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Has she? I Do you? I Does he? I Did they? I
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MIKE Ian! Ian!
IAN Oh, Uncle Mike - hi!
M Well, congratulations! After six years
of study and training, you're finally a
lawyer. Wonderful news!
Thanks.
M It's always good to have a lawyer in
the family.
Why? Are you planning a life of crime,
Uncle Mike?
M Oh, no. Not yet, anyway. So are you
looking for a job?
I I've already got one.
M Oh, that's good.
I Yes, I'm working in a restaurant.
M A restaurant?
I Yes, I'm a waiter there.
M A waiter!
I Yes. I want to work abroad so I need to
save some money quickly.
M Ah. Where are you going?
I I'm going to work in Canada. . not~onlyJJ!)n Pompeii.
M Oh, so you're going to be a lawyer m
Canada.
No I'm not qualified in Canada. But I'm
goi~g to do voluntary work there with
some brilliant environmental lawyers.
M Oh, helping the environment. That's
good.
I But I'll be back next summer, so your
family lawyer won't be away for long.
M Who's paying for all this?
I The people in Canada will pay for
everything when I'm over there, but I
have to pay for my flight. That's why
I'm working at the restaurant. I can save
about £100 a week.
M Hmm. How much is the flight going to
cost?
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MIKE Guess who I saw in town?
ANGELA Who?
M Ian. He's a qualified lawyer now.
A I know. That means he's going to earn
lots of money. Has he got a job yet?
M Yes, he has.
A Oh, that's good!
M He said he was working in a restaurant.
A In a restaurant?!
M Yes, he's trying to save some money.
A What for?
M He said that he wanted to work abroad.
A He's going abroad?
M Yes. He told me he was going to work
in Canada.
A Why Canada? Have they got more crime
there than we have?
M No, of course not!
A Well, he can probably earn more money
over there.
PRESENTER Welcome to Society
M Actually, he told me that he was going to
Today. In the studio we have
do voluntary work.
SallyJJ!~Ashton, who's makin_g_.a new
A Oh this is getting worse and worse. After
documentary about graffiti called Art~or
all ~he money he spent on his studies. And Crime? Welcome to the programme,
now he's going to do voluntary work!
Sally.
M But it's voluntary work with environmental
SALLY Hello.
lawyers. He wants to do environmental
p Sally, writing or drawing graffitiJJ/~on
law in the future. I think it's wonderful.
walls is~a crim~f course, but_ everywhere
Well, anyway, he said that he'd be back
you goJ w/)n this country these days you
next summer.
see morvr1~and more graffiti. ,
A Right.
s Well, first~of all, you say 'these days, but
M He told me he could save about £100 a
there / r/ isn't anything newJ w/_about
week. But I don't think that's possible. graffiti.In fa~t, 1,600 examp~~s~of
And he said the flight was six hundred graffiti were found)n Pompe11, near
pounds.
Naples in Italy.
A Oh, he's wasting his money! ~ I
p And they were done 2,000 years~ago.
40 S That's right.
ANGELA Oh, he's wasting his money! p And what did the graffitiJ J/)n
Pompeii say?
MIKE Oh dear.
s Oh things like 'Felix was here', 'Rufus
A What's the matter?
lov~s Cornelia' or things like 'Don't drink
M Well, he said [h]is flight was six [h]undred
the wine here - they put waterJ r/)n)t'.
pounds ...
p That's veryJ J/)nteresting.
A Yes, I heard that. Bur it's his money.
s And there /r/ are examples~of
M Mmm. Well, he told me he didn't earn
graffitiJ J/.:all through history,
very much.
A How much?
p Right. And)t seems the messages were
M He said [h]e was earning a hundred and
very similar to ones you find today.
ninety pounds a week.
s Yes that's true. The messages~are
A That's nothing!
usu~llyJJ/~about love, politics--:and
M I know. And I said it was going to take
[h]im months to save enough money. society. Actually, the longest p1ec~of
www.english0905.com graffitiJKOn record was written by Mao
A It certainly is.
Zedong.in ChinaJ r/)n 1915. He wrot~
M And he said [h]e was working seven days
4 000 characters complaining_,about his
a week. I don't think [h]e should work
t:acher and Chinese societyJJ/~at that
that hard, do you?
A No. I'll talk to him. I'll tell him he's time.
p Really? But of course, graffitiJJ/)sn't~only
wasting his money and his time going to
written messages.
Canada.
s No some of today's graffitiJ J/)s very
M Um ...
be;utiful A lot~of people love the graffiti
A What's the matter now?
done byJ J/_artists like Cykes~or Banksy.
M Well, er ... I told [h]im we'd pay for
Did you know that)n Bristol, Banksy's
his flight.
home town, the people weryr;~asked)f
A What!
they wanted to keep~a piec~of Banksy's
M He said [h]e could pay us back next year. work or clean it off.
A Well, that's OK. We can lend [h]im the
p And ;hat was~h~ result?
money.
s 97 per cent~of the people
M Er ... I told [h]im it was a present from
whoJw/~answered the question_ s.aid
us both. So I transferred six [h]undred
they wanted to keep)t. SoJ wO t s
pounds into his bank account.
still there.
A What! So he's not wasting his money, he's
p And what can you tell~us~about Banksy?
wasting ours!
s Well, BanksyJJ!)s~a veryJ J/)nteresting
M Now, now, dear. Calm down. It's not the
graffitiJ J/_artist and he's~always ...
end of the world ...
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