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Unit 1 Starting out
Inside view


Conversation 1

Porter
Good afternoon.
Janet
Good afternoon.
Porter
New student?
Janet
Yes.
Porter
Welcome to Hertford College.
Janet
Thank you.
Porter
Can I have your family name, please?
Janet
Yes, it

s Li.
Porter
Er, L-double E?
Janet
No, L-I.
Porter
And what

s your first name, Ms Li?
Janet
Janet.
Porter
Janet Li... ah yes, there you are. Here are your keys.

Janet
Where

s my room?

Porter
You

re in Staircase 6 Room 5.

Janet
Who am I

sharing with?

Porter
Nobody. You have your own room. Er...there

s a Ms Santos in the room next to you.

Janet
Oh. My own room? In China we usually have several people in a dormitory.

Porter
Well, here you don

t have to share with anyone.

Janet
Thank you Sir.

Porter
No need to call me sir, Ms Li. Everyone calls me Stewart.

Janet
Please call me Janet!

Porter
OK, Janet, um, can you just sign for your keys, please?

Conversation 2

Kate
Hi, have you just arrived too?
Janet
Yes!
Kate
I guess we

re neighbours. My name

s Kate Santos.

Janet
I

m Janet Li. Where are you from?

Kate
From New York. How about you?

Janet
I

m from Anshan in China.

Kate
Is Janet your real name?

Janet
No, it

s my English name. My Chinese name is Li Hui. Is Kate your full name?
Kate
No, it

s short for Catherine.
Janet
So do I call you Catherine or Kate?
Kate
Everyone calls me Kate.
Janet
Nice to meet you.
Kate
OK, Janet. See you later.
Janet
Bye!

Conversation 3

Kate
Hey! This is awesome! Look at the size of this dining hall.

Janet
Is this where we have all our meals?

Kate
I guess.

Mark
You just arrived?

Girls
Yes!

Mark
Me too. By the way, I

m Mark. Nice to meet you.

Kate
Hi, I

m Kate.
Mark
Hi Kate, I guess you

re from the States.

Kate
Right! How can you tell? You

re British, huh?

Mark
Yes, I

m from London. And you are ...?

Janet
I

m Li Hui. I

m from China. But you can call me Janet.

Mark
Hi Janet. Welcome to England. What are you reading?

Janet
English.

Mark
How about you, Kate?

Kate
My major is law. And you?

Mark
I

m studying PPE.
Kate
That

s a special Oxford subject, isn

t it?

Outside view

Julie
My name

s Julie Dearden, and I

m the Director of International Programmes here at Hertford College.
Eugene
My
name

s
Eugene
Berger,
I
studied
here
in
Oxford
for
four
years
er,
studying
modern
languages
at
Somerville College.
Julie
Oh, there are many Oxford traditions. Oxford is a very old university, the oldest English-speaking university
in the, in the world. And so there are many traditions which are associated with the colleges, with the times of
the year, and with sport, and with eating, for example.
Eugene
Each college is very different um, from um, the others, and it has its own character. Some colleges are
very conservative, and some are much more liberal and have a tradition of um, kind of liberal politics. But
there are also some specific traditions.
Julie
Formal Hall is when we all eat together here in college, the professors and the students. Usually it takes
places at seven o

clock in the evening, and the professors sit on high table which is the table over here, and the
students
sit
on
common
table,
which
are
the
tables
here.
But
everybody
eats
together.
It

s
a
very
beautiful
evening because there are, there

s a special meal and we eat by candlelight.
Eugene
I think er, the traditions that make Oxford so unique are firstly the Oxford Union and er, secondly, May
Day. The Oxford Union being a debating society where speakers come from all around the world to address
the students and even allow themselves to be questioned by the students, making it a very interesting forum.
Julie
My favourite is er, May Day. And May Day is the first day of May, and we have a tradition called May
Morning, and on May Morning everybody gets up very early and the students have a celebration. There is a
choir which sings on top of the tower at Magdalen College and all the people of the town and all the students
go to listen to the singing. So it

s very nice.
Eugene
The
tradition
that
er,
was
most
important
to
me
was
probably
Summer
Eights.
I
was
a
rower.
And
Summer
Eights
is
a
rowing
competition,
held
in
May
in
the
summer
term.
And
in
this
competition,
each
college is trying to improve its place which it won the previous year and gradually work its way up the river.
Julie
When the students take exams, they must go to a special building and it

s called Examination Schools. And
also they must wear a special uniform, so they wear
E
.

gown like mine, a black gown, and they wear a white
shirt, arid the men wear a white tie and black trousers. The women wear a white shirt and a black skirt or
black trousers. And they must wear this uniform, which has a Latin name - sub fuse

and they must wear
this uniform in order to take their examinations.
Eugene
I think the Oxford traditions lend character to the place and it

s such an old institution, it should have
traditions, but they can be very inconvenient. For example, sub fuse. This is the uniform that we are required
according to the university rules, to wear.
Julie
They
also
wear
flowers
in
their
buttonholes,
and
those
flowers
are
carnations.
And
they
wear
different
colours, the students wear different coloured flowers for different examinations. So when you take your first
exam you wear a white flower, and when you take your second exam you wear a pink flower, and when you
take your final examination you wear a red carnation.
Eugene
So we have to dress up in a full black suit, starched collar, white bow tie and carry a mortarboard. And to
write
an
exam
in
the
summer
heat
whilst
wearing
all
that
which
you

re
not
allowed
to
take
off
is
um,
uncomfortable.
Julie
I really like the Oxford traditions, I think it

s part of our history, and part of um, being a student or a teacher
here at Oxford University.




Listening in
Passage 1
Interviewer
Can you tell me something about the Ivy League? You

re a professor at Harvard, is that right?
Professor
That

s right, yes.
Interviewer
Tell me how many universities are there? How many institutions?
Professor
In
total
there
are
eight
institutions:
There

s
Harvard,
Yale,
Brown,
Columbia,
Cornell,
Dartmouth,
Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Interviewer
Ah, OK. And what

s the sporting ... I believe there

s some link with sports.
Professor
There
certainly
is,
yes.
Originally
the
Ivy
League
referred
to
the
sports
teams
from
the
universities
which competed against each other, especially in football, basketball and ice hockey. Now sometimes these
universities, institutions, chose their students on the basis of their skills at these particular sports. But in the
last 50 years, Ivy League schools have accepted a wider range of students because it wasn

t possible to be
both world-famous for research and also top class in sport.
Interviewer
And
what
about
their
academic
importance?
I
gather
they

