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UNIT 7 Recording 1 throughout the book is pick up on these T: What’s that? little things that we really need to go J: Blocking? It’s where you stand or move P = Presenter I = Ian back and look at again if we are to really to, y’know? Like, when you say your words understand why successful people are as you might have to walk quickly across the P: Hello and welcome back to the Focus successful as they are. stage. Or move in front of someone. It’s all podcast. I’m Jenny Osmond, the editor of P: I think the 10,000 hours magic number planned and er, you have to remember it. Focus, the monthly science and technology is really interesting because, as you know, T: Oh, I see. magazine from the BBC. I used to play tennis professionally, and J: But it’s funny: for, for other things I have He’s the hugely influential author of Blink I hit a load of tennis balls when I was a terrible memory. I’m totally useless. I and the Tipping Point. His work is quoted younger. And I’m sure, I must have done always forget birthdays and dates. I’m always by academics, presidents and your mates 10,000 hours’ worth, you know, I must late for things. It’s just … yeah … luckily, I’m down the pub. And now Malcolm Gladwell have done four hours a day, and stuff. OK with my lines. has turned that deft mind of his to a new And I remember speaking to Martina P: What about you, Tim? subject: the science of success. In his new Hingis’ mum about why she thought her T: I’m probably the same as all other book, The Outliers, Gladwell argues that if kid was so good, and such a prodigy, and students. At least all other history students. we want to be successful, we should think she basically said, ‘My daughter has been I have to memorise dates and also names. But it’s not that difficult because you read less about what successful people are like, hitting tennis balls since the age of three about them so much you can’t really forget and more about where they have come and she has hit X number of tennis balls them. But for other things I have a really from and the opportunities they have had for X number of hours and it’s, you know, bad memory. I can never remember jokes along the way. Now, Ian’s read the book I’m sure she’s … So once you’re over that or films. Sometimes I’m watching a film and and he joins me. Now … his new book is magic number of 10,000 … yeah. after an hour I realise I’ve seen it already. looking at success … I: The same goes for people like I’m completely hopeless like that. I: Yes, and what he says is, erm, that if Beethoven, erm … It’s incredible how … J: Oh, me too … we think about somebody like Bill Gates, P: But at the end of the day you have to hugely successful person, and we want to have talent. UNIT 7 Recording 5 learn from, from his achievements, then I: You’ve got to have raw talent, you’ve got what do we look at? We look at what that to have belief in what you can do, and you M = Man W = Woman man is like, you know, what drives him, have to have the will to put those hours in M: It’s interesting: one of the most what does he do on a day-to-day basis, … but you also need the opportunity. intelligent people I know is a ten-year-old how can we be more like him? Erm … But boy from Egypt. He doesn’t go to school what Gladwell argues in the new book is, UNIT 7 Recording 4 and he works on a street in Cairo, in one is that we should pay less attention to that of the touristy areas. And he sells things side of stuff, and look at where Bill Gates T = Tim J = John P = Peggy like small statues of the pyramids, things came from. So, how did he get to where T: So what about your memory, Peggy? like that, to tourists. Now, the reason I he got to, the opportunities he had along How good is it? say he’s intelligent is that he can sell you the way. Erm … And what he says is that P: It’s OK, which is lucky ’cos I need to something in about fifteen languages. I Bill Gates has one thing in common with remember lots of things. once spent an afternoon watching him, another group of very successful people, J: Like what? and it was incredible. Most of the time he The Beatles. P: Well, I’m a sales rep for a publishing uses English, but he guesses where you’re P: So, what’s that? company so I’m usually out visiting schools, from by looking at you, and then he starts speaking. He can speak just a little bit of I: Well, they both practised what they do, trying to sell books. French, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, German, and they practised a lot. J: So you need to remember … what etcetera. It’s amazing. He knows just P: Right, so how much is a lot? exactly? enough in all these languages to say hello P: Oh, lots of things. The worst thing when I: A lot is 10,000 hours. That’s like the and sell you something. I started was just trying to remember how magic number if you’re going to become W: How did he learn the languages? to get to these schools in my car. I used world-class at anything in the world, you M: I asked him that and he said he learned to get lost all the time. I’m not