Intermediate Unit 9 Audio Script
UNIT 9 Recording 1
1 Machu Picchu would’ve remained unknown if Hiram Bingham hadn’t explored the Andes in Peru.
2 If the ‘I love you’ virus had been found earlier, forty-five million computers wouldn’t have crashed.
3 The first experiments in cloning would’ve been impossible if Gregor Mendel hadn’t discovered genes.
4 If John Lennon hadn’t met Paul McCartney, they wouldn’t have formed The Beatles.
5 The invention of the mobile phone wouldn’t have been possible if Alexander Graham Bell hadn’t invented the telephone.
6 If the Nestor Film Company hadn’t opened a film studio there in 1911, Hollywood would’ve remained a quiet community.
UNIT 9 Recording 2
1 Jeans are worn by people all over the world.
2 Mobile phones are being designed especially for teenagers.
3 Teenagers have always been influenced by the media.
4 A great film about a teenage vampire was made in Sweden.
5 In the past, children were seen as mini-adults.
6 In the future, people will be prevented from smoking until they are twenty-one.
7 In Mexico, a party called quinceañera is held when a girl reaches the age of fifteen.
8 Many of the computer games of the future will be designed by teenagers.
UNIT 9 Recording 3
1 Yeah, I grew up in the 90s. Erm, for me film and music are two important ah important aspects of my life, and it was a fantastic decade for both of those. In terms of films, there were some ah excellent ones that came out, erm, my favourites being Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, and The Shawshank Redemption. In terms of the music … probably the most famous bands of the time was Oasis and Blur. Ah, one of the most memorable moments of the 90s was Euro 96 … obviously the football tournament. I was lucky enough to go to the opening ceremony myself. Obviously, as we was entering the end of the millennium the celebrations towards the end of the nineties were huge as were the actual celebrations on the night. Tony Blair was elected, erm, so he was the first sort of Labour government for, for a long time. Um and also Mother Teresa died, sort of Mother Teresa was, erm, the famous charitable missionary.
2 Ah, the 70s, well they were wonderful I think if, if I’m asked were they was it a good decade or a bad decade, personally I have to think it was a good decade to grow up in. I think it’s very lucky I think of it as a very lucky experience when generally the world that I lived in, which was London and England, which was the post-war period and therefore an era of a certain amount of erm, restriction was all ending and things were freeing up and that happened just at the time that I was leaving home and finding my own independence. It all seemed as though it happened at the same time. Erm, technology was er, changing and improving, um, everything seemed to be developing and getting better in many ways. The fashion was getting rid of short hair and regimented kind of looks, erm, individuality was very much the order of the day. Great people were emerging in the arts. John Lennon, for example, was an icon for me I think as a creative artist with a message as well in his work. Great artists in film, Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Spielberg, Duel these were emerging artists of tremendous skill and artistry but they were just starting out then when I was.
3 I was a teenager in the 80s and I remember thinking that um I didn’t like a lot of the fashion and the music from back then but now it’s obvious in retrospect that I did quite like it. I love looking back on like a nostalgia trip at the way we used to dress and how much hair gel I used and how much hair spray the girls used, and er, now in the 2000s there’s sort of a trip back into that time you know, girls are wearing big earrings again and geometric patterns of their clothes. Erm, the music in the 80s became quite computerised sounding, quite electronic and er, disco faded away, although we did still have soul although people like Luther Vandross and Billy Ocean, erm, making soul music. Er, New Romantic was another style that came out in the early 80s where the men started wearing lots of make-up and had big shoulders and small waists and erm, there was Madonna was a big trendsetter for girls and er, at one point she cut her hair really short in the mid 80s and almost like a boy’s, and then all the girls started cutting their hair short, too. Erm, I wasn’t very fashionable myself, I used to spend most of my money on records not clothes. Erm, there were some good films around in the 80s too things like Back to the Future with Michael J Fox, Desperately Seeking Susan with Madonna, ET, Police Academy … Um, I’m gonna be forty this year and I reckon my birthday party is going to be a big nostalgia trip back to the 80s.
UNIT 9 Recording 4
W = Woman M = Man
W: What about this first one? Who was once kidnapped in France?
M: I have no idea. Maybe Isabelle Allende?
W: It was Chaucer. I think he worked for the British government.
M: Did he? I didn’t know that.
W: OK, what about the next one? Who was messy?
M: Umm … probably Machiavelli.
W: It was Karl Marx.
M: Oh really?
W: And the third one: who was stopped by the US government from entering the States?
M: I’m not a hundred percent certain but it might be Chaplin. I read somewhere that he had some political views that they didn’t like in the States. I’m fairly sure it’s Chaplin. Is that right?
W: You’re right. It was Chaplin.
M: Yeah, I read something about that.
W: OK, number four. Who played the violin?
M: I haven’t a clue. I’ll guess it was Galileo.
W: It was Einstein. He was a very good violinist, apparently.
M: Was he? That’s interesting.
W: Number five.
M: It’s definitely not Mandela. Ermm … Joan of Arc?
W: Didn’t you see that film about Che Guevara and his friend travelling across South America on their motorbikes?
M: I don’t think I did, actually.
W: Yeah, Guevara was a medical student …
M: Oh yes, I knew that. I just couldn’t remember.
W: Who went on a road trip with his friend?
M: Ah, that’s right.
W: And the last one?
M: Umm, well I’m sure it isn’t Picasso. Oh, it’s da Vinci. He invented lots of stuff but never actually produced any of it, like … um … oh I can’t remember, but I know he was an inventor as well as an artist.
W: Correct. It was da Vinci. He invented the parachute.
M: Oh yeah, I was just about to say that!
UNIT 9 Recording 5
Conversation 1
A: It was Chaucer. I think he worked for the British government.
B: Did he? I didn’t know that.
Conversation 2
A: It was Karl Marx.
B: Oh really?
Conversation 3
A: It was Einstein. He was a very good violinist, apparently.
B: Was he? That’s interesting.
Conversation 4
A: Yeah, Guevara was a medical student …
B: Oh yes, I knew that. I just couldn’t remember.
Conversation 5
A: Who went on a road trip with his friend?
B: Ah, that’s right.
Conversation 6
A: It was da Vinci. He invented the parachute.
B: Oh yeah, I was just about to say that!
UNIT 9 Recording 6
L = Lili Lowe
L: OK, well, someone whose work really influenced me is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I like his short stories, but I fell in love with his novels, particularly One Hundred Years of Solitude. That book really made its mark on me. Anyway, erm, well, Marquez is a Colombian writer. I think he was born in 1928. He’s a Nobel Prize winner – he won the Nobel Prize in Literature – and his books have been translated into dozens of languages. Erm … He’s one of the best-known writers in the style of what’s called magic realism. This means he writes kind of realistically but there’s magic, I mean magical things happen in his books, like ghosts appear and kind of crazy things happen. I’m a big fan of that type of writing. Anyway, his novels are kind of funny but it’s black humour or satire. He invents all these amazing, unforgettable characters, like um, corrupt officials and devoted lovers, vicious policemen and stupid revolutionaries, and through it all you’re laughing at the characters but you also see their world is falling apart. I haven’t read his work in Spanish, only English, erm, but the style is brilliant. His dialogue is fast and funny and he writes amazing descriptions of places and people. And, um, well, it was finding Marquez’s work as a teenager that really made me become a reader.
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