idea for a TV series, but somehow it didn't fee! right. Then I tried putting down an idea for a film, and the writing just. flowed. Interviewer: Do you think you're influenced very strong by films you've seen? Julia Emerson: Yes, but ch out, or | might iting a slighty diferent version af avec suppose everyone who does anything creative has to think about, thet, though, Interviewer: Can you tell us something about this screenplay that’s been bought by Planet Studios. What's it about? sulla Emerson: i's about two sisters, who ae stranded in the jungles of South America after a plane crash: they're the only survivors. They have all sorts of adventures as they try to get back to civilisation. I's an adventure story, but it’s also about the relationship between the two girls, You see, they've never been very close — in fact, at the start of the story they really hate each other. Or at least, they think they do. Interviewer: How much of the story is based on your own experience? ‘Julia Emerson: Since I don't have any brothers or sisters, in one way it’s clearly not based on my experience! But on {he other hand, have experienced how the feelings we have f different nd Mansformations. which ie the real iheme ofthe tone Interviewer: And when am | going to be able to see this film in the local cinema? Julia Emerson: 've got no idea! The studio has pald for the htto roenplay havo ths = called an option = for the next 2 years. They might make fil time, or thi iL buy the ain for another two years. I's all gut of my hands, in fact. So | try not to get too excited about seeing the story an the big sereen one day, because I have no way of knowing when that might be. Interviewer: | hope it's soon, anyway. Julia Emerson, thanks for talking to us. Julia Emerson: Thank you, C2 >> PART 1 You will hear people talking in eight different situations, For questions 1-8, choose the best answer, A, B or C. 1 Well, Mr Saunders, we have to take this lower back pain of yours seriously. You'll need to get an orthopaedic mattress, and a chair for your desk that supports your back - and I'l bbe showing you how to stand properly. Now, for the first exercise, get down on the floor, look straight up at the ing. at sides, ot as hi you can. 2 A: Hello? 8: Good evening, Taj Mahal restaurant, Oh, good evoning, Id like to order a takeaway. Certainly. What would you like? I'd like a Madras curry with beef, a hot lamb curry and a mild chicken curry, your special. Oh, and three portions of rice. Did you know the chicken curry is with rice? Oh, | see, Better make that just two portions of rice. Thanks. Pe 3 It's incredible how he makes the whole scene come to life. {think this is @ perfect example of Improssionism at its best. The colours are s0 lively, 80 exciting, and you really have the sense that you know how he felt when he painted it. This is one of his later works, right at the end of the real Impressionists. In fact, at historians generally say the end of the Impressionist movement was 1886, and this was actually painted two years later. Butitcleerly belongs with the Impressio 4 The football ground? Well, you go along this road until you come to big supermarket on the laf, and you turn right just opposite it. That brings you into Oldham Street, and you go straight on. You come to some traffic lights just aftera park on the right, you keep on going, and then you take the third turning on your left ~ at a cinema called the Majestic, you can't miss it - and the football ground’s on the right 5 A: Allright, Bll, 3o you've come up with a new cartoon character. What's his name? B; Crazy Conrad, Do you think it sounds good? ‘A; Well, not bad. And Conrad's a horse, right? No, you're holding it upside down. He's a baby elephant ‘A: Oh, sorry. Yes, nov that | look more closely | can see what you mean. I's got bigger ears than a horse and it's got a trunk. Yes, of course it’s not a horse. 6 Oh officer, do hope you can help me. | never thought he'd just go off like that by himself. Well, | suppose you never do expect these things, do you? But in al the time I've had him it’s the first time he’s run away. My husband always Used to say it would happen sooner ar later, if | left him outside shops ~ but what am | supposed to do? These days you can’t take dos inside most shops. And he does hete being tied up. 7 And now our traffic bulletin. The police have issued a warning about long delays on the M63 heading south, between junctions 15 and 16, caused by an accident involving three cars on the A36, just before junction 15, where the A36 and the B636 intersect. The incident on the A36 has produced a long tailback. Delays are expected for the next three or four hours while rescue services clear the road, and police are advising motorists to avoid the area if at all possible. And on the railways FCE Tests Tapescripts 193,