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D Yes, I am.
J I'd love to play the piano.
D Have you got a piano?
J Um, no.
D Well, that is a bit of a problem ...
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JACKIE Hi, are you Kevin?
KEVIN Yes. Are you Jackie or Penny?
J Jackie.
K Yes, of course, I'm meeting Penny later.
J Ah, right .... I'm sorry I'm late. I was
looking after my sister's children.
K Oh, do you like kids then?
J Yes. I love looking after children.
K Oh, I don't. I never want to have kids.
J Oh, well.
K I prefer animals. I love dogs.
J Yes, so do I.
K Good, that's one thing we have in
common, then.
J I've got a dog and three cats.
K Oh, I don't like cats. Oh, OK ... so what
else? I'm quite sporty.
J Oh, I'm not. I didn't do much sport
at school.
K Oh, I did.
J But I'm quite a good tennis player.
K Oh, I'm not. I hate the game. I prefer
dangerous sports.
J Well, I also do judo.
K Oh, so do It Maybe we can have a match
sometime. Oh, I'm sorry. Do you want a
coffee?
J Yes, please.
K Or do you want to go somewhere for
a burger?
J No, I'm not hungry, thanks.
K Oh,Iam.
J And anyway I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat
meat.
K Oh, I do. I love meat.
J Well, you're meeting Penny later. Perhaps
she'll have a burger with you ...
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I'm not married. I I'm really hungry. I I don't
watch TV very often. I I usually get up before
seven. I I didn't study English last year. I
I stayed at home last night.
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RICK You usually have to speak two or
more foreign languages to do an interpreting
course. And you usually have to have a degree
in languages. At the beginning of the course
you have to learn to listen and speak at the
same time. At first you do this in your own
language.
LORNA You don't have to go to university to
become a paramedic. I didn't, I just joined the
ambulance service. I had to study a lot and
do on-the-job training for three years. But I
didn't have to pay for it - the government did.
It's a great job, but the training's hard.
BERNIE You don't have to go to college, but
you have to do a special course. The good -33
thing is, you don't have to pay very much for She's looking for her first job. I She goes
the course. But it's a lot of work. A referee online every day. I She's doing some
has to know everything about the laws of the cleaning. I She needs a real job. I I'm writing
game. to tell you how it feels. I I'm ap~lying for
every job I can. I I never g~t an mterview. I
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2 We have a lot of training. (x2) 3 I have to -34
1 They have to study for a long time. (x2)
work at home a lot. (x2) 4 You don't have INTERVIEWER Paul, your new bookjs~a
to go to university. (x2) 5 I have to have a collection~otarticles~about people
degree. (x2) 6 We don't have any exams. (x2) with strange jobs. So we're not
-31 talkiqgjlbOut~actors, sales~assistants~or
cleaners.
You have to / hreft;:i/ do a special course. I PAUL No, all the peopl0n the book have
You hhe to / hreft;:i/ have a degrl e in very unusual jobs.
I Can you giv~us som~examples?
languages. I You don't have to /hreft;:i/ pay
very much. I You don't have to / hreft;:i/ go to P Well, when furniture companies want to
mak~improvements to their products,
university. I She has to /hrest;:i/ study for four
they employ people to test their furniture.
years. I He doesn't have to / hreft;:i/ pay for
These people spend their working day
it. 11 had to /hredt;:i/ study a lot. I He didn't
lyin_g_pn beds~or sittiqg_pn chairs.
have to / hreft;:i/ go to college.
I What~a great job!
32 P Not really. Sometimes they have to sitjn
the same chair~or lie on the same bed
RICK You usually have to speak two or
more foreign languages to do an interpreting forJ:!ours~and hours. Then they have to
answer lots~of questions.
course. And you usually have to have a
I OK, that doesn't sound very exciting.
degree in languages. At the beginning of the
P Then therLare fortune cookie writers.
course you have to learn to listen and speak
You know, the fortune cookies that you
at the same time. At first you do this in your
own language. I had to listen to the news getjn Chinese restaurants.
I Ye0 know what you mean.
in English and immediately repeat the same
P Well, someone has to write those.
words in English. Then I had to interpret
www.english0905.com I Of course.
the news from other languages into English.
P For~example, the Wanton company in
The training is stressful and the work is
New York makes four~and~a half million
too. But now I have a job I love. I work at
cookies~a day!
international conferences and I can interpret
I That's~unbelievable.
six different languages. It's impossible for
P Ye0t)0sn'tjt? One fortune
one person to interpret for more than half an
cookie writer told me he takes~a
hour, so we have to work in pairs and take
notebooksverywhere he goes. So when
turns every 30 minutes. And in that time we
he has~anjdea he can wri~t down. And
have to interpret about 4,000 words. But of
he has to thinkjn sentences~of 10 words
course, we can't interpret if people forget to
because you can~only fit 10 words~on the
turn on their microphones - and sometimes
they do forget! bits~of paper.
I Right.
LORNA You don't have to go to university to P And~anotherjnteresting thing, fortune
become a paramedic. I didn't, I just joined the
cookies~aren't Chinese. They startedjn
ambulance service. I had to study a lot and
do on-the-job training for three years. But I Japanjn the nineteenth century.
didn't have to pay for it - the government did. Apparently they don't have themjn China.
I Oh, really? I thought the idea came from
It's a great job, but the training's hard. You China. So, what do you thinkjs the
have to know everything about the human
body. For example, a paramedic has to learn most~unusual job?
P Well, what~about~a golf ball diver?
the names of all the different bones in the
I A what?
body - and there are 206 of them! And of P A golf ball diver. Golfers~often lose golf
course, we have to be excellent drivers - we
ballsjn lakes, so golf ball divers div..£_jnto
have a lot of training for that. But the main the lakes to look for the balls.
thing is we have to stay calm in an emergency.
I And what do they do with the balls
Like the call we had yesterday. We had to they find?
help a man who fell off a roof. That was a
P They clean them~and sell them. In the UK
real emergency. But about 8 out of every 10
golfers losubout 20 million balls~a year.
phone calls we get aren't emergencies at all.
I 20 million! That's~amazing, but ye0
Some people call an ambulance when they
can believ..£_jt. I lose hundreds~and they
should just take an aspirin and go to bed.
cost~about £3 each. Maybe thisjs~a job
for my son. Thank you for comin_gjn to
the studio today, Paul.