re
academically
very,
very
important,
they

re very well-known.
Professor
Absolutely
at
the
top.
They

re
near
or
at
the
top
of
the
USA
colleges
and
university
rankings.
And
they

re almost always in the top one per cent of the world

s academic institutions for financial resources.
Interviewer
And what does it mean socially to go to an Ivy League university?
Professor
Certainly if you

ve been to one of these institutions, you are presumed or assumed to be at the top end
of the scale. The Ivy League institutions have a reputation for social elitism, many of the students are rich,
intellectual, white Anglo-Saxon, protestants. Not all of them of course, but quite a lot of them.
Interviewer
And do you know ... why

s it called the Ivy League, what

s the origin of the name?
Professor
There
are
a
number
of
stories,
derivations,
but
possibly
it

s
based
on
four
universities,
and
IV,
the
letters IV, that

s the Roman numeral for four. Another more likely story is that ivy plants, which are symbolic
of the age of the universities, you know, would be grown at the walls of these universities, these institutions,
they cover the walls of the buildings. The term was created by a sports journalist, I think in the 1930s.
Interviewer
Right, OK. And which is the oldest university?
Professor
The oldest goes back to the 17th century, that

s Harvard which was founded in 1636. And the youngest
of the institutions is Cornell which was founded in 1865.
Interviewer
And which has the largest number of undergraduates?
Professor
Cornell has the largest number, about 13,000, 13,500 undergraduates. The institution with the smallest
number is Dartmouth College with a little over 4,000.
Interviewer
And what about the acceptance rate? Is it hard to get into?
Professor
That ranges from about seven per cent to 20 per cent.
Interviewer
And any famous alumni? Famous old boys?
Professor
Hundreds! Hundreds of them. But
I suppose worldwide, the two
that would be definitely known all
over the world would certainly be George Bush who went to Yale, and John F Kennedy, President Kennedy,
who was at Harvard.
Interviewer
Thank you.

Passage2
Andy
Did you see the film on television last night?
Jane
No, I was out. What was it?
Andy

A Beautiful Mind.
It

s about John Forbes Nash, the mathematician who won the Nobel Prize.
Jane
I

ve heard about that film, yes. He

s played by Russell Crowe, isn

t he? I like Russell Crowe, he

s great.
Andy
That

s the one, yes.
Jane
What

s it about?
Andy
Well, the story begins in the early years of Nash

s life at Princeton University as a graduate student.
Jane
That

s one of the Ivy League schools, isn

t it?
Andy

Yes,
it

s
all
set
in
New
England,
lovely
old
buildings,
beautiful
autumn
colours.
It

s
lovely
to
look
at.
Anyway,
Nash
meets
his
roommate
Charles,
a
literature
student,
who
soon
becomes
his
best
friend.
Nash
admits to Charles that he is better with numbers than people, and the main thing he

s looking for is a truly
original idea for his thesis paper.
Jane
So he

s not interested in having fun?
Andy
Well, yes, but he

s not very good with people or successful with women, that

s all. But, you know, it

s one
of these bad experiences with people which ultimately inspires his brilliant work in mathematics.
Jane
No good at relationships, so he becomes a genius at maths?
Andy
That

s
about
right,
yes.
So
when
he
finishes
his
studies
at
Princeton,
he
accepts
a
job
at
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Five years later, he meets Alicia, a student who he falls in love with and eventually
marries.
Jane
Ah! At last, the love interest!
Andy
Yes,
but
wait
a
moment.
Nash
believes
that
he

s
been
asked
to
work
by
William
Parcher
for
the
US
Department of Defense on breaking Soviet codes. At one point he

s chased by the Russians, and it

s after this
that he becomes mentally ill.
Jane
I think I

ve seen this in the trailer to the film.
Andy
So when he

s put in a psychiatric hospital, he thinks the Soviets have captured him. He

s given this painful
treatment
which
affects
his
relationship
with
his
wife.
And
his
intellectual
skills.
So
he
stops
taking
the
medicine.
Jane
It sounds quite hard to watch.
Andy
Well, it is, but it

s well acted and directed, and so, you know, there

s a-bit of distance between the audience
and what

s happening on film.
Jane
So what happens next?
Andy
Well, then his illness returns, so he and his wife decide to try and live with it. It all gets a bit complicated,
because we

re no longer sure if Charles, you know, his old friend, or even Parcher were real, or if they were
just people that existed only in Nash

s mind.
Jane
That sounds awful. He must have been so ill,
Andy
Actually,
I

m
kind
of
giving
away
the
twist
in
the
story.
Anyway,
later
in
his
life,
while
he

s
using
the
library at Princeton again, he asks his rival Martin Hansen if he can start teaching again. And so the story ends
when he goes on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Jane
Well, it sounds like a great film.
Andy
Yes, you should see it sometime.


Unit 2 Food, glorious food!

Inside view

Conversation 1
Kate
Oh, this looks nice.
Mark
Cool.
Waitress
Good afternoon, table for three? Come this way.

Mark
Let

s have a look at the menu.

Mark
Thank you.

Janet
Thank you.

Waitress
The specials are on the board.

Kate
So, what sort of food do you like, Janet?
Janet
Well, I like spicy food. And I

m not very fond of raw food! What would you recommend?

Mark
Why don

t you try the chicken curry? That

s nice and spicy.

Janet
What

s in it?

Mark
Chicken cooked in tomatoes and onions with Indian spices.

Janet
I

ll try it. Do we all choose a selection of dishes to share or only one dish per person?

Mark
Usually one dish per person.

Kate
Or the moussaka looks good.
Janet
What

s it made with?

Kate
It

s made with lamb and eggplant. It

s a Greek dish.

Janet
How is it cooked?

Kate
It

s baked in the oven.

Janet
Mm, that sounds good too.

Kate
And as a starter?
Janet
What

s minestrone soup?

Mark
It

s an Italian soup with vegetables and pasta. It

s delicious!

Janet
OK, I

ll have that.

Kate
Waitress?

Waitress
What can I get for you?

Kate
Well, for the starter, can we have two minestrone soups, and for the main course, one moussaka and one
curry, please. What about you, Mark?

Mark
I

ll have the prawns with garlic and the chilli con carne. And could you bring us some water, please?

Waitress
OK.
Mark
Thank you.

Waitress
Thanks.

Janet
What

s chilli con carne?

Mark
It

s a spicy Mexican dish with beef and beans. It

s very hot!

Conversation2
Janet
That was great! Except I don

t like cold water. I usually drink hot water.

Kate
Hot water? We never drink hot water except with tea. Let

s have a dessert. What would you like, Janet?

Janet
Any suggestions?
Kate
Well, why don

t you try the apple strudel? It

s an Austrian dish. It

s made with apple, pastry and spices.

