新视野大学英语(第三版)视听说3 音视频脚本(4)

Speaking for communication

Role-play

Scripts

M = Man; W = Woman

M: It5s interesting: One of the most intelligent people I know is a 10-year-old boy from Egypt. He, he doesn’t go to school and he works on a street in Cairo, in one o f the touristy areas. And he sells things like small statues of the pyramids, things like that, to tourists. Now, the reason I say he’s intelligent is that he can sell you something in about 15 languages. I once spent an afternoon watching him, and it was incredible. Most of the time he uses English, but he guesses where you’re from by looking at you, and then he starts speaking. He can speak just a little bit of French, Spanish …Japanese, Italian, German, etc. It’s amazing. He knows just enough in all thes e languages to say hello and sell you something.

W: How did he learn the languages?

M: I asked him that and he said he learned them by talking to tourists.

W: Ah, that is quite amazing.

M: So anyway, that’s my example. Like I said, he doesn’t go to school.But for me, he’s super-intelligent. What about you?

W: I can think of loads of people who don’t have any qualifications but are able to do really difficult things. I’ve got a friend, for example, who built his own house. He just taught himself how to do it, bought a piece of land, bought the materials and the equipment and just did it. No qualifications, no certificates, no university degree. In my view, that’s a real practical kind of intelligence.

M: Yeah, I couldn’t do that.

W: Let me give you another e xample. I’ve got another friend who takes parts of old cars and makes new cars from them. He does it at the weekend as a way to relax. And the new car actually works! M: I couldn’t do that either.

W: I wouldn’t know where to start. And this is someone who left school at 15 to do an apprenticeship.

But you know, having said that, I do think qualifications are useful in some ways. I mean, for one thing, they show that you are able to complete a course, that you’re motivated and committed enough.

M: Yeah, I th ink that’s true.

W: But I must say real-life experience, traveling, going out and meeting people, talking …I think these give you an amazing education, too.

M: Exactly. That’s what I was saying. Just like the boy from Egypt.

Group discussion

Scripts

T = Tracy Hackston

T: A couple of years ago, er, I learned how to scuba dive which was um, really exciting, really good experience and when you5re learning, half of the, the, the training is in the classroom and half is practical in a swimming pool. So the classroom stuff was fine. Um, I found it really quite easy. I was learning with my mum and she was really worried about doing the kind of more academic stuff and passing the exam but I found that part OK. It was the practical stuff that I had trouble