Unit ILife is a learning curve
Liste ning to the world
Shari ng Scripts
H = Hina; W1 = Woman 1, etc.; M1 = Man 1, etc. Part 1
H: I have a full- time job but I like learning new things in my spare time. At the moment, I ' m studying Spanish. I ' m
enjoyiutg it ' m finding it quite difficult. Today we ' re asking people
about lear ning new thin gs. Part 2
W1: I ' m learning to speak another Ianguage, actually. I drive.
' m learning French. I ' m also learni
W2: I ' m learning to play golf at the moment. Uh, my husband and my son play golf, and when we go on holiday, I feel that
I want to be able to play with them. W3: I ' m learning to speak Spanish. W4: I am lear ning Arabic.
M1: Well, I ' ve been learning to play the guitar for about 50 years now. And it
so still lear ning bits, yes. W5: I ' m learning yoga at the moment, and I M3: I ' m learning Swahili. W6: At the moment, I
' s a constan
' m finding it quite hard.
M2: The courses I ' making are, are training courses for leadership, er, negotiation, (and) evaluati on.
' m learning to paint and draw in evening classes for adults.
W7: I ' m studying patitme after work.
M4: I ' ve er, just learned how to er, do a lot of kayaking. W8: I am learning how to design a website at the moment.
W9: I ' m in a choir so singing, I guess, is pretty much the only thing I M5: At the moment, I ' m taking up a new instrument. It
and it ' s called the mbira. Er, let me show you. Part 3
H: What' s the most difficult thing you M5: Patie nee, I thi nk. W4: Arabic. M2: Courage.
W3: Lear ning a Ian guage is particularly difficult for myself (me), so probably lear ning the Spani sh.
W6: The most difficult thing I have ever lear ned is Man dari n Chin ese. I did it in evening classes a few years ago and I
found it really, really difficult. W5: Probably capoeira, which is a Brazilian dance, martial art, fight thing. It
' m doing at the mome
' s a traditional instrument from Zimbabwe,
' ve ever learned?
' s a combina
of these things. And yes, that was very difficult because there were lots of unusual body moveme nts to lear n. W1: Lear ning to drive was the most difficult thing. M3: Well, I learned some Sanskrit, and that
difficult by most sta ndards.
' s got um, nine cases, two more than Latin. It
M4: I think I found French very hard at school.
W2: Um, I learned to play the trumpet at school. That was pretty difficult. Er ... and maybe lear ning to drive. I hated lear
ning to drive. Liste ning Scripts
P = presenter; S = Sally
P: Hi. You ' re listeningsik the Expert and in today ' s program we ' re talking about Ianguages and
how to lear n a Ian guage. Our expert today is Sally Parker, who is a teacher. Hi Sally. S: Hello.
P: Sally, our first question today is from Andy. He says,
“ I ' vEjuststahted learning
problem is that I ' rtoo frightened to speak. My grammar is not very good, so I ' ^worried about say ing the wrong thing. ” Have you got any advice for An dy?
' m not sure that ' s a good idea.
S: OK. Well, the first thing is I think Andy should practice speaking to himself. P: Speaking to himself? I
S: I know it sounds silly, but talking to yourself in a foreign Ianguage is a really good way to practice. You don ' t have to
feel embarrassed, because no body can hear you. You can talk to yourself about anything you like - what you had for your own voice and your pronunciation, so you won try it.
P: Hm, I suppose so. Anything else? What about his grammar?
S: He has only just started lear ning En glish, so he is going to make lots of mistakes, but that
a problem. That ' s how he ' ll learn. Andy shouldn P: You ' re right. So Andy, try talking to yourself, and don
breakfast, where you ' rgoing for the weeke nd -anything. And the more you do it, the more you will get used to heari ng
' t feel so frightened in the classroomoAddy sh
' t worry about making mistakes
' t worry about making mistakes. Our ne: problem comes from Olivia in Brazil. She is worried about pronunciation. She says, “ The problem is I can ' t understand native speakers. They speak scafatt can ' t understand their pronun ciati on. ” So Sally, any ideas for
Olivia?