very good need to put 10,000 hours’ practice in. them by talking to tourists. at directions. Then once you’re there you P: Oh, OK. W: That is quite amazing. have to remember the names and faces of I: So, The Beatles, they, they were doing M: So anyway, that’s my example. Like I the people you’re talking to. I once spent a said, he doesn’t go to school but, for me, gigs, you know, like all-night gigs in whole hour calling this woman Sally when he’s super-intelligent. What about you? Hamburg, in these little clubs, and just her name was Samantha. W: I can think of loads of people who the number of hours that they put in on T: And she didn’t tell you? the stage, erm, allowed them to master don’t have any qualifications but are able P: For some reason she didn’t tell me. And their craft. And the same with Bill Gates. to do really difficult things. I’ve got a friend, then there’s all the product information. for example, who built his own house. He He, er, as he was growing up, got into J: Product information? What, the books? just taught himself how to do it, bought a computer programming, and through a P: Yes. We sell about five hundred different piece of land, bought the materials and the very fortunate series of events, he was books and I have to know the difference equipment and just did it. No qualifications, able to programme, and programme, and between all of them. I mean, it gets easier, no certificates, no university degree. In programme, erm, and again … thank goodness, but I still make mistakes my view, that’s a real practical kind of P: Because he had access to computers at a occasionally. What about you, John? You’re intelligence. time when these things were developing. an actor, right? M: I couldn’t do that. I: Absolutely! … Exactly! The timing is so, J: Yeah. The main thing I have to remember W: Let me give you another example. I’ve so important. He happened to go to a is my lines. Fortunately, I’ve got a good got another friend who takes parts of old university, erm, where he had access to memory for words, and I don’t find it that cars and makes new cars from them. He er, a computer programming unit. I mean, hard to memorise them. So, I mean, yeah. does it at the weekend as a way to relax. this was back in the 60s and 70s when The other thing you have to remember And the new car actually works! when you’re in the theatre is the blocking. M: I couldn’t do that either. computers were the size of rooms and W: I wouldn’t know where to start. And stuff. Erm, and so what Gladwell does

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W: But I must say real life experience, about a year ago we started an artists’ Conversation 5 travelling, going out and meeting people, colony on the internet, and it’s been great. talking … I think these give you an amazing There are people like us, who work in A: Welcome! education, too. the arts but also other people. And we B: Thank you. What a nice room. M: Exactly. That’s what I was saying. Just show our paintings, and it’s brought some A: Make yourself at home. like the boy from Egypt. business for us. It’s a very creative kind of community, and we love it. We really do. UNIT 8 Recording 6 UNIT 7 Recording 7 Conversation 1 R = Rick 1 In my view, that’s a real practical kind of W = Woman M = Man intelligence. R: There is definitely a community of W: Hi Dave. Sorry. Do you mind? 2 I do think qualifications are useful in bloggers. It’s a very twenty-first century M: Sorry? some ways. community, which means no one knows W: We don’t smoke in the house. 3 But I must say real life experience, one another personally. Bloggers might tell M: Oh, sorry about that. I didn’t know. travelling and meeting people give you an you their thoughts but, er, you don’t know W: That’s all right. It’s no problem. amazing education, too. them as people. The guy who wrote this, 4 For one thing, they show you are able to who says he’s a fifty-year-old American Conversation 2 complete a course. university professor, might be a sixteen-year- M1 = 1st man M2 = 2nd man old girl from Bombay – we just don’t UNIT 7 Recording 8 know. But the best blogs have a following, M1: So they’ve invited me to dinner at their who are very loyal readers. These are home. T = Tracy Hackston people who log on every day. And they get M2: Wonderful. And they’re also from really engaged in the content. Well, that, to Morocco? T: A couple of years ago, er, I learned me, is a community. M1: The same as you. From Morocco. how to scuba dive which was, um, really M2: That’ll be great. exciting, really good experience and when N = Nathan M1: So, do I need to bring a dish? Like, you’re learning half of the, the training is bring some food? in the classroom and half is er, a practical N: The place where we live is very small. M2: No, it’s not necessary. You can bring a in a swimming pool. So the classroom There’s only one shop, which sells all small gift if you want but you don’t need to stuff was fine erm, I found it really quite sorts of things like food, newspapers, and bring food. easy. I was learning with my mum and she