Janet
No, I

m not so keen on pastry. ... What

s a chocolate brownie?

Mark
It

s a kind of chocolate cake.
Janet
How is it made?
Kate
It

s made with flour, eggs and butter ...
Mark
And lots of chocolate!
Kate
You

ll love it.
Janet
What kind of ice cream is there?
Kate
I

ll ask ... Excuse me ... What flavour ice cream do you have?

Waitress
Strawberry, vanilla and chocolate.

Janet
I

ll just have a fruit salad, I think.
Mark
And Kate, what are you going to have?
Kate
Same for me
.

Mark
Could you bring us two fruit salads, and a chocolate brownie?

Waitress
Sure.

Outside view

Voice-over
We were lucky to be invited into the kitchen at the Dooky Chase

s Restaurant. Leah has been working
in the restaurant for over 50 years. She told us about her life and she explained how to make a simple dish
called
Leah
This is a very simple dish. First you get some shrimp. You can do this dish with chicken or shrimp, but I
like it with the shrimp better. So you just brown a little thing...
Interviewer
And, and what

s, what

s the actual, what

s the cooking in?

Leah
Butter.
Interviewer
OK.
Leah
It just cook, so here you get a little cholesterol, but hey, that

s it, a little cholesterol. Then you wanna get the
garlic. So you see it works two forces. You get the cholesterol, and then you get a little garlic, cut out on the
cholesterol, you see.
Interviewer
OK. And where did you, where did you learn all the cooking?
Leah
Well, my mother, you know. I

m the top of the line of 11 children, so you get to learn how to cook whether
you like it or not. You get to cook that way. Then here you want to add a little mushroom in here, this is just
sliced button mushroom. If you like other mushroom, you can do that, we just saute that in there. You know,
at home, when you, you have to cook, everybody had that turn in the kitchen. So this is a dish that is used in
several restaurants, but this is my own version. Some people do it different than this, but I like it this way,
because I like the ... Can you smell the garlic in there?
Interviewer
Oh, yeah.
Leah
Alright?
Interviewer
That smell is very strong.
Leah
Uha, and then you want to add your peas. It

s very, very simple.
Interviewer
And did you, did your mum run the restaurant as well?
Leah
No, no, my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law had this restaurant before I came in. And she started it in 41. I
came in in 46. So, and I added many things. You have to understand in 41. Now here we can add our potatoes.
You see our shrimp is all cooked there.-Just add the potato. You can pre-cook your potatoes. You can boil
them, or in this case, we, we blanch them a little bit. In that and just toss together, and you get one, you get
just one casserole like here. And you can put a little pepper on it. Give it a good dash of pepper. A little salt.
It

s very simple, but it

s a good dish. And as I said, you can do it with chicken breast or shrimp. You see?
Toss it and get it there.
Interviewer
And what do you, what do you call the dish?
Leah
A shrimp Clemenceau. And I, I really don

t know how it got that name, but it

s popular in this area. But as I
said, some people do it a little different. You can take wine at this point. You can hit a little wine in there if
you like it, but I, I just don

t like to kill the taste of the butter and the garlic. I like that a lot. And you can take
the parsley, always parsley.
Interviewer
That

s parsley, isn

t it?
Leah
Parsley. Uhm. And I

m gonna show you something that all Creoles keep in their kitchen. You see you get
kind of a like a dull look here. But every Creole has this paprika in their kitchen. And give it all a dash of
paprika. And you get a little color there, you see? A little red color there. And it

s very, very simple, great dish
to eat. Not hard to make. You see? And you have a good dish.

Listening in

Passage 1

Ben
If it

s a formal meal, maybe Thanksgiving or Christmas, or if you

re with your boss or someone like that, you
are being careful about your table manners. So you

d wait until everyone is served before you eat. But most of
the time,, if you know each other well you would just go ahead and start. It

s more usual to entertain them at
home because it shows your hospitality. We have a lot of barbecues outside, maybe in the garden or maybe at
a campsite. But sometimes if you don

t want to cook, you can go to a restaurant.

Oh, well, after dessert you

ll have a little talk, then talk some more, have some coffee. Then you

ll say,
well, it

s time for us, we should get going.

t then you

re probably going to be rude and stay
too late.
Michelle
Well, it would be between 8 and 8.30. It is unusual that if somebody is invited for 8 they would be there
at 7.30 or 7.45. Probably 8, or 8.30 would be when all the guests would arrive. It

s OK to refuse something if
you don

t like it, but it might be embarrassing. For example, if I

m cooking dinner and I discover one of my
guests is a vegetarian, I

ll

feel a bit frustrated that I didn

t know before. But usually everyone tries everything.
Tom
Well, usually the host serves the guests, so you should make sure you tell him or her not to give you too
much,
because
yes,
it

s
quite
important
to
eat
everything
on
your
plate.
It
doesn

t
matter
if
you
leave
something, but if you leave a lot, it will look as if you don

t like their cooking.
My mother always told me to put my hands on my lap, under the table when I wasn

t eating, and I would be in
big trouble if I ever put my elbows on the table. But actually I know that in some countries that

s considered
rude. So I might rest my hands or my arms on the table, and I suppose it

s a bit more relaxed today than it
used to be when I was young.
No, it

s the worst thing you can do if you

re eating. Any strange noises are absolutely forbidden. I mean you
can say
have to do it in silence, otherwise it

s considered very bad manners.

Passage 2

News-reader
The government announced today that they are going to ban advertisements for junk food during
TV programmes for children under the age of 16. The rules will include any foods that are high in fat, salt and
sugar. There will be a total ban on ads during children

s programmes and on children

s channels, as well as
adult programmes watched by a large number of children. But there will not be a total ban on all ads for junk
food which are shown on television before 9 pm. This was thought to be
the food industry. The new rules will come into effect before the end of December this year, and mean that
television channels will lose about ?
39 million in revenue for advertising.
So why has the government introduced this ban? We asked leading food and nutrition expert, Neil Bennett.
Neil
Well, we all know that over the last 30 years, what we call junk food, bad food with too much fat and salt,
has become easily available and eating habits have changed.
However, in recent years many of us have become aware of the importance of keeping fit and eating healthily,
and
this
means
people
are
not
going
to
fast
food
restaurants
so
often.
So,
the
result
is
that
the
fast
food
business has increased the number of ads in order to recover some of the business it

s lost.
News-reader
And how do the fast food restaurants do this?
Neil
The biggest problem is that they aim their ads at young people. One well-known fast food restaurant chain
sells hamburgers which come with a free gift, usually a toy which is linked to a new children

s film. Other fast
food restaurants aim their ads at teenage and college- age men, trying to make their food trendy and, you know,
kind of masculine food.
News-reader
So a ban on junk food ads will stop the sales of junk food?
Neil
Almost certainly not, but it might reduce the growth of the fast food industry.
News-reader
So you

re in favour of the ban?
Neil
As a nutritionist, I am. As a father of two young children, I

m not sure.
News-reader
Why not?
Neil
Because less money from advertising will mean less money for children

s TV programmes. So we

re likely
to see more cheap and violent cartoons, and fewer programmes produced specially for children.
News-reader
So the choice is between junk food and junk television?
Neil
Yes, that just about sums it up.
News-reader
Neil Bennett, thank you.


