What not to Wear: Black and White Page 7.
Script.
Stacy: Here we are in Linn Bryant on 34th St in NYC. Black and White, huge trend this season.
Clinton: But to make interesting, play with patterns like pin-stripes or texture like crochet.
Stacy: And remember, adding a little bit of white to your black makes it much more appropriate today and much less harsh for your skin tone.
Clinton: Another big trend for Spring and Summer is embroidered…it’s really a fun way to add some visual interest to an outfit.
Stacy: But if you’re going to do it on one piece like a skirt, make sure your top is relatively simple, do a little bit of visual interest like embellishment at the neck and go for a really flattering color for your skin tone.
Clinton: When it comes to accessories this season, natural is really in…you’ll see a lot of shell embellishments raffia and crochet.
Stacy: But be careful about taking the beads to the office. A lot of these work much better with more casual looks for weekend or a casual evening out, not so good for work.
VOA Flip Flops Page 8.
Script.
Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. I’m Theive Lapidus. On our show this week, report about a popular kind of footwear. Flip flop shoes have become very popular in the US mostly among young people. Steve Endberg tells us about them. Flip Flops have a flat sole and a v-shaped strap. The strap goes between the wearer’s big toe and second toe and around either side of the foot. The name flip flop comes from the noise the shoes make while slapping against the bottom of the wearer’s foot and the ground when he or she walks. Listen to see if you recognize the sound. People in other countries have worn flip flops for many years. Today, flip flops are often made of rubber. They are popular in developing countries because of their low cost. Some flip flops only cost a dollar. They’ve recently have become very popular in the US. Many people have worn flip flops at the beach or around the house during the summer. But now you can see young women wearing flip flops just about everywhere. Some people wear simple ones made of rubber. But others wear flip flops made of leather, cloth or plastic with jewels and other materials added. Some special flip flops even cost a lot of money. Most people find flip flops pleasant to wear especially this summer when it is been very hot around the country. Some young women wear their flip flops to work instead of painful high heels. But other people think that flip flops should be worn only at the beach and not at the office. Last summer, flip flops were in the news in Washington DC. Young female athletes from Northwestern University were honored at the White House. The team had just won the National Lacrosse Championship. Several of the young women on the team wore flip flops to the White House celebration. Some people in the media criticized this. Many people thought it was not right to wear such shoes to the White House. While most of the flip flop wearers are young women, some older women wear them too. So do many young men. But other people will not wear them on city streets. They say they do not protect the foot and they do not offer enough support. Some foot doctors agree. They say flip flops have been linked to a growing number among teenagers and young adults.
Baby Toys Page 11.
Script.
OK, let's talk about the little baby. The baby's so cute. (OK, just joking) Anyway, let's talk about things that babies have.
First of all, the pacifier. OK, the pacifier is something to pacify the baby, to keep it quiet. You put the pacifier in its mouth and the baby sucks on the pacifier and it keeps it quiet. Babies like to suck and chew on the pacifier.
OK, next is the crib.The crib is where the baby sleeps. So you put the baby in the crib to sleep and the crib is usually off the ground and it has four walls so the baby cannot fall out. So that's the crib.
OK, next is the rubber ducky. I love the rubber ducky, so the rubber ducky is a little duck (quack quack quack) and you put it in the bathtub and the baby can play with it and squeeze it. It's pretty cool.
OK, next is the nipple. Now the nipple is what the baby sucks on when it gets milk, when it gets food, and the nipple for a bottle is rubber, usually yellow, and you put it on the bottle and that's how the baby drinks its milk.
OK, next stop is the stroller. So the stroller is for when the baby goes outside. So if the mother takes the baby outside, she can put the baby in the stroller and push the baby around when she goes for a walk.
OK, the last one is stuffed animal. So all babies love a stuffed animal and usually it's a little teddy bear or rabbit or something like that so it's a little animal made of cloth and it's very soft and babies like to hold it.
Extra work: Describing People's personalities.
Script.
Joan: Oh, are those pictures of your kids?
Art: Yes. These are my three daughters and these are my two sons.
Joan: Your sons look so alike. Are they similar in personality, too?
Art: It’s funny you ask that. My wife and I are always saying how different they are from one another, even though they’re the closest in age. Sergey, the younger one, is moody and a little timid, while his older brother, Dennis, is talkative and cheerful all the time.
Joan: That’s really interesting. You know, I have an older sister and we’re only a year apart, but we have very different personalities, too. When I was little, I was bad-tempered and I always fought with my brothers and sisters, while my sister was a little angel. She was always patient and generous. I really looked up to her.
Art: It’s hard for me to believe that you were ever bad-tempered. You’re so even-keeled now. Me, on the other hand, I was a selfish and stubborn kid. I’m surprised that my parents put up with me.
Joan: I’m sure you’re exaggerating. All kids are a little selfish and stubborn, I think. Good thing most of us grow out of it as we get older.
Art: Well, that may be true, but according to my wife and kids, I’m still the most stubborn person in the world. They may be right.
Extra work: Colors.
Script.
Rob:Got a question for you.
Rob: Aha?
Bob: What’s your favorite color?
Rob: Mmh, actually…well…mmmh, that’s a good question.
Bob: Not a hard…
Rob: No, it’s not.
Bob: Red, blue?
Rob: In terms of fashion, it’s different from my favorite color, OK? Uh, my favorite color is red
Bob: Oh, OK
Rob: Because I’m left wing…I like the red color.
Bob: Oh, like the communist colors.
Rob: Yeah, red is great.
Bob: OK, Rob, I didn’t mean to get that deep. I just really want to know your favorite color…ok, it’s red.
Rob: But the thing is red doesn’t look good on me, well it does, but I prefer…I don’t wear red clothes.
Bob: Ok, can I say your favorite color is red?
Rob: Sure.
Bob: My favorite color is blue.
Rob: Oh, why’s that?
Bob: I don’t know, I got blue eyes.
Rob: All right. Cool.
Bob: Blue looks good on me. But anyway, I mean, you like red, what kind of red? Crimson, Magenta, Rust, scarlet. There’s a lot of different reds.
Rob: Yeah, yeah.
Bob: You gotta be more specific Rob. So when it comes to blue, I think I like navy blue. That’s my favorite color.
Rob: Yeah, that’s interesting. There are many vocabulary items to describe different shades of color, aren’t they?
Bob: I know, just talking about red, we’ve got crimson.
Rob: Magenta.
Bob: Rust.
Rob: Scarlet.
Bob: Rose.
Rob: Bermillion.
Bob: Amber.
Rob: Orange.
Bob: Yeah, orange, and ‘cause that’s a shade of red in a way. Peach.
Rob: Peach and then it’s yellow.
Bob: Yeah, yellow color like lemon yellow.
Rob: Mm. Golden rod.
Bob: and then if we talk about green you can have lime.
Rob: Jade.
Bob: Olive.
Rob: Musk green.
Bob: emerald.
Rob: cyan.
Bob: turquoise.
Rob: aqua.
Bob: And I think we’re getting into blue now.
Rob: oh and azur.
Bob: baby blue.
Rob: I think this is pronounced cerulean. Or cerulean perhaps.
Bob: Navy blue.
Rob: yeah, your favorite color...and powder blue.
Bob: and getting into the kind of purple spectrum…we got indigo.
Rob: denim.
Bob: zaphire.
Rob: violet.
Bob: purple.
Rob: lavender.
Bob: maroon.
Rob: burgundy.
Bob: and in getting into the pinks, uh, salmon pink.
Rob: and then it’s shocking pink.
Bob: hot pink.
Rob: and then we have the brown color…beige.
Bob: tan.
Rob: khaki.
Bob: khaki? We’ll get to that later. Mahogany.
Rob: burned amber.
Bob: burned sienna.
Rob: Wow, and then there’s the gray shade, we’ve got charcoal.
Bob: silver.
Rob: and then it’s black.
Bob: and then white and within white you’ve got lots of actual shades.
Rob: yeah, for example, ivory.
Bob: cream.
Rob: and we could probably list another hundred…
Extra Work: Describing Fabric Patterns.
Script.
Ruth: Now that we’ve picked out a new couch, we need to pick out an upholstery fabric. What do you think of this checkered one?
Gerry: That’s an eyesore. I prefer something a little more subtle.
Ruth: Subtle? What’s fun about subtle? I want something bold and that’ll make a statement. How about this one with the polka dots?
Gerry: You’ve got to be kidding! That pattern is so busy, if I had to look at that every day, I’d go crazy.
Ruth: All right, what do you think of this one with the stripes?
Gerry: I’m not crazy about it, but it’s not as tacky as the others ones.
Ruth: Okay then, you pick one out.
Gerry: Fine. Let me see…Now this is a sight for sore eyes!
Ruth: But that has no pattern at all! It’s a solid blue color, and a boring shade of blue to boot.
Gerry: That’s right. That’s what I call a classic.
Ruth: And that’s what I call dull!
4/29/2010
4/26/2010
Scripts Lesson 16
Ellen's Animals Page 18.
Transcript.
Ellen: Morning!
Ellen: Hey, Craig!
Ellen: Has anybody seen Shelly?
Ellen: Shelly!
Ellen: Never mind.
Ellen: Hey, Shelly, there you are. Would you mind making a quick Starbucks run for me? Thanks.
Ellen: Hey, how’s everyone doing today?
Ellen: Me too!
Ellen: All right. Here’s what I want to talk about today...working in an office. I don’t think we’ve talked about that in the last few years. Anybody remember?
Ellen: You don’t think so.
Ellen: OK, here’s what made me think about it...What if you’re a neat freak and you’re forced to share an office with someone who’s a pig?
Ellen: You know what I mean Francis? Come on...
Ellen: What? that’s funny. Yes, put that in. Those are the same people that carpool, right? Yes, yes, yes.What Carol, what were you going to say?
Ellen: OK, there’s no need to be sarcastic, Roger.
Ellen: Well, I like a lot of that, it’s very funny, let’s just try to beat that last joke.
Ellen: Hey, how’re you doing?
Ellen: Executives...
Ellen: H4, No, no!
Ellen: Got lunch yet Frank?
Ellen: Will you do me a favor and check that follow spot? It seemed too bright yesterday.
Ellen: Does this side look heavy to you?
Ellen: Do you have a mint?
Ellen: Darryl, do you have a mint?
Ellen: Anybody have a mint?
Ellen: Andy, my man?
Ellen: Not forgetting that 12 dollars you owe me either.
Wilson Pickett song Page 23.
Transcript.
If you need a little lovin'
call on me, alright
And If you want a little huggin'
call on me baby,
Oh I'll be right here at home
All you gotta do is pick up your telephone
and dial now
634-5789 What's my number
634-5789
And if you need a little huggin‘…
call on me,
yes that's all you've got to do now
And if you want some kissing
call on me baby, all right
No more lonely nights, will you be alone
All you gotta do is pick up your telephone
and dial babe
634-5789 That's my number
634-5789
O I'll be right there
Just as soon as I can
And if I'd be a little bit late now
I hope that you'll understand
O yeah
And if you need a little lovin'
call on me oh have mercy
And if you want some kissin'
call on me baby as that's all you've got to do now
No more lonely nights, will you be alone
All you gotta do is pick up your telephone
and dial 634-5789 That's my number
Oh yeah call me on the telephone...
Extra Work: Making a Car Rental Reservation.
Transcript.
I will be in Chicago next week and needed a rental car. I called up Bargain Rental Cars and made a
reservation. After I got through the phone tree, I spoke with a reservation agent.
Agent: Welcome to Bargain Rental Car.
Jeff: I'd like to reserve a rental car.
Agent: What city will you be picking up from?
Jeff: Chicago.
Agent: Which airport location? O'Hare or Midway?
Jeff: Hmm…I'm not sure. Is there a downtown location?
Agent: Sure. We have an office at 401 State St.
Jeff: Is that near Prairie State College?
Agent: I really don't know.
Jeff: That's okay. I'll go ahead and make a reservation for that location.
Agent: For what date and time?
Jeff: For November 11, around 7 p.m.
Agent: Returning to the same location?
Jeff: No. I'd like to drop it off at the Chicago O'Hare airport.
Agent: Okay. On what date and time?
Jeff: It'll be that Sunday, November 13, around the same time.
Agent: What size car would you like? A compact, mid-size, or full-size?
Jeff: I'd like the most economical.
Agent: That would be the compact. The rental fee would be $32.25 a day, giving you a grand total of $62.50 for the two days.
Jeff: Does that include taxes and fees?
Agent: No. With all applicable taxes and fees, you grand total comes to $77.40.
Jeff: Okay, that's fine.
Agent: Your last name?
Jeff: McQuillan. M, C, Q, U, I, L, L, A, N.
Agent: And your first name?
Jeff: Jeff.
Extra work: Mobile Distractions.
Transcript.
Transcript.
Ellen: Morning!
Ellen: Hey, Craig!
Ellen: Has anybody seen Shelly?
Ellen: Shelly!
Ellen: Never mind.
Ellen: Hey, Shelly, there you are. Would you mind making a quick Starbucks run for me? Thanks.
Ellen: Hey, how’s everyone doing today?
Ellen: Me too!
Ellen: All right. Here’s what I want to talk about today...working in an office. I don’t think we’ve talked about that in the last few years. Anybody remember?
Ellen: You don’t think so.
Ellen: OK, here’s what made me think about it...What if you’re a neat freak and you’re forced to share an office with someone who’s a pig?
Ellen: You know what I mean Francis? Come on...
Ellen: What? that’s funny. Yes, put that in. Those are the same people that carpool, right? Yes, yes, yes.What Carol, what were you going to say?
Ellen: OK, there’s no need to be sarcastic, Roger.
Ellen: Well, I like a lot of that, it’s very funny, let’s just try to beat that last joke.
Ellen: Hey, how’re you doing?
Ellen: Executives...
Ellen: H4, No, no!
Ellen: Got lunch yet Frank?
Ellen: Will you do me a favor and check that follow spot? It seemed too bright yesterday.
Ellen: Does this side look heavy to you?
Ellen: Do you have a mint?
Ellen: Darryl, do you have a mint?
Ellen: Anybody have a mint?
Ellen: Andy, my man?
Ellen: Not forgetting that 12 dollars you owe me either.
Wilson Pickett song Page 23.
Transcript.
If you need a little lovin'
call on me, alright
And If you want a little huggin'
call on me baby,
Oh I'll be right here at home
All you gotta do is pick up your telephone
and dial now
634-5789 What's my number
634-5789
And if you need a little huggin‘…
call on me,
yes that's all you've got to do now
And if you want some kissing
call on me baby, all right
No more lonely nights, will you be alone
All you gotta do is pick up your telephone
and dial babe
634-5789 That's my number
634-5789
O I'll be right there
Just as soon as I can
And if I'd be a little bit late now
I hope that you'll understand
O yeah
And if you need a little lovin'
call on me oh have mercy
And if you want some kissin'
call on me baby as that's all you've got to do now
No more lonely nights, will you be alone
All you gotta do is pick up your telephone
and dial 634-5789 That's my number
Oh yeah call me on the telephone...
Extra Work: Making a Car Rental Reservation.
Transcript.
I will be in Chicago next week and needed a rental car. I called up Bargain Rental Cars and made a
reservation. After I got through the phone tree, I spoke with a reservation agent.
