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26.1 1. Welcome to St. Stephen’s Church on this happy day! We are here to celebrate the wedding of David and Juanita. 2. Does anyone here know of any reason why David and Juanita should not be married? If so, let them speak now. 3. Very well. Who gives this woman to be married to this man? 4. I do. 5. David, will you take Juanita as your wife? Will you love her, 6. be true to her, and care for her, from this day on? 7. I will. 8. Juanita, will you take David as your husband? 9. Will you love him, be true to him, and care for him, from this day on? 10. I will. 11. The ring, please. 12. Here you are. 13. It’s not for me, put it on her finger! I now pronounce David and Juanita man and wife! 14. Congratulations, David! It’s wonderful to see two people so in love with each other! 15. Yes, congratulations, David! But what about the cake? 16. Yes, it’s time to cut the cake! 17. Alright; come on, David! 18. Coming! I’ll just get a – what do you call it? – knife. 19. Ok, everybody, we’re ready to cake the cut – I mean, cut the cake! Oops! 20. Oh look, that’s very funny! David’s got a spoon instead of a knife. 21. You can’t cut a cake with a spoon, David! Oh, no, no! 22. Here you are, David. You can use my knife. 23. Thanks, Jeanette, very kind of you. Well, here we go! 24. Ok, my darling; we’ve made it! I’ve cut the cake. 25. Now, why don’t we sit down and have another glass of that delicious champagne? 26. You’re not having any more; you’ve drunk quite enough already! 27. Alright, alright. Wait a moment, where were we sitting anyway? 28. We were sitting next to your father over there. 29. Hold on! He’s not there any more; where’s he gone? where’s my Dad gone? 30. How should I know? Just sit down David, and stop being stupid! 31. Hello! 32. I want to speak to Roger Temple. 33. Ah, it’s you, Hugo, Well? 34. Look, Roger, I think I know where I can get your money and your passport. It’ll just take a bit of time, that’s all. 35. How much time? 36. Not long. 37. What do you mean – not long? 38. The thing is, I think I’ve found someone who’ll come up with the money. 39. I just need a bit more time to talk it over with him, that’s all. 40. How long is it exactly, Hugo? 41. Say, two weeks, perhaps less. 42. Two weeks? Do you think that I’m going to wait two week, with half the cops in the country looking for me? 43. Do you think I’m going to sit around and let you and Moran get me before the cops do? 44. If that’s the best story you can think of, Hugo, you aren’t as clever as I thought. 45. I’m going to Trinidad to see Mr. P. Let’s see what he says about all this! 46. No, don’t do that, please! Anything but that! Look, I’ll try and get half a million by tomorrow. 47. I’ve got to stop him. I’ve got to get to him before he talks to Mr. P! 48. Hello, Dad! Where have you been? Hey, are you alright? Have a glass of Champagne! 49. No, thanks. I’ve just had a bit of bad news-business problems. That’s all. I’ll have to go away for a few days. 50. Sorry to hear that. Well, we’re flying to Mexico tomorrow, so bye-bye for now; and we must keep in touch! 51. Bye-bye, Mr. Peters. 52. Bye-bye, my lovely new father-in-law. 53. Sorry, I have to hurry, Bye-bye, everybody! Have a good honeymoon, won’t you? 54. Where are you going for your honeymoon, David? 55. We’re going to Trinidad. Isn’t that lovely? 56. Oh, that’s so romantic! 57. Thacker here. 58. Hello sir, Carter reporting. 59. Where have you been, Carter? Why haven’t you kept in touch? 60. You told me not to bother you, sir. 61. But that was 5 days ago, Carter! When I said “ Don’t bother me”, I didn’t mean “ Don’t bother me at all”. 62. I just meant “Don’t bother me!” Oh, why do policeman always do exactly what one says? 63. Anyway, what’s happened in the last 5 days? 64. Sorry, sir. Well, the situation is getting very interesting. 65. Temple’s going to Trinidad to find this “Mr. P”, and Peters is going to try and stop him. 66. Well – done, Carter. I knew you were the right man for the job. 67. Well, it’s obvious what to do next; you must go to Trinidad too, Carter. Immediately! Mini-dialogue Dear Susan, A wonderful thing has happened to me; they are sending me to Trinidad to try to and catch Hugo Peters, Roger, and the “Boss”. I’m standing in the airport while I’m writing this letter; my plane is leaving in less than an hour. Just think what this could mean, Susan, a really top job – perhaps my name could be in the papers if everything goes well:” CARTER CLEANS UP THE CARRIBEAN!” Of course, there are one or two problems: I don’t know which flight Peter is on, for example – or perhaps he’s already arrived in Trinidad. I can’t find Roger, either; his name isn’t on the passenger list for my flight. They’ve just called the flight, so I’ll have to stop now. Don’t worry about me, dear; I’ll be alright. I’ll write to you again from Trinidad. All my love, Harry. 26.2 1. This is the life, right? Just sitting here on this beach, having a drink or two, watching the world go by. 2. This is the way to live. 3. David, I’ll go crazy if we stay here much longer! There’s nothing to do, I’m so bored!! 4. Gee! Uh… do you feel like a game of tennis? 5. No way! 6. How about a game of cards, maybe! 7. No, I don’t want to play stupid games, or read stupid book like this one! 8. Thank God we’ve only got two more days of this before we go back to Washdon! 