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UNIT 1  Recording 1 UNIT 2 Recording 1

P = Presenter R = Russell J = Jeanette
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P: Welcome to Episode 93 of the Family Talk podcast. This
M = Manager L = Louisa C = Carla R = Rob
week’s topic is ‘big families’ – something both of my guests
M: Good morning, Louisa. This is Carla, our new staff member. know all about. So, Russell, how many people are there in
Today is her first day. your family?
L: Hi, Carla. I’m Louisa. R: Eleven.
C: Hi, Louisa. Nice to meet you. P: Wow, really? And who are they?
M: Can you introduce her to the team, please? R: Well, of course, there’s mum and dad. Mum is a manager in a
L: Yes, of course. So where are you from, Carla? big company, and dad’s a mechanic.
P: OK.
C: I’m from Italy. What about you?
R: And then I’ve got seven siblings – four brothers and three
L: I’m Spanish. Erm, Rob?
sisters.
R: Yes?
P: Wait, er … mum, dad, eight children … that’s only ten people?
L: This is Carla. She’s a new staff member from Italy.
R: Yes, but there’s also Henry.
R: Hi, Carla. Nice to meet you. I’m Rob, I’m from Spain. And this is
P: Um, who’s Henry?
Janice and Alex.
R: My cat! I think he’s my favourite family member!
C: Nice to meet you both.
P: And what about you, Jeanette?
2 J: Oh, I don’t have a cat or a dog.
T = Tom S = Skyler J = Joanne P: Ha! Well, how many brothers and sisters have you got?
J: Oh, I haven’t got any brothers or sisters.
T: Hi, I’m Tom.
P: Uh, OK. But have you got a big family?
S: Hi, Tom. Nice to meet you. I’m Skyler and this is Joanne.
J: Yes, I have. My mum’s got three brothers, and my dad’s got
T: Nice to meet you both. Where are you from?
two sisters and two brothers.
S: I’m from the Sydney office. I’m Australian, but Joanne isn’t.
P: OK.
She’s American, from the New York office. Where are you
J: And they’ve all got kids, you see. I’ve got, um, ten cousins
from, Tom?
I think.
T: Oh, that’s interesting. I’m British, I work in the London office.
P: Wow!
What department are you in?
J: Yes, and we all live in the same town and see each other all
J: We’re both in sales. What about you?
the time. So, we’re a big family really. It’s a lot of fun.
T: I’m in marketing.
P: Right. And who’s your favourite family member?
3 J: Me, of course!

M = Miguel J = Jenny C = Claudia

M: Hi, everyone. I’m Miguel. UNIT 3 Recording 1

J: Hi, Miguel. Nice to meet you. Is this your first salsa class? P = Presenter K = Karl
M: Yes, it is. I love dancing.
P: Today I’m with Karl Rogan, the American skier who’s got three
J: Me too! Where are you from, Miguel?
silver medals and two gold medals. Nice to meet you, Karl.
M: Well, I live here in the UK, but I’m not from here. I’m from
K: Thanks Anne, nice to meet you, too.
Mexico.
P: So, what’s a normal day for you, Karl? What time do you
J: Oh, right. Well, I’m Jenny, this is Paul and this is Claudia –
usually get up?
I think she’s Mexican, too.
K: Well, I get up at seven o’clock every morning.
M: Oh really? Where are you from, Claudia?
P: Right.
C: Oaxaca.
K: I have breakfast – I usually have an omelette and some
M: Ah, OK. I’m from Mexico City. And you? Jenny? Paul? Where
coffee – then I do a few chores at home. You know, wash
are you from?
my clothes, reply to emails, that kind of thing. At around
J: We’re from the UK. We live here in Manchester.
half past eight, I go to the gym. I stay at the gym for about
M: Great. three hours.
P: Wow, OK! And what do you have for lunch?
K: Well, I always have a good lunch. Usually chicken, rice and
salad or vegetables. Sometimes fish. It depends what
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 P: OK. funny. Anyway, who else is there? What about your friend
K: Then in the afternoon I go skiing. I usually ski Monday to Luisa?
Friday because there aren’t many people. I ski for around K: Let me see. Oh, here she is.
four hours in the afternoon, then I go home and have dinner H: Oh my, look at those clothes! Aren’t they funny? I don’t think
and relax with my wife. We usually watch TV in the evening, she liked me. She wasn’t friendly to me at all, she always
and go to bed at ten o’clock. called me names.
P: Sounds like a busy life! K: Oh, I don’t think so. She wasn’t very friendly to anyone.
K: Well, yes it is a bit. But I always rest on Sunday. I think it’s She was just very quiet. She’s different now though,
important for your body to recover. But even then I can’t she’s got a really interesting job and she’s very kind.
wait to go skiing again on Monday! H: So, who else is there? Do you remember that boy with long
blonde hair? He was always at the back of the class and he
was very quiet.
UNIT 4 Recording 1 K: Oh yes, Shaun? Here he is. All of the girls liked him. He had
1 these beautiful blue eyes …

