Speakout Podcast Unit 2 - Script
H = Hina W1 = 1st woman etc. M1 = 1st man etc.
H: Hi, IÕm Hina. I work for the BBC in London as a researcher. IÕve
learnt a lot of skills in my job and IÕve made some good friends at work.
Sometimes my job gets too busy and I donÕt get enough time to relax, or even to
tidy my flat. What do you do?
W1: IÕm an administrator in an Economics
department of a university.
M1: IÕm an accountant.
M2: I work in advertising.
M3: IÕm a filmmaker.
M4: IÕm a mechanical engineer for an energy
company in Australia.
W2: I work in an office.
W3: IÕm a singing teacher. I teach singing
lessons.
M5: IÕm a private investigator. I run a
private investigation company in Germany.
M6: I am a charity worker, so I travel to different
places in the world.
M7: Well, IÕm semi-retired now, but I worked
for many years for a publishing company. Book publishing.
W4: I am the Director of Sales for a software
company called B-line.
W5: IÕm a college professor. I teach
communication and journalism at Jackson University.
M8: I work as an expedition leader.
W6: IÕm a fashion photographer and I work for
a fashion agency.
W7: I work part-time in a music store.
H: Where do
you work?
M2: I work in London.
W1: ItÕs University College London. Also
known as UCL.
M3: I work from home in central London.
M4: I work about 8 hoursÕ drive from where I
live in Brisbane.
W2: I work in London.
M5: I mostly work in Berlin.
M7: The head office is in London, so although
I work mostly from home now, I travel down to London maybe 2 or 3 times a
month.
W4: I work here in the City of London.
W3: I work from home and then I also work in
schools.
M8: We mainly operate in continents like
Asia, Africa, South America, so I spend a lot of my time abroad, maybe about
two-thirds of my time is spent outside the United Kingdom.
H: What are
the best things about your job?
M2: The best things about my job are the
different people that I meet from all around the world.
W6: I get to travel andÉ lots of different
people every day and every day is different.
W1: The flexibility.
M1: The variety of work that I have. Meeting people throughout the day.
M3: The best thing is that no day is ever
really the same.
M4: I get to be hands-on with everything.
W2: Working with my colleagues and friends.
M8: IÕve made some really good friends over
the years, from the locals and natives, from the local crews I work with.
M6: Seeing peopleÕs faces when you do
something for them and seeing little kids being very happy and laughing –
I really love that.
H: And
the worst things?
W2: The worst thing about my job is that it
can get very stressful.
W1: As much as I love my job, there are times
when I need to take work home to meet deadlines. IÕd say thatÕs, thatÕs
probably the only bad thing I can think of right now.
M6: When you see people who are very poor and
very sad and donÕt have much opportunity. And there is not much that they can
do about it, then that hurts you a lot.
M2: The worst thing about my job is the hours
we work – we can be there until ten, eleven oÕclock.
W6: Long hours. ItÕs tiring and youÕre Ôon
callÕ quite a lot of the time.
M3: You never know what youÕre going to be
doing from one day to the next, so sometimes itÕs hard to make plans.
M4: Just the distance É being away from my
family.
M8: You
miss family, you miss friends. So I think spending a lot of time out of
the UK can have its disadvantages.