Agent: Welcome to Bargain Rental Car.
Jeff: I'd like to reserve a rental car.
Agent: What city will you be picking up from?
Jeff: Chicago.
Agent: Which airport location? O'Hare or Midway?
Jeff: Hmm…I'm not sure. Is there a downtown location?
Agent: Sure. We have an office at 401 State St.
Jeff: Is that near Prairie State College?
Agent: I really don't know.
Jeff: That's okay. I'll go ahead and make a reservation for that location.
Agent: For what date and time?
Jeff: For November 11, around 7 p.m.
Agent: Returning to the same location?
Jeff: No. I'd like to drop it off at the Chicago O'Hare airport.
Agent: Okay. On what date and time?
Jeff: It'll be that Sunday, November 13, around the same time.
Agent: What size car would you like? A compact, mid-size, or full-size?
Jeff: I'd like the most economical.
Agent: That would be the compact. The rental fee would be $32.25 a day, giving you a grand total of $62.50 for the two days.
Jeff: Does that include taxes and fees?
Agent: No. With all applicable taxes and fees, you grand total comes to $77.40.
Jeff: Okay, that's fine.
Agent: Your last name?
Jeff: McQuillan. M, C, Q, U, I, L, L, A, N.
Agent: And your first name?
Jeff: Jeff.
Extra work: Mobile Distractions.
Transcript.
Mom said it over and over when you were a kid “look both ways before crossing the street”. Today she’d also tell you “put away your cellphone”. It is not just drivers who get distracted. More and more pedestrians are tripping over curbs, walking into telephone poles or stepping in front of oncoming cars because they were busy talking or texting and not paying attention. An Ohio State University study found a number of walkers who ended up in the ER because they were distracted by cellphones cuadrupled in just two years. Teenagers seem to have the most trouble, a quarter of those patients were between the ages of 16 and 20. Other researchers found people on phone walk more slowly taking 25 percent longer to cross the street. Multitasking and on-the-go is the new “walking and chewing gum” but just like drivers, walkers need to keep both eyes on the road or the sidewalk. You can text that message when you’re standing still. That’s a page from my notebook. I’m Katie Couric CBS News.
Books for Kids About Jane Goodall.
Transcript.
Extra Work: Air Travel: Checking in to a Flight.
Audio Index:
Slow dialog: 1:50
Explanations: 4:05
Agent: Next please. Hello! Can I help you? What’s your destination today?
Robert: Hi, I ´m heading to London but I have a connecting flight in Chicago.
Agent: Ok, …and could I have your flight reservation and passport please?
Robert: Certainly. Here you are. I´ve just got one bag to check and I wasn´t sure what the baggage allowance is on international flights, I might be over the limit.
Agent: The allowance is 20 k. If you can just place your suitcase up here on the scale we can find out. Now… did you pack your own bags today? And have they been in your possession at all times?
Robert: Yes, I´ve packed them myself and yes I had them with me all the time.
Agent: Okay, 19.2 k, no problem. Let me tag that and … do you have a seating preference: window or aisle?
Robert: I prefer an aisle seat near the front of the plane if possible so I can get off fairly quickly. And if there is something behind the bulk head with extra leg room, that´ll be great!
Agent: Let me see what can I do. I can put you in the 11C that´s an aisle seat in an emergency exit row, so you´ll have a bit more leg room.
Robert: Great!
Agent: And… I see you have a carry-on item there, please make sure you don´t have any of the prohibited items on this list. Ok, you´ll be departing at 10:30 from gate B4 and you should be at the gate at least half an hour before departure. Here is your boarding pass.
Robert: Sounds great, that´s gate B4, half an hour before departure. So, should I get through security now or do I have time to do a little bit of looking around?
Agent: There is lots to see and do at the departure areas. I´d suggest making your way through security now. It´s backed up with the increased alert level and the new body scan systems, just up the escalators there and to your left.
Robert: Sounds like fun, thanks very much.
Agent: You´re welcome, have a nice flight!
Extra work: Las Vegas's Changing Landscape Video.
Transcript.
For the longest time those of us who have moved to the west have had the pioneered experience of moving in, putting out vast amounts of turf, trying to recreate Kentucky and Tennesse and things that fly on the east coast. And that’s not going to work anymore.
Over the last decade Las Vegas has been one of the country’s fastest growing cities. But despite misleading appearances, the city is facing a water shortage that some are calling the worst in the region’s history. And officials are struggling to find ways to get people to conserve this rapidly dwindling resource.
Surprisingly, it’s not the casinos who are the biggest users of water.
Watering your lawn alone is probably around 60% of our water use. So for us the time has come and this community is embracing it to change the way we landscape around our homes and our businesses and how we very thoughtfully use grass in areas where we need it.
Xeriscaping is trying to not necessarily come up with a landscape that is a couple of rocks and a cactus, but it’s designing with the idea in mind that we’re trying to use less water but have the same amount of impact as some of the more traditional landscapes. There’s ways to get shade, and there’s ways to have lush looking garden and take half or even a third of the water these other landscapes will take. I’d say about 75 to 80% of my landscapes are a lot more water savvy than what they used to be.
We first went after new development and said you can no longer put grass in the front yard, you can only have 50% of the backyard be grass landscape. In order however to allow our existing residents to make the conversion, we began to pay our customers a dollar per square foot to take grass out, we cut everybody for whom a dollar per square foot were penciled out. We have now set a rife. For the first 15 hundred square feet we will pay 2 dollars per square foot, around 25,000 people have taken us up on the offer, and we have spent over 80 million dollars taking turf out in Southern Nevada. We’re saving what, over a 25 billion gallons a year in water now as a result of it. We’ve added some other colors this year, we’re putting some more land tan as we’ve soft that didn’t survive the cold.
I’m Tom Portale, my wife Pat Portale. We live in Las Vegas in Topaz Rich, and when we first moved in we had almost three thousand foot of grass out in the front. And our first water bill came in it was about 165 dollars just to water the grass. With that we decided the grass had to go.
We’re looking to save, have to save water. Here in the desert, it’s on my mind all the time.
As part of their campaign the water authority has also produced a series of humorous commercials to get people to turn o their water clocks to conserve water.
Can I help you?
To find your watering schedule, go to changeyourclock.com
We don’t have to have cactus to be you know, draught tolerant or drought savvy, a lot of the grasses, a lot of different plants, you don’t need to agaves or cactus just to have a water thrifty landscape. There’s a lot of other options out there.
If you live in the desert like me you’ve got to be a hundred feet plus. We’re at two thirds of what the lake used to be, and we don’t know if we’re going to get the rain in the next 5, 10 years to actually fill it up back again. I think that honestly it needs to hit people where it hurts,
So this is the financials to the project, you’ll see things like an elementary school and parks. Vegas in 2000 was the foster child for how not to develop a city in the desert. In the ways we’ve developed towards water usage in particular, is that we’ve completely changed the way we landscape our projects. For instance, we’ve completely eliminated turf use, except in usable areas or parks for instance ball parks and things like that. And then, instead of using subtropical plants, use the plants that thriven the desert on minimal water.
The holdouts are going to come slowly but shortly the holdouts will be continuing to pay more and more and more for the luxury of having that grass. The culture change we’re embarking on is the same culture change that has to happen in Arizona, in California, and in all the western states. We’re just leading the way because we’re a little more on the edge that they are. You’re going to see a very different west in the next 50 years. One where people who are moving to the west understand what it means to live in the desert. They find the desert beautiful, they have come to appreciate the landscaping, they love the climate, you wouldn’t move to Alaska if you don’t like the cold. Or don’t move to the desert if you don’t enjoy the landscaping that flourishes here naturally.
Books for Kids About Jane Goodall.
Transcript.
PM = Patrick McDonnell
JW = Jeannette Winter.
PP = Pamela Paul
PM: Jane had a stuffed toy chimpanzee named Jubilee.
JW: Jane, Jane, where are you?
PM: She held Jubilee and took her everywhere she
went.
JW: Everyone had been searching for hours and
hours looking for little Valerie Jane Goodall.
JW: Jane Goodall to me is almost like a religious
figure. The peace that she seems to carry with her. That calmness.
PM: She's got the mind of a scientist but the
heart of a poet.
JG: Looking directly into my eyes he very gently
squeezed my fingers which is how
chimpanzees reassure each other.
PP: This is NY times children's book editor
Pamela Paul. It's a fortuitous coincidence for young children that this spring
there are two new picture books about Jane Goodall, the world's leading
authority on chimpanzees and tireless advocate
for protecting their disappearing habitat. I spoke with the authors of both
books and with Goodall who collaborated with author and illustrator Patrick
McDonnell on "Me Jane".
JG: Well, the message I always try to get across
which was what Patrick picked up on in the book is that, you know, if you have
a dream as a child, you should follow that dream even if people laugh at you as
they laughed at me for my dream.
PM: Her life really shows how one person can
change the world and started at such an early age, it was really like
predestined.
PP: “Me Jane” begins with a young Goodall
receiving a stuffed chimp named jubilee as a gift. the story highlights the
quality she possessed as a little girl that would come to define her career as
a scientist. Patience, inquisitiveness
and a love for the outdoors.
JG: From a very young age, I just knew I wanted
to do something with animals, I just didn't know what. I was watching them and
writing about them, making up stories about them
PP: “Me Jane” even contains detailed drawings
and diagrams that Goodall herself made as a child. In contrast to “Me Jane”, “The
watcher”, Jane Goodall's life with the chimps follows her life trajectory, from
her native England to Kombe Park in Tanzania, Africa, where she patiently gained
the trust of the chimpanzee there and discovered that they used tools, and
kissed, and behaved more like humans than anyone had realized. Just design wise
the pictures at home are very small and confined and when she finally reaches
Gombe, I used full, you know, double page spreads and so it just expands out. I
was, you know, trying to show that she was fine that she was where she wanted
to be and he could let her passion flower.
PM: I was just so taken by the little dynamo Jane
as a young girl, you know, in particular the story of her going into the chicken coop.
PP: Both authors included the story of a 4 year
old Goodall hiding out in the chicken coop for hours. She wanted to figure out
how something as big and hard as an egg could come out of the hen.
JG: If you look back on that whole story, isn't
that the making of a little scientist? Curiosity, asking questions, not getting
the right answer, trying to find out for yourself. Not the internet. It didn't
exist back then. So doing it wrong, not giving up and learning patience, the
whole thing.
PP: And the books that you
read were also influential.
JG: Dr. Dolittle was the first actually 'cause
you know, he was this wonderful doctor who landed the language of animals and I
wanted to do that. And then I found the books about Tarzan and I was somewhere
between 10 and 11 and of course it was the books, you know? Today kids you know
they get it on TV.
PP: You were outdoors all the time with a lot of
free time exploring, observing. Do you see a big difference now in the way that
children live their lives?
JG: Yes, a huge difference. In the US, in the UK
especially. But you know all the time is organized, and they do off to school,
they do something, they do dancing, they do this kind of sport, they do that,
parents drive them here and there and everywhere. We just off the school, we
were on our own, we had our friends, we went out on the cliffs with my dog and
we were free.
PP: How important was that kind of time spent outdoors,
in the open at the time to becoming a scientist?
JG: I think it was very very important because
always I was watching and making notes, seeing the spiders carrying eggs and
then babies on their backs, watching caterpillars turn into butterflies and you
know, watching a little plant grow, all those things were really important for
me.
PP: One of the other big concerns today, in
addition to children not having the free time to be outdoors and explore is
that girls are not interested in science and then when you look at the number
of women who pursue advance degrees in science, it's still not as high as in
other areas. Why do you think that is?
JG: I think it's because science has come to be
thought of as rather cold, you know like when I first went to Cambridge university
I hadn't been to college, when I began the chimps and I was told that you
shouldn’t be giving chimps names they should have numbers that's more
scientific. And you can’t talk about them having personalities or minds or
feelings, those were unique to us, so you know, a perception that to be a good
scientist you must be cold and objective.
PP: What else do you think parents and educators
and book authors all of us could do to help encourage girls to perceive the
sciences?
JG: You know, to be a good scientist you should
be a human being first and a scientist second, not the other way around.
You know, so that there are certain qualities which I think are particularly
pronounced in women, girls. And that is empathy and intuition and this shouldn’t
be squashed out. It's part of who you are, who we are. It's something that should
be very special and unique. So the lesson is, use your intuition, and from
that, you make it a feeling of understanding that you wouldn't have otherwise.
And from that point you can then test whether your feeling is right.
Extra Work: Air Travel: Checking in to a Flight.
Audio Index:
Slow dialog: 1:50
Explanations: 4:05
Agent: Next please. Hello! Can I help you? What’s your destination today?
Robert: Hi, I ´m heading to London but I have a connecting flight in Chicago.
Agent: Ok, …and could I have your flight reservation and passport please?
Robert: Certainly. Here you are. I´ve just got one bag to check and I wasn´t sure what the baggage allowance is on international flights, I might be over the limit.
Agent: The allowance is 20 k. If you can just place your suitcase up here on the scale we can find out. Now… did you pack your own bags today? And have they been in your possession at all times?
Robert: Yes, I´ve packed them myself and yes I had them with me all the time.
Agent: Okay, 19.2 k, no problem. Let me tag that and … do you have a seating preference: window or aisle?
Robert: I prefer an aisle seat near the front of the plane if possible so I can get off fairly quickly. And if there is something behind the bulk head with extra leg room, that´ll be great!
Agent: Let me see what can I do. I can put you in the 11C that´s an aisle seat in an emergency exit row, so you´ll have a bit more leg room.
Robert: Great!
Agent: And… I see you have a carry-on item there, please make sure you don´t have any of the prohibited items on this list. Ok, you´ll be departing at 10:30 from gate B4 and you should be at the gate at least half an hour before departure. Here is your boarding pass.
Robert: Sounds great, that´s gate B4, half an hour before departure. So, should I get through security now or do I have time to do a little bit of looking around?
Agent: There is lots to see and do at the departure areas. I´d suggest making your way through security now. It´s backed up with the increased alert level and the new body scan systems, just up the escalators there and to your left.
Robert: Sounds like fun, thanks very much.
Agent: You´re welcome, have a nice flight!
Extra work: Las Vegas's Changing Landscape Video.
Transcript.
For the longest time those of us who have moved to the west have had the pioneered experience of moving in, putting out vast amounts of turf, trying to recreate Kentucky and Tennesse and things that fly on the east coast. And that’s not going to work anymore.
Over the last decade Las Vegas has been one of the country’s fastest growing cities. But despite misleading appearances, the city is facing a water shortage that some are calling the worst in the region’s history. And officials are struggling to find ways to get people to conserve this rapidly dwindling resource.
Surprisingly, it’s not the casinos who are the biggest users of water.
Watering your lawn alone is probably around 60% of our water use. So for us the time has come and this community is embracing it to change the way we landscape around our homes and our businesses and how we very thoughtfully use grass in areas where we need it.
Xeriscaping is trying to not necessarily come up with a landscape that is a couple of rocks and a cactus, but it’s designing with the idea in mind that we’re trying to use less water but have the same amount of impact as some of the more traditional landscapes. There’s ways to get shade, and there’s ways to have lush looking garden and take half or even a third of the water these other landscapes will take. I’d say about 75 to 80% of my landscapes are a lot more water savvy than what they used to be.