Unit 3 Learning to think

Inside view
Conversation 1
Mark
Hi, what

re you doing?
Janet
Oh, nothing much... Well, I

m just doing this quiz here in the newspaper.

Mark
Let

s have a look then.

Janet
Here. It

s called,

ve just done it. Do you want to have a go?

Mark
OK, might as well. I

m not busy.

Janet
Right. Look, I

ll read the statements. Then you have to answer

Mark
Yea.

Janet
OK. Physical exercise improves your memory. True or false?

Mark
True, I suppose. It sounds like the right answer.

Janet
You

re right, exercise does improve your memory. Next statement: 30 per cent of people have a visual

memory.

Mark
That sounds about right. True?

Janet
No, wrong, I

m afraid. In fact, 60 per cent of people have a visual memory.

Mark
Really? Actually, I

ve got a pretty good memory.

Janet
Have you? OK... Next one... When you

re tired, it

s more difficult to remember things.

Mark
That

s true, obviously. I can

t remember a thing when I

m tired.

Janet
Correct! If you do one activity for a long time, your memory will improve.

Mark
I

m not sure ... True?
Janet
Actually, it

s false.
Mark
Oh!
Janet
Eating fruit and vegetables can improve your memory.

Mark
I read something in
The Times
about that. True.

Janet
True, it says here.

Mark
Oh, no! I

ve got a lecture. I

d forgotten. I

d better get going!

Janet
Oh, Mark! What a good memory you have!

Conversation 2
Kate
You

re looking a bit down, Janet. What

s up?

Janet
Well... I

m finding studying at Oxford quite hard.

Kate
You

re telling me! There

s so much work!

Janet
It

s not the amount of work - but everything

s so different. In China, generally we have large classes, we
don

t have tutorials. And mostly, our teacher tells us what we should do. So I

m not used to asking questions
or discussing things. I find it difficult.

Kate
You have to memorize a lot, don

t you?

Janet
Yes, but I

m good at that.

Kate
You

re lucky. There

s so much to remember studying law! I have difficulty sometimes, I really do.
Janet
Yes, well, we

ve been trained to do that. But we don

t have so much training in critical thinking.

Kate
What do you mean by critical thinking?

Janet
Let me think ... I think it

s giving your opinion and then justifying it.

Kate
Yes, I suppose that

s what our teachers have always encouraged us to do.

Janet
I am getting better at it, I suppose.

Kate
Hey! How about this? Let

s pretend I

m your tutor. I

ll make a statement. Your task is to examine it and
then ask questions.

Janet
OK.

Kate
Everyone is capable of learning a second language. Go on, ask a question!

Janet
Why do you say that?

Kate
That

s what the research tells us. Now ask another one.

Janet
Can you give an example of some research?
Kate
Um ... No! Look, I

m starving and I can

t think at all when I

m hungry.

Outside view

Part 1
Teacher
Good morning, class.
Students
Good morning.
Teacher
What we

re going to do today is start off looking at mind maps or mind mapping. Now have any of you
heard about mind maps before?
Students
Yes ... No ...
Teacher
Yes. Some of you have, some of you haven

t. OK. Have any of you actually used mind maps in the past?
Students No ...

Teacher
No? OK. Who can tell me what a mind map is?
Student 1
It

s a way of thinking.
Teacher
It is a way of thinking. Mind maps are diagrams which help us to generate ideas, and also to organize or
structure our ideas related to a topic. What I

d like to do next is look at some of the uses or the reasons for
using mind maps. What are some of the reasons for using mind maps?
Student 2
To make a list?
Teacher
To make a list? Yes. We could say to brainstorm ideas. Everyone contributes then-ideas as many ideas as
quickly as possible, from everyone in a shorter time, er, as, as we can manage. OK, brainstorming is one of
the most important um, um, uses of mind maps. What might be another use or another reason for using mind
maps?
Student 3
It can help me take notes in the class.
Teacher
OK,
for
the
note-taking,
a
very
good
reason.
Mind
maps
help
us
to
get
an
overview
or
a,
a
quick
understanding about a subject. By using mind maps to collect the main ideas from what the teacher says, you
can keep a, a very general understanding of a topic and understand connections quite easily and um, quickly.
What are some other uses of mind maps?
Student 4
Preparing for exams?
Teacher
OK. Preparing for exams. That

s a, a very good reason. We might call this, er, revision. Before an exam,
after having studied for many, many days or even weeks, you might want to capture the, the, the very general
understanding about the subject. Are there any other uses that you can think of for mind mapping?
Student 5
We can also use it for finding answers.
Teacher
For finding answers. That

s, that

s a very good, good answer. We could call this problem-solving. We
can use mind maps to, to see other possible alternatives, or options to, to, to solve a problem. OK. Next, I

d
like
us
to
talk
about
some
of
the
advantages
or
the
benefits
of
using
mind
maps
instead
of
just
writing
everything on a piece of paper. One of the most obvious advantages, as you can see, is that mind maps are
very visual. They give us um, almost a picture, a, a different perspective in terms of a picture, or a diagram of
understanding
information
or
understanding
connected
ideas,
which
is
very
helpful
for
people
who
like
to
learn from a different way. Are there any other advantages that you can think of for mind mapping?
Student 4
It lists the main points.
Teacher
They do. They do list the main points. We could call this um, a quick summary. As you can see, we have
main ideas throughout our mind map, not long texts. And in this way, it helps us to grasp the, the key ideas
and the key connections for mind maps or for our given subject. Are there any other advantages you can think
of?
Student 1
To think creatively.
Teacher
To think creatively. That

s, that

s a very good point. We could call this creative thinking. And what we
mean here is basically thinking outside of the box or thinking laterally. Mind maps are illogical and by being
illogical they encourage us to think creatively, you might say.

