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H: Hi, I’m Hina. I work for the BBC here in London. I know a lot of
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W1: I’ve got a small circle of close friends.
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W2: I have a few close friends, yeah.
W3: Yeah, I’ve got a lot of close friends. I’ve met them through college
… I actually moved over here with 3 friends so we all live together.
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W4: Yeah, I do have quite a few close friends.
M3: I’m quite lucky. I have quite a large group of close friends.
M4: I have a number of close friends.
H: How do you keep in touch with them?
M1: I keep in touch in all sorts of ways. I telephone, email… sometimes I
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of work, so we network within that circle quite a bit. Email,
telephone.
W5: Facebook, like, mainly and then MSN.
W2: I’m on MSN a lot. I’m on Facebook. I go to see them but mostly
texting and using the internet, like, social networking sites like
Facebook.
W3: Mainly, at the moment, through Facebook. I’m always on Facebook.
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M2: Usually by mobile phone. I send text messages and make phone
calls.
W4: Skype even, my family mainly.
M3: We live all over the place, so it’s … the internet is the major way we
do that. Email, or, or, networking sites.
M5: Normally through the internet, but I like to write letters very often.
H: What do you look for in a friend?
W3: In a friend, I’d look for someone who’s quite trustworthy. I guess
someone who’s quite creative, like myself; somebody who likes
going out.
W2: Honesty is probably the first one. If they’re not honest with me then
they can’t be my friend.
W4: Reliable and loyal. And fun and easy-going, I guess.
M1: Sense of humour, I think.
W5: Mainly like the personality and if they, like, have the same interests
as me.
M3: Mostly it’s people who can make me laugh. Or who I can share
experiences with.
M5: Loyalty, honesty, creativity.
W1: Someone I can relate to. Someone I feel comfortable with.
Someone I can be myself with. Someone who’s easy to talk to.
M2: The qualities I look for in a friend - they have to be funny, they have
to be kind and sincere, they have to be honest, and they have to be
about this tall, otherwise I get intimidated.
H: Hi, I’m Hina. I work for the BBC in London as a researcher. I’ve
learnt a lot of skills in my job and I’ve made some good friends at
work. Sometimes my job gets too busy and I don’t get enough time
to relax, or even to tidy my flat. What do you do?
W1: I’m an administrator in an Economics department of a university.
M1: I’m an accountant.
M2: I work in advertising.
M3: I’m a filmmaker.
M4: I’m a mechanical engineer for an energy company in Australia.
W2: I work in an office.
W3: I’m a singing teacher. I teach singing lessons.
M5: I’m 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, I’m 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: I’m a college professor. I teach communication and journalism at
Jackson University.
M8: I work as an expedition leader.
W6: I’m 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: It’s University College London. Also known as UCL.
M3: I work from home in central London.
M4: I work about 8 hours’ 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 and… 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: I’ve made some really good friends over the years, from the locals
and natives, from the local crews I work with.
M6: Seeing people’s 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. I’d say that’s, that’s probably the only bad
thing I can think of right now.
M6: When you see people who are very poor and very sad and don’t
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 o’clock.
W6: Long hours. It’s tiring and you’re ‘on call’ quite a lot of the time.
M3: You never know what you’re going to be doing from one day to the
next, so sometimes it’s hard to make plans.
M4: Just the distance … 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.
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F: I like playing music and going to concerts in my free time. This

weekend I’m going to a bar in North London to see my friend’s band.
What do you like doing in your free time?
M1: I like to keep fit. I like to be very active. I like to do a lot of sport. I also
like to see a lot of friends. I like to go to the theatre. I like to go and see
plays.
W1: I like to read, books about … crime novels, for example. And I like to go
running. And obviously I can’t run when I am at work. In my free time, I
like to do some exercise.
M2: I have two small children so I don’t have much free time. But seeing
friends is one of my great pleasures. I have some friends, we play
music together. We’re in a band.
M3: I like coming up here to London to see galleries and theatres, and
things like that. I like eating and drinking a lot. Sometimes in
restaurants, and sometimes, either having friends around for that, or
going to other people’s houses.
W2: I enjoy jazz so I quite like having friends around to listen to the.. to
listen to some jazz or go out to a jazz club
W3: I like to do many things in my free time. I love to read, I love to study
different things. I’m studying oil painting and different languages now.
M4: I enjoy reading. I enjoy playing the guitar. I also enjoy creative writing -
and watching films.
F: What are you going to do this weekend?
M2: This weekend, there is a large camping trip of all my son’s school
friends. And we’re all going off camping, which is going to be very
interesting.
W1: This weekend I’m going to run a half marathon in Nottingham for the
Robin Hood festival and raising money for a charity.
M4: I’m going to relax as much as possible after quite a hard week, and a
stressful week. So I’m going to possibly watch a film and do very little.
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W3: This weekend I’m going to try to relax a little. I just completed a long
trip.
W2: This weekend I’m going to take my son to football. He plays in a local
football team.