We first went after new development and said you can no longer put grass in the front yard, you can only have 50% of the backyard be grass landscape. In order however to allow our existing residents to make the conversion, we began to pay our customers a dollar per square foot to take grass out, we cut everybody for whom a dollar per square foot were penciled out. We have now set a rife. For the first 15 hundred square feet we will pay 2 dollars per square foot, around 25,000 people have taken us up on the offer, and we have spent over 80 million dollars taking turf out in Southern Nevada. We’re saving what, over a 25 billion gallons a year in water now as a result of it. We’ve added some other colors this year, we’re putting some more land tan as we’ve soft that didn’t survive the cold.
I’m Tom Portale, my wife Pat Portale. We live in Las Vegas in Topaz Rich, and when we first moved in we had almost three thousand foot of grass out in the front. And our first water bill came in it was about 165 dollars just to water the grass. With that we decided the grass had to go.
We’re looking to save, have to save water. Here in the desert, it’s on my mind all the time.
As part of their campaign the water authority has also produced a series of humorous commercials to get people to turn o their water clocks to conserve water.
Can I help you?
To find your watering schedule, go to changeyourclock.com
We don’t have to have cactus to be you know, draught tolerant or drought savvy, a lot of the grasses, a lot of different plants, you don’t need to agaves or cactus just to have a water thrifty landscape. There’s a lot of other options out there.
If you live in the desert like me you’ve got to be a hundred feet plus. We’re at two thirds of what the lake used to be, and we don’t know if we’re going to get the rain in the next 5, 10 years to actually fill it up back again. I think that honestly it needs to hit people where it hurts,
So this is the financials to the project, you’ll see things like an elementary school and parks. Vegas in 2000 was the foster child for how not to develop a city in the desert. In the ways we’ve developed towards water usage in particular, is that we’ve completely changed the way we landscape our projects. For instance, we’ve completely eliminated turf use, except in usable areas or parks for instance ball parks and things like that. And then, instead of using subtropical plants, use the plants that thriven the desert on minimal water.
The holdouts are going to come slowly but shortly the holdouts will be continuing to pay more and more and more for the luxury of having that grass. The culture change we’re embarking on is the same culture change that has to happen in Arizona, in California, and in all the western states. We’re just leading the way because we’re a little more on the edge that they are. You’re going to see a very different west in the next 50 years. One where people who are moving to the west understand what it means to live in the desert. They find the desert beautiful, they have come to appreciate the landscaping, they love the climate, you wouldn’t move to Alaska if you don’t like the cold. Or don’t move to the desert if you don’t enjoy the landscaping that flourishes here naturally.
4/24/2010
Scripts Lesson 15
Sharing an Apartment Page 4.
Script.
I’ve shared a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment with my roommate for two years. He was moving to Austin and I posted a “roommate wanted” ad in the local newspaper. I got a few calls, a couple from some very weird people. Finally, I got a call from Andrew. He seemed normal on the phone and we agreed he would stop by today to see the apartment.
When he got there, I showed him around. The apartment has a pretty large living room with a large couch and TV. It doesn’t have a dining room, but it does have an eat-in kitchen. My room is the master bedroom with a connecting bathroom. My roommate’s room was the guest room with the bathroom in the hall.
I told Andrew that he could to use any of the furniture that my roommate was leaving behind. He was taking his bed and dresser, but he planned to leave his desk in the bedroom. I also told him that he could use any of the appliances—the refrigerator, microwave, and coffee maker.
Andrew said he liked the place and we agreed on the rent and to split the utilities. It was settled. He would move in next month. What a relief I didn’t have to talk to any more weird people!
How to Sell your Home Page 7.
Script.
Hello, I’m Bob Brown, this is 20/20 in touch. You’re anxious to buy a home, you’re trying to sell the one you have, but what’s the best way to do it in this difficult market? Coming up Friday 20/20 is going to fill you in on the new rules of the real estate game.
Elizabeth: Celine and Warren are in love, engaged to be married and ready to move into this house, their dream house in Northern California.
Warren: Wow, look at this place.
Celine: Nice and bright.
Warren: Yeah, it really is.
Celine: Wow, this is bigger than I thought.
Elizabeth: A five-bedroom home with ample space to combine Celine’s two daughters and Warren’s 3 daughters all under one roof. It’s the perfect place to begin their new life together.
Warren: I’m ready to go.
Celine: amazing.
Elizabeth: But in today’s buyer’s market there’s one obstacle in their way or make that two. Right now Celine and Warren live in separate 3 bedroom homes and until they sell both homes they can’t afford their dream house. And like thousands of other house sellers across the country today C & W are having no luck.
Celine: I had one visitor.
Warren: One visitor.
Elizabeth: One visitor? Only 1 prospective buyer? In how much time?
Celine: 65 days.
Warren: Yeah.
Elizabeth: Without a single offer C & W have had to postpone their wedding.
Celine: I just need one buyer, how could it be there’s no buyers? And…(sigh) It’s just so frustrating. So…
Elizabeth: Because you want to move on with your life.
Warren: We never thought that the Real Estate market, that that was what would hold us back.
Kirsten: Every house sells. There’s always buyers, there’s always sellers...
Elizabeth: Kirsten Kemp, a realtor is a host at the Learning Channel show “Property Ladder” and author of “Flipping confidential”. She says even in today’s tough market you can make a sale.
Kirsten: There’s a lot of buyers out there willing to buy because they’ve been waiting on the sideline for this very moment.
Elizabeth: But in general, isn’t the buyer holding all the cards right now. There’s a lot of inventory out there and a lot of buyers out there have been extremely picky waiting for prices to drop rock bottom in some cases.
Kirsten: Sellers need to have a reality check and say what is fair? What is the market going to bear? You want to be the guy that’s priced a little bit below anything else that’s your competition so that you snag up that bar. Can’t just throw a for sale sign now and get it sold, it’s nt going to happen in this market.
Celine: This is nice.
Elizabeth: Well, Celine has already done a good job staging her house.Warren has just started preparing his home for sale and hi knows he has a lot of work to do.
Kirsten: Well, we’re going to have to clean that up.
Warren: Absolutely.
Elizabeth: Kirsten says C & W also need to lower their asking prices, both of them in hope to get a half a million dollars for each of their homes to pay for the new family dream home. Celine has already lowered her price three times, so this is a tough pill to swallow.
Warren: The hard part is trying to overcome the idea that the house is worth so much more a year ago than what is woth now.
Kirsten: It’s not about what you could’ve gotten, it’s about what you can get right now.
Warren: Right.
Blockbuster commercial Page 11.
Script.
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Extra Work: Dogs Make Great Exercise Partners.
Script.
Anchor: You know, our fitness experts tell us some people are more likely to stick to their exercise plan if they work out with a partner, but Susan is here and the partner doesn’t have to be a person.
Susan: It doesn’t have to be a human being at all. A lot of folks walk out with their dogs. As you don’t need to stick to your healthy life plan without having a schedule in your exercise around someone else’s schedule, but if your partner’s a dog, their time is your time.
Lou: Well, Tucker, hold on Tucker.
Susan: When Lou Cardenas wants to go for a jog, he’s always got a willing partner, his Jack Russell Terrier Tucker.
Lou: Dog is man’s best friend but to me, he’s also man’s best training partner. And he’s always willing to go, he’s got a ton of energy, they’re always reliable, and he keeps me at a great pace.
Susan: And the exercise isn’t just good for Lou, it’s helping to keep Tucker healthy as well. It seems dogs are fighting the same battle of the bulge as humans. One estimate is that 40% of all pet dogs are overweight or obese.
Dr. Weitzman: Dogs really need exercise, dogs right now are… have as many problems with obesity as humans do. And we all can use more exercise and definitely our canine companions need it as much as we do.
Susan: But, Dr Weitzman says he doesn’t think we can’t love our dogs too much, we can feed them too much and feed them the wrong foods.
Dr. Weitzman: Certainly they need exercise to take care of those extra milk bones and extra table scraps and a lot of Chinese food and things like that.
Susan: And if your dog is obese Dr. Weitzman says don’t do too much too soon.
Dr. Weitzman: Start solely as if you were doing an exercise routine for yourself, just ease into it, see how comfortable they are with it, how much it affects after the exercise is over.
Susan: “Fitness Unleashed” is one of many books about dogs and humans getting healthy together. It says dogs elevate exercise from drudgery to joyful routine and Lou agrees.
Lou: I really don’t enjoy much going to the gym very much, so…and I don’t like running indoors on treadmills so to me this is the best thing, being in the outdoors, running through the park, and being outside, it’s wonderful.
Susan: Dr. Weitzman says some dogs are too old or aren’t physically suited for running, you should check with your veterinarian first. And while it won’t be long before it's cold and a lot of folks move their exercise indoors, remember the weather shouldn’t be an excuse for you or your dog not to exercise.
Extra Work: Having an Open House.
Script.
Kyoko: We’re not supposed to be here. I think we should leave and let our real estate agent hold the open house without us looking over her shoulder.
Ernie: We’re not looking over her shoulder. I just want to sit in this car to see how many people go in and out.
Kyoko: You know, there’ll be a lot of lookie-loos. And plus, there’ll be a sign-in sheet, so we’ll be able to see afterwards how many people stopped in.
Ernie: Hey, someone’s coming in now.
Kyoko: That’s the stager. She’s making some last-minute changes.
Ernie: She really doesn’t need to do anything else. We did everything our agent told us to do. We made cosmetic repairs, painted, and de-cluttered. What more could they ask for?
Kyoko: She’s just doing some minor landscaping, putting some plants along the front path and around the front door. Let’s get out of here before people start showing up. I don’t want to seem like I’m spying on my own house.
Ernie: What does it matter? Hand me the fact sheet for our house. I want to read it through again to make sure the agent didn’t miss anything. Okay, the square footage on the house and the lot are correct, she noted that our addition is permitted, and she mentioned the upgrades – good. Where are you going?
Kyoko: I’m not going to sit in this car for the next four hours. Let’s go to visit our neighbors’ open houses.
Ernie: Good idea. We’ll see what our competition is and maybe we can steal some of their open house ideas!
Extra Work: Places to Live.
Script:
Finding a new place to live isn’t always easy. I have been living in the same apartment for nine years and I thought it was time for a change. I have always wanted to buy a condo or a townhouse, but I didn’t have the money for a down payment. But now, I have a little money saved up and I want to buy a place of my own.
I didn’t want to go through a real estate agent yet so I started looking around the city on my own. I wasn’t sure if I wanted a townhouse or a single-family home. I didn’t want to live in a multi-story building anymore, not even if I had a penthouse unit. It was too noisy and I wanted a backyard for my dog, Shiloh.
I looked at a duplex as well as some traditional houses. One of the last houses I saw was a two-bedroom, one-bath bungalow. It was small enough for one person, but big enough for me and my dog. When Shiloh saw the backyard, I think it was love at first sight. I’d like to say that I picked the house, but really, it was Shiloh’s choice. I don’t think he would ever forgive me if I didn’t buy that house.
Script.
I’ve shared a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment with my roommate for two years. He was moving to Austin and I posted a “roommate wanted” ad in the local newspaper. I got a few calls, a couple from some very weird people. Finally, I got a call from Andrew. He seemed normal on the phone and we agreed he would stop by today to see the apartment.
When he got there, I showed him around. The apartment has a pretty large living room with a large couch and TV. It doesn’t have a dining room, but it does have an eat-in kitchen. My room is the master bedroom with a connecting bathroom. My roommate’s room was the guest room with the bathroom in the hall.
I told Andrew that he could to use any of the furniture that my roommate was leaving behind. He was taking his bed and dresser, but he planned to leave his desk in the bedroom. I also told him that he could use any of the appliances—the refrigerator, microwave, and coffee maker.
Andrew said he liked the place and we agreed on the rent and to split the utilities. It was settled. He would move in next month. What a relief I didn’t have to talk to any more weird people!
How to Sell your Home Page 7.
Script.
Hello, I’m Bob Brown, this is 20/20 in touch. You’re anxious to buy a home, you’re trying to sell the one you have, but what’s the best way to do it in this difficult market? Coming up Friday 20/20 is going to fill you in on the new rules of the real estate game.
Elizabeth: Celine and Warren are in love, engaged to be married and ready to move into this house, their dream house in Northern California.
Warren: Wow, look at this place.
Celine: Nice and bright.
Warren: Yeah, it really is.
Celine: Wow, this is bigger than I thought.
Elizabeth: A five-bedroom home with ample space to combine Celine’s two daughters and Warren’s 3 daughters all under one roof. It’s the perfect place to begin their new life together.
Warren: I’m ready to go.
Celine: amazing.
Elizabeth: But in today’s buyer’s market there’s one obstacle in their way or make that two. Right now Celine and Warren live in separate 3 bedroom homes and until they sell both homes they can’t afford their dream house. And like thousands of other house sellers across the country today C & W are having no luck.
Celine: I had one visitor.
Warren: One visitor.
Elizabeth: One visitor? Only 1 prospective buyer? In how much time?
Celine: 65 days.
Warren: Yeah.
Elizabeth: Without a single offer C & W have had to postpone their wedding.
Celine: I just need one buyer, how could it be there’s no buyers? And…(sigh) It’s just so frustrating. So…
Elizabeth: Because you want to move on with your life.
Warren: We never thought that the Real Estate market, that that was what would hold us back.
Kirsten: Every house sells. There’s always buyers, there’s always sellers...
Elizabeth: Kirsten Kemp, a realtor is a host at the Learning Channel show “Property Ladder” and author of “Flipping confidential”. She says even in today’s tough market you can make a sale.
Kirsten: There’s a lot of buyers out there willing to buy because they’ve been waiting on the sideline for this very moment.
Elizabeth: But in general, isn’t the buyer holding all the cards right now. There’s a lot of inventory out there and a lot of buyers out there have been extremely picky waiting for prices to drop rock bottom in some cases.
Kirsten: Sellers need to have a reality check and say what is fair? What is the market going to bear? You want to be the guy that’s priced a little bit below anything else that’s your competition so that you snag up that bar. Can’t just throw a for sale sign now and get it sold, it’s nt going to happen in this market.
Celine: This is nice.
Elizabeth: Well, Celine has already done a good job staging her house.Warren has just started preparing his home for sale and hi knows he has a lot of work to do.
Kirsten: Well, we’re going to have to clean that up.
Warren: Absolutely.
Elizabeth: Kirsten says C & W also need to lower their asking prices, both of them in hope to get a half a million dollars for each of their homes to pay for the new family dream home. Celine has already lowered her price three times, so this is a tough pill to swallow.
Warren: The hard part is trying to overcome the idea that the house is worth so much more a year ago than what is woth now.
Kirsten: It’s not about what you could’ve gotten, it’s about what you can get right now.
Warren: Right.
Blockbuster commercial Page 11.
Script.
At Blockbuster, we’re not just doing on-line movie rentals, we’re doing better. With unlimited movie rentals to your door by a day or two. Over 50,000 titles. And with Blockbuster on-line, you get something no one else can give you: a free in-store rental every week wherever you want it. That’s 52 free movies a year. You’d better get watching. Plans start at $9.99. Sign up today at Blockbuster.com and start getting movies delivered to your door. Plus free movies at your Blockbuster store.