everything really. There’s a small school, a was really worried about doing the kind pub, and then not much else. Actually, our Conversation 3 of more academic stuff and passing the social life is based on the pub, where we M = Man W = Woman exam but I found that part OK. It was the have our town meetings. Anyway, when M: Hello? practical stuff that I had trouble with and we need to buy other things we shop W: Hello? she was really lucky, she was erm, really online. It’s cheap and it saves us an hour’s M: Hi, I’m Richard Davies. From Exeter? good. But you go and you learn all the drive in the car. And yeah, I’ve bought all I’m here to visit your offices. technical stuff, you know how to go under sorts of things there: furniture, clothes … W: Ah hello. the water, how to clear your mask if you stuff you just can’t get where we live. M: I’m a bit early. Is this a bad time? get water in it, that kind of thing. And then W: Umm. you have to do two dives outside in a, in a A = Abbie M: I can come back later. kind of reservoir or a quarry or, you know, A: The website which I use the most is a W: I wasn’t expecting you so early. Can something like that. But obviously because social networking site. It’s like Facebook you come back in ten minutes? I just need I’m in the UK it was really, really cold and or MySpace. I put up pictures of me and to finish some work here, then I’ll be able we woke up on the morning of our dive my family and I write messages – but to to show you around. and there was ice on the water so when be honest, I use it mostly to keep in touch M: Of course. Sorry about that. we got there we were very nervous and with friends. And the thing that I like is you W: Not at all. It’s fine. didn’t want to get into the water. But once go onto your friend’s homepage to see I was in it was so freezing that I tried to go what they’ve been doing … and er, you, Conversation 4 under the water but the more I tried the you can see pictures of all their friends. W1 = 1st woman W2 = 2nd woman harder it got and then I got very frustrated And then you see pictures of your friend’s W1: So, I walked into your parents’ house and started to cry and then all my ears friends, and it grows and grows so you but I forgot to take my shoes off. Did I do got blocked up and I couldn’t get under. meet new people. Erm, I think it’s great. I something wrong? But eventually I managed it and erm, went check it at least once every day. down, passed my test, did all of the skills W2: Oh, I see. that you need to do. Despite the fact that UNIT 8 Recording 5 W1: My shoes weren’t dirty or anything I was so terrible at it I managed to pass but I still felt really bad. and now, erm, now I’m passed I can go Conversation 1 W2: It’s OK – I’ll tell my parents you anywhere I want so I’ll make sure it will A: I’m really hungry. Can I have some of this? forgot. Don’t worry about it. be somewhere very hot. So, erm, to sum B: Help yourself. W1: I don’t know. Should I call them up to up, all, altogether it was a really difficult, apologise? really difficult challenge, I’m so glad I Conversation 2 W2: No, it’s nothing. You really don’t have managed it. Erm … For me, it was quite an A: Come on in. to apologise. achievement and, and I’m proud of myself B: Thanks. for having done it. C: Have a seat.

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Conversation 5 France, I don’t know why. to go to the opening ceremony myself. B: Oh somewhere in France? OK and, and Obviously, as we was entering the end of W = Waiter C = Customer who would be there: the French only or a the millennium the celebrations towards W: Excuse me sir, would you mind putting mixture of people? the end of the nineties were huge as were this on? S: No, I … well, it would need to be a mix the actual celebrations on the night. Tony C: What? of people and they’d need to be able to Blair was elected, erm, so he was the W: Put on your jacket. In this restaurant help one another. first sort of Labour government for, for you have to wear a jacket. B: In what way? a long time. Um and also Mother Teresa C: My apologies. I didn’t realise. S: Well, erm … I’d like to take one person died, sort of Mother Teresa was, erm, the Conversation 6 who’s an expert in one field, another famous charitable missionary. person who’s an expert in another field, 2 Ah, the 70s, well they were wonderful W = Woman M = Man so you have – you know – arty people, I think if, if I’m asked were they was it a W: So this American family are going to erm, manually skilled people, erm … good good decade or a bad decade, personally stay with us for Thanksgiving. orators, good writers. I have to think it was a good decade to M: For what? B: Ah, so a whole range of skills … grow up in. I think it’s very lucky I think W: For Thanksgiving. You know, people S: Exactly! of it as a very lucky experience when from the United States celebrate it. B: … all going into the melting pot. generally the world that I lived in, which M: So what’s the problem? S: Yes, but, I wouldn’t have too many was London and England, which was the W: Americans always eat turkey on people to start with, although if it’s too post-war period and therefore an era of a Thanksgiving, don’t they? But we’re small a group then I suppose you risk, certain amount of erm, restriction was all vegetarians – we never eat meat. So, well, erm, falling out. But I think if you keep that ending and things were freeing up and that what should we do? group fairly small to begin with then you happened just at the time that I was leaving M: Um … if I were you, I’d tell them the can draw up your own special laws, you home and finding my own independence. problem, and maybe they can cook a know, to govern yourselves. It all seemed as though it happened at turkey while you and your family just eat B: Would it need laws do you think … this, the same time. Erm, technology was er, something else. this utopian society? changing and improving, um, everything S: Mmmm … well, ideally there’d be no seemed to be developing and getting UNIT 8 Recording 7 laws but because people are human I think better in many ways. The fashion was you would probably have to come up with getting rid of short hair and regimented Extract 1 some ground rules yes. kind of looks, erm, individuality was very W = Woman M = Man B: What would be the most important much the order of the day. Great people W: We don’t smoke in the house. one? were emerging in the arts. John Lennon, M: Oh, sorry about that. I didn’t know. S: Oh! Erm, I think, erm … not to for example, was an icon for me I think as W: That’s all right. It’s no problem. physically hurt somebody else I suppose. a creative artist with a message as well in B: Right, so pretty much like we have at the his work. Great artists in film, Scorsese, Extract 2 minute … Taxi Driver, Spielberg, Duel these were W = Woman M = Man S: Yes, I suppose … emerging artists of tremendous skill and artistry but they were just starting out then W: I wasn’t expecting you so early. Can UNIT 9 Recording 2 you come back in ten minutes? I just need when I was. to finish some work here, then I’ll be able 1 Jeans are worn by people all over the 3 I was a teenager in the 80s and I to show you around. world. remember thinking that um I didn’t like a M: Of course. Sorry about that. 2 Mobile phones are being designed lot of the fashion and the music from back W: Not at all. It’s fine. especially for teenagers. then but now it’s obvious in retrospect 3 Teenagers have always been influenced that I did quite like it. I love looking back Extract 3 by the media. on like a nostalgia trip at the way we used W1 = 1st woman W2 = 2nd woman 4 A great film about a teenage vampire to dress and how much hair gel I used and how much hair spray the girls used, and W2: It’s OK – I’ll tell my parents you was made in Sweden. er, now in the 2000s there’s sort of a trip forgot. Don’t worry about it. 5 In the past, children were seen as mini- back into that time you know, girls are W1: I don’t know. Should I call them up to adults. wearing big earrings again and geometric apologise? 6 In the future, people will be prevented patterns of their clothes. Erm, the music W2: No, it’s nothing. You really don’t have from smoking until they are twenty-one. in the 80s became quite computerised to apologise. 7 In Mexico, a party called quinceañera is held when a girl reaches the age of fifteen. sounding, quite electronic and er, disco UNIT 8 Recording 8 8 Many of the computer games of the faded away, although we did still have soul future will be designed by teenagers. although people like Luther Vandross and B = Ben Jacques S = Sharon Hills Billy Ocean, erm, making soul music. Er, New Romantic was another style that B: So Sharon, erm, imagine you had to start UNIT 9 Recording 3 came out in the early 80s where the men a brand new community. Er … 1 Yeah, I grew up in the 90s. Erm, for started wearing lots of make-up and had S: Yes? me film and music are two important ah big shoulders and small waists and erm, B: I know it’s a difficult question, but ideally important aspects of my life, and it was there was Madonna was a big trendsetter where would it be? a fantastic decade for both of those. for girls and er, at one point she cut her S: Erm, I’d probably choose somewhere In terms of films, there were some ah hair really short in the mid 80s and almost quite warm, so yeah, so you didn’t have excellent ones that came out, erm, my like a boy’s, and then all the girls started any issues of flooding, or you know, too favourites being Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, cutting their hair short, too. Erm, I wasn’t much snow to deal with something like and The Shawshank Redemption. In terms very fashionable myself, I used to spend that. And then I’d choose another place of the music … probably the most famous most of my money on records not clothes. most people would probably choose, not bands of the time was Oasis and Blur. Ah, Erm, there were some good films around an island … erm …. one of the most memorable moments in the 80s too things like Back to the Future B: Where … where exactly? of the 90s was Euro 96 … obviously the with Michael J Fox, Desperately Seeking S: But, I think, hmmmm … somewhere in football tournament. I was lucky enough Susan with Madonna, ET, Police Academy