M3: This weekend I’m going to see some friends on Saturday night, and
have dinner at their house. And then I’m going to be welcoming some
friends at our house on Sunday night.
M1: I have a friend, who … it’s her birthday. And I’m going to go to the
birthday party on Saturday. And then on Sunday I’m going to go to a
barbecue.
H: I have a full-time job but I like learning new things in my spare time. At
the moment, I’m studying Spanish. I’m enjoying it but I’m finding it quite
difficult. Today we’re asking people about learning new things.
W1: I’m learning to speak another language, actually. I’m learning French.
I’m also learning to drive.
W2: I’m learning to play golf at the moment. My husband and my son play
golf, and when we go on holiday, I feel I want to be able to play with
them.
W3: I’m learning to speak Spanish.
W4: I’m learning Arabic.
M1: Well, I’ve been learning to play the guitar for about 50 years now. And
it’s a constant process, so still learning bits, yes.
W5: I’m learning yoga at the moment, and I’m finding it quite hard.
M2: The courses I’m taking are training courses for leadership, negotiation,
evaluation.
M3: I’m learning Swahili.
W6: At the moment, I’m learning to paint and draw in evening classes for
adults.
W7: I’m studying part-time after work.
M4: I’ve just learnt how to do a lot of kayaking.
W8: I’m learning how to design a website, at the moment.
W9: I am in a choir so singing, I guess, is pretty much the only thing I’m
doing at the moment.
M5: At the moment, I’m taking up a new instrument. It’s a traditional
instrument from Zimbabwe, and it’s called the Imbira. Let me show you.
H: What’s the most difficult thing you’ve ever learnt?
M5: Patience, I think.
W4: Arabic.
M2: Courage.
W3: Learning a language is particularly difficult for myself, so probably
learning the Spanish.
W6: The most difficult thing I have ever learnt is Mandarin Chinese. I did it
in evening classes a few years ago and I found it really, really difficult.
W5: Probably capoeira, which is a Brazilian dance, martial arts, fight thing.
It’s a combination of all these things. And yes, that was very difficult
because there were lots of unusual body movements to learn.
W1: Learning to drive was the most difficult thing.
M3: Well, I learnt some Sanskrit, and that’s got nine cases, two more than
Latin. It’s quite difficult by most standards.
M4: I think I found French very hard at school.
W2: I learnt the trumpet at school. That was pretty difficult. And maybe
learning to drive. I hated learning to drive.
F: I’ve spent a lot of time living in different countries so there isn’t one
place, I think of as home. I’ve lived in Scotland and Poland and China.
I love going to new places and learning about new cultures. Today, I’m
asking people about travel.
W1: I love travel. It’s one of my passions.
M1: I enjoy it a lot. I have travelled to India several times. I lived there,
and I’ve lived here, and I’ve been to Istanbul once and I enjoyed that
very much.
W2: I’ve done quite a bit of travelling with holidays and stuff. I think it’s
good- good experience.
W3: You get to meet different people from different backgrounds, and that’s
pretty important to get an understanding.
M2: It’s always nice to just get out and experience a different culture and
different lifestyle.
W4: I get very excited about the thought of going to most countries, any
country.
W5: I love to travel to different countries.
M3: Absolutely love travelling. I’ve been travelling for about two and a half
years solid now.
W6: I’ve been to Turkey. I’ve been to Egypt. I’ve been to Malta.
M4: I work as an expedition leader and so I actually operate in different
countries around the world, many places outside the United Kingdom.
F: What do you like about travelling?
M3: I think you mature a lot when you travel. You learn… oh, just
completely different experiences to what you’re used to at home.
W6: I like the airport experience. I love that.
M5: I like the arrival more than the travelling.
W5: To see art especially. We love to see theatre in other countries.
M4: You see some of the most beautiful scenery around the world which
you wouldn’t experience in other countries.
M2: I just really like getting out there and experiencing a different culture,
getting far away from, you know, what we’re used to in Australia, and
meeting new people.
W4: The anticipation of being in a new place, of seeing very different things,
of hearing a different language, of eating different food. Everything that
travel has to offer.
F: What don’t you like?
W6: I don’t like long flights.
W3: I suppose plane journeys are not always the most exciting of things.
W1: Flying. I don’t particularly like flying, but it’s a necessity when you live
in Ireland, you know.
M2: I suppose the biggest problem I have with travelling is living out of a
suitcase.
W4: In all honesty, I actually see the whole travel as an adventure in itself.
So when I was backpacking, and we ran out of money, or we were in
dangerous situations, I actually quite enjoyed that.
M4: You spend a lot of time outside the United Kingdom and the
disadvantage of that is, that you tend to miss families and friends. I
miss out on normal things in life, so … I’ve been outside the United
Kingdom for two thirds of the year. I’d say that’s the main
disadvantage.
W5: The hardest thing for me is that I’m handicapped. And so sometimes
getting around, especially very old cities, is very difficult.
M5: My wife’s usually late getting to the airport. It wasn’t until I got married
that I actually started missing flights.
