Upper Intermediate Unit 8 Audio Script
UNIT 8 Recording 1
1 I would have done the same.
2 I might have behaved differently.
3 I wouldn’t have been so brave.
4 I couldn’t have done what he did.
UNIT 8 Recording 2
I = Interviewer S1 = Speaker 1 S2 = Speaker 2 S3 = Speaker 3
S4 = Speaker 4 S5 = Speaker 5 S6 = Speaker 6 S7 = Speaker 7
S8 = Speaker 8
I: Now I’ve always thought it has to do with what time of day you’re born. I arrived at ten o’clock at night and consequently I’m an owl – coming to life late in the evening and capable of dancing till dawn – which is a pity really because this job requires that I am a lark, getting up every morning at 5.30. Well, which are you and why?
S1: I am up usually between five and half past most mornings. I’m bright and breezy, I sing in the morning. I’m wide awake. I love watching the sunrise. Whenever we go on holiday, my husband thinks I’m mad because quite often I get up with a camera and I’m out there at half past four, five o’clock in the morning watching the sunrise and taking photographs. And I just love it, it is just so peaceful and so beautiful. It’s a lovely part of the day.
S2: Definitely not a morning person. Evening, without a doubt. I despise getting up with a passion. There is a real, real sense of dread, and, oh no, and there’s sort of lots of denial about no, it didn’t really go off. And I sort of set it again for five minutes later, then set it again for another five minutes later, and I stay there until the absolute last second.
S3: If I’m groggily out at nine or ten in the morning, I do look at other people walking their dogs, or walking along with a bounce in their step and I just think, ‘Where does it come from? How can you do that? Should I just eat more vegetables or more fruit or should I get up earlier to be more awake?’ None of it works.
S4: My father and my mother are very much sort of early birds, so when I was a teenager I’d sleep in and have comments all the time like, ‘You’re sleeping your life away, you’ve wasted the best part of the day’, and it’s taken me until very very recently actually to be able to stop the guilt at getting up late ...
S5: Going to bed earlier seems like you’re planning ahead and thinking about the next day, so it seems oriented around whatever work you have to do the next day. It’s just quite a nice feeling being awake and nobody else is there. You just feel like you’re the one in charge or something, you know what’s going on.
S6: Late evening is best for me to be focusing rather than partying. That’s when I’m really thinking straight. Everyone’s going to sleep at home here when I’m really mentally becoming most awake. That’s when I really feel at my sharpest
S7: At the end of the day, nine o’clock, ten o’clock, I’m exhausted, and so I want to go to bed. Anybody mentions ‘party’ to me and I cringe.
S8: David and I always joked before we had children that it would be great because he would be great in the mornings and I would be great in the evenings, and to a certain extent that’s true, but finding time in the middle just to talk to one another is trickier. I: What are you, lark or owl? And what are the effects? Do let us know on the message board on the website.
UNIT 8 Recording 3
1 I don’t want to have to tell you again.
2 I hate having to get up in winter.
3 I don’t seem to be able to start the computer.
4 I enjoy being able to watch the sunrise.
UNIT 8 Recording 4
S1 = Speaker 1 S2 = Speaker 2 S3 = Speaker 3 S4 = Speaker 4
S5 = Speaker 5 S6 = Speaker 6
S1: I do prefer to keep to deadlines and if I don’t I tend to get a bit stressed out, I don’t like to disappoint people and I like to feel as though I’m quite organised. I don’t mind working late sometimes if it’s to get something finished, and I feel much more satisfied getting something completed at the end of the day and I’m more likely to go home and relax. But, otherwise, I’ll end up going home and just thinking about everything that I’ve got to do the next day, so that stresses me out more.
S2: I think it’s really important for transport, public transport to be punctual when you’re working, and that, that’s – that’s just normal but I think when I’m on holiday I’m a bit more relaxed about whether trains or buses are a little bit late, obviously you don’t want to waste a whole day waiting for your transport when you want to get from A to B and you want to make the most of your holiday but, yeah, I think I’m definitely more relaxed when I’m abroad than when I’m in my own country…
S3: Yeah I was, taught from an early age that time keeping’s really important. Because of that I find it quite annoying when other people don’t have that same sort of line of thought. An example I can give is my friends at university, they were always late. It makes me feel incredibly frustrated because, obviously, you’re there on time waiting and it can be quite lonely at times.