Part2

Teacher
Next, I

d like us to think about aspects of design or constructing mind maps. So far we have completed
three quarters of our mind map about mind maps. And then I

d just like you to have a look at this mind map
and tell me what some of the most noticeable or striking features are that we can talk about.
Student 2
There is a centre.
Teacher
There is a centre. There is what we call a central word, a central word or a phrase. It might also be a
sentence or a question. You might have that in the centre of the board and your related thoughts spiraling or
radiating out. What else do you notice about the design of this mind map?
Student 1
There are only words, not sentences.
Teacher
Exactly. There are many what we call key words as they capture the main thought of, of an issue rather
than a long sentence or, or a passage. This helps us to concentrate on the main issues and find connections
between these issues as well. What other aspects of design do you notice here?
Student 5
It looks like a tree.
Teacher
It
does
look
like
a
tree
because
it
has
branches.
By
having
branches,
it
shows
how,
um,
thinking
is
radiating out or spiraling out from key ideas or central ideas to key words to sub-words and, and so forth. Are
there any other aspects of design which you notice in this particular map?
Student 2
You used a lot of colours.
Teacher
I did. I perhaps use too many colours. I have used different colour to show the different key words or
different aspects of mind mapping. You might like to use different colours to highlight different sections of a
mind
map or key information. Or you
may,
you
may choose to have it all in one colour. It

s
very
much a
personal choice, depending on how you like to, to think and, and plan your thinking. You might also like to
use images or pictures related to some of the key words. Or you might even use symbols. We

ll put a question
mark
because
this
again
is
a
personal
choice
and
how you
like
to
design
your
mind
maps.
For
example,
I
might choose to use a thought bubble as a symbol, highlighting or identifying my central phrase, mind maps.
This
could
be
a,
a
feature
of
my
own
mind
maps.
Whenever
I
design
a
mind
map,
I
highlight
my
central
thought using a speech bubble symbol.

Listening in

Passage 1
Interviewer
With us today is Martin Downes, a carpenter, who

s 51. A year ago, Martin had a stroke. But he

s

been lucky enough to make a full recovery from it. Can you tell us how it all began, Martin?
Martin
I

m very happy to



not that I remember much at all. I was at a customer

s house, building a cupboard,

and the next thing I knew, I woke up in hospital with people in white coats bending over me.
Interviewer
It must have been very frightening.
Martin
It was. But what was really frightening was that I couldn

t speak. I couldn

t say a word. And I couldn

t

understand much that people said to me.
Interviewer
How awful!
Martin
Yeah! I don

t know what would have happened to me if I hadn

t had my family. But they were there for

me, they really were. I had something called aphasia, where the part of your brain gets damaged that

affects your speech and language. But they started treatment for the condition almost immediately. This

speech and language therapist came to see me every day for 12 weeks. They made me do all these

exercises.
Interviewer
What kind of exercises?
Martin
I had to match words and pictures and say their names. You see, I

d also forgotten the names of a lot of

things. She had this thing called a word board and I could point to words and phrases on it that I wanted

to say. I had to repeat words up to 20 times


boy, it was hard, so hard.
Interviewer
Could you say anything to begin with?
Martin
I could say three words.

Hi

,

Yes

and

No

. That was all. And there were a lot of words I couldn

t
understand


I had to learn their meanings all over again.
Interviewer
It must have been very frustrating.
Martin
It was, but I was determined to get better. I was in hospital for three and a half months. When I got home I
got a special computer programme that I worked with every day. And slowly my language came back to
me. It was a struggle, a big struggle. I had to learn to read and write again too.
Interviewer
Why do you think that you were able to recover completely? It

s not that common, is it?
Martin
I was lucky. I was given the right drug at the right time. And I had 12 weeks of therapy, five days a week.
That

s very important, apparently.
Interviewer
And now that you

re better how do you feel about your life?
Martin
What can I say? I

m just grateful to have my life back.

Passage 2
Interviewer
In
1907
an
Italian
educator
called
Maria
Montessori
opened
a
school
in
Rome
that
taught
young
children using methods that were very different from traditional teaching. Today, the Montessori method, as
it

s known, is used in nursery schools in countries such as America, Canada, Britain and Germany. Recent
research shows that children educated at a Montessori nursery do better later on at school than other children
in
all
subjects.
We
asked
two
Montessori
teachers,
Claudia
Rosella
and
Sarah
Harrington,
to
explain
what
makes their nursery school different. Sarah...
Sarah
I think the first thing to say is that a Montessori classroom is very quiet, very clean. Everything stays in the
same place. So the children are calm and quiet as a result.
Interviewer
So they

re not encouraged to be noisy.
Sarah
No, definitely not...
Interviewer
Claudia?
Claudia
Yes,
the
classroom

s
very
important.
Another
important
principle
is
that
children
direct
their
own
learning. They choose what they want to do.
Interviewer
So the teacher doesn

t tell the child what to do?
Sarah
Not at all. While a child is doing an activity we observe them. Then we work with the child for a short time
and then leave them to work on their own.
Interviewer
That sounds excellent. And what about your equipment? It

s often made of wood, isn

t it?
Sarah
Yes, and a piece of equipment is often designed for one activity only.
Claudia
Right. It

s so that the child can see if they

re getting something right or wrong.
Interviewer
So they don

t need the teacher so much
Sarah
That

s right. Another Montessori principle is the importance of physical activity. Children learn by doing,
so when they

re learning to read, for example, the letters are made of sandpaper so that children can feel the
shape of the letter.
Interviewer
Do you think there are disadvantages with Montessori methods?
Claudia
Yes,
there
are.
Maria
Montessori
didn

t
understand
how
important
it
is
for
children
to
use
their
imagination.
If
she
was
alive
today,
she
would
recognize
that.
But
still,
the
fact
is,
her
methods
are
very
successful.


Unit 4 Person to person

Inside view

Conversation 1


Kate
Oh, I must make a quick call.
Jacky
Hello, Jacky Gordon speaking.
Kate
Hello, can I speak to Abbie, please?
Jacky
I

ll see if she

s in, can you hold on?
Kate
Sure.
Jacky
Hello? She

s out, I

m afraid. Can I give her a message - er ... or I can ask her to call you back?

Kate
Could you ask her to call me back?

Jacky
Sure. Who

s calling?

Kate
Kate Santos.

Jacky
Kate Santos, OK. Does Abbie have your number?

Kate
Yes, she does.

Jacky
I

ll tell her you called.

Kate
Thanks.

Janet
Abbie? I know a girl called Abbie. She reads English, doesn

t she?

Kate
Yes, how do you know her?

Janet
She has a tutorial just after me so we chat a bit. We get on really well.

Kate
Yes, everyone likes Abbie. I think it

s because she

s really interested in people - she

s a very good listener.
She should be, she works for Nightline.