F: Often it’s hard to find a time to exercise when you have a full-time job.
Lots of my friends belong to gyms but I prefer to go running outside to
keep fit. How about you? What do you do to keep fit?
M1: I do quite a few things actually. I go to the gym quite regularly. I go for
runs. I’m also a little bit involved in the sport of rowing. So, I’m down
there quite a bit. I actually coach rowing as well.
W1: I have three children, and I work full-time. And I don’t have a lot of time
to do any extra organised exercise.
W2: The main thing I do is I practise yoga. That incorporates different
positions as well as meditation, and different breathing techniques.
M2: Usually, I ride my bike, like I got here. And I go to the gym more or less
three to four times a week. And I also watch what I eat.
W3: I dance, and I do yoga - and I just try to be as active as possible - enjoy
nature also.
M3: I try and walk everywhere because, erm, I don’t really enjoy running.
W4: I have quite a hectic lifestyle as a musician but I do try to keep fit -
going to the gym, yoga classes, Pilates classes, sometimes running,
and generally keeping active.
W5: I’m a police officer, so I have quite an active job. I can spend eight or
12 hours doing foot patrol, walking round the streets of London so I
suppose that keeps me quite fit.
F: What other things would you like to do to keep fit?
M1: I’d love to get involved with some team sports. I really enjoy, sort of,
the team aspect of sport. Particularly I think I’d like to get into hockey.
W1: I’d quite like to learn how to play tennis properly. It’s probably one of
the only sports I’m interested in, it’s something I would watch on TV.
M2: I’d like to run, but my legs are not running legs, so I prefer to cycle.
W3: I would like to learn to rock climb.
M3: I would actually like to try to join a rowing club, but unfortunately I don’t
have time and it is a little bit expensive.
W4: I really enjoy getting out of London at the weekend and going sailing.

W5: When I was at university, I got quite into swing dancing, which is very
like jive, 1940s jazz dancing. I’d quite like to take that up again
because it’s an easy way of keeping fit, and you meet a lot of people.
F: Do you do anything that isn’t very healthy?
M1: I have a bit of a sweet tooth. I love dessert, and I love to eat sweet
things.
W4: I definitely drink too much coffee, and I do like chocolate as well.
W2: Eating late is really bad for you so I try and avoid that – as much as I
can, although it does happen quite regularly.
W1: I love chocolate, and I probably eat too much of it.
W5: Because of my shift work, I eat a lot of fast food, especially in the early
hours of the morning.
W3: Gosh, I don’t know. I’m a vegetarian. I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I
don’t drink caffeine.
M3: I eat far too many crisps, and chocolate and biscuits. And because I
bake, I also eat a lot of cake.
H: I feel good about life at the moment. I live in a fantastic city and I’m
really happy with my job at the BBC. Tell me about you.
W1: I have a fabulous partner, four beautiful children, a great job- and I live
in London.
W2: I’m enjoying my life at the moment because I have a good circle of
friends. I have a job that I really enjoy and I’ve just bought a flat.
W3: I enjoy living in the UK, and I have been over here for about nine years,
so I do enjoy my life.
W4: I am just about to go on holiday so I am, yeah, looking forward to that.
W5: I’m happy with where I am, yeah. I’ve just graduated for two weeks.
W6: My life’s great. I’ve got two lovely children, a great husband and I just
finished paying for my house.
M1: I’ve got a career opportunity going on, progressing a bit, started a new
one, just changed the career a couple of years back. Started a family
as well. I bought a house. Things like that, you know. Things are going
well – so I’m so far, happy.
H: Is there anything you’d like to change?
M1: Eventually yes. But not at the moment, things are going alright.
W2: No, not at all. No, not at the moment, no. A little bit more travel.
W3: I’d like to be richer.
W4: Nothing that I can think of.
M2: I’d like to go on more holidays.
W5: I would like to get into graphic design. That’s something that I’d really
want to change.
W6: I’d like to be able to afford to join a gym so that I could get fitter.
H: My life has changed a lot in the past 10 years. I’ve lived in three
different countries. How about you? How has your life changed in the
last few years?
W1: My life has changed quite a bit in the last two years. Specifically in that
I had a five-year break from work, put my career on hold and returned
back to full-time employment.
M2: I’ve recently had a young girl, a daughter – my wife’s given birth. And
yeah, that’s a big change in your life.
W4: I’m living in a new area that I hadn’t lived in before. So I was
completely new to that part of London. So that’s probably the biggest
change.
W3: Ten years ago I was a student and so I used to get up late, and I used
to have lots of time. And now I have to go to work.
W2: My life has changed. I’ve developed more of an established career. I’ve
moved around quite a bit since I’ve moved to the United Kingdom.
M1: Yeah, I’ve changed in every possible way really. Career-wise, I made a
big decision of changing my career, coming to HSBC. And then
personal life - got married, I had my first child, bought my first property.
W6: I’ve had a family and so I don’t see so much of my friends any more.
We do a lot of family things and a lot of my friends have moved out of
London so we don’t get together so much any more.
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