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… Um, I’m gonna be forty this year and I of the best-known writers in the style of by lots of white wine and er, a great reckon my birthday party is going to be a what’s called magic realism. This means Tarta de Santiago, a great pastry dessert, big nostalgia trip back to the 80s. he writes kind of realistically but there’s afterwards. Another great thing, obviously magic, I mean magical things happen in his about Spanish food which you’ll’ve heard UNIT 9 Recording 4 books, like ghosts appear and kind of crazy of is ‘tapas’ where everyone gets together things happen. I’m a big fan of that type on a Sunday lunchtime before lunch to W = Woman M = Man of writing. Anyway, his novels are kind of have a few bites to eat and, and a few W: What about this first one? Who was funny but it’s black humour or satire. He beers together and it’s a lovely social once kidnapped in France? invents all these amazing, unforgettable atmosphere and it’s nice to go out and try M: I have no idea. Maybe Isabelle Allende? characters, like um, corrupt officials and a variety of different food. I tried once, ah, W: It was Chaucer. I think he worked for devoted lovers, vicious policemen and pig’s ear, which I have to say was possibly the British government. stupid revolutionaries, and through it the worst thing I’ve ever tasted [laughs], M: Did he? I didn’t know that. all you’re laughing at the characters but but generally the quality was sensational. W: OK, what about the next one? Who you also see their world is falling apart. was messy? I haven’t read his work in Spanish, only UNIT 10 Recording 4 M: Umm … probably Machiavelli. English, erm, but the style is brilliant. His W: It was Karl Marx. dialogue is fast and funny and he writes Conversation 1 M: Oh really? amazing descriptions of places and people. W = Woman M = Man W: And the third one: who was stopped And, um, well, it was finding Marquez’s W: Is there anything I should know for by the US government from entering the work as a teenager that really made me when I arrive at the airport? States? become a reader. M: Yes, watch out for the taxi drivers who M: I’m not a hundred percent certain but it tend to hang around outside the airport. might be Chaplin. I read somewhere that UNIT 10 Recording 2 Most of them aren’t licensed, so you he had some political views that they didn’t 1 My favourite food city is ah Hiroshima, shouldn’t really use them. like in the States. I’m fairly sure it’s Chaplin. in Japan … Umhmm … Ah they’ve got W: OK. Is that right? all sorts of food. They’ve of course got M: If you do use one, make sure you find W: You’re right. It was Chaplin. the really famous sushi that everyone out how much the journey is supposed to M: Yeah, I read something about that. thinks about when they think of Japanese cost. Don’t get in until you’ve agreed the W: OK, number four. Who played the food, but they’ve got so much else to price with the driver, or else you could find violin? offer. Ah, Hiroshima’s really famous for its that you have to pay three or four times M: I haven’t a clue. I’ll guess it was Galileo. okonomiyaki which is like a cross between the amount you should pay for the journey. W: It was Einstein. He was a very good a pancake and a pizza … and it’s kind of W: Oh right. That’s good to know. violinist, apparently. egg and like a flour mixture with cabbage M: Was he? That’s interesting. Conversation 2 and noodles and meat and sometimes W: Number five. cheese. It’s really good. One of my M = Man W = Woman M: It’s definitely not Mandela. Ermm … favourite restaurants is a place called, ah, M: Hi – I’m going to Heathrow tomorrow, Joan of Arc? Daikichi, which specialises in grilled chicken and my plane leaves at 3p.m. Latest check W: Didn’t you see that film about Che you can get grilled chicken with cheese, in time is 1.40. What time do you think I Guevara and his friend travelling across grilled chicken with plum sauce, ah and a should leave central London? South America on their motorbikes? really good soup with rice and ginger in it. W: For Heathrow? Well, you’d better leave M: I don’t think I did, actually. I’d love to take you to Daikichi, you’d love plenty of time, because often there are W: Yeah, Guevara was a medical student it. They do good beer, too. Erm, but also delays on the tube. Are you going on the … you can get tempura in Hiroshima, which is tube or the train? M: Oh yes, I knew that. I just couldn’t like prawns and vegetables deep fried in a remember. M: The tube, I think. really light, fluffy batter … it’s really good. W: Who went on a road trip with his friend? W: The tube? If I were you, I’d allow about And then, ah, you have also the informal M: Ah, that’s right. an hour and a half. So, if you want to be at restaurants that are called Izakaya where W: And the last one? the airport at 1.30, then you’d better leave you go with a group of friends