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Unit 8 Money matters

Listening to the world Sharing Scripts

F = Finn; W1 = Woman 1, etc.; M1 = Man 1, etc. Part 1

F: I spend a lot of time shopping. I like buying shoes and books. I buy things online, but I also like visiting street markets. How about you? How do you feel about shopping?

W1: Er, I don’t really like it very much on the whole. Er, I find it can get very stressful – big crowds, especially in London. M1: It depends on my mood, but generally yes, I enjoy it. W2: I might think it’s one of the best things to do, ever!

W3: I like shopping – when I can afford it. But I can’t afford it most of the time. W4: I love shopping. It’s, it’s a good way to spend a day. You can have fun, go out with your friends or family and come home with some new things. W5: Love it. I enjoy it very much. It’s great … gives you a buzz.

M2: I have mixed feelings about shopping. Sometimes I’m in the mood and other times, I can’t bear the idea of shopping.

W6: I love shopping, because it’s like you find new things and you spend time with your friends or family. Yeah, it’s good fun.

M3: I hate shopping. I prefer shopping on the Internet, where I can look at everything

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and have everything delivered to my house. W7: I love it and I hate it.

M4: What do I feel about shopping? I don’t like shopping. Part 2

F: Where do you usually shop?

W1: For clothes? I guess I like the high street chains. And you find them in lots of places around London.

M1: Usually clothes shops, er, independent clothes shops. W2: I’ve been to Harrods. Harrods is really expensive, obviously, but it’s just wonderful to go in there and see what they’ve got on offer and things like that. M3: I shop on eBay. I like eBay because you can find, er, older things or very rare items.

W3: Second-hand stores. I like vintage stores and markets, and those sorts of places. W4: If I have the money, I go for the more expensive designers. But usually just midrange.

W5: I usually shop in large stores, er … like Selfridges.

M2: I try to avoid the big department stores, but I find the small independent shops. W6: I usually shop in high street stores or vintage shops, because in vintage shops, you can find rare things that nobody else has. W7: Because I live in Cape Town, I do most of my shopping in Cape Town, South Africa. But I come to Europe quite often during summer time, so I do my shopping in England, in London or in Italy.

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Part 3

F: Have you bought anything recently?

W1: I have actually. Er, I bought a dress and I bought a telephone. M1: Yes, I bought a book – to read on the train. W2: I bought myself a new coat.

M5: A pair of trainers that I’m wearing at the moment I bought yesterday. So, that’s the most recent thing I’ve bought.

W6: I bought lots of things in the sale, like tops and skirts. And I bought a pair of shoes as well that I had my eye on for a while. M2: Yes, I’ve bought some very cheap trousers in the sales, um, which I’m very pleased about. I bought two pairs because when you find one pair that you like, you should always buy another.

W3: I haven’t, no, but my friend Natalie has.

W4: I bought my sunglasses. They’re Chanel, so they’re quite expensive. And that’s today. The other week though, I bought a Mimco handbag which was also fairly expensive but I think it’s very nice. Listening Scripts Welcome to Money Matters, presented by Jimmy Stevens. Today we’re going to talk about four of the best money-making ideas in history. What do you think this is? It’s a food which you don’t eat. It’s a sweet which is made of rubber. It’s chewing

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gum! Chewing gum was originally made from chicle, a plant from Central and South America, but now many gum companies use rubber. No one knows who first used chewing gum, but it was in 1891 that Wrigley Company started making and selling it. Many people say it helps them to concentrate, and the US army gives gum to its soldiers for this reason. Today the industry is worth nearly 20 billion dollars a year. On to our next big moneymaker. The first telephone that could be carried around was invented in 1908. In the 1954 film, Sabrina, a character played by actor Humphrey Bogart made a call from the back of his car! But it was in 1973 that the modern mobile phone was invented by an American, Martin Cooper, and in the 1980s “mobiles” started to become popular. Many countries, including the UK, now have more mobile phones than people. Next is the iPod. It’s small and light. It plays and stores music. A company called Apple invented it, but Vinnie Chieco was the man that gave the iPod its name. He saw the machine and thought of a line from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, “Open the pod bay door, Hal!” The iPod arrived on the market in 2001. In 2007, from January to March, Apple earned 1.8 billion pounds from iPod sales. Our final big moneymaker is all about making money. In 1934 Charles Darrow showed a game to a company called Parker Brothers. Did they want to invest in it? No, they didn’t. So, with a friend who worked in a printing company, Mr. Darrow made 500 copies of the game and started selling them under the name “Monopoly”. The idea of the game is to buy streets where you can build houses and hotels. It soon became popular and Parker Brothers agreed to produce it. Today the owners say they’ve sold over 200 million Monopoly sets and 750 million people have

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played it. The game is truly international: It’s sold in 103 countries and in 37 languages. Viewing Scripts

P = Presenter; SB = Sergey Brin

P: It’s the fastest growing company in history, used by 400 million people a month. The Internet search engine Google has turned its founders from students to multibillionaires. Tonight, The Money Program does its own research on this extraordinary moneymaking machine and finds out how it’s changed the lives of countless millions of people who now inhabit “the World According to Google”. And these are the guys who made it all possible. Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, still in their early 30s, and each worth an estimated 6 billion pounds. Theirs is a dramatic tale which began 10 years ago when Larry and Sergey were both brilliant computer science students. The two met on a day out from Sergey’s university. Sergey was acting as a tour guide for some prospective students and Larry was in the group. Larry and Sergey developed a piece of software which they believed could revolutionize searching the Internet. Larry and Sergey always believed their system was a winner. Lunchtime hockey in the car park was all part of how Google was gonna be different.

SB: It’s a revolution, and you know, like the Industrial Revolution.

P: Inside, the office was a playground of lava lamps and bouncy balls. Sergey himself

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