SO_UI_U5_PODCAST.doc

  Upper Intermediate Unit 5 Video Podcast Script

V = Val              L = Liz              M = Maria              S = Sue              E = Emma              J = Joe

C = Chris              P = Paul              D = Damien

V:              Hi. I enjoy walking around the shops and I buy things like books and make-up on impulse but I always do my food shopping on-line – it’s such a fantastic service and you get everything delivered to your door. Today I’m talking to people about shopping and innovative products. What items do you enjoy buying most?

L:              Oh, I enjoy buying food, and particularly food from farmers’ markets. I also like buying clothes for myself and I love buying plants for the garden.

M:              Like most women I should say, like shoes, bags I think and make-up. Yeah, three top things, yeah.

S:              Quite diverse really: I love food shopping. I love going to food markets, fish markets.

E:              Well, actually, I’m in the perfect place for me right now, which is, er, markets: antique markets and vintage clothes.

J:              I enjoy buying, I probably enjoy buying books the most, so er, oh and music as well, so anything where somebody’s given a recommendation.

C:              I love to browse around bookshops and look at the latest books that are out and also CD shops.

V:              What sorts of things do you buy on impulse?

P:              Music, I suppose I buy that on impulse, erm, clothes.

L:              Clothes, but not as much as I used to.

C:              Food. I decide when I’m walking down the street one day I want to cook this this evening, I jump in a market and get the ingredients and go and do that.

M:              Well, I’m not that type of person that buys things on impulse, I’m actually very controlled, self controlled.

D:              Just now I was walking down the antiques market and I saw a pair of silver tongs which looked like a great bargain, so I bought those on impulse.

S:              On impulse? Oh, dreadful! Handbags, that’s probably my biggest impulse buy.

V:              What sorts of things do you plan to buy?

P:              Train tickets, plane tickets because I have to travel a lot in my job, so I need to plan in advance so I get good value for money on the tickets.

E:              Plan, I never plan, actually, in advance. No, I haven’t got the kind of money to plan.

D:              Things like holidays. Anything over, like, £100 I’d say was a planned purchase.

V:              What recent product or service do you think is impressive?

P:              iPhone. Absolutely amazing. I mean, I bought one and it’s just, it’s really changed my life.

S:              Probably my mobile phone. I’ve just changed it to a Blackberry Storm where I can get all my emails ...

M:              The new camera that I saw on television, on the commercial, so you’re taking a picture and you are seeing yourself on the other side.

V:              If you could start a business or invent a product or service what would it be?

P:              I don’t know. I’d like to sell joy. If you could sell joy that would be good: I don’t know how you could do it.

L:              My fantasy business is to have a thing called Sophia’s Bakery and to make really fantastic cakes that you can’t buy in this country.

E:              I love the Arts, so anything that would, kind of, bring more creativity to people’s lives and expression, I think that would be great.