Janet
Nightline?
Kate
Oh, I haven

t told you, I

ve joined it.

Janet
What is it? I

ve never heard of it.

Kate
Look, I

ve got a leaflet about it.

Janet
So
...

Kate
It

s a university helpline for students who are having problems. I

m training to be one of the people they can
call to talk to.

Janet
You mean, you

re a volunteer?

Kate
Yes.

Janet
Oh, that

s great, Kate.

Conversation 2
Abbie
Hi, Abbie speaking.
Kate
Hi, Abbie, it

s Kate Santos.
Abbie
Hi! I

m sorry not to have called you back. I

ve got a lot on at the moment. How

s things?

Kate
Fine. I just wanted to let you know I won

t be able to come to the next training session.

Abbie
Um ... It

s quite an important session. Oh, can you hold on a moment. There

s someone at the door.


Abbie
Hi, I

m sorry, look, can I call you back later?
Kate
Sure. What time?
Abbie
Is three o

clock OK?
Kate
Three

s fine.
Abbie
OK, I

ll call you then. Speak soon.

Kate
Bye.

Abbie
Bye.


Kate
Abbie

s my Nightline trainer.
Janet
You

re saying she

s your Nightline trainer! But she

s still a student.

Kate
Well, experienced students train new students, that

s the way it works.

Janet
Oh, I see.

Kate
It

s great! At the moment, she

s training us in listening skills.

Janet
Listening skills? What do you mean, listening skills?

Kate
Um ... The ability to really listen to someone and make them feel you

re listening. It

s very important.

Janet
I

ve never thought about that before.

Kate
Yes, for example, one thing you can do is listen carefully and then repeat what someone says but maybe a
little differently.

Janet
So what you

re saying is, repeat what someone says but maybe not the exact same words?

Kate
Yes. You see, when you do that, you check you

ve understood and you show them you

re really listening.

Janet
So they know you

ve really heard them.

Kate
Very good, Janet. I can see you

ve got it already! Hi,... how

s it going?

Outside view

Voice-over
It

s the most popular means of communication in the 21st century. Nobody writes letters any more,
especially young people. They all use text messaging instead. Officially called SMS - short message service -
text messaging is slow to enter, and you can only key in 160 characters. So why is it such a success? The first
text
message
was
sent
in
1992,
but
texting
only
became
commercially
available
in
1995.
It
has
grown
incredibly quickly since then. Just look at the graph. In 1999, the number of texts sent reached one billion.
Over the next three years, it grew to 20 billion! So people have now sent billions of texts, and the number
continues to rise. It isn

t difficult to see why it quickly became part of youth culture.
Emily
I use it every day. I don

t call a lot of people on it. I just use it for text messages because it

s easy and quick
to send things and arrange things by text.
Heidi
Mainly to friends. Sometimes it

s useful to get information for work as well. You know, if people want to
give you contact numbers or things like that, it

s easier than phoning.
Andy
I

ve had my mobile phone for about three years. I mostly use it for just texting my mates and arranging sort
of social meetings with them.

Alice
I like texting. I don

t really talk much on it except just to make arrangements but texting

s the biggest thing
I do.
Male
I probably text message about ten, 15 times a day.
Alice
Usually, I don

t know, about ten. Ten to 15. Fifteen maybe to 20.
Voice-over
It isn

t just young people who use texting. Companies use it too - for advertising and promotion. For
example,
the
Orange
telephone
network
has
run
a
text
message
promotional
campaign
since
April
2004.
People text a special number on a Wednesday and receive a discount voucher by text. They show this message
to any one of 450 cinemas in Britain and get two tickets for the price of one. Why Wednesday? Wednesday
has always been the worst day of the week for cinemas. Since the campaign started, cinema attendance has
risen on Wednesdays by nearly ten per cent. And, of course, TV uses text message voting to decide lots of
things. Texting has been one of the most successful inventions for years.

Listening in

Passage 1

John
Are you packed?
Mike
Yup. Everything

s there.
John
Sure you

ve packed your mobile?
Mike
I

ll look again, John ... yes.
John
Well, we

ve got another ten minutes before we need to leave, so we might as well relax. You know someone
told me an amazing story yesterday about these Australians who got completely lost in some national park.
Mike
And don

t tell me, they used their mobile to get help?
John
That

s right!
Mike
So what happened?
John
Well, it was this guy with his son and niece -I think she was about 14 - and they were hiking in this really
rugged country and they got completely lost - no idea where they were at all.
Mike
That

s not going to happen to us.
John
No, it isn

t. Anyway, the guy had his mobile and he phoned the emergency services

it wasn

t dark yet -
and they sent out a search party, but they couldn

t find them. And then -this is the interesting bit - the guy sent
photos of the place where they were.
Mike
I

d have thought of that.
John
Yes, well it

s pretty obvious, really. And in the photos there were mountains in the background, and the staff
at the emergency service centre were able to identify exactly which mountains they were. And they used the
photos to pinpoint their location, you know, to get the exact location.
Mike
How did they do that?
John
They used mapping software.
Mike
Right.
John
Anyway, by then it had got dark and really freezing. So they slept behind this ridge and covered themselves
with leaves. And you know what the young girl said afterwards? She said,
Mike
Really, wasn

t she frightened?
John I don

t
think so.
Mike
So - is there a happy ending?
John
Yes, well they sent out helicopters as soon as it was daylight and the helicopter hovered over the area, and
the man kept talking to them till they were able to pinpoint his location. And when they finally found them
they were only 400 metres away from where they

d expected them to be.
Mike
Amazing!
John
And that

s because they

d moved 400 metres away from where they

d taken their photos because the ground
was too rough to sleep on.
Mike
Incredible!
John
And the moral of the story is-
Mike
Always take your mobile phone with you when you go hiking.
John
And take one that has a camera.
Mike
Hey, I think we should go, John.
John
Yes, OK. You think we

re going to get lost?
Mike
No chance, mate!

