Pre-intermediate Unit 7 Video Podcast Script
H = Hina W1 = 1st woman etc. M1 = 1st man etc.
H: I feel good about life at the moment. I live in a fantastic city and I’m really happy with my job at the BBC. Tell me about you.
W1: I have a fabulous partner, four beautiful children, a great job- and I live in London.
W2: I’m enjoying my life at the moment because I have a good circle of friends. I have a job that I really enjoy and I’ve just bought a flat.
W3: I enjoy living in the UK, and I have been over here for about nine years, so I do enjoy my life.
W4: I am just about to go on holiday so I am, yeah, looking forward to that.
W5: I’m happy with where I am, yeah. I’ve just graduated for two weeks.
W6: My life’s great. I’ve got two lovely children, a great husband and I just finished paying for my house.
M1: I’ve got a career opportunity going on, progressing a bit, started a new one, just changed the career a couple of years back. Started a family as well. I bought a house. Things like that, you know. Things are going well – so I’m so far, happy.
H: Is there anything you’d like to change?
M1: Eventually yes. But not at the moment, things are going alright.
W2: No, not at all. No, not at the moment, no. A little bit more travel.
W3: I’d like to be richer.
W4: Nothing that I can think of.
M2: I’d like to go on more holidays.
W5: I would like to get into graphic design. That’s something that I’d really want to change.
W6: I’d like to be able to afford to join a gym so that I could get fitter.
H: My life has changed a lot in the past 10 years. I’ve lived in three different countries. How about you? How has your life changed in the last few years?
W1: My life has changed quite a bit in the last two years. Specifically in that I had a five-year break from work, put my career on hold and returned back to full-time employment.
M2: I’ve recently had a young girl, a daughter – my wife’s given birth. And yeah, that’s a big change in your life.
W4: I’m living in a new area that I hadn’t lived in before. So I was completely new to that part of London. So that’s probably the biggest change.
W3: Ten years ago I was a student and so I used to get up late, and I used to have lots of time. And now I have to go to work.
W2: My life has changed. I’ve developed more of an established career. I’ve moved around quite a bit since I’ve moved to the United Kingdom.
M1: Yeah, I’ve changed in every possible way really. Career-wise, I made a big decision of changing my career, coming to HSBC. And then personal life - got married, I had my first child, bought my first property.
W6: I’ve had a family and so I don’t see so much of my friends any more. We do a lot of family things and a lot of my friends have moved out of London so we don’t get together so much any more.
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