Extra Work: Dogs Make Great Exercise Partners.
Script.
Anchor: You know, our fitness experts tell us some people are more likely to stick to their exercise plan if they work out with a partner, but Susan is here and the partner doesn’t have to be a person.
Susan: It doesn’t have to be a human being at all. A lot of folks walk out with their dogs. As you don’t need to stick to your healthy life plan without having a schedule in your exercise around someone else’s schedule, but if your partner’s a dog, their time is your time.
Lou: Well, Tucker, hold on Tucker.
Susan: When Lou Cardenas wants to go for a jog, he’s always got a willing partner, his Jack Russell Terrier Tucker.
Lou: Dog is man’s best friend but to me, he’s also man’s best training partner. And he’s always willing to go, he’s got a ton of energy, they’re always reliable, and he keeps me at a great pace.
Susan: And the exercise isn’t just good for Lou, it’s helping to keep Tucker healthy as well. It seems dogs are fighting the same battle of the bulge as humans. One estimate is that 40% of all pet dogs are overweight or obese.
Dr. Weitzman: Dogs really need exercise, dogs right now are… have as many problems with obesity as humans do. And we all can use more exercise and definitely our canine companions need it as much as we do.
Susan: But, Dr Weitzman says he doesn’t think we can’t love our dogs too much, we can feed them too much and feed them the wrong foods.
Dr. Weitzman: Certainly they need exercise to take care of those extra milk bones and extra table scraps and a lot of Chinese food and things like that.
Susan: And if your dog is obese Dr. Weitzman says don’t do too much too soon.
Dr. Weitzman: Start solely as if you were doing an exercise routine for yourself, just ease into it, see how comfortable they are with it, how much it affects after the exercise is over.
Susan: “Fitness Unleashed” is one of many books about dogs and humans getting healthy together. It says dogs elevate exercise from drudgery to joyful routine and Lou agrees.
Lou: I really don’t enjoy much going to the gym very much, so…and I don’t like running indoors on treadmills so to me this is the best thing, being in the outdoors, running through the park, and being outside, it’s wonderful.
Susan: Dr. Weitzman says some dogs are too old or aren’t physically suited for running, you should check with your veterinarian first. And while it won’t be long before it's cold and a lot of folks move their exercise indoors, remember the weather shouldn’t be an excuse for you or your dog not to exercise.
Extra Work: Having an Open House.
Script.
Kyoko: We’re not supposed to be here. I think we should leave and let our real estate agent hold the open house without us looking over her shoulder.
Ernie: We’re not looking over her shoulder. I just want to sit in this car to see how many people go in and out.
Kyoko: You know, there’ll be a lot of lookie-loos. And plus, there’ll be a sign-in sheet, so we’ll be able to see afterwards how many people stopped in.
Ernie: Hey, someone’s coming in now.
Kyoko: That’s the stager. She’s making some last-minute changes.
Ernie: She really doesn’t need to do anything else. We did everything our agent told us to do. We made cosmetic repairs, painted, and de-cluttered. What more could they ask for?
Kyoko: She’s just doing some minor landscaping, putting some plants along the front path and around the front door. Let’s get out of here before people start showing up. I don’t want to seem like I’m spying on my own house.
Ernie: What does it matter? Hand me the fact sheet for our house. I want to read it through again to make sure the agent didn’t miss anything. Okay, the square footage on the house and the lot are correct, she noted that our addition is permitted, and she mentioned the upgrades – good. Where are you going?
Kyoko: I’m not going to sit in this car for the next four hours. Let’s go to visit our neighbors’ open houses.
Ernie: Good idea. We’ll see what our competition is and maybe we can steal some of their open house ideas!
Extra Work: Places to Live.
Script:
Finding a new place to live isn’t always easy. I have been living in the same apartment for nine years and I thought it was time for a change. I have always wanted to buy a condo or a townhouse, but I didn’t have the money for a down payment. But now, I have a little money saved up and I want to buy a place of my own.
I didn’t want to go through a real estate agent yet so I started looking around the city on my own. I wasn’t sure if I wanted a townhouse or a single-family home. I didn’t want to live in a multi-story building anymore, not even if I had a penthouse unit. It was too noisy and I wanted a backyard for my dog, Shiloh.
I looked at a duplex as well as some traditional houses. One of the last houses I saw was a two-bedroom, one-bath bungalow. It was small enough for one person, but big enough for me and my dog. When Shiloh saw the backyard, I think it was love at first sight. I’d like to say that I picked the house, but really, it was Shiloh’s choice. I don’t think he would ever forgive me if I didn’t buy that house.
Scripts Lesson 19
Get Get Get Page 5.
Script.
We got up very early at 3:00 am. We got dressed and had a quick breakfast. Then we got into the car. When we left home it was still dark, but as we drove southwards, it got lighter. We got to Dover a little after seven o’clock and got the ferry from there to France. Then we drove East and South through Belgium. We stopped at a motor way service station near Brussels where we got some petrol and something to eat. A little after 3 pm we got to Heinberg, a pretty little village in Germany for our holiday.
Rocco's Commercial Page 8.
Script.
Rocco’s Furniture Warehouse is having a Monster Sale. Find all the highest quality dining room sets for rock bottom prices. We’ve got Oak, Cherrywood, pine and maple dining tables and china hutches, kitchen cabinets. Sets starting from 899.99. You won’t believe our quality, you can’t miss our prices. Absolutely no money down, don’t pay until 2010. Buy now, pay later. Sales’s over Friday, Friday, Friday. So hurry down get the deals while they’re still at Rocco’s Furniture Warehouse. 727 Landsdown Ave. That’s Rocco’s Furniture Warehouse. Be there.
My buddy from college, Jack, was getting married and our friend Rob was planning a bachelor party for him in Vegas. It was going to be the last weekend of the month and I wanted to go. The trouble was, I was scheduled to work that weekend. I needed to get the time off from work or I was going to miss out on all the fun.
Time off from Work page 10.
Script.
I have some vacation leave, but company policy requires that my boss sign off on any leave we take. I’ve heard of companies doing that for longer periods of leave—like maternity leave or a leave of absence—but our company does that even for vacation leave. I thought about just calling in sick that weekend—I do have a lot of accumulated sick leave—but I didn’t think my boss would appreciate me leaving him hanging.
In the end, I just asked him straight out and, to my surprise, he said, “okay.” Now, I just need to get ready for a wild weekend with the guys. I can’t wait!
The Coat Check Page 13.
Script.
Here’s New York Times’ chief restaurant critic Frank Rooney on tipping at the coat check… For me and some other diners I know, tipping the person who returns our coats is less straight forward than tipping on the bill… Is one dollar really enough? I did some research and most etiquette guides seem to recommend one dollar per item. But that’s per person, not per coat check ticket and it’s also per item so if you’re checking a coat and a bag, two dollars is the recommendation. I talked to some coat check workers and solicited readers’ opinions and that shed light on other important variables. For example, coat check workers consider an umbrella an additional item equivalent to a coat or bag. Also, if you return to a coat check person repeatedly to fetch or restore items, that too should be a factor into the tipping equation…And the workers checking your coat, like your server, rely primarily on tips for their income, and these people, unlike busboys, probably aren’t sharing any server’s tips. Of course it’s up to every diner, but with the bit of coat weather wearing left, I thought these accessories of information might help. This is Frank Rooney at the New York Times.
Extra work: Helicopter Mom.
Script.
Robin Lewis is a single parent who homeschools her sons. And just because Ethan and Brandon are out of the house and she’s taken on a full time job, that doesn’t mean she’s losing interest or hour by hour involvement in their boys’ lives. Every single day. Like this one.
“Hi, Ethan, it’s mom, it’s 9:10 and I know you have class at 9:30.”
Later she makes another call to Ethan.
Robin: “Hi, Hi Ethan.”
Ethan: “Hi, what’s going on?”
Robin: “I'm good, how are you doing? Just get out of class?”
She checks the e-mail from Brandon.
Robin: “History quiz is just going to be on the first 13 chapters…”
Sends an e–mail to Ethan with his full schedule.
Robin: “1:05”
Another call to Ethan:
Robin: “What are you doing this afternoon?”
Ethan: “I have to meet some people at 5.”
Robin: “Socially?”
Ethan: “Oh no no, studying”
Robin: “Oh, study group?”
Ethan: “Study group, yeah!”
Then she calls Brandon.
Robin: Are you going to be able to get that map thing for me?
Brandon: Yeah, yeah, I was, I’m going to do that today, like I have a few things…
Robin: Well, why don’t you call me after Human Geography and let me how the place went?
Brandon: All right, will do.
When she's not talking to her boys, Robin’s organizing their lives. She spends an hour drafting to-do e-mails for her sons, checking their grades.
Robin: “98 out of a hundred on his History essay”.
Checking their bank accounts.
Robin: “Looks like Brandon is going to need a few dollars for the weekend”.
Even using their personal passwords to check their student e-mail.
Robin: “Something about a conference reminder”.
Brandon and Ethan both say they’re grateful for their mom’s efforts on their behalf.
Brandon: She wants to make sure that I do well and it’s all because, you know, she cares. Which is great, cause you know then it’s like I don’t have to make a list, I just need to print it out and it’s there. It saves me a lot of time.
Ethan: It’s nice to have someone else that kind of serves us, maybe secretary, secretary mom.
Reporter: One of your sons I think referred to you as a secretary mom.
Robin: Oh, I think that’s great. That means that I’m very organized.
Robin: “Will be ready by Saturday?”
Robin: You know, a secretary helps to keep the boss focused and organized, right?
Robin: We don’t know how to balance much of our lives yet when we’re 18.
Extra Work: David Pogue's Take on Twitter.
Script.
Ahh, winter time, the agile blue skies, the glinting of the sunshine on the way leads, the twittering of the birds. Actually there’s not a lot of twittering going on this time of the year unless of course you’re talking about twitter on your computer, you might’ve heard of twitter, this free internet thing, the first that broke out the story of the plane landing on the Hudson. The twitter is of course a lot more than that, so today I thought I’d take some time to answer a few questions about twitter
Question # 1:
What is Twitter?
Basically, it’s a website where you can blast out little messages to anyone who’s signed up to see them. Like a cross between instant messaging and blogging. Of course, have the fun is receiving the little messages from other people. It’s very social, it can be a little confusing which is why most of the six million users so far are tackies and early adopters. Which brings us to question number two:
How do I do it?
You sign up at twitter.com, it’s free which kind of makes you wonder how the company expects to make money, but who cares about that these days? Right?
Anyway, in the old days you used to have the lumber of the website every time you wanted to send out this little messages or “tweets” as they’re called. That’s now too much of a hazzle. So nowdays most people use this little free programs like tweetdeck, tweetorific or they actually do tweets from their cellphones.
Ok, question number 3:
What’s the point?
The online guides are filled with rules, use twitter for marketing, don’t use twitter for marketing, say what you’re doing right now, don’t say what you’re doing right now.
But the bottom line is, twitter is just a tool that was created without any rules, without any agenda, people ddd for marketing, they use it to break news, they keep in touch, they share jokes, to kill time, I use it as a research tool, I dcan sort of query the masses, I’ll tell you what, I’ll do a real actual demo, this is completely onstage, I’m going to post a question to all the people that have signed up to follow my tweets. So say, hey, I’m demoing twitter on CNBC. Everybody chime in with where you are and what the weather is.
And in like 10 seconds we’ll see the tiny responses pour in, Lincoln, NE, Columbus, Chile, This Is just a fun example, but you got the point. No other invention would get you so instant feedback from a huge group at any hour. Uh, thanks guys, that’s plenty. So, is twitter a time drain? Yes Is it another ego things like how many friends do I have? Yes. Is it a fad? Yes.
But, is it also addictive, powerful and very entertaining? Yes. And besides, until the weather warms up, it’s the only twittering you’re going to get.
Script.
We got up very early at 3:00 am. We got dressed and had a quick breakfast. Then we got into the car. When we left home it was still dark, but as we drove southwards, it got lighter. We got to Dover a little after seven o’clock and got the ferry from there to France. Then we drove East and South through Belgium. We stopped at a motor way service station near Brussels where we got some petrol and something to eat. A little after 3 pm we got to Heinberg, a pretty little village in Germany for our holiday.
Rocco's Commercial Page 8.
Script.
Rocco’s Furniture Warehouse is having a Monster Sale. Find all the highest quality dining room sets for rock bottom prices. We’ve got Oak, Cherrywood, pine and maple dining tables and china hutches, kitchen cabinets. Sets starting from 899.99. You won’t believe our quality, you can’t miss our prices. Absolutely no money down, don’t pay until 2010. Buy now, pay later. Sales’s over Friday, Friday, Friday. So hurry down get the deals while they’re still at Rocco’s Furniture Warehouse. 727 Landsdown Ave. That’s Rocco’s Furniture Warehouse. Be there.
My buddy from college, Jack, was getting married and our friend Rob was planning a bachelor party for him in Vegas. It was going to be the last weekend of the month and I wanted to go. The trouble was, I was scheduled to work that weekend. I needed to get the time off from work or I was going to miss out on all the fun.
Time off from Work page 10.
Script.
I have some vacation leave, but company policy requires that my boss sign off on any leave we take. I’ve heard of companies doing that for longer periods of leave—like maternity leave or a leave of absence—but our company does that even for vacation leave. I thought about just calling in sick that weekend—I do have a lot of accumulated sick leave—but I didn’t think my boss would appreciate me leaving him hanging.
In the end, I just asked him straight out and, to my surprise, he said, “okay.” Now, I just need to get ready for a wild weekend with the guys. I can’t wait!
The Coat Check Page 13.
Script.
Here’s New York Times’ chief restaurant critic Frank Rooney on tipping at the coat check… For me and some other diners I know, tipping the person who returns our coats is less straight forward than tipping on the bill… Is one dollar really enough? I did some research and most etiquette guides seem to recommend one dollar per item. But that’s per person, not per coat check ticket and it’s also per item so if you’re checking a coat and a bag, two dollars is the recommendation. I talked to some coat check workers and solicited readers’ opinions and that shed light on other important variables. For example, coat check workers consider an umbrella an additional item equivalent to a coat or bag. Also, if you return to a coat check person repeatedly to fetch or restore items, that too should be a factor into the tipping equation…And the workers checking your coat, like your server, rely primarily on tips for their income, and these people, unlike busboys, probably aren’t sharing any server’s tips. Of course it’s up to every diner, but with the bit of coat weather wearing left, I thought these accessories of information might help. This is Frank Rooney at the New York Times.
Extra work: Helicopter Mom.
Script.
Robin Lewis is a single parent who homeschools her sons. And just because Ethan and Brandon are out of the house and she’s taken on a full time job, that doesn’t mean she’s losing interest or hour by hour involvement in their boys’ lives. Every single day. Like this one.
“Hi, Ethan, it’s mom, it’s 9:10 and I know you have class at 9:30.”
Later she makes another call to Ethan.
Robin: “Hi, Hi Ethan.”
Ethan: “Hi, what’s going on?”
Robin: “I'm good, how are you doing? Just get out of class?”
She checks the e-mail from Brandon.