S: Well, first of all it
' s a good idea for her to practice her listening skills. She should listen to
En glish as much as possible to get used to how it soun ds. Liste n to the n ews, liste n to podcasts, (and) watch En glish televisi on. P: OK -that ' s a good idea.
S: And ano ther thing she should do is to focus on liste ning and read ing at the same time. If you
listen to something on the Internet, you can often read the transcript. If you listen and read at
the same time, it ' ll help you see what the words sound like and how the words sound when a n ative speaker is talk ing.
P: Great. Thank you, Sally. Well, huh, I
we' ll be … Viewi ng Scripts
N = Narrator; I = Ian Deary; W1 = Woman 1, etc.; M1 = Man 1, etc.
' m afraid that ' s all we have time for today, but next week
N: Recent research into the history of IQ tests in Scotla nd suggests your IQ score might predict, to an exte nt at least, your
health and even your life expecta ncy. W1: You have 45 minu tes to do the test, OK? M1: OK.
N: Bill and Davina are 79 years old. This is the second time they
' ve done this test. The first time
was in 1932, when every 11-year- old in Scotland was put through an intelligenee test. It ' s th
only time this kind of mass testing has ever been done in the UK. The results were rediscovered recen tly in an Edi nburgh baseme nt. If you want to know how our in tellige nee changes as we get older, these results are a potential goldmine.
I: We brought hun dreds of people back and we got them to sit the exact same test that they had sat when they were aged
11. Now, these people are now 79 or 80 years old. We gave the same instructions. We gave the same test. And we gave the same time limit. M2: It was a little stickier than I thought it would be. M3: I walked through it quite happily, quite hon estly.
W2: I felt I must have bee n very bright at 11 if I sat that exam and passed.
N: There were some in trigu ing results. Almost every one had a better score at 80 tha n they did at 11.
But some had gone from being just averagely in tellige nt to a much higher level.
I: Now, that ' s what really drives our research. We ' re interested in: Why have those people who
gone (people gone) from IQ 100, at age 11, up to 110 or 120? What have they done right?
What can be the recipe for successful aging? We refinding that the person with more educati on, even though they had the same IQ in childhood, is doing slightly better in old age, on average. The pers on who had a more professi onal job, in old age, is doing slightly better on average than the person who had a manual job, despite the fact that they started at the same level. The people who smoked have got slightly less good mental ability than you would expect. N: What ' s evenore remarkable is that the kids who had higher IQ scores at 11 are the very ones still alive today. So it
seems high IQ in childhood is good for survival.
Speak ing for com muni cati on
Role-play Scripts
A: Ah, OK, so we n eed to think of the best ideas for tak ing tests. B: Yep.
A: Er, well, how about this one? It
' s a good idea to study with friends at the same time each day.
B: Mm, in my opinion, this is a really good idea. You can make it a regular part of your daily life. A: You mean like having breakfast at the same time, lunch at the same time, studying at the same time. B: Yes. And also I think it helps whe n you study with frien ds. A: Yeah, I, I think it
' s more motivating.
' m only read ing my
B: And you can actually talk to some one, not just look at books. I find that if I
helps you concen trate. So, yes, I agree with this one. A: OK. Ano ther idea is not to eat too much before the exam. B: Oh, really?
A: Mm, whe n I eat a lot, I get sleepy.
B: Oh, I see. I thi nk it depe nds. Because if you don
middle of the exam. A: Mm, that ' s true.
B: And then you can ' t concentrate. A: Yeah, that ' s true.
notes it ' easy to lose concentration. I start thinking about other things. But when you are talk ing to some on e, it really
' t eat eno ugh, you start to feel hungry in the
B: So, I ' m not sure about this advice, for me. As I said, I think it depends. I always try to eat a good meal before an exam.
I ' m so nervous that I never get sleepy.
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