Upper Intermediate Audioscript

Outcomes
Page 202 Unit 8 Track 40

Conversation 1
A: How was your holiday?
B: Fine – apart from _______________.
A: Oh, you’re joking! What happened?
B: Well, it was stupid, really. I____________ more careful. I was sitting in a café and these
lads ______________ me with a map asking for directions. I said I didn’t understand and
they ____________. Then I suddenly realised my bag was gone.
A: Oh no!
B: I’d left it under my chair and one of them _______________ it while they were talking to
me.
A: That’s terrible! Did it have much in it?
B: Fortunately not. My purse was in my pocket.
A: Still, it _______________ very nice.
B: Yeah, it was a bit _______________, but I didn’t let it _________ the holiday.
A: Well, that’s good.

Conversation 2
C: Who was that on the phone?
D: It was the bank. They wanted to know if I’d spent $800 in Manila.
C: Manila? That’s like 5,000 kilometres away!
D: I know. I guess someone _________________ my card details somehow.
C: Sure, but how did they ________________ get it half way round the world?
D: Apparently, they have machines which can swipe the card and _________all your details,
then they just sell the details to whoever over the web.
C: Right. So have you got any idea when it happened?
D: No. I mean, it ______________ when I bought those new trainers on the internet, but then
again it might equally have been in the local supermarket.
C: You reckon? Maybe you __________________ for everything in cash.
D: Yeah, right! That’s not very practical!
C: I’m just saying. Anyway, what about the money? Will you _______________?
D: Yeah, they said it’s fine.
C: That must be a ______________.
D: It is.

Conversation 3
E: Er, what are you reading?
F: Oh, it’s just about all these animals and stuff ____________ this year.
E: Oh right.
F: No, it’s incredible. Look at this picture.
E: Oh my word – that’s awful. There’s a whole elephant! Why would you want a whole
_____________ elephant?
F: I don’t know, but it says __________ two hundred thousand, so someone with more
money than sense.
E: ... and a large living room.
F: Exactly. Get this, though. Apparently, they____________ a motel room and they found
this guy with two live crocodiles in the bathroom and a lion in the back of a _______
outside.
E: No!
F: Yeah!
E: Imagine if someone had gone in to clean the room.
F: It’d be _________________. Do you think he was transporting them together?
E: It sounds like it. I suppose he __________________ them. They’d fight otherwise.
F: I guess. Who do you think would win?
E: I’d say the crocodile. Didn’t you say there were two of them?