Robin: “History quiz is just going to be on the first 13 chapters…”
Sends an e–mail to Ethan with his full schedule.
Robin: “1:05”
Another call to Ethan:
Robin: “What are you doing this afternoon?”
Ethan: “I have to meet some people at 5.”
Robin: “Socially?”
Ethan: “Oh no no, studying”
Robin: “Oh, study group?”
Ethan: “Study group, yeah!”
Then she calls Brandon.
Robin: Are you going to be able to get that map thing for me?
Brandon: Yeah, yeah, I was, I’m going to do that today, like I have a few things…
Robin: Well, why don’t you call me after Human Geography and let me how the place went?
Brandon: All right, will do.
When she's not talking to her boys, Robin’s organizing their lives. She spends an hour drafting to-do e-mails for her sons, checking their grades.
Robin: “98 out of a hundred on his History essay”.
Checking their bank accounts.
Robin: “Looks like Brandon is going to need a few dollars for the weekend”.
Even using their personal passwords to check their student e-mail.
Robin: “Something about a conference reminder”.
Brandon and Ethan both say they’re grateful for their mom’s efforts on their behalf.
Brandon: She wants to make sure that I do well and it’s all because, you know, she cares. Which is great, cause you know then it’s like I don’t have to make a list, I just need to print it out and it’s there. It saves me a lot of time.
Ethan: It’s nice to have someone else that kind of serves us, maybe secretary, secretary mom.
Reporter: One of your sons I think referred to you as a secretary mom.
Robin: Oh, I think that’s great. That means that I’m very organized.
Robin: “Will be ready by Saturday?”
Robin: You know, a secretary helps to keep the boss focused and organized, right?
Robin: We don’t know how to balance much of our lives yet when we’re 18.
Extra Work: David Pogue's Take on Twitter.
Script.
Ahh, winter time, the agile blue skies, the glinting of the sunshine on the way leads, the twittering of the birds. Actually there’s not a lot of twittering going on this time of the year unless of course you’re talking about twitter on your computer, you might’ve heard of twitter, this free internet thing, the first that broke out the story of the plane landing on the Hudson. The twitter is of course a lot more than that, so today I thought I’d take some time to answer a few questions about twitter
Question # 1:
What is Twitter?
Basically, it’s a website where you can blast out little messages to anyone who’s signed up to see them. Like a cross between instant messaging and blogging. Of course, have the fun is receiving the little messages from other people. It’s very social, it can be a little confusing which is why most of the six million users so far are tackies and early adopters. Which brings us to question number two:
How do I do it?
You sign up at twitter.com, it’s free which kind of makes you wonder how the company expects to make money, but who cares about that these days? Right?
Anyway, in the old days you used to have the lumber of the website every time you wanted to send out this little messages or “tweets” as they’re called. That’s now too much of a hazzle. So nowdays most people use this little free programs like tweetdeck, tweetorific or they actually do tweets from their cellphones.
Ok, question number 3:
What’s the point?
The online guides are filled with rules, use twitter for marketing, don’t use twitter for marketing, say what you’re doing right now, don’t say what you’re doing right now.
But the bottom line is, twitter is just a tool that was created without any rules, without any agenda, people ddd for marketing, they use it to break news, they keep in touch, they share jokes, to kill time, I use it as a research tool, I dcan sort of query the masses, I’ll tell you what, I’ll do a real actual demo, this is completely onstage, I’m going to post a question to all the people that have signed up to follow my tweets. So say, hey, I’m demoing twitter on CNBC. Everybody chime in with where you are and what the weather is.
And in like 10 seconds we’ll see the tiny responses pour in, Lincoln, NE, Columbus, Chile, This Is just a fun example, but you got the point. No other invention would get you so instant feedback from a huge group at any hour. Uh, thanks guys, that’s plenty. So, is twitter a time drain? Yes Is it another ego things like how many friends do I have? Yes. Is it a fad? Yes.
But, is it also addictive, powerful and very entertaining? Yes. And besides, until the weather warms up, it’s the only twittering you’re going to get.
Scripts Lesson 17
Answering Machine Page 4.
Script.
I got two tickets to a show at the last minute and I tried to find someone to go with me. First, I called Amanda. The phone rang and rang and then her answering machine picked up. “Hi, I’m not in right now. Leave me a message and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.” Amanda wasn’t home or she was screening her calls. I didn’t want to leave a message and decided to try Celia. The phone rang about six times and then I heard, “This is the voicemail for Celia. Leave me a message after the long beep. Or, you can try my cell phone at 213-555-1212. Have a nice day.” By this time, I was starting to feel discouraged. I didn’t want to go to the show by myself, so I tried one last time. I called Leslie at work. “Hello, you’ve reached the office of Leslie Munroe. I am in a meeting or with a client. I’m sorry to miss your call. Please stay on the line and leave a detailed message. I will return your call as soon as I can. Thank you for calling.” I decided to leave a message. Leslie called me right back and we made plans for the show. We had a great time.
Getting Familiar with "Should" Page 6.
Script.
Segment from 0:29 to 0:59 shows only oral practice and only the modal auxiliary.
Segment from 0:59 to 1:18 shows some examples:
• You should stop smoking
• I think you should talk to your wife about this problem.
• She shouldn’t drive so fast
Segment from 1:58 to 2:20 shows some more examples:
• I think you should visit your mother this weekend.
• She thinks I should get a new job
Segment from 2:34 to 2:47 shows other examples:
• Should I bring a bottle of water?
• Should he do it now or wait until tomorrow?
Segment from 2:57 to 3:23 is an exercise to complete ideas from the verbs suggested
Segment from 3:29 to 4:23 has a few other examples:
• Hey, you should stop drinking
• I think you should talk to your boss about this problem
• She shouldn’t ride her bicycle so fast
• I think you should visit ypur parents this weekend
• She thinks I should get a new car.
• Should I bring some food to the party?
• Should he do it now or wait until tomorrow?
Pick up at the Airport.
Script.
Jack: Hello? Denise Richardson? I’m Jack Johnson. From Faxen’s Business Solutions.
Denise: Hi, nice to meet you. Call me Denise.
Jack: Nice to meet you too. Our car is waiting at exit 10. Please follow me.
Denise: OK
Jack: Let me help you with your luggage.
Denise: Thank you. That’s a nice suit.
Jack: Thanks. I bought it just a couple of weeks ago. I was just about to comment on what a great watch you have.
Denise: This old thing? Thanks. I’ve had this watch for a long time.
Jack: By the way, it’s quite cold outside. You might want to put on a jacket.
Denise: Oh, is the parking far away?
Jack: No, not at all. It’s just opposite the exit.
Denise: Very good. No worries about the jacket then.
Jack: So, was your flight OK?
Denise: Yes, I slept all the way.
Jack: Now, we are heading to the Marriot Hotel, where you can get settled and have a rest. We’ll pick you up for the greeting dinner at 6 pm.
Denise: Sounds great. Could you tell me more about the schedule during my stay?
Jack: Here. Let me show it to you. Tomorrow morning you can sleep in and get over any jet lag you have. We don’t have anything scheduled until this meeting. You see here at 2pm? We’ll present our company’s new product.
Denise: Do I have lunch planned?
Jack: Our CEO Martin Westgate would love to take you out for lunch, if you feel like it.
Denise: That would be very nice.
Jack: OK! I will arrange that as soon as I get back to the office later. And that’s it for tomorrow. An easy day. But the day after tomorrow will be a really big day. We will pick you up at 7pm to go to our factory. It’s in the country side. It will take us two hours to get there. The factory supervisor will show us around and our meetings will begin at 11am. After the meetings we have to catch a meeting with the government Patton’s office. It’s at 4 pm. I hope this is OK with you.
Denise: Don’t worry. Believe me. My schedule’s like this every day.
Jack: Ha-ha-ha! Oh, we also want to invite you to the cocktail party arranged by our company, for our partners and friends at 8pm Wednesday night.
Denise: I would love to come. I don’t have much to do the day after, do I?
Jack: No. Only a final working lunch to discuss future arrangements between our companies.
Denise: When is my flight back?
Jack: 5:30. Thursday afternoon.
Denise: Lovely. Thank you.
Jack: Oh, and also tomorrow night, if you need, we can arrange a tour guide. And a car to take you around the city and show you the sights.
Denise: Excellent. That’s very considerate of you. Please arrange it for me. Thank you.
Extra work: "Allergy season reaches peak" Page 9 (in your CD)
Script.
Anchor: Well, allergy season is at its peak right now and usually it’s much earlier in April that pollen from trees becomes a bother for allergy sufferers but this year the cold weather and rain delayed things a bit and this weekend’s warm weather cause the pollen count climb. Chris Gordon is outside in the elements with the report on the symptoms and what we can do to get some relief, you need a helmet out there today Chris
Chris: The simple answer is don’t go outside, and when you’re inside don’t open your windows, but that’s not practical for most of us and when we do go outside this is what we find: our cars covered with a green or yellow slime. Pollen grains are microscopic, but when they build up like this we can actually see the source of our suffering.
Chris: Washington has been called the city of trees. They give up pollen which brings on April’s agony allergy season. Red in the eyes, itch your throat, sneezing all the time, I think that’s it. Every year is the same.
Doctor: Have you been outdoors or not that much outdoors?
Patient: Yes, I have.
Chris: Doctor Talal Nsouli is the director of the Watergate and burk allergy and asthma centers. He treated Bill Clinton throughout his entire presidency and he’s currently a consultant to president Bush’s white house medical office. He tailors treatments to each patient.
Doctor: We use a variety of medications: eyedrops, nasal sprays, antihistamines , antileukotriene medications and collectively these medications together will provide improvement in these patients
Reporter: Some medications that used to be available by prescription only are now sold over the counter.
Emmie: I take Allegra, Adver at night.
Reporter: Are you getting relief?
Emmie: A little bit, not much, not much in these past three days.
Reporter: Dr. Nsouli says over the counter drugs may not work for everyone.
Doctor: Get exactly the same strength, exactly the same milligrams and the same tablets and the same efficacy, totally the same, but this shows having a medication alone without consulting an expert allergologist this will not be as effective.
Danny Boyle's 127 Hours Official Trailer.
Script.
Aron: Good morning everyone. It’s 7 o’clock here in Canyon Range USA.
Aron’s mom: Hey Aron, Mom. Still has not heard from you. Would you please call her? Please? I’ll talk to you soon.
Aron: This morning on the boulder we have a very special guest Aron Rolston.
Aron: Oh my gosh, it’s a real pleasure to be here. Thank you.
Aron: Ha ha ha, Oh, thank you.
Aron: Hey!
Aron: You’re lost, I’m a guide, what do you say?
Aron: I’m something of a big heart hero.
Aron: All you have to remember, that everything will be OK.
Migraine and its Symptoms (In your CD).
Script.
Script.
I got two tickets to a show at the last minute and I tried to find someone to go with me. First, I called Amanda. The phone rang and rang and then her answering machine picked up. “Hi, I’m not in right now. Leave me a message and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.” Amanda wasn’t home or she was screening her calls. I didn’t want to leave a message and decided to try Celia. The phone rang about six times and then I heard, “This is the voicemail for Celia. Leave me a message after the long beep. Or, you can try my cell phone at 213-555-1212. Have a nice day.” By this time, I was starting to feel discouraged. I didn’t want to go to the show by myself, so I tried one last time. I called Leslie at work. “Hello, you’ve reached the office of Leslie Munroe. I am in a meeting or with a client. I’m sorry to miss your call. Please stay on the line and leave a detailed message. I will return your call as soon as I can. Thank you for calling.” I decided to leave a message. Leslie called me right back and we made plans for the show. We had a great time.
Getting Familiar with "Should" Page 6.
Script.
Segment from 0:29 to 0:59 shows only oral practice and only the modal auxiliary.
Segment from 0:59 to 1:18 shows some examples:
• You should stop smoking
• I think you should talk to your wife about this problem.
• She shouldn’t drive so fast
Segment from 1:58 to 2:20 shows some more examples:
• I think you should visit your mother this weekend.
• She thinks I should get a new job
Segment from 2:34 to 2:47 shows other examples:
• Should I bring a bottle of water?
• Should he do it now or wait until tomorrow?
Segment from 2:57 to 3:23 is an exercise to complete ideas from the verbs suggested
Segment from 3:29 to 4:23 has a few other examples:
• Hey, you should stop drinking
• I think you should talk to your boss about this problem
• She shouldn’t ride her bicycle so fast
• I think you should visit ypur parents this weekend
• She thinks I should get a new car.
• Should I bring some food to the party?
• Should he do it now or wait until tomorrow?
Pick up at the Airport.
Script.
Jack: Hello? Denise Richardson? I’m Jack Johnson. From Faxen’s Business Solutions.
Denise: Hi, nice to meet you. Call me Denise.
Jack: Nice to meet you too. Our car is waiting at exit 10. Please follow me.
Denise: OK
Jack: Let me help you with your luggage.
Denise: Thank you. That’s a nice suit.
Jack: Thanks. I bought it just a couple of weeks ago. I was just about to comment on what a great watch you have.
Denise: This old thing? Thanks. I’ve had this watch for a long time.
Jack: By the way, it’s quite cold outside. You might want to put on a jacket.
Denise: Oh, is the parking far away?
Jack: No, not at all. It’s just opposite the exit.
Denise: Very good. No worries about the jacket then.
Jack: So, was your flight OK?
Denise: Yes, I slept all the way.
Jack: Now, we are heading to the Marriot Hotel, where you can get settled and have a rest. We’ll pick you up for the greeting dinner at 6 pm.
Denise: Sounds great. Could you tell me more about the schedule during my stay?
Jack: Here. Let me show it to you. Tomorrow morning you can sleep in and get over any jet lag you have. We don’t have anything scheduled until this meeting. You see here at 2pm? We’ll present our company’s new product.
Denise: Do I have lunch planned?
Jack: Our CEO Martin Westgate would love to take you out for lunch, if you feel like it.
Denise: That would be very nice.
Jack: OK! I will arrange that as soon as I get back to the office later. And that’s it for tomorrow. An easy day. But the day after tomorrow will be a really big day. We will pick you up at 7pm to go to our factory. It’s in the country side. It will take us two hours to get there. The factory supervisor will show us around and our meetings will begin at 11am. After the meetings we have to catch a meeting with the government Patton’s office. It’s at 4 pm. I hope this is OK with you.
Denise: Don’t worry. Believe me. My schedule’s like this every day.
Jack: Ha-ha-ha! Oh, we also want to invite you to the cocktail party arranged by our company, for our partners and friends at 8pm Wednesday night.
Denise: I would love to come. I don’t have much to do the day after, do I?
Jack: No. Only a final working lunch to discuss future arrangements between our companies.
Denise: When is my flight back?
Jack: 5:30. Thursday afternoon.
Denise: Lovely. Thank you.
Jack: Oh, and also tomorrow night, if you need, we can arrange a tour guide. And a car to take you around the city and show you the sights.
Denise: Excellent. That’s very considerate of you. Please arrange it for me. Thank you.
Extra work: "Allergy season reaches peak" Page 9 (in your CD)
Script.
