SO_UI_U3_PODCAST.doc

  Upper Intermediate Unit 3 Video Podcast Script

P = Pasha              W = Winston              D = Dee              R = Rachel              N = Nick

F = Florence                            C = Charlie              E = Elena              T = Tracey

P:              Hi. I enjoy doing a lot of different things in my free time. Most of them are to do with music: I DJ both in London and internationally and I try to go to concerts and festivals whenever I can. How about you? How do you spend your free time?

W:              My free time, when I have any, is playing golf. I discovered golf eight years ago and I’m addicted: whenever I can, I’ll get out on a golf course.

D:              Photography; I like to watch films; really into music.

R:              In my free time I’m an amateur opera singer and I also run an amateur opera company.

N:              I spend my free time shopping, cooking, going to exhibitions, travelling, going to the theatre.

F:              I exercise a lot: I spend a lot of time walking, running and boxing.

C:              I play football, I play table tennis, I go bowling. I also do a radio show at my university.

E:              Well, during my free time I read, I watch the news online and watch TV series and go out with my friends.

T:              I spend most of my free time with my friends and, just getting together and watching films, listening to music. I like to read a lot and I like to draw and make clothes.

P:              How would you spend your free time differently if you had more time or money or opportunity?

W:              I’d travel more. I’d take my children to see more things around the world. They’ve travelled a little bit, I’ve travelled quite a lot, but I’d like to take them to see some of the things that the world has to offer.

T:              If I had more free time, I think I’d be able to develop my own creativity.

C:              Finding, maybe, a bit more about my heritage. I’m quite interested in that, and speaking to my parents about how they grew up and their parents and things like that.

R:              I would spend more time practising music.

F:              If I had more time, I would travel more.

E:              If I had more free time, I’d see more of my friends and people that I don’t get to see enough. And I’d probably relax and go to the park a lot.

P:              What are the benefits to society of giving people more downtime or more holidays?

D:               I think if you had more time off you’d be able to do, you’d be able to explore your mind a lot more and people would become more educated, more intelligent and more aware of what’s going on in the world.

T:              If we all had more free time, I think we’d all be able to let ourselves be more creative, as opposed to just work, work, work all the time.

E:              I think that today when people don’t work from 9 to 5 so much any more: I think that more free time would do everyone a lot of good, as long as you have something to do with it, and you have, kind of, hobbies or friends to see.

F:              They would be less stressed, I believe, because I think that people are very, very stressed nowadays.

N:              I think society benefits from giving people more free time because it enables them to lead less stressed lives, reduces the pressures on them, and also increases interests and I think that a society that has a broad range of interests, a broad range of things that they like doing, is generally beneficial.