Ditmas Extract One Intorviower:..s0 Monarch buttartios Ino in the Rocky Mountains of North America, dort hey? Man: Tha’ oh, but une ctherinsacs intemperate eee eee eer ee ae ‘overwinar either along the Calferian coast, or high the mountain of Meza ee eet tenet ered Man: Wel the migrations driven by seasonal changes Both dayightsnasamperstursnfuence the movement ofthe Monarch Intorviower: Andis this migration unusual? Man’ Wal infact no other biteces mirate quite like theseda, They aval much furher than anger soscien Interviewer: Oh? And where co they sets? Man: Wl, hey fin masses ‘othe same winter race, ‘lian tha sumetee unbalewabla think ally. Ran eresing ah Intorviowor: That's more the type of migration you fexpact fom bites nd whales surely? Man: Except that unlike birds and whales, these butterfias have a very shor lifespan so only a small proportion make the migration tip. Interviewer: They only de itonce then Man: To explain itn human terms, it's actually their childven’s grandehilran that raturn south the following ‘al Interviewer: Ise. Extract Two ‘Woman: Did you watch the Cook ofthe Year final? ‘Man: You bet. The winning dish Sama cooked yesterday ‘was really unusual. The colours were fantastic! ‘Woman: *Yesh. [felt she pulled aut allthe siops just ‘whan it mattered. She hass't performed consistantly ‘hroughaut the eampetition trough —sha’s hac real upe and downs. [thought Al should have got the prize—he porformed so steadily in all the rounds. Man: ‘Wall tthe kay moment Salima shone and he let Fimsalf downWoman: Mim. |wondar #the next eres wll be the sams? Vanjoy watching t but tie getting a btrepettive. ‘Man: Oh, Ika that, i's reassuring! Although ie would be [geod to have sameane naw on the expert chef panel 22 ‘make their decisions Woman: Mmm, Swsll. think they nes fw innovative. features each week, ‘Man: What ike .. um, something about the countries the. recipss come from? Woman: Exactly. ‘Man: Huh. Maybe they should trya programme where people can enly cook in one particular style, you know, Italian, Thal, whatever. Woman: Mmm, sounds geod in theory, but wouldit be rather Imting? ‘Man: Well, | suppose it might be Extract Thres Peter: Hi, Clive, how was the South Afican trip then? Claire: Oh, it was fantastic, Peter. And “the best part was the game path, ust ike you'd edi me ioexpect Peter: Well we went twa years ago and I've never forgotten seeing all those animals for real. Elephants, lions, giraffe ~it isso much bettor than eeaing therm (on screen —huge animals suddenly emeraing from the trees. And the landscape —wide horizons in every Srection (Claire: Yeah, and what about those sunsets? They were Just our ofthe warld, wran't they? But ws lis nave one rather unnerving encounter . Peter: Oh? Claire: Yeah, with an elephant it started poking atthe windows of cur jeep with ts trunk. Then itsort of ‘wrapped itself around the vehicle and started wiggling it ater: That must have baen scary CClairer Well, not realy Poter: Elophants can be aggressive. (Claire: Not this one. It jostled the joep with its tusks, and than just tured and walked away Poter: Wasit after the provisions you had on board? (Claire: &Lthink twas probably just wondering what we ware, and having checked us out eft us alone Peter: You won't forget that! Claire: Certainly won't!DB tmai Hal tm gins to iv you sore inept nis whats actly volved inmy job as abasetball sine What Tenoy most'ssecing en athlete perform ata igh leet tnoning at helped tne et thee There ee eee ae {ime things go smoothly unless there's a breskdown eee aoe eee ee eee eer ele and modal staf arerit on the ome Vack. Iwas ily enough to study sports cence at collage tke ee eset eer ee ‘been massive developments in the psychology of sport in aes such te motvetin er athctes saucer What isconsant though the “uma bcm grat for all the hours we spent in those classes as | use my depth ‘ofknonedge evry day. much more than rectal il (Alege per ye cent ec tes leet eee treet are ‘utof te sport fox greater lengths of time's damage Spat eee ete eer fear eel a eel eae We have to 222008 new trend in sports taining 0 202 if they're really going to bereft our players. Alot of ‘companiee knock on our door with the latest equipment ‘and training programmes to improve players! ‘stezagth bit find they'e not warth the manay and i's more effective to concentrate on injury prevention and general health. That's whathas the most impact on result. ‘The dally exorcise schedule | uso with the taam hasn't changed much over the years. Strangely enough, it’s the simpless exercises which aim to lp players’ ‘aalance thatare the most beneficial to thair game, Arcunc those we also do lot of practice on technique of course ‘nd inavieia lle After a big series of matches, keep an eye on the players as i's easier for them to switch off and get into bad habits. They'llbe exhausted and thay need some time to sleep and rest. make sure | suggest» ‘nutrition programme to help them restore the eneray they've lost. Every sports trainer implements a team's fitness programms in scfferent way, Gut what | have lasrnac 's that in order to get the best out ofthe players have to understand thoir?astsonaltis and which method 's going to best sut each one. Once | hava the right methods for each one their ftness levels will mprove ‘much faster and they will develop the skils they need, (fall the things Ive talked about —having a flexible ‘appreach, 9 constant awareness of whats going on in the team and spacialsed knowledge - we shouldn't ignore a sansa athumaur Without that, none ofthe rest wil work ~itts2 very challenging job and things go wrong all tha time 20 youwon't get far witout Thank you very much fer listeningD trackos Intersiewer: Good evening eveyone, With ene inthe Sod toy le Pat O Rally. 0 third-generation Vish-Avavallon who sa wer ond broodeaster and pesonees mtepertar ole e Geo kre Welcome, Patch Patrick: Thankyou, Snead, Interviewer: Tal m= Patil whatsigriteance does Wah Scie Pek: Wal you sid, man kis Aural. hs my secon language; ld leam knielan, buhere ‘nAustala, nthe 1th contury twas the fer language of many ofthe ish people who seed here Inteniower: And did't most slip away atone pol? Patrice Thats it butt never cuts vanced. Soto me, ‘nish is a language of this country. It's in the strests ofa Malbostne subuth the fest Astalan sama K aa ? Lbeadeat and in hich | wre, m conscious fs disiony ete Interviewer: How do you feel about the language itso” Patrick: Well Irish is a language of passionate songs, and ithas one of the olds fraraturas in western Europe. It’s descended from the language of those Celts whe arrvad inthe British Isles atthe end of the Bronze Age, 20 itdatas back tnoussnais of yaare But for me, “what is ruly remarkable ie that when Ireland finally bbecame independent early in the last century, the lish language acquired renewed importance as a vehicle of scholarship, Now it has a television network and has. achieved something inconceivable, even 20 years age dnas als become tcendy and positively cool today Intorviewor: And what made you want to learn lish asa language? Patrick: Youmay well ask! When | bacan learning the language my enthusiasm was viewed as eccentric Interviewer: Why? Patrick: Well, some panple thought that Irish-Caslic was dead, lke Latin, although in fact twas stil spoken as a frst language by 3 few thousand people on the west ‘coos of ireland. So why aI lear i? Irland wasn't 2 part of my childhood in any significant way. My great- ‘grandparents had coma here from Southern fraland uring the Gold Rush, anc wa had became sally Australian But liked Isngusges and the wore they ‘could reveal. ish promised me a world of my own. Iwas Conscious, Ithink, that my people's past lay elsewhero. Interviewer: Aine your Irish ancestry has played a bia part In your witing too, belive? Patricks That's right. The stories | write in rsh ara ‘published only in Ireland, yet they deal with the peculiar situation ofthe language here in Australia. write in English, | use a language which has had time to adapt to 8 new history, a naw society ‘thas te own accent, fs ‘own everyday language. This has also happened with Italan, but Italian isthe fist or second language of a whole community, Irish in his country is the language ‘of scattered individuals, 20 ithasn’ adapted to modern needs ‘As an Australian who wees in insh, [must pring about the linguistic adaptation which has taken 200. years te