Anchor: Well, allergy season is at its peak right now and usually it’s much earlier in April that pollen from trees becomes a bother for allergy sufferers but this year the cold weather and rain delayed things a bit and this weekend’s warm weather cause the pollen count climb. Chris Gordon is outside in the elements with the report on the symptoms and what we can do to get some relief, you need a helmet out there today Chris
Chris: The simple answer is don’t go outside, and when you’re inside don’t open your windows, but that’s not practical for most of us and when we do go outside this is what we find: our cars covered with a green or yellow slime. Pollen grains are microscopic, but when they build up like this we can actually see the source of our suffering.
Chris: Washington has been called the city of trees. They give up pollen which brings on April’s agony allergy season. Red in the eyes, itch your throat, sneezing all the time, I think that’s it. Every year is the same.
Doctor: Have you been outdoors or not that much outdoors?
Patient: Yes, I have.
Chris: Doctor Talal Nsouli is the director of the Watergate and burk allergy and asthma centers. He treated Bill Clinton throughout his entire presidency and he’s currently a consultant to president Bush’s white house medical office. He tailors treatments to each patient.
Doctor: We use a variety of medications: eyedrops, nasal sprays, antihistamines , antileukotriene medications and collectively these medications together will provide improvement in these patients
Reporter: Some medications that used to be available by prescription only are now sold over the counter.
Emmie: I take Allegra, Adver at night.
Reporter: Are you getting relief?
Emmie: A little bit, not much, not much in these past three days.
Reporter: Dr. Nsouli says over the counter drugs may not work for everyone.
Doctor: Get exactly the same strength, exactly the same milligrams and the same tablets and the same efficacy, totally the same, but this shows having a medication alone without consulting an expert allergologist this will not be as effective.
Danny Boyle's 127 Hours Official Trailer.
Script.
Aron: Good morning everyone. It’s 7 o’clock here in Canyon Range USA.
Aron’s mom: Hey Aron, Mom. Still has not heard from you. Would you please call her? Please? I’ll talk to you soon.
Aron: This morning on the boulder we have a very special guest Aron Rolston.
Aron: Oh my gosh, it’s a real pleasure to be here. Thank you.
Aron: Ha ha ha, Oh, thank you.
Aron: Hey!
Aron: You’re lost, I’m a guide, what do you say?
Aron: I’m something of a big heart hero.
Aron: All you have to remember, that everything will be OK.
Migraine and its Symptoms (In your CD).
Script.
Skip
Masland
Casselberry,
Florida.
A migraine
for some people has become almost a generic term for headache. You know, it’s
kind of funny to me you hear people in the office go “boy, I got a migraine
today”. And, you know, I think to myself “they have no idea what a migraine is”.
My grandfather had migraines and my mother inherited them, my aunt inherited
them, the kind that goes thru the
family basically. I’ve tried everything from biofeedback, all the different
drugs from beta blockers to calcium channel blockers. It’s been only recently when I went to a neurologist that I started to
get some relief. It really got to the point where I just learned how to get
through the day at work with a migraine. I would close my door, along with turning
the lights out, you know, I would take an hour to lay on the floor in my office
just to try to you know, cope.
It seemed
that weather was one of the biggest triggers. At one point I started looking at
the weather in advance when I would see some coldfront beginning to move into
the area and I would say “oh, I’m going to get a migraine”. And it became an
almost self fulfilling prophecy so I stopped looking at the weather. And, you
know, nonetheless it turned out when I would get a migraine I would go back and
see what the weather was that if it
actually had something to do with the weather patterns so I really think that is
one of the triggers. I would really love them to go away some day, but I’m not
gonna , you know, who knows?
Vicky
Martin
Mason,
Ohio.
It would be
terrible head pain, usually on one side of my head, and I would feel dizzy,
sometimes nauseous and always felt like my head was filled with cement like it
was too heavy to even lift up, so I'd always feel like I have to lay down. And
I’ve always been very sensitive to light so I'd always want to be you know,
make the room as stark as I could or put something over my eyes. And that would
usually come when I started my period or when it was midmonth and I would call
it having a migraine run so that would last for literally 3 or 4 days.
It's really
very difficult to function when you're in that much pain or you’re that dizzy,
or you’re that nauseous, if you talk to my… my children are older now, 15, 19
and 22, but if you talk to any of them they would talk about how mom had to lay
down. I joked that I am forever grateful to Disney and 101 Dalmatians when my
kids were little, you know because I would lay down on the couch while they
watch, you know, the puppies running around.
And all truthfulness, I just kind of felt sort
of like I was gotten all alone because I really didn’t know anybody else that ,
you know, I’ve talked to other, in my little circle anyway, people who had
indication headache and I didn’t personally know anybody else that was down for the count quite as much as I was. You know, I really
thought, this is ridiculous, it’s almost as if I’m disabled and, you know, now I don’t feel that way anymore.
Scripts Lesson 18
Extra Work: Interview with Andre Agassi.
Script.
Sam: Andre Agassi is one of the greatest tennis players in American history, he’s also the author of a remarkable new memoir called “open”. Andre Agassi visited the NYT and he and I talked about his anchor career and his unusual collaboration with memoirist J R. Moehringer.
Sam: Let me ask you about how clear you are not only about your dislike of tennis for most of your life but about the exploitative aspect of it. Nick Bolletieri, your own father. How much of that was going on when you were a young player coming off?
Andre: Well, you kind of felt like it was a sport that was coming into a big business time, you know, my father saw a wheel barrow push out in the courts in the finals at the Allan King tournament which is my hometown full of silver dollars. It was like he got drunk with the visual of the son sparkling on these things and I just you know, from that day forward I was going to be number one in the world there’s no question about it ‘cause you can make a lot of money and I think a lot of people felt like you know a lot of eastern Europeans, a lot of Russians, you know, they feel like it’s the quickest way to the American dream.
Sam: Well, and then when he sent you off to the notorious you called “glorified” prison of Nick Nick Bolletieri’s tennis academy, there, all the love was gone, it’s just the toughness, that is one of the most heroine descriptions I’ve ever seen of what a young athlete went through, tell us a little bit about it.
Andre: Well, listen, the first, the toughest part about Nick Bolletieri’s straight off was just leaving home and raising yourself, not raising yourself, raising other children like lord of the flies.
Sam: You said lord of the flies, you were unsupervised
Andre: Yeah yeah, we were unsupervised, we got strict rules and we got punished to step out of line, but then you got the regimen, and you get the fatigue of four hours a day of school and six hours a day of tennis and so school took the back seat and as a result, you end up, it’s a great system created, designed to create great tennis players and unsuccessful you know scholars. And so I never had the opportunity to educate myself formally, you know, and yet I loved learning so I always had this other conflict that was existing in me, I wanted to know the truth I was trying to understand myself, but I had no environment to do that.
Sam: In the book you say that when you went off to the Brayton’s Tennis Academy there was an educational price, that you were treated like you were entitled but the one thing you were entitled in education you never got. then you’ve compensated after while you were still playing with a remarkable chart of school
Andre: That was one of the things that started to get me to really love the game you know it’s not a love-hate relationship with the game, it’s a hate-love relationship, but the scale started to get balanced when it started to give me something, gave me my school, gave me the chance to do it and then tennis gave me my wife and after tennis gave me my wife it was like OK, things are really getting balanced, but as far as education goes, I know what is like not to have it, and I know that I didn’t have options in my life, and as a result I woke up in a life that I found myself in. And I think there’s a lot of people, especially children and luring come neighborhoods who have schools, broken school system who don’t have a proper education and so they will not have choices in their lives so when you don’t have choices in your life tomorrow will look like today, it’s a horrifying thought.
Sam: Let’s talk about one more teammate, your very brilliant co-writer in this book.. tell us how you found him ‘cause we’re surprised…
Andre: Well, in the last three months of my career, a friend sent me this book called “the tender bar” written by J. R. Moehringer and that was one of the few things that gave me an escape from the pressures and the pain, and the anticipation of retirement.
Sam: And you found him up
Andre: I rushed through the pages and I called him and I said I want to meet you , I want you to know what you’ve done for me, and in what he did for me, I realized the power, the real power that exists in someone else’s story, I mean, and I wondered what my story was, I know the stories of my life, what would my story be through a Pulitzer’s eyes through literally lands, what it would look like, and we set on a journey together where I tell you what, the greatest thing that I got out of this was not just making sense of my life but J. R. as a friend and real appreciation and love of just how much power there is in books
Sam: And you wanted his name in the cover but he wouldn’t ccc.
Andre: I wanted his name on the cover because we labored together this, thousands of hours that I could’ve never done, he studied Freud and Psychology books and we go through the routines of trying to figure out you know who I was, why I had this contradictions, how can I possibly hate school and love learning how can I possibly hate tennis, hate what I do and actually succeed at it, what is the message in your life, what are people… there’s a human story and without him I never could have got to it.
Sam: Thanks, Andre Agassi.
Extra Work: Trip to Costa Rica.
Script.
Extra Work: How to make Pisco Sour.
Script.
Hi, I’m Eben Freeman, with Taylor restaurant in NYC. Pisco Sour: Around war time is when Pisco really grew in popularity on the west coast. Even though it’s really unheard of here on the east coast. But now it’s back. It’s one of the world classic drinks, and it’s basically a sour with a few modifications to it. So we start out with the big shaker set. We’re going to use an egg in this drink, so we’re going to need some room for this to go around. So I’m using a 28-ounce shaker tin with an eighteen ounce cheater tin, in order to get the most space I can to make this around. We’re going to start out with two ounces of spirit and one ounce of lime juice. Again, in the restaurant we do a lot of this so we keep this squeezed, so you at home can make a better one than I do by squeezing your juice right when you need it. Could have half an ounce of simple syrup in there and now comes the egg. People get very scared when you start putting eggs in drinks, but really you shouldn’t worry as long as your eggs are fresh. You don’t stand much of a chance of getting sick. Use an egg separator that you might want to pick up. It just makes a little bit easier and cleaner to separate your eggs. Fix it over the end of your tin. And just crack your egg, put the whole thing in there. As you see, what happens is the white gets separated from the yolk. Now that you’ve got the yolk in here, and just discard it. You simply shake it first without any ice in the tin. I also like to use big ice while I’m doing this, tends to agitate that mixture and really whip that egg white right up. Here’s a Hawthorne strainer. Strain that into a coupe glass. Now if you whipped your egg whites well and your proportions are correct, you get a nice head on there with almost a convex meniscus on the top. When making this drink, it’s really key that you we get that froth on top because the next ingredient to add is really meant for the nose, not to be on the drink. A properly made Pisco sour has angostura bitters just on the foam so that it doesn’t actually drop into the drink. There’s different ways in doing this and adding it in. One nice way to do it is just to put drops of angostura onto the surface of the drink, perhaps three drops like that. And then take a stick and drag it trough as the pastry chef does with sauces and create little hearts in there. That’s a little known drink, but it’s actually a world classic: Pisco Sour.
Script.
Sam: Andre Agassi is one of the greatest tennis players in American history, he’s also the author of a remarkable new memoir called “open”. Andre Agassi visited the NYT and he and I talked about his anchor career and his unusual collaboration with memoirist J R. Moehringer.
Sam: Let me ask you about how clear you are not only about your dislike of tennis for most of your life but about the exploitative aspect of it. Nick Bolletieri, your own father. How much of that was going on when you were a young player coming off?
Andre: Well, you kind of felt like it was a sport that was coming into a big business time, you know, my father saw a wheel barrow push out in the courts in the finals at the Allan King tournament which is my hometown full of silver dollars. It was like he got drunk with the visual of the son sparkling on these things and I just you know, from that day forward I was going to be number one in the world there’s no question about it ‘cause you can make a lot of money and I think a lot of people felt like you know a lot of eastern Europeans, a lot of Russians, you know, they feel like it’s the quickest way to the American dream.
Sam: Well, and then when he sent you off to the notorious you called “glorified” prison of Nick Nick Bolletieri’s tennis academy, there, all the love was gone, it’s just the toughness, that is one of the most heroine descriptions I’ve ever seen of what a young athlete went through, tell us a little bit about it.
Andre: Well, listen, the first, the toughest part about Nick Bolletieri’s straight off was just leaving home and raising yourself, not raising yourself, raising other children like lord of the flies.
Sam: You said lord of the flies, you were unsupervised
Andre: Yeah yeah, we were unsupervised, we got strict rules and we got punished to step out of line, but then you got the regimen, and you get the fatigue of four hours a day of school and six hours a day of tennis and so school took the back seat and as a result, you end up, it’s a great system created, designed to create great tennis players and unsuccessful you know scholars. And so I never had the opportunity to educate myself formally, you know, and yet I loved learning so I always had this other conflict that was existing in me, I wanted to know the truth I was trying to understand myself, but I had no environment to do that.
Sam: In the book you say that when you went off to the Brayton’s Tennis Academy there was an educational price, that you were treated like you were entitled but the one thing you were entitled in education you never got. then you’ve compensated after while you were still playing with a remarkable chart of school
Andre: That was one of the things that started to get me to really love the game you know it’s not a love-hate relationship with the game, it’s a hate-love relationship, but the scale started to get balanced when it started to give me something, gave me my school, gave me the chance to do it and then tennis gave me my wife and after tennis gave me my wife it was like OK, things are really getting balanced, but as far as education goes, I know what is like not to have it, and I know that I didn’t have options in my life, and as a result I woke up in a life that I found myself in. And I think there’s a lot of people, especially children and luring come neighborhoods who have schools, broken school system who don’t have a proper education and so they will not have choices in their lives so when you don’t have choices in your life tomorrow will look like today, it’s a horrifying thought.
Sam: Let’s talk about one more teammate, your very brilliant co-writer in this book.. tell us how you found him ‘cause we’re surprised…
Andre: Well, in the last three months of my career, a friend sent me this book called “the tender bar” written by J. R. Moehringer and that was one of the few things that gave me an escape from the pressures and the pain, and the anticipation of retirement.
Sam: And you found him up
Andre: I rushed through the pages and I called him and I said I want to meet you , I want you to know what you’ve done for me, and in what he did for me, I realized the power, the real power that exists in someone else’s story, I mean, and I wondered what my story was, I know the stories of my life, what would my story be through a Pulitzer’s eyes through literally lands, what it would look like, and we set on a journey together where I tell you what, the greatest thing that I got out of this was not just making sense of my life but J. R. as a friend and real appreciation and love of just how much power there is in books
Sam: And you wanted his name in the cover but he wouldn’t ccc.
Andre: I wanted his name on the cover because we labored together this, thousands of hours that I could’ve never done, he studied Freud and Psychology books and we go through the routines of trying to figure out you know who I was, why I had this contradictions, how can I possibly hate school and love learning how can I possibly hate tennis, hate what I do and actually succeed at it, what is the message in your life, what are people… there’s a human story and without him I never could have got to it.
Sam: Thanks, Andre Agassi.
Extra Work: Trip to Costa Rica.
Script.
My wife and I
recently made a trip to CR.
We travelled in a
group for the first time in 40 years
Luckily everyone in
the group got along with one another.
We spent a good
deal of time in the rain forest.
Parts of CR get 20
or more ft of rain each year.
We saw 3 types of
monkeys
The howling monkeys
sounded like a cross between a lion and a seal.
We took several
river trips.
One boat ride was
through a mangrove forest.
Mangrove trees have
external roots that take in oxygen
The roots also
serve as supports
We saw a tree
dwelling iguanas
The bird population
of CR is fantastic.