and you M: Umm, well I’m sure it isn’t Picasso. Oh, at about twelve o’clock. order lots of dishes and everyone shares it’s da Vinci. He invented lots of stuff but M: OK. That’s great. Thanks. and eats from the middle of the table so never actually produced any of it, like … it’s a great way to try lots of different kinds Conversation 3 um … oh I can’t remember, but I know he of food. Actually I know a really good was an inventor as well as an artist. M1 = 1st man M2 = 2nd man Izakaya that I should take you to. W: Correct. It was da Vinci. He invented M1: Be careful when you take trips into the 2 Well, my favourite food city would the parachute. jungle in the north. Generally, there are a be Madrid. I lived in Madrid, in Spain M: Oh yeah, I was just about to say that! lot of mosquitoes there, so remember to for around ten years on and off and the take mosquito nets, and insect cream. It’s a UNIT 9 Recording 6 quality of the food is, is wonderful – it’s good idea to wear long trousers, and shirts sensational. Spanish people always say with sleeves in the evening. And don’t forget to L = Lili Lowe that, ah, Spanish food is the best in the take your malaria tablets. world and I always argued while I lived M2: Oh yes, I must remember those. L: OK, well, someone whose work really there, that, er, I felt there was a lot more M1: And whatever you do, don’t drink the influenced me is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I variety of food in the UK, but when I water, or you’ll get a bad stomach. like his short stories, but I fell in love with moved back to the UK I really started M2: Oh, I didn’t know that. his novels, particularly One Hundred Years to miss the richness, the quality of food M1: Yes, always be sure to boil the water of Solitude. That book really made its mark in Spain. I think my favourite restaurant first, or drink bottled water. You have to on me. Anyway, erm, well, Marquez is in Spain was a tiny little, um, Galician be careful when you eat raw food, too, like a Colombian writer. I think he was born which is a part in the north west of Spain, fruit, if it’s been washed in water. in 1928. He’s a Nobel Prize winner – he seafood restaurant in a small little bar, it M2: OK. won the Nobel Prize in Literature – and was a very, it wasn’t posh or expensive, his books have been translated into it was cheap and basic but just served dozens of languages. 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Conversation 4 needs to find a permanent way to keep this beautiful and historic city for future W1 = 1st woman W2 = 2nd woman generations. We have an opportunity now W1: We’re going there on holiday, and I’ve to save this city, and we must, before it’s heard that there’s a lot of street crime. Is too late. that true? W2: Not really no. I mean, it’s like any big city. You need to watch out for groups of young children on the streets. They try to distract you, and then sometimes take your bag. W1: Oh. Right. W2: It’s not very common, but don’t walk around the city obviously carrying money in a big money belt or anything. W1: Of course. W2: The most important thing is to remember to hold on to your handbag, and things like that, but no, there isn’t really much crime. On the whole, it’s a pretty safe city. W1: That’s useful, thanks. UNIT 10 Recording 5 1 Watch out for the taxi drivers who tend to hang around outside the airport. 2 Make sure you find out how much the journey is supposed to cost. 3 Don’t get in until you’ve agreed the price with the driver, or else … 4 You’d better leave plenty of time. 5 If I were you, I’d allow about an hour and a half. 6 Be careful when you take trips into the jungle. 7 Don’t forget to take your malaria tablets. 8 Whatever you do, don’t drink the water. 9 You need to watch out for groups of young children on the streets. 10 The most important thing is to remember to hold on to your handbag. UNIT 10 Recording 7 R = Rob Hustin R: One place that I think everyone should have the chance to see is Venice. But the problem is that this beautiful and charming city is slowly sinking. Ever since the fourteenth century engineers have tried to work out a way to stop the floods in Venice, but so far nobody has managed. Sometimes there are as many as forty floods per year between March and September, and Venice is actually sinking at a rate of two and a half inches every decade. It’s very possible that your grandchildren, and their grandchildren will never have the chance to see this fragile city. Everyone should have the chance to enjoy the city, to walk across its famous bridges, through its ancient squares. There are no cars in Venice, and many people think it helps this to be one of the most romantic cities in the world. So, can it be saved? Well, they are trying. Barriers are being put in to try and stop the water getting too high. This is viewed as a temporary measure, although they should last a hundred years, so the problem is finding a permanent solution. If you want my advice, go there while you still can, and then together we can put pressure on the government to spend the money it