Passage2
Social networking - it

s the 21st century way of having fun - online. And if you

re under 40, you probably
use a social networking site - maybe when you should be working. It

s well-known that office workers spend up
to two hours a day on a site, exchanging messages and photos. And do students ever do anything else? Different
social networking sites are used by different age groups.
For people in their 20s, the most popular site is Facebook, the online phenomenon started by an American
student in 2004. It

s taken only four years to make Facebook a huge success - and the website

s made its founder,
Mark Zuckerberg, a very rich man indeed.
What

s extraordinary about Zuckerburg is that he started Facebook when he was only 18. He was a student at
Harvard, one of America

s top universities, when he launched the Facebook website, working from his college
room. In only two weeks, more than two-thirds of his college had signed up and in a year, thousands of colleges
were using it. Today, Facebook has millions of users. More than half of them visit the site at least once a day.
So what makes Facebook so special? Like other networking sites, you create a profile with photos, you list
your interests, you exchange messages and join groups of friends. But where Facebook is different is that it gives
you a privacy that you just don

t get on other sites. Unlike other sites, you have a lot of control over what users
can see about you. As a result, one-third of Facebook users give out their mobile numbers - they know it

s safe to
do so.
But you still need to be careful about what you think is safe to show people. One reason is that more and
more employers are using Facebook to check out potential employees. Is the person you

ve just interviewed as
good
as
he
seems?
Facebook
can
provide
the
answer.
If
a
26-year-old
man
says
on
Facebook
that
he

s
been
travelling round the world for the last three years, and in his interview he said he

d been working in an office -
well, he probably won

t get the job.


Unit 5 All

you need is love

Inside view

Conversation 1

Kate
Hi, Becky,
how

s it going
?
Becky
Good!
Mark
Guys, look, can you help me with a problem?
Janet
Yes, of course.
Mark
The thing is, there

s this girl I really like called Jenny Sparks. She

s a Fresher, realty stunning, reads history.
I know her name because someone pointed her out to me, but I

ve never actually spoken to her. Do either of
you know her?
Kate
No.
Janet
No, I don

t know her. Mark, how can you like her if you haven

t met her?
Kate
It

s because she

s absolutely gorgeous, Janet.
Mark
That

s right! I want to ask her out, but first I

ve got to meet her. Got any suggestions?
Becky
Guys! You want to order?
Mark
Sorry.
Kate
Three cappuccinos?
Becky
Sure.
Janet
Do you know anyone who knows her? You could ask them to introduce you.
Mark
No, I don

t, that

s the problem.
Kate
Are you matchmaking, Janet?
Janet
What

s matchmaking?
Kate
Making introductions between people who might like each other. We don

t do that here. How about just
walking up to her and saying Hi? Why don

t you do that?

Mark
No.

Kate
Why not?

Mark
I

m not usually shy, but - she

s so ... you know ...!

Janet
Oh, Mark!

Kate
Just believe in yourself, Mark. You

re a great guy!

Janet
I understand Mark completely.

Kate
Well, it

s the only way he

s going to get to talk to her.

Mark
OK, I

ll give it a try.

Becky
Solved the Jenny problem yet? ,

Girls
Thank you.

Janet
You

ll be fine. Mark. She

ll like him, won

t she, Becky?

Becky
Of course she will!

Conversation 2

Mark
Hey, guess what, guys, I

ve got a date with Jenny.

Kate
You did it, you asked her out?

Janet
When are you seeing her?

Mark
Saturday. We

re going to The Eagle and Child.

Janet
Sounds great.
Mark
Yeah! The thing is, I

m a bit nervous.

Janet
Are you?

Mark
Yes, I

m afraid I

ll make a fool of myself. I could do with some more advice.

Kate
Any ideas?

Janet
Um ... I

m thinking.

Kate
Well... One thing is ... if you

re nervous, it

s easy to talk too much, so remember not to do that.

Mark
Good point. I

ll remember that.

Janet
You should make her feel special. Show her you

re really interested in her.

Mark
I am really interested in her.

Janet
Well, you should show her you are.

Mark
That

ll be easy! What else?

Kate
It

s a good idea to look good.

Mark
That

s pretty obvious!

Kate
I mean clean clothes, Mark!

Mark
Oh ... thanks, Kate! Any more advice?
Kate
Yes, the most important thing is, just be yourself.

Becky
How

s it going, Mark?

Kate
He

s worried this girl won

t like him.

Becky
She

ll love you! Ready to order?

Outside view

Part 1

Voice-over
Finding someone to love isn

t easy. For years, single people have looked for prospective mates in a
few tried-and-true ways. They met in school or at work, through friends or relatives. Or they met by chance in
bars, at weddings, or at parties. Today there

s a new way to find that special someone. Many people have met
boyfriends, girlfriends, fiancé
s, husbands, and wives in a way that didn

t exist up to about ten years ago. The
Internet has completely changed the world of dating. Anyone can look for a match online at one of hundreds
of different websites like these.
Consultant
There are approximately 150 million singles in North America, and what

s interesting is that a lot of
them are trying online dating.
Speaker 1
I

ve never tried Internet dating.
Speaker 2
I have friends who have tried Internet dating, and one of them is getting married to the person he dated.
Speaker 3
I have not tried Internet dating, but I have a friend who has.
Speaker 4
I have not tried Internet dating.
Speaker 5
I have tried Internet dating. I had one good experience and one bad experience
Speaker 6
I

ve tried Internet dating. It worked out very well.
Carol
Hi!
Daughter
Hi!
Carol
Oh, it

s good to see you! You look great!
Daughter
Thank you.
Carol
Hey, I love the color.
Daughter
Thank you. Come in, come in.
Voice-over
How does Internet dating work? Carol is about to find out. She

s having dinner with her daughter,
who has just registered on an Internet dating site.
Carol
So how

s work?
Daughter
Work is really good. It

s busy, so I

ve been making money.
Carol
Good. Have you met anyone yet?
Daughter
No, not yet. But I just signed up. Mum? Mum, come on. I

ll show you.
Consultant
To get started with Internet dating, there are four steps. The first one is to find the service that works
for you. Second step is to create your profile. Find a great picture of yourself that shows you doing something
that you enjoy. Write about who you are and who you

re looking for. Third step is to start searching for that
special someone. Use the search function on the site to identify people in your area that you may want to hook
up
with.
Fourth
step
is
to
reach
out
to
those
people.
You
write
them
a
nice
short
letter.
Show
that
you

re
interested in them and off it goes. After that, sit back, cross your fingers, and hope for the best.

Part 2

Daughter
OK. We open the browser, we go to the website.

Carol
OK.
Daughter
Mum, sit down.