I got a neck ache
from watching through the binoculars.
We got prety close
to a couple of crocodiles
We were more
interested in them than them in us.
We were given a
tour of a pineapple plantation
We ate pineapple
picked right from the field
I cannot describe
how delicious it was
Some of the fruit
in CR we had never heard of.
Surprisingly the
food was not too spicy
The roads in CR are
not the best in the world.
Our bus had one
flat tire and one blow out, but that could’ve happened anywhere
I would recommend
CR to anyone who appreciates nature.
Script.
Hi, I’m Eben Freeman, with Taylor restaurant in NYC. Pisco Sour: Around war time is when Pisco really grew in popularity on the west coast. Even though it’s really unheard of here on the east coast. But now it’s back. It’s one of the world classic drinks, and it’s basically a sour with a few modifications to it. So we start out with the big shaker set. We’re going to use an egg in this drink, so we’re going to need some room for this to go around. So I’m using a 28-ounce shaker tin with an eighteen ounce cheater tin, in order to get the most space I can to make this around. We’re going to start out with two ounces of spirit and one ounce of lime juice. Again, in the restaurant we do a lot of this so we keep this squeezed, so you at home can make a better one than I do by squeezing your juice right when you need it. Could have half an ounce of simple syrup in there and now comes the egg. People get very scared when you start putting eggs in drinks, but really you shouldn’t worry as long as your eggs are fresh. You don’t stand much of a chance of getting sick. Use an egg separator that you might want to pick up. It just makes a little bit easier and cleaner to separate your eggs. Fix it over the end of your tin. And just crack your egg, put the whole thing in there. As you see, what happens is the white gets separated from the yolk. Now that you’ve got the yolk in here, and just discard it. You simply shake it first without any ice in the tin. I also like to use big ice while I’m doing this, tends to agitate that mixture and really whip that egg white right up. Here’s a Hawthorne strainer. Strain that into a coupe glass. Now if you whipped your egg whites well and your proportions are correct, you get a nice head on there with almost a convex meniscus on the top. When making this drink, it’s really key that you we get that froth on top because the next ingredient to add is really meant for the nose, not to be on the drink. A properly made Pisco sour has angostura bitters just on the foam so that it doesn’t actually drop into the drink. There’s different ways in doing this and adding it in. One nice way to do it is just to put drops of angostura onto the surface of the drink, perhaps three drops like that. And then take a stick and drag it trough as the pastry chef does with sauces and create little hearts in there. That’s a little known drink, but it’s actually a world classic: Pisco Sour.
4/16/2010
Scripts Lesson 22
Extra work: Interview with Naomi Watts.
Transcript.
Naomi: Oh, god.
Dresser: There you go.
Dresser: How is that?
Lynn: That’s great.
Naomi: Great.
Naomi: I would have to say, you know, both are hard, a scary scene because it’s so fragmented, hold that fear and play the bits that are escalating in the right direction, you really have to put yourself in the trust of the director, um, and sex scenes are always hard, um, nothing a shot of vodka can fix or two. Um, but yeah, I mean, actually, one the easiest sex scenes I shot was the one at Mulholland Drive, the fact that it was with another woman, we fell so much safer, it was no sort of like awkwardness, yeah, it’s always awkward, it was, it was, there was no sexual tension, put it that way.
Naomi: What happened was I got called to go and meet with David Linch, the casting process he looks at a stack of photographs and then he picks 4 or 5 that he likes. Luckily my brother took the photo and he liked that photo, I don’t know, something honest must have come through, and if he meets, you know, if he picks out 4 photos and he’s met number two and he loves it, good bye number 3 and 4. Just very intuitive. David.
Naomi: He talks in that funny voice, OK Naomi, now tell me about yourself, uh, that was bad, ok
Naomi: I was going to go back to the plane and back to NY and I got a phone call saying that it went really well and David would like to meet you again tomorrow, but this time can you wear makeup. I was like, oh no, I’m too ugly, he wants a supermodel, I’m not sexy, all these things that I’ve heard before. Sorry Naomi, didn’t work out this time, there’re going to go with someone a little more sexy, I was like…I thought that was going to happen again. Anyway, I went and get a blow dry or something and put on some makeup, a fitting outfit.
Naomi: I mean, I did lots of commercials before I started acting and then, you name it, from cereal to tampax to every kind of embarrassing thing, to be an actor was a little bit like a golly dream of mine…my mother was an actress and she was doing a play, my fair lady, and I just, I was about 4 years old…I kept .. you know, trying to get her attention like, looking at my grandmother saying why isn’t my mother looking at me, relating to me, doing what she does and finally she snuck that little.. In that moment, I remember being transported, I got transported into this whole world of “make believe”
Naomi: When I shop I keep this weird habit of sometimes I feel like I need to return things whether I you know, don’t deserve some or a shit like that, but what I do is I keep the tags on, and I keep my first wear and then I think, I decide whether or not I want to keep it, (laughs) it’s terrible, isn’t it?
Naomi: The other night at the net ball, he asked me to go to David Beckham and get a picture frame and of course I did, he’s my big brother and obediently said OK , all right, let’s do it. How embarrassing to go straight to Posh and Becks and say can I get a photo? They said yes and Ben came in the photo, David Beckham was very nice and Posh went (laughs)
Naomi: We were doing that long line with the cars and remember being very nervous, this was a big deal, you know, Cannes, this huge red carpet, The Palais Royale, huge crowds, the lead in the film and David Li, it was all huge in my head, um, and as I drove up our car, as I opened the door, Cat Stevens’ ”morning has broken”, started playing, that is a song that I’m very connected to because um, my father, when he passed away, they played that song at his funeral so I use it a lot sort of a trigger kind of thing when I’m working or…anyway, it’s a little bit um, I felt he was there, at the minute I was getting out, I heard the song and oh my god I started to cry, but it was also a joyful tear because it felt like my guarded angel was walking me through.
Extra Work: Lesson 123: The s-word (explicit).
Parts of Speech.
Can be a noun:
"Get your shit together and go".
"I stepped in shit".
Can be a verb:
"I’ve got the shits".
Can be countable:
"I gotta take a shit".
"I have the shits".
Can be uncountable:
"Move all that shit out of your room!"
Meanings:
Stuff or Things:
"I’ve got to move my shit tomorrow".
The best of its kind:
"He's the shit".
Nonsense.
"Everything he says is a load of shit".
"That’s bullshit, man".
"Everything he says means shit to me".
Nasty, despicable person (use particularly with men):
"Your son has been a real shit to her".
Anything or nothing:
"His opinion isn't worth shit".
"We don't have shit to live on".
Mariguana
"You got any shit on you?"
Verbs
To be afraid:
"I shit myself"
"He was shitting a brick".
To fool (someone) or deceive someone.
"200 dollars? Are you shitting me?"
Adjectives
Terrible:
"Who listens to that shit music".
Interjections (loud exclamation)
"Oh shit!"
"Shit!"
"Holy shit!"
Interjection, avoid the s-word
Oh, shoot!
To show displeasure or surprise:
"Oh, shit, I forgot the passports at home!"
Synonyms:- Litteral Dung
- Maneur
- Excrement
- Feces
How to start your car.
Transcript.
As you know, many modern cars have electronic systems for locking and unlocking the doors, and for starting the engine. Generally the car key contains a computer chip and a little battery. If the computer chip is not there, the car engine will not start.
The following story appeared on the BBC website recently. A motorist needed to change the battery in her car key. But when she had finished, she found that she could not start the engine in her car. In desperation, she called the AA. The AA man arrived and found that there was no computer chip in the key. It must have fallen out when the woman changed the battery. The woman and the AA man searched the car but could not find the chip. Then the woman remembered that her dog had been in the car, and had eaten something when she was changing the battery. That was it! The dog must have eaten the chip.
The AA man put the dog in the driver’s seat of the car, and turned the key in the ignition. The engine started immediately! Now the woman can use her car again, provided that her dog is in the front seat.
What will she do when the chip is no longer in the dog? I have no idea.
The Cell Phone Festival.
Transcript.
David: Oh hi. I’m David Pogue. And I fill a rant coming on.
David: Hello, I’m David Pogue. You know, in recent weeks, the senate commerce committee is having hearings about the cell phone industry. The question is, is it anticompetitive for cell phone makers like apple to strike exclusive deals with cell phone carriers like AT&T. Come to think of it, that’s about the only example anybody cares about. My feeling is, you can’t really get into legislating business deals and furthermore, if you want to talk about what’s broken about the cell phone industry there are much bigger problems we should tackle first.
David: Like the price of text messages for example. Why are they 20 cents a text message today and two years ago they were only 10 cents Sure, I can sign up for a texting package, but why should I have to? I’m already paying for unlimited e-mail, what’s the difference? The difference is greed.
David: It is not just me. I asked my followers on twitter what bugs them about their cell phone service? Turns out, it’s a lot. So ladies and gentlemen, I’m pleased to announce the world premiere of the “I hate my cell phone film festival”.
Sherri Bailey: About half my calls are dropped even though it says I have all my bar, so…
Thomas Costello:
What I don’t like the most about my cell phone carrier isn’t its ridiculous data plan or roaming charges, it’s dealing with their customer service departments.
C J Forse: It’s 2009, do we really need 30 seconds worth of detailed instructions on how to leave a voice mail message? I think we all get it by now.
Joshua Kaufman:
I’d like to see wireless service providers stop dictating to the hand set makers what can or cannot put in their devices.
Ivan Komarov: I got a voice mail that was 6 days late, what are we paying you guys for again?
Chris Polone: Send us your signal out in the country. We live out there…off the highway.
Mike MacDonald:
Ok, so they merge with Cingular and they drop my tower and my signal. They refuse to turn the tower back on or introduce central cells and they came out with the i-phone exclusively. When I couldn’t even quit…
Dennis Serras: Their ridiculous prices for text messaging.
Transcript.
Naomi: Oh, god.
Dresser: There you go.
Dresser: How is that?
Lynn: That’s great.
Naomi: Great.
Naomi: I would have to say, you know, both are hard, a scary scene because it’s so fragmented, hold that fear and play the bits that are escalating in the right direction, you really have to put yourself in the trust of the director, um, and sex scenes are always hard, um, nothing a shot of vodka can fix or two. Um, but yeah, I mean, actually, one the easiest sex scenes I shot was the one at Mulholland Drive, the fact that it was with another woman, we fell so much safer, it was no sort of like awkwardness, yeah, it’s always awkward, it was, it was, there was no sexual tension, put it that way.
Naomi: What happened was I got called to go and meet with David Linch, the casting process he looks at a stack of photographs and then he picks 4 or 5 that he likes. Luckily my brother took the photo and he liked that photo, I don’t know, something honest must have come through, and if he meets, you know, if he picks out 4 photos and he’s met number two and he loves it, good bye number 3 and 4. Just very intuitive. David.
Naomi: He talks in that funny voice, OK Naomi, now tell me about yourself, uh, that was bad, ok
Naomi: I was going to go back to the plane and back to NY and I got a phone call saying that it went really well and David would like to meet you again tomorrow, but this time can you wear makeup. I was like, oh no, I’m too ugly, he wants a supermodel, I’m not sexy, all these things that I’ve heard before. Sorry Naomi, didn’t work out this time, there’re going to go with someone a little more sexy, I was like…I thought that was going to happen again. Anyway, I went and get a blow dry or something and put on some makeup, a fitting outfit.
Naomi: I mean, I did lots of commercials before I started acting and then, you name it, from cereal to tampax to every kind of embarrassing thing, to be an actor was a little bit like a golly dream of mine…my mother was an actress and she was doing a play, my fair lady, and I just, I was about 4 years old…I kept .. you know, trying to get her attention like, looking at my grandmother saying why isn’t my mother looking at me, relating to me, doing what she does and finally she snuck that little.. In that moment, I remember being transported, I got transported into this whole world of “make believe”
Naomi: When I shop I keep this weird habit of sometimes I feel like I need to return things whether I you know, don’t deserve some or a shit like that, but what I do is I keep the tags on, and I keep my first wear and then I think, I decide whether or not I want to keep it, (laughs) it’s terrible, isn’t it?
Naomi: The other night at the net ball, he asked me to go to David Beckham and get a picture frame and of course I did, he’s my big brother and obediently said OK , all right, let’s do it. How embarrassing to go straight to Posh and Becks and say can I get a photo? They said yes and Ben came in the photo, David Beckham was very nice and Posh went (laughs)
Naomi: We were doing that long line with the cars and remember being very nervous, this was a big deal, you know, Cannes, this huge red carpet, The Palais Royale, huge crowds, the lead in the film and David Li, it was all huge in my head, um, and as I drove up our car, as I opened the door, Cat Stevens’ ”morning has broken”, started playing, that is a song that I’m very connected to because um, my father, when he passed away, they played that song at his funeral so I use it a lot sort of a trigger kind of thing when I’m working or…anyway, it’s a little bit um, I felt he was there, at the minute I was getting out, I heard the song and oh my god I started to cry, but it was also a joyful tear because it felt like my guarded angel was walking me through.
Extra Work: Lesson 123: The s-word (explicit).
Parts of Speech.
Can be a noun:
"Get your shit together and go".
"I stepped in shit".
Can be a verb:
"I’ve got the shits".
Can be countable:
"I gotta take a shit".
"I have the shits".
Can be uncountable:
"Move all that shit out of your room!"
Meanings:
Stuff or Things:
"I’ve got to move my shit tomorrow".
The best of its kind:
"He's the shit".
Nonsense.
"Everything he says is a load of shit".
"That’s bullshit, man".
"Everything he says means shit to me".
Nasty, despicable person (use particularly with men):
"Your son has been a real shit to her".
Anything or nothing:
"His opinion isn't worth shit".
"We don't have shit to live on".
Mariguana
"You got any shit on you?"
Verbs
To be afraid:
"I shit myself"
"He was shitting a brick".
To fool (someone) or deceive someone.
"200 dollars? Are you shitting me?"
Adjectives
Terrible:
"Who listens to that shit music".
Interjections (loud exclamation)
"Oh shit!"
"Shit!"
"Holy shit!"
Interjection, avoid the s-word
Oh, shoot!
To show displeasure or surprise:
"Oh, shit, I forgot the passports at home!"
Synonyms:- Litteral Dung
- Maneur
- Excrement
- Feces
How to start your car.
Transcript.
As you know, many modern cars have electronic systems for locking and unlocking the doors, and for starting the engine. Generally the car key contains a computer chip and a little battery. If the computer chip is not there, the car engine will not start.
The following story appeared on the BBC website recently. A motorist needed to change the battery in her car key. But when she had finished, she found that she could not start the engine in her car. In desperation, she called the AA. The AA man arrived and found that there was no computer chip in the key. It must have fallen out when the woman changed the battery. The woman and the AA man searched the car but could not find the chip. Then the woman remembered that her dog had been in the car, and had eaten something when she was changing the battery. That was it! The dog must have eaten the chip.
The AA man put the dog in the driver’s seat of the car, and turned the key in the ignition. The engine started immediately! Now the woman can use her car again, provided that her dog is in the front seat.
What will she do when the chip is no longer in the dog? I have no idea.
The Cell Phone Festival.
