Elementary Unit 9 BBC interviews script

F = Finn W1 = Woman 1 M1 = Man 1

F: I usually get to work by bus. It takes about half an hour. Sometimes I

read a book on the way. How about you? How do you get to work?

M1: I travel by bus. It’s only one bus to work. It takes about 15 minutes.

M2: I get to work by car.

W1: Bus.

W2: I walk to work.

M3: I get to work on the tube and I walk some of the way.

W3: About five minutes walk to the station, Waterloo station, and then I get
on a bus which takes about 20… 25 minutes.

M4: On most days I use the tube – my journey into work and my journey
home at the end of the day.

M5: I cycle to work. That’s the quickest and easiest way.

W4: I cycle in to work every day on my bike.

F: What do you do on your journey to work?

M3: I usually listen to music or read.

M1: Sometimes I listen to music and sometimes I read a book.

M4: I either read the newspaper or I read books.

W4: Take in the fresh air, the scenery, and try and avoid holes in the road
which are quite dangerous.

W3: I listen to my iPod.

M5: Well, sometimes, if it’s a bit of a quiet road, I can think about what I’m
going to do that day.

W1: I dream, usually. I just … I love journeys. I love just looking out of the
window.
M2: Well, it’s so short I don’t actually do very much at all, apart from make
sure I don’t have an accident.

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 Elementary Unit 9 BBC interviews script

F: What do you like about it?

M4: It’s fairly short, so my journey to work is only 30 minutes.

W3: It’s quick.

M2: It’s short. It only takes me 7 or 8 minutes.

W1: Seeing how the landscape changes through the seasons.

M3: I like listening to music and having some time to think before work.

M1: It’s quite early in the morning, which means that the bus is always quite
quiet, so I don’t have to fight for a seat.

M5: I like to have some fresh air and the exercise.

W4: I just like the exercise that I get from it and being outside in the open.

W2: It’s not too far. I can walk or run. It’s about quarter of an hour’s walk, so
I feel very healthy. I don’t have to catch a bus.

F: What don’t you like about your journey to work?

M3: I don’t like it when it’s very busy in the mornings and I don’t like it when
it’s hot and sweaty on the tube.

W1: It’s a very full bus. It’s packed with people because it’s the ‘work bus’.

M5: There are some very bad drivers on the road.

W3: Sometimes the buses get overcrowded and a lot of people are going to
the same place.

W4: I really don’t like cycling to work when it’s raining because I get wet, all
my books get wet …

M1: In the winter it’s very cold that early in the morning and sometimes if I
miss the first bus I have to wait about 20 minutes for the next one to
come along.

W2: In winter it’s very windy coming over the bridge and it makes my eyes
water.

M2: It’s so short, there’s nothing to like or dislike about it.

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