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All of this took place at home, but example, she watched TV for six 7.1 soon he made newspaper headlines. hours yesterday. Six hours! 1 He passed the entrance exam to one B: I must say that’s a lot. He’s very gifted. of the United States’ best universities A: It is a lot. She needs to get out She’s really skilful. at the age of eight. Then, aged nine, more. he gave a lecture on mathematics 2 B: And when she’s not in front of the at Harvard University. Attended TV, she’s on the internet. He has an aptitude. by maths professors and graduate I’m hopeless at this. A: That’s what I was saying. She’s students, this lecture put Sidis on the always in front of a screen. 3 map. He began attending Harvard Conversation 2 He thinks he’s useless. University two years later, at the age She has a talent. of eleven. A: For me, Elizabeth is the best. She 4 Now that he was in the public eye, would be really good in this job. B: Why do you think so? They say he’s an expert. things began to go wrong for William A: For one thing, she has the right She has great ability. Sidis. The media was fascinated by him. Journalists followed him around qualifications. For another, she and wrote articles about this young obviously really wants the job. 7.2 genius. Not surprisingly, Sidis began B: Yeah, that’s very clear. I think the A: Sidis was the greatest genius in to feel like an animal in a zoo, with other woman ... history. everyone watching him. A: Hayla. B: William Sidis? A genius. He wasn’t interested in becoming B: Hayla. She would do a good job, C: Probably the greatest mind of the famous, nor in becoming an academic. too. twentieth century. He just wanted to live a quiet, private A: She would, but having said that, D: They say his IQ was between two life. He tried. He went from job to she already has a good job. You can hundred and fifty and three job, publishing only one book of any see that Elizabeth is really hungry hundred. That’s off the scale. academic interest. But everywhere for this position. E: A genius. he went, whatever he did, people Conversation 3 F: William Sidis? Great brain, difficult eventually learned who he was, and A= Presenter B = Mr Dyson the press kept writing about him. life. A: Mr Dyson, in your presentation G: Sidis? Genius. In 1944, he died aged 46, almost forgotten. you said that the arts in many Was William Sidis the most intelligent schools weren’t getting enough Since his death, many stories have man who ever lived? If so, why isn’t he attention. Can you explain? been told about Sidis. Some said that famous? Why isn’t his name known B: Yes, the reason I say this is that his genius burned out like an old light like the names of Einstein, Leonardo, funding has been cut for arts bulb. His sister said Sidis knew all the and Charles Darwin? What can his life subjects. There just isn’t enough teach us? languages of the world and that he could learn a language in a day. None money. Let me give you an William James Sidis was born on April of this was true. Even his IQ – which example. A school I visited last 1st in 1898. That’s right: April the first, was supposed to be between 250 and month wanted to do a play in the April Fool’s Day. His parents were 300 – was just a guess. No intelligence little school theatre, but there was Boris and Sarah Sidis, Russian-Jewish test has been invented to go to that no money for costumes, for music. immigrants who had settled in New level of genius. So in the end there was no school York. They were both passionately So what can we learn from his life? play, and the theatre was closed interested in education. Boris was a for the whole summer term. psychologist who taught at Harvard Firstly, not all childhood geniuses will produce great things as adults. A: And this is a money issue? University and Sarah used to read B: I do think we could solve a lot of Greek myths to her son as bedtime They may think great thoughts or do the problems if the government stories. incredible calculations, but many of them just do normal jobs and find recognised the arts as it recognises It soon became clear that their son happiness in that way. Secondly, Sidis maths or science or reading, yes. was something special. Aged six spent much of his time and energy Like I said, money isn’t everything, months, William said his first word: running away from fame. Unless they but it’s part of the problem. ‘door’. At seven months, he pointed want to be Hollywood stars, people at the moon and said ‘Moon’. At need to be left in peace. That’s how 8.1 eighteen months, William could read most geniuses do great work. The New York Times. And aged three, Elise he reached up to a typewriter and E = Elise I = Interviewer wrote a letter to a shop called Macy’s, 7.3 E: I live next door to my parents, asking them to send him some toys! Conversation 1 At six, he could speak Russian, French, who are on one side, and my German and Hebrew. A: We really need to stop this. In my brother’s family, who are on the view, it’s getting out of control. For other side.