Carol
OK.
Daughter
And
it

s
basically
a
search
engine


a
search
engine
for
a
boyfriend.
So
I
enter
my
criteria.
I
am
a
woman, looking for a man between the ages of 24 and 32.
Carol
OK. Interesting.
Daughter
And then I click
Carol
OK.
Daughter
And then a screen with all the candidates who meet my criteria comes up. Oh, look.

ve just come
back from a safari and I

m looking for a little more adventure.
Carol
He

s not interested in a relationship.
Daughter


m 30 years old, but I still haven

t found my dream lover.

s looking for someone who doesn

t
exist.
Carol
You, you

ve always stayed away from unrealistic guys. Don

t start now.
Daughter


ve recently broken up after 12 years of love. I

m looking for another woman just like Linda.
Carol
He hasn

t gotten Over Linda yet.
Daughter
I

ve never wanted to date a guy who

s still in love with someone else.

m desperate?
Carol
No

way!
Daughter
No

way! No

way!
Consultant
Internet dating is not just for desperate people. It

s become very mainstream, and the stigma has gone
away. It helps because we

re very busy in our professional lives now, and it gives us an easy way to meet
people that we normally wouldn

t come across in our day-to-day lives.
Carol
Ooh!
Daughter
Ooh!

Doctor!
Carol
Doctor!
Daughter
Ski. Hello! Looking for someone who

s funny and spontaneous.
Carol
That

s you.
Daughter
He likes jazz and cycling and skiing. I like to ski.
Carol
There you go.
Daughter

Carol
Aww ... Come on, that

s great!
Daughter
What

s this guy?
Carol
He

s cute.
Daughter
He

s
26.
He

s
a
marketing
assistant.
He

s
looking
for
a
woman
who

s
confident
in
herself
and
her
surroundings.
Carol
That

s you.
Daughter
Someone who knows how to laugh.
Carol
That

s you.
Daughter


s a good answer. OK.
Outdoor guy Twenty-four. Grad student.
Carol
So he

s smart.
Daughter


m looking for a really fun woman who loves the outdoors, hiking, skiing. A good sense of humor is a
must.
Carol
Again, funny, good sense of humor.
Daughter
His perfect date is a canoe trip down a river that leads to the ocean. Swimming and a picnic on the
beach.

Carol
Well, you could bring the picnic part, anyway.

Consultant
A great profile paints a broad picture of who you are and what you like to do with your life but does
not bore the person.
It

s not a book; it

s a brief essay. You have to reel them in in the first five or ten seconds. Otherwise, they

re
going to move on to the next person.

Voice-over
Carol looks for someone too.

Carol
What about me?
Daughter
OK. Um, looking for a man between the ages of ...

Carol
Forty-five.
Daughter
To...

Carol
Fifty-five.
Daughter
Search.

Carol
Mmm! What do you think about this guy?

Daughter
He

s cute. Um, he

s 52.

Carol
He

s looking for an attractive woman who is kind.

Daughter
He likes to go sailing!

Carol
I love that! Exotic places? Come on!
Daughter
What if Dad knew you were doing this right now?

Carol
Oh, shush!

Listening in

Passage 1

Interviewer
So - tell us about how you first met.
Amy
How we first met... Oh, it wasn

t very romantic.
David
I thought it was very romantic.
Interviewer
Why don

t you begin at the beginning?
Amy
Good idea. Well, I was 22 and I

d just left uni and I went on holiday to the French Alps with a girlfriend.
And someone invited us to go climbing. But my friend got ill so I went without her. There was this group of
about eight guys and two girls.
David
There were four girls.
Amy
Alright! Well, anyway, no one had told me that the mountain we were going to climb was - vertical - and
that we were climbing with ropes! I was terrified, absolutely terrified, I just really hadn

t expected it.
David
She was terrified! I noticed her immediately. She looked so scared -she was wearing this great hat

but
she was white as a sheet.
Amy
Oh, I don

t know about that, but I remember I was shaking all over. David came over and started talking to
me and telling me how safe it was with the ropes. And he was so sweet, you know I think I fell in love with
him right then.
David
Yeah, it was the same with me ... We roped up and I made sure I stayed next to her ... I kept talking to her
and encouraging her.
Amy
It really helped. I think I would have fallen off the mountain if you hadn

t done that.
David
Rubbish! You were perfectly safe. Anyway, we got to the summit

it was a kind of flat area - and Amy
just collapsed - she couldn

t stand up!
Amy
It

s true, I couldn

t. I felt -I was just - everyone ignored me except David - everyone.
David
Quite a few people came to talk to you.

Amy
They didn

t!
David
They did!
Amy
Well, you talked to me, and that

s all that mattered.

David
Thank you!
Amy
So -
David
So we climbed back down the mountain.

Amy
which was just as bad -
David
and we headed for the nearest village and we both had huge pizzas.

Amy
I didn

t eat a thing! I was still feeling too sick.

David
You did, you know.
Amy
You know, you have a terrible memory sometimes.

David
So
do
you! ...
To
cut
a
long
story
short,
we
got
married
six
months
later
and
went
on
a
three-week
honeymoon to Barbados.

Amy
Two weeks!
David
And we

ve lived happily ever after.

Passage2
Presenter
And now let

s move on to online dating, a way of meeting a potential partner that

s becoming more and
more popular. James O

Hanlan and Claire Goodall are two online dating experts who are going to give all you
listeners advice about how to use online dating safely and successfully. James ...
James
OK. The first thing to say is, don

t be nervous. A lot of people are and it

s very understandable. But there

s
no need to be, provided you follow the rules, which we

re going to tell you right now. Isn

t that right, Claire?
Claire
Absolutely.
James
So, let

s begin at the beginning. When you join an online dating site, the first thing you do is give some
basic information about yourself. Now, don

t be tempted to lie - about your age, for example. If you want a
good relationship, you need to be honest. If you

re not, you

ll get found out and that could be painful.
Claire
Another thing - it

s a good idea to use a photo, you

ll get many more replies than if you don

t.
James
But use a recent photo, not one that was taken ten years ago!
Claire
Let

s move on to the next stage. You

ve had some responses and chosen one or two people you

d like to
chat with. Now, the most important advice here is, don

t give out any personal information until you

re 100
per cent sure you

re that happy to do so. That includes your real name, your phone numbers, your workplace
address and your email address. Use the email facility at the website and only give out your email address
when you feel completely safe.
James
And email for as long as you want, it

s a great way of getting to know a person. Then, the next stage is to
talk on the phone. Now that

s very revealing, because you

ll hear the person

s voice, and also because people
have to be spontaneous on the phone - they can

t think about what they

re going to say for half a day, unlike
emails.
Claire
Then, if you

re feeling really comfortable, agree to meet. But always choose a public place. Don

t go to
someone

s home.
James
A cafe or bar is the best choice.
Claire
And
don

t
forget
to
tell
a
friend
where
you

re
going
and
what
time
you
expect
to
be
back.
That

s
important.
James
Another good idea is to ask the same friend to call you during the meeting so that if you want to leave
quickly you can say that something urgent

s come up and you have to go.
Claire
That

s everything! If you follow this advice you should be perfectly safe. And you may find the man -

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