S4: I generally don’t have a problem at all with people turning up late because it gives me time ‘cos I’m generally running late anyway so, it gives me plenty more time to get myself ready. If we’re preparing for a dinner party, and people turn up late it really doesn’t worry me at all. It gives me plenty more time to get ready …
S5: If I’m holding a dinner party and people come late then usually I’m quite annoyed because I’m quite organised and so the food will probably be ready, and so I’ll be a little bit cross that perhaps the dinner will be ruined.
S6: Deadlines are important but I try not to let them stress me out too much, I just try to forget about the pressure and get the work done. As for working late, I don’t mind working late, we all have to do it from time to time.
UNIT 8 Recording 5
J = Jim L = Liz
J: Here’s your coffee.
L: Thanks, Jim. Oh, I needed that.
J: No problem. Hey, Liz, there’s something I’ve been meaning to talk to
you about.
L: Oh yeah?
J: It’s just that ...well ... you know you borrowed some money from me last week?
L: Oh, right. It was ten euros, wasn’t it? I don’t actually have that on me at the moment.
J: It’s not that, it’s ... well ... I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but, um
L: Right.
J: … it’s just that this isn’t the first time I’ve lent you money and er, well you haven’t paid it back. I mean, I know it’s not a lot, just small amounts each time but it kind of adds up quite quickly ... I dunno. Do you know what I mean?
L: Yeah. Sorry. I didn’t realise. I know I’m terrible with money. I just forget. Look, I promise I’ll give it back, but could you wait a week? Until I get paid.
J: Well, actually, you’ve said that once before. I don’t want you to get the wrong idea, but ... it, you know, never happened. And it makes things slightly awkward. It makes me feel just a bit annoyed. Do you see where I’m coming from?
L: Oh. Yeah. I suppose so.
J: Look, I’ve got a suggestion. I’d feel better if we could work out how much is owed and then you could pay me back a little each week, you know, however much you can afford. How does that sound?
L: Yeah, yeah. That sounds reasonable.
J: Okay, great so ...
UNIT 8 Recording 6
1 There’s something I’ve been meaning to talk to you about.
2 I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but …
3 I don’t want you to get the wrong idea, but ...
UNIT 8 Recording 7
1 It’s not that, it’s ... well ... I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but um it’s just that this isn’t the first time I’ve lent you money and er well you haven’t paid it back. I mean, I know it’s not a lot, just small amounts each time but it kind of adds up quite quickly ... I dunno. Do you know what I mean?
2 Well, actually, you’ve said that once before. I don’t want you to get the wrong idea, but ... it, you know, never happened. And it makes things slightly awkward. It makes me feel just a bit annoyed. Do you see where I’m coming from?
UNIT 8 Recording 8
W = Woman M = Man
W: So what about you, do you have any family rituals or traditions?
M: We have a, we have a family ritual for the children’s birthdays, and, that – this involves coming down for breakfast, um, before the children come down, we lay a paper, table cloth, and we write in little coloured sweets we write their name and it says if it was Will for instance it would say ‘Will is twelve’.
W: Ah lovely.
M: And then the, all the extra little coloured sweets they get put into a bowl so that they’re allowed this treat of having sweets for breakfast which is very unusual. And then all their presents are laid out on the table in front of them, and then, and they come downstairs and you say right it’s ready for you to come downstairs now and as they come in we sing Happy Birthday to them, and there are all their presents and it says ‘Will is Twelve’, and then the other child, there’s four years’ difference between them, always has to have an un-birthday present, just ‘cos otherwise they get upset that one of them’s getting more –
W: Ah
M: – more presents than all the other ones. And, we take a photograph of that and I’ve now got a collection of all these photographs, which go ‘Will is One’, ‘Will is Two’, ‘Will is Three’, ‘Will is Four’ so there’s this sort of continuity that goes all the way through –
W: That’s lovely.
M: And he’s twenty five now, so we’re starting to wonder at what point do we stop doing this.
W: Do they do the same for you and your wife?
M: No not really no it’s, – we don’t because we’re a bit too old for it.
W: For the coloured sweets.
M: Yes, and it was just something that we invented for the children, it’s not a family tradition it hasn’t come down from either of us we just invented it for the first child when they were one and it’s just carried on like that, but we, of course we can’t stop it now, you know he’s aged twenty six – when he’s thirty we’ll go ‘Will is Thirty’.
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