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I: Right. quiet. Facts!’ Today we’re going to take E: It’s really, really useful. They’re the I: So the cows aren’t yours? a look at some those ‘modern’ perfect neighbours. M: No, they belong to a farmer about inventions which turn out to be … I: In what sense? ten miles away! well, not quite so modern at all! E: Well, I like the situation because I: And isn’t it a bit lonely out here? Let’s start with toothpaste. So you we help each other. For example, if M: We love it. We never see our think, ‘hmm, toothpaste – when was I need a babysitter for my kids, it’s neighbours, apart from the cows, that invented?’ A hundred years ago? no problem. which is just fantastic for us as Maybe two hundred? But we find I: And you see each other a lot? we’re a bit antisocial. Actually, that actually, toothpaste has been E: We work together in the family you’re the first person we’ve seen around for sixteen hundred years. business so we see each other this year! People from Egypt used it, and then every day. And I guess the whole I: Oh, sorry to interrupt your peace! the Ancient Greeks and Romans extended family, which is eleven M: Not a problem. Just don’t stay too used it. Was it the same as modern of us including the children, we long! toothpaste? Definitely not. Ancient eat together maybe once or Greek toothpaste used ingredients twice a week, always on Sundays 8.2 like crushed bones and oyster shells. and sometimes during the week. OK, another invention for you: So, yes, we do see each other a lot. 1 traffic lights biological weapons. Again, you think, I: You never get fed up with the 2 high street ‘biological weapons – must be a 3 housing estate family? twentieth-century invention’. Wrong 4 sports centre E: No, I think this situation is quite again. Biological weapons have 5 industrial estate normal in a lot of countries, maybe been used for over three thousand 6 car park like Italy. It certainly is for our years. Probably beginning in Ancient 7 supermarket family. We’ve always lived in the Greece, it was common for one 8 language school side to poison their enemy’s water same town. I’ve lived here all my 9 shopping centre supply during a war. Some generals life, and we always wanted to 10 one-way street would even throw dead bodies at live side by side. I hope our 11 terraced houses the enemy or into the enemy’s river. children continue the business and 12 outdoor market One leader called Hannibal even put live here, too. 13 gift shop poisonous snakes into pots and threw I: And what about your husband? 14 primary school them onto an enemy’s ship. In the Does he like being so close to eighteenth century, one way American your family? 8.3 Indians were killed was through using E: Um, I’ve never asked him actually! infected blankets given to them by Yeah, course he does! I think. 1 The website which we built is too the Europeans who were colonising slow. America. Marc 2 Those people who are always M = Marc I = Interviewer working don’t enjoy life. Next topic: football. Just how old is M: We don’t have any neighbours. 3 The ratings site, which I check the game? The answer is, we don’t really know. But we do know that Our nearest neighbours are a every day, is growing fast. forms of it were played in China over couple of cows that live in a field 4 Those students who do online two thousand years ago. And it also about ten miles away. courses love studying. seems that the game developed by I: Are they good neighbours? 5 Near my flat, where you’re staying, there’s a supermarket. chance in different parts of the world. M: Fantastic! Very quiet! No, we really Wherever European explorers went, are completely isolated. they discovered that native people I: So how come? I mean, was this 9.1 already played some kind of football: your dream? 1 If I’d known you were coming, I Aborigines in Australia, the Inuit in M: Well, it wasn’t at first. We were would’ve waited. Greenland, Japan and the Americas. living in Paris, which is a great 2 If I’d waited, I would’ve been late. So I suppose it really is the people’s city, but it’s kind of big and we got 3 If I’d been late, I would’ve missed game. tired of crowds of people, and all the show. Right. Central heating. It’s been a the noise and using public 4 If I’d missed the show, I would’ve wonderful thing for us in cold transport. So about ten years wasted my money. countries and helps us get through ago, we bought an old farmhouse 5 If I’d wasted my money, I would’ve the winters. But most of us don’t in the middle of nowhere. It’s been angry. realise it’s a very old invention. Once not a functioning farm, but it has again, the Ancient Greeks were the an internet connection and me 9.2 first in Europe, over two thousand and my wife both work online. years ago, although there was a And we just love the peace and Hello, and welcome to ‘Fascinating similar system in Korea. Both of these

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to actually change the way that they live, and that’s not easy. P: You’re right about that. I suppose …

10.2 1 Gina refused to come with us. 2 He promised to call me later. 3 They decided to go out for a meal. 4 They agreed not to go on holiday this year. 5 She warned us that the restaurant was very expensive. 6 They invited James to go to the theatre with them on Friday. 7 The teacher explained that the children grow vegetables in the garden. 8 He recommended buying our fruit at the market.