We love this town. There are lots of parks and the children love
playing there. There aren’t a lot of cars, either, like in a big city,
UNIT 6 Recording 1
so the air is clean and it’s safe to walk around.
C = Connor R = Rachel
2
There isn’t anything for young people to do here. There aren’t C: It’s my dad’s 60th birthday this year and I don’t know what to
any clubs or nice cafés to meet friends. It’s really boring and buy him.
I can’t wait to move away. R: What does he like?
C: Well, when they were young, my parents really liked
3
camping, you know staying in a tent in the countryside. We
I like it here, it’s nice and quiet, but there isn’t much public always went on camping holidays when I was a child. But
transport, which is a problem for me. There aren’t any trains he’s too old to stay in a tent now.
and there’s only one bus an hour. You really need to have a car
R: What about a ‘glamping’ experience?
here and I haven’t got one, so that’s a problem.
C: A … what?
4 R: Glamping. It’s like camping, but it’s really comfortable. I went
Some people think it’s boring here, but I disagree. I think the glamping with my husband last summer. He bought me a
people are very friendly. I’ve got great neighbours and we often glamping weekend as a birthday present.
meet and do things together. It’s easy to make friends here, but C: Oh yeah? What did you do?
you need to try. R: Well, we arrived there around 2 p.m. and the manager
showed us our tent. Well, I say tent, but it was more like a
5
nice hotel room!
I work in a big city during the week, so it’s nice to come home
C: Why was that?
here in the evening and relax after work. It’s very quiet and
R: It was really big inside, you could walk around. And it was
there aren’t many things to do, but there’s a big city only
luxury. There was a real bed, a fire, a TV … even a little
30 minutes away by car.
kitchen.
C: Really? Did you cook?
UNIT 5 Recording 1 R: Ha! No, we didn’t. It was my birthday! Actually, we just sat
outside in the afternoon, then we ate out in town.
K = Kim H = Harry
C: What did you eat?
K: Hey, look at this Harry, it’s my old school yearbook. Do you R: Italian food. I had pasta and my husband had chicken.
remember this? C: What did you do the next day?
H: Oh right, with all our photos from when we finished school. R: The next morning we woke up quite early, had breakfast,
Wow! then walked along the river. It was beautiful. Then we drove
K: That’s right. And look, there’s you. Oh Harry, look at that to a little restaurant and had lunch.
hairstyle! C: When did you leave?
H: Oh come on, lots of boys had long hair then. R: We left just after lunch, at twelve o’clock.
K: Yeah, but it was green! C: So, did you like it? Was it a good experience?
H: Ha ha! I know. Moving quickly on … so where are you? R: Definitely. It was really nice to stay in the countryside, but in
K: Oh no, we don’t need to look at – a comfortable way, you know?
H: Come on … oh, there you are! Kim, that’s a good photo. C: That’s a great idea for a present. My mum and dad can stay
You were very good-looking at school. there together. Thanks Rachel!
K: Oh, but not now? Thanks!
H: No, of course you are now, too!
K: Aww, thanks. I was very quiet at school though.
H: Hmm, maybe, but you were very hard-working. Which, of
course, you are now, too. But you’re not quiet now, you’re