Transcript.
David: Oh hi. I’m David Pogue. And I fill a rant coming on.
David: Hello, I’m David Pogue. You know, in recent weeks, the senate commerce committee is having hearings about the cell phone industry. The question is, is it anticompetitive for cell phone makers like apple to strike exclusive deals with cell phone carriers like AT&T. Come to think of it, that’s about the only example anybody cares about. My feeling is, you can’t really get into legislating business deals and furthermore, if you want to talk about what’s broken about the cell phone industry there are much bigger problems we should tackle first.
David: Like the price of text messages for example. Why are they 20 cents a text message today and two years ago they were only 10 cents Sure, I can sign up for a texting package, but why should I have to? I’m already paying for unlimited e-mail, what’s the difference? The difference is greed.
David: It is not just me. I asked my followers on twitter what bugs them about their cell phone service? Turns out, it’s a lot. So ladies and gentlemen, I’m pleased to announce the world premiere of the “I hate my cell phone film festival”.
Sherri Bailey: About half my calls are dropped even though it says I have all my bar, so…
Thomas Costello:
What I don’t like the most about my cell phone carrier isn’t its ridiculous data plan or roaming charges, it’s dealing with their customer service departments.
C J Forse: It’s 2009, do we really need 30 seconds worth of detailed instructions on how to leave a voice mail message? I think we all get it by now.
Joshua Kaufman:
I’d like to see wireless service providers stop dictating to the hand set makers what can or cannot put in their devices.
Ivan Komarov: I got a voice mail that was 6 days late, what are we paying you guys for again?
Chris Polone: Send us your signal out in the country. We live out there…off the highway.
Mike MacDonald:
Ok, so they merge with Cingular and they drop my tower and my signal. They refuse to turn the tower back on or introduce central cells and they came out with the i-phone exclusively. When I couldn’t even quit…
Dennis Serras: Their ridiculous prices for text messaging.
Scripts Lesson 10
I'm all ears extra activity #2 Page 51 (Also in your CD).
Describing People's Looks.
Script.
George: Hey, what are you looking at?
Nancy: Oh, these? They’re pictures from my trip back home last month.
George: Let’s have a look. So, who’s this?
Nancy: That’s my sister and that’s my cousin Keira.
George: Your sister looks nothing like you. You’re fair and she has dark hair and dark eyes. Now, you look much more like your cousin.
Nancy: Yeah, that’s true. Keira and I both have heart-shaped faces, thin lips, fat cheeks, and bushy eyebrows. Gorgeous!
George: You don’t give yourself enough credit. Why do you think every one of your guy friends is interested in you? Hey, who’s the little girl?
Nancy: Oh, that’s my cousin Adriano’s daughter. She’s seven. She’s very pretty as you can see and has the most beautiful wavy hair. That’s her baby brother who was just born in April.
George: Oh, man, he’s so cute. That pudgy face, curly hair, and big eyes! He’s adorable.
Nancy: Yeah, I think he looks just like me.
George: Hmmm…I think I’d better stop complimenting you. It’s going straight to your head.
I'm all ears extra activity #4 Page 54 (Also in your CD)
The T Sound.
Script.
I think the movie was better.
He's always wasting time on the computer.
Today I wrote a letter to my friend.
I usually drink water after playing sports.
Could you please pass the bread and butter?
Hey, it's cold in here. Please turn on the heater.
Don't throw the bottle there. You have to put it in the trash can.
I'll put all the data into the spreadsheet.
They have a daughter and a son.
See you later.
Don't be late to the meeting.
Yesterday, she bought a new notebook.
I think I caught a cold yesterday at the picnic.
There weren't a lot of people in class yesterday.
The 1st book was better than the 2nd one.
The computer has some problems.
Today I wrote a letter to my friend.
Don't drink the water in the river.
They have a daughter and a son.
See you later.
The monthly meeting is tomorrow at 3.
Yesterday, she bought a new notebook.
I think I caught a cold yesterday at the picnic.
I have a lot of work this weekend.
The video shop just got a new documentary about global warming.
I'm all ears extra activity 5 Page 56 (Also in your CD)
Script.
I got a call yesterday from Amy, a co-worker from the office. She and I work in the same department. We’ve had lunch at work a few times, but I really didn’t know her that well. I was really glad that she called.
Kevin: Hello?
Amy: Hi. Could I speak to Kevin?
Kevin: This is Kevin.
Amy: Oh, Hi, it’s Amy from work
Kevin: Oh, hey. How’s it going? I didn’t recognize your voice.
Amy: Not bad. Listen, the reason I’m calling is that I’m having a dinner party a week from Saturday at my place around 7:30. I wanted to see if you could make it.
Kevin: SO, it’s not this Saturday, but the Saturday after that. That would be the seventeenth.
Amy: Yeah, that’s right, the following Saturday, the 17th.
Kevin:Let me jus check my calendar…yeah, I think I can make it. Are you inviting anyone else from work?
Amy:Yeah, I am. Jennifer from Marketing already RSVPd so she’ll be there for sure. And I’m waiting to hear back from James in accounting. I’ve also invited a few other friends.
Kevin: Just out of curiosity, are they in finance too?
Amy: No, my friend Janice is in the medical field. She’s an orthopedic surgeon. She’s bringing her boyfriend Tim and I think he’s an engineer in the automobile industry. Then there’s Megan, she works part time in retail and moonlights as a tour guide on the weekends. She’s been wanting to get into the hospitality industry for a long time.
Kevin: Wow, that sounds like a great group of people. I’m looking forward to it. Can I bring anything?
Amy: No, that’s OK. Just come and bring your appetite.
Kevin: Sounds great. Thanks for the invitation.
Amy: No problem. I’m glad you can make it. See you in the office tomorrow.
Kevin: See you then. Bye.
Extra Work: Dove Commercial (Also in your CD)
Script.
Show me a smile then
don't be unhappy, can't remember
when I last saw you laughing
if this world makes you crazy
and you've taken all you can bear
you call me up
because you know I'll be there
And I'll see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
and that's why I love you
so don't be afraid to let them show
your true colors
true colors are beautiful
like a rainbow
Extra work: Life in Japan.
Script.
At the moment I'm living in Japan and um... life here is pretty different to um... anything I've really experienced before. Uh... I think just because the daily routine is so different. Um... in England, in England, basically I was really lazy. Um... I'd probably you know... get up at 8:30 in the morning. Uh... Leave ten minutes later, cause I always uh... brush my teeth at work, eat breakfast at work, get to work for 9 o'clock, come home from work at 5:30, probably lie on the sofa, maybe watch Simpsons, cook some food, go to bed, and that was the sort of daily routine in England, a very lazy one. I mean, even if I needed to get to the supermarket which was probably what, like 3-400 meters away, I'd get on my scooter to do it.
Walking anywhere would be just a massive hassle and uh... so it was a bit of a shock when I got to Japan and all that changed, I mean, the one thing you have to do a lot of in Tokyo is walk. You have to walk everywhere. I mean the train systems are absolutely amazing but you need to walk to get to the trains. You need to walk in between the trains and like when I first arrived, I just ... I walked my feet into the ground. Um... after a week they were aching so badly. After two weeks, they were just I don't know, it took me at least a month to like wear my feet in. They're still, still like now, after long walks...
But it's just apart from the walking, you just, it's just the busy-ness of life here, I mean cause no one actually lives in Tokyo um... cause it's so expensive. Uh... we all live out sort of in the suburbs in what we call bed towns, and um... so actually getting into school every morning, I'm studying Japanese here, uh... I have to get up pretty early just to get onto the train, to then travel, commute, an hour in, um... to get to school on time, which of course I never do. I'm meant to be at school at about nine, which would mean, sort of leaving my house at about 8, getting up at 7. I know this is not shocking for a lot of people, but after the routine I had, it's a pretty shocking experience for me, uh... especially the hour of commute in on the train where you're kept in like sardines, something that... you just would never have in uh... sort of London and London Underground in England where I'm from.
Um... on the London Underground if the train's full of people wait for the next train. Here if the train is full, people just push and push until they get on so you can end up being stood, never get to sit down, just standing for an hour, like squashed up, like sardines, so by the time you even get to school you're totally tired. And then there's uh... school until lunch time and after lunch I always... always say I'm going to come back and study but I never do I always just come back and fall fast asleep.
You know listening to uh... Eli talk about uh... how she had to adjust to life in Japan uh... brings back some uh... good memories about uh... me when I first came to live here in Japan myself. And uh... it's been so long now I've been living here that... 15 years that uh.. that... something that I hardly ever think about adjusting to life here. But then again sometimes I say to myself I've been living here 15 years and that’ hard to realize I can’t believe I’ve been here that long.
Describing People's Looks.
Script.
George: Hey, what are you looking at?
Nancy: Oh, these? They’re pictures from my trip back home last month.
George: Let’s have a look. So, who’s this?
Nancy: That’s my sister and that’s my cousin Keira.
George: Your sister looks nothing like you. You’re fair and she has dark hair and dark eyes. Now, you look much more like your cousin.
Nancy: Yeah, that’s true. Keira and I both have heart-shaped faces, thin lips, fat cheeks, and bushy eyebrows. Gorgeous!
George: You don’t give yourself enough credit. Why do you think every one of your guy friends is interested in you? Hey, who’s the little girl?
Nancy: Oh, that’s my cousin Adriano’s daughter. She’s seven. She’s very pretty as you can see and has the most beautiful wavy hair. That’s her baby brother who was just born in April.
George: Oh, man, he’s so cute. That pudgy face, curly hair, and big eyes! He’s adorable.
Nancy: Yeah, I think he looks just like me.
George: Hmmm…I think I’d better stop complimenting you. It’s going straight to your head.
I'm all ears extra activity #4 Page 54 (Also in your CD)
The T Sound.
Script.
I think the movie was better.
He's always wasting time on the computer.
Today I wrote a letter to my friend.
I usually drink water after playing sports.
Could you please pass the bread and butter?
Hey, it's cold in here. Please turn on the heater.
Don't throw the bottle there. You have to put it in the trash can.
I'll put all the data into the spreadsheet.
They have a daughter and a son.
See you later.
Don't be late to the meeting.
Yesterday, she bought a new notebook.
I think I caught a cold yesterday at the picnic.
There weren't a lot of people in class yesterday.
The 1st book was better than the 2nd one.
The computer has some problems.
Today I wrote a letter to my friend.
Don't drink the water in the river.
They have a daughter and a son.
See you later.
The monthly meeting is tomorrow at 3.
Yesterday, she bought a new notebook.
I think I caught a cold yesterday at the picnic.
I have a lot of work this weekend.
The video shop just got a new documentary about global warming.
I'm all ears extra activity 5 Page 56 (Also in your CD)
Script.
I got a call yesterday from Amy, a co-worker from the office. She and I work in the same department. We’ve had lunch at work a few times, but I really didn’t know her that well. I was really glad that she called.
Kevin: Hello?
Amy: Hi. Could I speak to Kevin?
Kevin: This is Kevin.
Amy: Oh, Hi, it’s Amy from work
Kevin: Oh, hey. How’s it going? I didn’t recognize your voice.
Amy: Not bad. Listen, the reason I’m calling is that I’m having a dinner party a week from Saturday at my place around 7:30. I wanted to see if you could make it.
Kevin: SO, it’s not this Saturday, but the Saturday after that. That would be the seventeenth.
Amy: Yeah, that’s right, the following Saturday, the 17th.
Kevin:Let me jus check my calendar…yeah, I think I can make it. Are you inviting anyone else from work?
Amy:Yeah, I am. Jennifer from Marketing already RSVPd so she’ll be there for sure. And I’m waiting to hear back from James in accounting. I’ve also invited a few other friends.
Kevin: Just out of curiosity, are they in finance too?
Amy: No, my friend Janice is in the medical field. She’s an orthopedic surgeon. She’s bringing her boyfriend Tim and I think he’s an engineer in the automobile industry. Then there’s Megan, she works part time in retail and moonlights as a tour guide on the weekends. She’s been wanting to get into the hospitality industry for a long time.
Kevin: Wow, that sounds like a great group of people. I’m looking forward to it. Can I bring anything?
Amy: No, that’s OK. Just come and bring your appetite.
Kevin: Sounds great. Thanks for the invitation.
Amy: No problem. I’m glad you can make it. See you in the office tomorrow.
Kevin: See you then. Bye.
Extra Work: Dove Commercial (Also in your CD)
Script.
Show me a smile then
don't be unhappy, can't remember
when I last saw you laughing
if this world makes you crazy
and you've taken all you can bear
you call me up
because you know I'll be there
And I'll see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
and that's why I love you
so don't be afraid to let them show
your true colors
true colors are beautiful
like a rainbow
Extra work: Life in Japan.
Script.
At the moment I'm living in Japan and um... life here is pretty different to um... anything I've really experienced before. Uh... I think just because the daily routine is so different. Um... in England, in England, basically I was really lazy. Um... I'd probably you know... get up at 8:30 in the morning. Uh... Leave ten minutes later, cause I always uh... brush my teeth at work, eat breakfast at work, get to work for 9 o'clock, come home from work at 5:30, probably lie on the sofa, maybe watch Simpsons, cook some food, go to bed, and that was the sort of daily routine in England, a very lazy one. I mean, even if I needed to get to the supermarket which was probably what, like 3-400 meters away, I'd get on my scooter to do it.
Walking anywhere would be just a massive hassle and uh... so it was a bit of a shock when I got to Japan and all that changed, I mean, the one thing you have to do a lot of in Tokyo is walk. You have to walk everywhere. I mean the train systems are absolutely amazing but you need to walk to get to the trains. You need to walk in between the trains and like when I first arrived, I just ... I walked my feet into the ground. Um... after a week they were aching so badly. After two weeks, they were just I don't know, it took me at least a month to like wear my feet in. They're still, still like now, after long walks...
But it's just apart from the walking, you just, it's just the busy-ness of life here, I mean cause no one actually lives in Tokyo um... cause it's so expensive. Uh... we all live out sort of in the suburbs in what we call bed towns, and um... so actually getting into school every morning, I'm studying Japanese here, uh... I have to get up pretty early just to get onto the train, to then travel, commute, an hour in, um... to get to school on time, which of course I never do. I'm meant to be at school at about nine, which would mean, sort of leaving my house at about 8, getting up at 7. I know this is not shocking for a lot of people, but after the routine I had, it's a pretty shocking experience for me, uh... especially the hour of commute in on the train where you're kept in like sardines, something that... you just would never have in uh... sort of London and London Underground in England where I'm from.
Um... on the London Underground if the train's full of people wait for the next train. Here if the train is full, people just push and push until they get on so you can end up being stood, never get to sit down, just standing for an hour, like squashed up, like sardines, so by the time you even get to school you're totally tired. And then there's uh... school until lunch time and after lunch I always... always say I'm going to come back and study but I never do I always just come back and fall fast asleep.
You know listening to uh... Eli talk about uh... how she had to adjust to life in Japan uh... brings back some uh... good memories about uh... me when I first came to live here in Japan myself. And uh... it's been so long now I've been living here that... 15 years that uh.. that... something that I hardly ever think about adjusting to life here. But then again sometimes I say to myself I've been living here 15 years and that’ hard to realize I can’t believe I’ve been here that long.
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