way2go! 5, Band für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer

58 transcripts Coursebook (audio + video) Lizzie: I mean, what is he supposed to do now? Stay away from school until his hair has grown long enough for the headmaster’s pleasure or wear a wig all the time? Dan: OK, that’s taking it a bit far … Hannah: Next thing they’ll do is introduce a minimum and maximum hair length, and then where will your nice black locks be, Danny boy, huh? Dan: Now don’t you get personal … Lizzie: And even Mark – hi, Mark! Mark: Hi girls, hi mate! Dan: Hi there! Lizzie: He fell victim to the new black shoes regulation, didn’t you? Dan: Really? What’s all this about? You didn’t tell me. Mark: Well actually, I felt pretty stupid, I guess, so I didn’t tell anyone, but these girls wormed it out of me. I just don’t like the shoes they recommend. They feel kind of odd on my feet. So I came with a new pair of really comfy shoes, following all the regulations, you know, no brand, no patterns, no coloured laces or anything, but looking just a little bit trainer-like, and Mr Shelldale felt they looked too sporty and sent me back. So I went home and borrowed my dad’s best pair of black shoes. Real leather, really smart – and came back and they passed inspection. That’s why I only missed one hour on that day. Hannah: Oh, you did, didn’t you. ( giggles ) Mark: And my dad’s super mad at me because on the way back home, it rained and I stepped in some mud and he says I’ve ruined them … Dan: OK, I think we really need to be doing something about this. Can you maybe get me a list of the people you know have been sent home because of this, Lizzie? And Hannah? And I think we need to have a little war council so I have some really good arguments. What if you all help me with this during tomorrow’s lunch break? And I need to get the name of that boy from Year 3 so I can talk to him as well. Hannah: I don’t know his name, but there he is, over there. Just look at him, he IS wearing a wig, and bright red at that! Now I wonder what Mr Shelldale is going to say when he sees him … Coursebook, Unit 08, exercises 25a and 26 ( À 19) Announcer: Listen to the FM4 interview about the internet and plagiarism. Susan Blum: The internet is making text ubiquitous. I note a lot of people talk about younger people not reading any more, but they read, they just don’t read books so much. They read online, they read on the screen, they read on their phones, they’re reading all the time and there’s text floating around them every minute. And they’re not necessarily inclined to slow down and trace the origin of every bit of text that they’re reading. So, when it’s time to write a paper, we can ask them, as professors, to slow down and to trace the origin, to give credit to the originator of the text, but it’s really contrary to what they are doing almost all the rest of their lives. Interviewer: But there’s this feeling also, if I understand it correctly, among various academics, that, you know, in this age of Wikipedia and music and video file sharing take on a longer course. But the timing isn’t the most important thing. De Sena: The most important thing is really getting out of your comfort zone. Just getting uncomfortable or, I like to say, look, if the weather is bad, go outside. You wanna push through, and in pushing through you’re gonna reset your frame of reference in life, and all of a sudden those little things that come up to all of us every day, they’re not gonna seem like such a big deal. You’re not gonna be upset that your coffee is too cold, your car didn’t start or that your girlfriend left you. You’re just gonna say to yourself, thank God I’m not crawling under barbed wire. Coursebook, Unit 08, exercises 10a and 11 ( À 18) Announcer: Listen to the discussion between some Whitehall students about the regulations for their school uniforms. Dan: Hi, girls! Hannah: Hi, Dan. Lizzie: Oh, Dan, we were just talking about you. Dan: Really? Lizzie: Yes, we were just discussing what to do about all these stupid new regulations about our school uniform, and we feel that you should be doing something about it, as our head student. Dan: Oh … Hannah: There IS a school council meeting quite soon, isn’t there? Dan: Yes, there’s a meeting Friday next week. What about it? Lizzie: Haven’t you heard? They did a check on uniforms when we came back after half-term, and dozens of people got sent home because something, just a little thing, was wrong with their uniforms and they missed the whole school day. Some of the younger ones were sent to the art room, like on detention, until their parents could be contacted to come and fetch them. Hannah: My skirt, for example, was one inch above my knee, and I got pounced on by Mr Shelldale and told that I needed to get a new one “with a hemline which is knee length.” And he also started moaning about the size of the pleats in my skirt until I told him that this was the same skirt I’d been wearing since the beginning of the year, and it was only a little too short now because I’ve grown. But he still sent me off to buy a longer one – and they’re 15 quid! Dan: But the school sends out any changes in uniform months in advance, and I think it’s a good thing that they want us to look smart and make an effort, it will help later in life … If it says ‘knee length’, then it means knee length. Hannah: Yes, but this was an inch. Simply because I’m growing to be tall and beautiful doesn’t mean that I can be humiliated in front of my peers by a little squid like – Lizzie: The thing is, Dan, regulations are a good thing, but they’re taking this far too seriously. I heard of a boy in Year 3 who got sent home because his crew cut was “too severe”, and I think that’s really interfering with one’s personal freedom because – Hannah: Like this stupid rule about not hugging your boyfriend. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv