m from London.

W2:              I’m Jane and I’m from Adelaide in South Australia.

M1:              Michael Berlin.

W3:              Oretta.

M2:              Colin Paterson from Edinburgh.

M3:              My name’s Alex and I’m from London.

W4:              My name is Isolde.

W5:              My name’s Kate.

M4:              My name is Richard Watson.

M5:              My name’s Alexis.

W6:              Camilla Pennant.

W7:              My name is Cheng Pei Ling.

M6:              My name’s Aaron Bicknell.

W8:              Alessandra Ambrosio.

M7:              My name’s Josef.

M8:              I’m Ivan. This is Francesca. We come from Italy. We are on our honeymoon.

W5:              I am from North London. Highbury.

W7:              I’m from Taiwan.

M1:              Los Angeles, California.

F1:              We are from Berlin, Germany.

M6:              I’m from Sydney in Australia.

W4:              I’m originally from County Wexford in Ireland.

M7:              I’m originally from Estonia.

W8:              I’m from a city called Naples in the south of Italy.

H:              What do you like about it?

W8:              The sea, the sun and the people.

M1:              I like the openness of the United States. I like the fact that everyone comes from somewhere else - that it’s a nation of immigrants.

M7:              I like the culture and the people in Estonia and …  I like the summer days when the days are long and bright for many hours.

F1:              It’s quite different to London, but it is also a multicultural community.

M6:              If you live in Sydney, you can go skiing in the winter, whereas in the summer you’ve got the beach. I live only 20 minutes from the beach.

W4:              It’s quite quiet. It’s quite serene. It’s very picturesque.

W5:              There’s lots of nice shops. There’s bars and restaurants and there’s a nice park.

M4:              There’s lots of shops. It’s easy to get around there – there’s lots of transport.

H:              What don’t you like about it?

M1:              I don’t like the gun culture. I don’t like the dominance of big corporations.

F1:              I don’t like the noise.

M6:              It doesn’t really have the transport system that you guys have.

W8:              Crime and rubbish.

M4:              The weather’s quite bad.

W4:              It’s too quiet. You get winters where for 5 or 6 months it’s just dark and cold all day and that’s something that I don’t like.