accomplish in English.Interviewer: And yet you implied earlier that Irish had [become fashionable ls thatthe case in Australis? Patrice: Wall, yas, here actually masns that avery yeara number of people goto Irish language classes, and that ‘2 minority eventually bacome fluent. "Kish has become ‘new trend because Ialand ieelfis owes major draw fortourets, Thousands of Australians vat reland ‘every year to seek the house their great-grandmother was born in, sh relatives, Others want 10 see the teen landscape of ald legends. For some, the Irish language is part of allthis. | once interviewed a young worn from Melbourne who bacame so fascinated by traditional rsh singing that she learned Irish and now Worle in the Aran lands aff the coast of ralana! Interviewer: And what other motivation would Australians hhave for learning kish? Patrick: Well any wil tell you that's something t2 do ‘with their interect in langusges, Dut would say that motives 128 various a3 the individuals, i's also true, surely, that it allows the expression of an aspect of identity long suppressed, yet felt tobe vital. Few people can bear to bo rootless. We mus all come from somewhere, and language is a fundamental part of identity. Not many esl the need to explore theirpast by learning lsh, but ‘that even a few should do so, i significant. Intorviewor: Thank you, Patrick, it's been interesting ‘olking to you. Patrick: Thankyou. © track oz ‘Speaker t: Imoved to an apartment in New York where I didn'tknow anyone but | started to make friends at werk. One evening whan | vas realy tired there was incredibly “loud music coming from the apartment downsiaic sol went andasked foritta be wed. ‘dun The nest day tare was a note through the ‘door from Mark saying he hoped he had t=poilt my ‘evening. ‘Bad that's the great thing about him -ho- alu ackooulodacs fio a the wong, Anyway, we ‘scovered we both love basketball and we started practising together. We became frm friends and stil se0 gach other although we have less time for ‘basketball these days ‘Speaker 2: Whon | was thitoon, xy dad said his new. ‘boss hada daughter of my age wha he was sure | would ‘get on with, They’ ust moved and she'd started 2 new school and dn’tknow anyone in the area. Of course when we did get together we didnt get along. Iwas ‘quite reserved and Alessia was ful of herself Later when we were grown up, we met again through fiends and this time we hitit off. Now ‘Lapprecate the fact some project she's ust getting started on and is excited about It's true that opposites attract but you don't ‘always realisa it whan you're young,‘Speaker 3: | sometimes wander where id be without Johnny who always seems to be around to cheer me Up when there's a crisis. He dosen't say much and he dogsn't want to hear anyone's problems but ‘nothing, (aver seems to get him down and thos » reat bonus ina friend. Itwas always Ike that. Before going to university, Ispent three months cleaning offices and | had to be there by five in the moming, “Johnny was. slusys on the same bus 3 ma a8 he wise working in ‘2 bakery By the time | gotto work we'd shared a few Jokes and Iwas starting to feel human and ready to start imy day. Speaker d: I've got myself into deep trouble sometimes because | do love to gossip. can'tstop myself. Most ‘thar people can't boar to keep things to themselves ither but Anns is diferent. if you do tll he somathing in confidence, you know it won't go any further She lives very near me now but she used te live in Thailand, “A few years ago Lwas traveling round South East Asia. ‘Anna who she'd! mat at university As soon as | met her Tknew she'd be a lt of fun, She's quite 2 bit older than me but it doesn't seom to matter. Speaker 5: Ons day | was ‘queusing ta go into 2 font match and | started tang to this quy nexs to me who was Tam, To cut along story short we ended up in the came band and chared a flat fora while. Fora bit| stopped seeing my other fiends and | got very arrogant becouse we ware doing well To be honest | wasn'ta nice person to be around. But Tom just took me for who | was and he stil does — "he doesn't fel the right to tell ‘other penole how to ive their ves, Unlike some other ‘people who think only ther way is best