9. We needn’t go back to Washdon, dear. We can to wherever we like! Anywhere in the world. 10. No, we can’t. What about your job? 11. My job? But I thought… 12. What did you think? 13. Oh, nothing! Never mind. Hey; here comes the waiter! Would you like another ice cream, honey? 14. Excuse me, sir. 15. Yeah, wait; I didn’t call you, but as you’re here, I’ll have another one of these excellent cocktails. 16. And my wife will have an ice cream. 17. I’m not a waiter, as it happens. I’ll just like to ask you one or two questions, if you don’t mind. 18. I’m looking for two friends of mine, have you seen them anywhere? 19. What do they look like? 20. I happen to have photographs of them, madam. 21. This is the first one. His name is Roger Temple. 22. I’ve seen this man’s face before! 23. Really? 24. Yeah, I read about him in the papers. He escaped from prison, didn’t he? 25. That’s it! 26. Let me see they put him in prison for drugs, didn’t they? 27. He was carrying a big suitcase full of drugs when they arrestted him, right? 28. That’s the one! 29. And he’s a friend of yours? 30. Well, not exactly a friend. He used to be a friend of a friend, you could say. 31. Well, I’ve never seen him anyway, except in the newspapers. 32. Neither have I. 33. I see. 34. And what about this one, then? Have you seen. 35. David, this is a photo of your father! Look! 36. What? My God, so it is! That’s strange! 37. Why are you looking for David’s father? What are you after anyway! 38. Oh, I just want to say hello to him. That’s all. Look, if you see him, don’t say anything about this, will you? 39. I’d like it to be a surprise, you see. Ok? 40. What did he want, David? There’s no way he’s a friend of your father’s. 41. Oh, I don’t know. Dad’s got a lot of rather strange business acquaintances; you know how it is. 42. I’m sure that guy was a cop. 43. Whatever makes you think that? 44. Look – there his is, asking some other people about your father. 45. It’s so darned hot here! 46. What do you expect, Doris; we’re in Trinidad, not Buffalo! Ah, look, here comes a waiter. 47. I’ll order you a nice cold drink. What about pineapple juice with ice? 48. Excuse me, sir! 49. Ah, waiter! I didn’t call you, but as you’re here, my wife will have pineapple juice. I think I’ll have an ice cream. 50. I’m not a waiter actually. I’d just like to ask you a few questions, if you don’t mind. 51. Oscar, why is he dressed like a waiter, if he isn’t a waiter? 52. Then why are you wearing a white coat and a black tie? 53. I’d just like to ask you a few questions, if you don’t mind. 54. I don’t know, dear! Yes, sir, what can we do for you? 55. I’m trying to find a couple of old friends, and I was wondering if you could help me. 56. Have you ever seen this gentleman? His name is Hugo Peters, and –. 57. Hey, wait a moment! 58. Yes? 59. Was he in – you know – that picture with Robert Redford? 60. What picture was that? 61. Don’t you remember – we went to see it when we were staying with your cousin in Philadelphia? 62. We never went to see a picture then. 63. Yes, we did! 64. Excuse me! 65. Anyway, my cousin doesn’t live in Philadelphia. You’re thinking of my sister-in-law. 66. Don’t be ridiculous, Oscar! I know where- 67. Excuse me! Please! 68. Yes? What is it? 69. Can I have my photo back? Thank you! 70. This is the other man. His name is Roger Temple. Have you seen this man, or do you have any information regarding him? 71. I know this man’s face. I’ve seen him. 72. What? When? Where? 73. Well, he sat next to us on the plane, didn’t he, Oscar? 74. He sure did. I didn’t like the look of him at all. 75. That’s right. When it got dark he switched on the light so he could read, and that meant I couldn’t get to sleep. 76. So I asked him very politely:” Excuse me sir, could you possibly switch your light off, please?” 77. And, of course, he didn’t switch it off. 78. It’s no good being polite to guys like that, Oscar. You’ve got to stand up to them. 79. Never mind about that! Where is he now? 80. Well, he was getting into a taxi in front of our hotel when we came in just now. 81. When was that? 82. About ten minutes ago. 83. Thank you! Goodbye! 84. I hope you find your friends! 85. I don’t think they’re his friends at all. If you ask me, he’s a cop. 86. What makes you think that? 87. It’s absolutely obvious. I mean, you’ve only got to look at him… 26.3 1. -My name is Mathew and I work at the Virgin megastore in Brighton store and I’m a sales assistant. -How long have you actually worked here? Two years. Long enough to have an idea about people’s tastes. Tell me about your customers. Do they mainly buy cassettes or records or CDs these days? The popular format is CDs. Generally speaking. LP sales are falling. Cassettes are just remaining a constant. Can you tell by someone’s looks what sort of music they are going to like? Yeah, I mean you can sort of spot various trends. There will be older age groups from like sort of 50s onwards who will buy easy listening. You’ve got like the youth groups whom come from the rockers, to the ravers, and so on. They’ re all easy to spot. 2 -But, could you tell, say if someone was coming in and were a classical fun? No, definitely not. They come in all shapes and sizes. They are the difficult ones. -How about your musical tastes? My taste, I like black music: rap, soul, funk. -Do people ever come to you and ask for advice? Yeah. All