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 K: Well, as I said, I’m not cycling at the moment, I’m enjoying the
UNIT 7 Recording 1
local food and culture. But I usually get up around 5 a.m. and
P = Presenter J = Jeff have breakfast. It’s important to eat well because I need the
energy, but I can’t eat too much. Then I just get on my bike
P: Hi, I’m Christine Evans and welcome to today’s episode of
and go!
Life and Times. With me in the studio today is Jeff Baines,
who grows a lot of his own food at home. So, Jeff, what P: How far do you cycle each day?
exactly do you grow? K: It depends where I am, what the weather’s like, that kind
J: Almost everything. I grow lots of vegetables, things like of thing. I try to cycle at least a hundred kilometres a day
potatoes, beans, that kind of thing. I also grow some fruit, though. The most I travelled in one day was two hundred
mainly apples, and some oranges. I grow herbs in the and five kilometres. That was cycling down a mountain, so it
kitchen, too. I love cooking with them because they make my was easier.
meals taste much better. P: Wow, that’s a lot! Where do you sleep?
P: What about meat? Are you a vegetarian? K: I usually sleep outside, so I try to travel in the summer
J: Well, I don’t eat a lot of meat, but I’m not really a vegetarian. months when the weather is warm. I really enjoy a camp fire
I’ve got a few chickens and they give me fresh eggs and having dinner outside at the end of a long day of cycling.
every day. P: Yeah, that does sound nice. So, finally, what advice can you
P: So, do you grow everything you need? give for someone who wants to cycle around the world?
J: Oh no, not everything. There are a few things I buy, like milk, K: Start small. Maybe go for a ride at the weekend near your
sugar and sometimes some sweets or cakes. But I think home and sleep outside in a tent. Try it and see if you like
I make the majority of what I eat. It’s definitely cheaper than it. Then, maybe go on a short cycling holiday. The best
buying all my food. thing about travelling like this is that you experience the
environment, people and culture in the best way. You get
P: That’s amazing. How did you start?
close to the environment and the people. I love it!
J: Well, a few years ago I moved to a new house and I saw that
P: Great, thanks for sharing your experience with us Kevin and
the garden got a lot of sunlight in the day. So I decided to
good luck with the rest of the trip!
plant some tomatoes. That first summer they grew really,
really well and I had hundreds of tomatoes. I had tomato K: Thank you.
soup, tomato sauce, tomato salads … By the end of the
summer I didn’t want to see another tomato ever again!
P: Ha! Yes, I can imagine.
UNIT 9 Recording 1
J: So, the next year I tried a few different vegetables, and they C = Chris M = Magda
all grew really well, too. Every year I grow more and more.
C: So, I think I might try this new diet.
P: Why do you do it?
M: Oh, really? What is it?
J: Well, I think it’s important to grow your own food. Some
C: It’s called a ketogenic diet, or ‘keto’. Basically you eat lots of
people do it because it’s cheaper than buying it all in
fat – things like oil, meat, cheese, that kind of thing.
supermarkets, and this is true, but it’s not why I do it. For me
M: OK.
it’s a wonderful feeling to eat food that I know I cared for
and loved myself. It’s also good to control what you grow and C: Then you eat very little food with carbohydrates – things
what you eat so that you don’t waste or throw away food. like sugar, bread, pasta.
P: Thanks Jeff. And one last question: do you still grow M: Hmm, I don’t think that’s a good idea. It sounds like a fad to
tomatoes? me.
J: Ha! Just a few. C: A fad? What do you mean?
M: You know, a diet that gives you good results quickly, but it’s
difficult to continue for a long time. They can also be pretty
UNIT 8 Recording 1 unhealthy.
C: I see what you mean. Hmm, I guess this diet does sound a bit
P = Presenter K = Kevin
unhealthy. Also, I love bread!
P: Next we’re talking to Kevin Anderton, a 33-year-old office M: I know you do!
worker from the UK. At the moment, Kevin is cycling around C: So, what should I do?
the world and he’s kindly agreed to take some time out to M: Well, I think you should change more than your food. Think
speak to us. Kevin, welcome. Where are you at the moment? about the long term. Find something that works for you. Do
K: Hi, I’m staying in a small town in the north of Argentina at more exercise. Maybe start a new sport or hobby.
the moment. The weather isn’t great – it’s raining a lot – C: Maybe I could go cycling?
so I’m having a break from the trip for a day or two.
M: Yes, why don’t you cycle to work? That way it can be part of
P: Oh, that sounds like here in London. It’s cold and raining your everyday routine.
here! So, Kevin, why did you decide to cycle around the
C: That’s a great idea.
world?
M: You should eat what you want, too, but try eating less, have
K: Well, it all started a few years ago. I had a boring desk job
smaller meals. You can use an app to record what you eat,
and I realised I didn’t want to sit in front of a computer for
that really helps, I think.
eight hours a day at work. I really wanted to see the world
C: Good idea. Thanks Magda, that’s really good advice.
and I love cycling, so I thought, why not?
M: You’re welcome!
P: What’s a typical day for you?

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 UNIT 10 Recording 1
P = Presenter S = Scott A = Amelia

P: Hello, and welcome to Techworld. I’m here as usual with

Scott and Amelia and today we’re discussing the question,
‘Do we communicate more or less with modern technology?’
So, Scott, what do you think?
S: Definitely less. My teenage son is really into video games.
He just stays in his bedroom all evening. He never talks to us!
P: Amelia, do you agree?
A: Not really. Scott, your son is probably playing games
online and talking to people all over the world. So he’s
communicating more than usual.
S: But it’s not the same. When I was his age, I spent time with
my friends, having conversations and going out, talking to
people. I don’t think it’s healthy to stay inside your bedroom
all the time, playing games.
A: Have you ever played an online game, Scott?
S: No, I haven’t.
A: There’s a lot of communication in games. You often have to
speak to different kinds of people all around the world. So
you actually communicate with people more than we did
when we were his age.
S: Hmm … .
A: And it’s not just online games. Social media is also important
because we can meet people from all over the world and
actually make new friends. In fact, I know someone who
got married to someone they met on social media! Without
modern technology that wouldn’t be possible.
S: I understand, but I think the quality of communication these
days is worse. For example, we don’t have long telephone
conversations and connect with people in the same way. We
just send a quick text message with important information.
We don’t ask, ‘How are you?’, ‘How was your day?’. There’s no
small talk. These things are important because they help us
connect to the people we know.
A: Maybe, but we do connect with a lot of new people, more
than before.
P: OK, well two very different opinions there. So, listeners,
what do you think? Call us or send us an email and tell us
your thoughts.

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