SO_PI_U11_PODCAST.doc

Pre-intermediate Unit 11 Video Podcast Script

H = Hina     W1 = 1 woman etc.     M1 = 1st man etc.

H:               I love technology. I enjoy reading about new gadgets and I spend a lot               of money on technology. I couldn't live without my mobile phone               because I plan my life with it - or without my MP3 player because I love               listening to music. How about you? How do you feel about               technology?

W1:              I love technology.

W2:               For what I do, I'm probably quite a technophobe. Because I'm a               designer, so I have to use a computer every day. And I only learnt how               to use a computer when I was 19.

W3:               Oh, I love technology. I love computers, and I love Twitter. And I love               mobile phones… I love technology.

M1:               I've got lots of gadgets. I wouldn't be...I wouldn't know what to do               without my laptop.

M2:               I hate technology. I find it frightening and disturbing.

W4:               I use technology because I have to.

W5:               I am definitely not technophobe. I have learnt to love technology very               much though in my job.

M3:               I love technology – a lot. You know, everything about it like new               gadgets, you know, computers, things like that.

W6:               I have a mobile phone, and I do have an iPod. But I'm probably the               only person I know that doesn't own my own computer.

M4:               Oh no, I have every latest gadget as it comes out.

H:               What items of technology do you have with you at the moment?

M1:               I've got my mobile phone in my pocket. And my laptop’s just in my filing               cabinet. In the office over there.

W3:               I have my mobile phone with me. And my mobile phone is connected to               Twitter.

W2:               I have an iPod, but it's not charged. So that's why I'm not using it.

W6:               On me at the moment, I just have my mobile - that's all.

M3:               At the moment, I have my mobile phone on me, and MP3 player.

W5:               My laptop.

W1:               Just my mobile - but I have two.

M4:               An e-book reader, and a laptop, and an iPod, and so… lots and lots of               gadgets.

H:               Are there any items of technology you couldn't live without?

W1:               I couldn't live without my computer. Why not? Because I’m on it all the               time. It broke down once for three weeks and I felt like my husband had               left me - I’m not even married. I was devastated, so no, I couldn't live               without my computer.

M1:               I couldn't live without my laptop. I could probably live without my phone.               I quite like leaving it turned off for a while. But the laptop’s essential.

M3:               I really couldn't live without my iPod, my mobile phone of course. And               computer, yeah, everyone needs a computer nowadays.

W6:               My phone. I think beyond that, I don’t need anything else.

W4:               My mobile phone. That would be the only one. And maybe the TV.

W3:               I don't think I could live without my mobile phone. And I couldn’t live               without the computer, and I couldn't live without the Internet - because I               depend on them.