the time, that’s the major part of the job: questions on bands, songs who recorded what, where can they buy this record, that CD? If we haven’t got it, where can they get it? Why isn’t it available? This, that and the other. Hundreds of questions. -So, do you like working here? Yeah, I do. Working with music, it’s a lot of fun. It’s hard work but it pays off, it’s good. 3. OK, I’m strolling amongst the records here and with me is a customer. Can you tell me your name? My name is Hagden. You are here, in the rock department. Is that your favorite style of music? Yes, it is. I listen to other sorts. But rock’s my favorite. Do you ever listen to anything like, say, jazz? I like jazz. I prefer things like blues to jazz. But I do listen to all sorts of things really. When you are buying? Do you prefer to buy cassettes, records or CDs? I prefer to buy records. They are getting quite hard to find? That’s right. Yes, but CD’s are too expensive. And I don’t like cassettes. Why is that? I don’t really know. I have had records for so long now, that I don’t want to change. Do you think records are good value for money? Yes, I do, compared to compact disks, yes. When you buy a new record, do you find that it gets boring very soon once you have listened to it a few times? Hopefully no. I’m very careful what I choose when I buy records. So, you’ll keep listening to it for a long long time? Yes, I think so. 4. Further down the shelves, I've met another customer. Excuse me, can you tell me your name? My name is Nicky Temperst. What sort of music do you like, Nicky? I like independent music and a bit of soul and dance, a bit of reggae and a bit of the new thrash rock that’s come from America recently, like Nirvana. So, you have quite wide tastes. I do, yes. Now we’re standing by the CDs. Is that what you choose to buy, CDs? Well, I haven’t actually got a CD player yet. I was just to seeing what’s available, really. So what do you normally buy? Uh, vinal or tapes? What do you prefer after these two? I prefer the look of vynel—it’s nice to look at because it’s album covers and it’s got a bit of their history behind. It’s traditional. But tapes are handy when you’re at work or on holiday. Do you find that good value for money? Tapes are. Vinals are not bad. But you can’t get so many artists these days, now on the vinals. 5. Now it may still be pop music playing, but I’m in fact in a classical section. Excuse me, can I ask your name? Francesca. Is classical music your taste? Uh, yes, exactally. Do you have a favorite composer or performer? There’s only a few that I actually know but I like “Pictures at an Exhibition”, by Massorgsky. When you buy, do you CDs or cassettes, or vinal? Still vinals. I’m afraid I still haven’t got a CD player. Why is that? Can’t afford one. 6. It’s getting to be quite difficult though to find recordings on vinals, isn’t it? A is actually. A lot of stuff doesn’t come out on vinals, especially classical, you have to shop around really,in specialist shops, and stuff. Do you find you spent a lot of money on your record collection? Not as much as I used to. When you have a new album and you take it home, do you listen to it a lot or do you savor it bit by bit? I usually listen to it until I’m sick to death of it and I probably don’t listen to it for ages. So do you have a big collection at home? About 500 albums. That’s pretty extensive. Yes, a lot of years of collecting. 7. My name is Melissa. I’m the assistant manager of the Virgin, megastore in Briton. Let’s talk about the customers and their tastes-the changing face of the customer. Are you selling more CDs these days? Oh, yes, many more. People are now buying their equipment. They realize that vinal is dying out. And the only option is to move towards cd. We get a lot of older customer as well who like classical music and jazz, which obviously the quality is better on cd than on vynel or cassettes. But I’ve spoken to a lot if customers today who say they are still with vynels. Does that cause problems? It does. There are some people who for whatever reason still prefer vynels, especially with the jazz, folk, and blues. We don’t actually sell that on vynel any more. So we do lose customers that way. Virgin stores an enormous variety of music. Look at their pretty long names, I don’t recognize. 8 Do you have to know a lot about music to work here? It helps. But I don’t come from a music background, I knew nothing apart from the bands I liked, when I joined Virgin. You do pick it up as you go along. We’re often expected to know everything. And it’s sometimes difficult. But normally there’s someone within the store who specializes in one or another department that we can send the customer to if we don’t know the answer. Do customers actually come and ask you for advice? Yes, they do. Often they’re hear know a piece of music from the advert or the television. They don’t know it and they want to buy it. So they come and ask if you know it. We get people who come in and whistle, a few notes of something they’re heard and, they expect us to know it. So we do spend a lot of time with customers. We do have to be quite customers-oriented. 9. So at the end of day, you like your job? Yes. It’s fun working here, all the people are great to work with. It’s a fun atmosphere. You get to listen to new records, and new videos. So the days go quite quickly. 12