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 Upper Intermediate Unit 7 audio script
 UNIT 7 Recording 1
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All of us watch lots of TV.
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Quite a few of us watch online.
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A few of us prefer listening to the radio.
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Both of us like wildlife programmes.
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Neither of us enjoys detective stories.
 UNIT 7 Recording 2
P = Presenter H = Hoaxer
P:	Welcome to Insight, where the topic for the day is hoaxes, specifically photo hoaxes. It was extremely difficult to get someone who produces hoax photos, a hoaxer, to agree to appear on the show, and it was only on condition that we promise to keep his identity secret. So, I’d like to welcome my guest to the show.
H:	Thank you.
P:	For starters, can you explain why you want to remain anonymous?
H:	Two reasons really. I suppose, one is mystery. What I mean is a good hoax photo is more powerful if people don’t know where it came from. If people knew I’d produced the photo, the effect would be lost. 
P:	Fair enough. And the other reason?
H:	Well, it’s a fact that hoaxers often use photographs taken by someone else, and often without permission, and the original photographer could sue us.
P: 	So basically, you’re playing it safe then.
H: 	Yeah, you could put it that way.
P:	OK. Now I asked you before the show if you’d ever earned money for your hoax work, and you said that you often work with the police and detectives. What exactly do you do for the police? 
H:	Well, when a politician, for example, appears in a published photograph in any … embarrassing situation, say accepting money … sometimes the police ask me to look at it. Then, if I decide if the photograph is a hoax, they see if they can find out who did it.
P:	Right. OK, well, let’s look at some photographs that we found on the internet – some hoaxes; some not. Talk us through the photographs if you would.
H:	So, this photo of a bike in a tree looks like a hoax simply because it’s such an unusual image. Also, it looks a bit like a composite photo …
P:	What’s a composite photo? 
H:	When you combine two or more photos, that’s a composite. In this case, it would be very easy to put a picture of the two halves of the bike over a photo of a tree. In fact, this would be a very easy hoax photo to put together.
P: 	So what you’re saying is it isn’t real? 
H:	No, it actually is real. I wasn’t sure myself, but I found out it was near Seattle, Washington. So I asked a friend who lives there, and he told me he’d seen it with his own eyes a number of years before. Apparently, there are many different legends about how it got there. 
P:	Well ,I thought that one was definitely a hoax. Let's look at the next one. This one could be real. A man hanging on the landing gear of a jet plane is such an extraordinary sight, maybe that’s why it looks a bit fake.
H:	Well, even if you’d never seen such a thing, common sense would tell you that a man couldn't survive even the landing. The wind would pull him off. 
P:	Then it is a hoax photo.
H:	Yes, a classic composite photo. Not badly put together, though.
P:	Remarkable. Now this next one could be real, sharks swimming through a flooded suburb. I remember seeing this on the internet. After one of those big hurricanes.
H:	Ha, you’ve probably seen lots of photos like this, and maybe this exact one.
P:	Why? Why’s it funny?
H:	I’m ninety-nine percent sure this is a hoax simply because it’s a cliché – yet another photo of sharks swimming where they shouldn’t be! Look on the internet and you’ll find plenty of hoax photos of sharks.
P:	And that’s it? Is there a technical reason why you know it’s a hoax?
H:	Well, yes. The water next to the fins isn’t right. The surface of the water would break differently if there really were sharks there. Look closely. 
P:	I see. You know, it seems like a lot of work. Why do people do it? It can’t be for the money. 
H:	I dunno. I can only speak for myself and to be honest I’m thrilled when people believe one of my photos. 
P:	Because they want to believe it?
H:	Well, yes. Maybe we all like to believe something really unusual could be true.
 UNIT 7 Recording 3
Stress on the first syllable:
promise
threaten
offer
warn
tell 
Stress on the second syllable:
deny
admit
suggest
apologise
accuse
refuse
agree
persuade
invite
advise
remind
 UNIT 7 Recording 4
Conversation 1
A:	Wow!
B:	What’s that?
A:	It’s this story. Listen to this. ‘A woman used a wooden soup ladle to save her husband from attack by a tiger’.
B:	What? A ladle? 
A:	Well, her husband was being attacked by a tiger. 
B:	Where was this?
A:	In Malaysia. Apparently, her husband had just gone into the forest. She saw the tiger attack him and grabbed the first thing she could find, which was a wooden soup ladle. And she just charged at the animal yelling at the top of her voice and bashing its head. 
B:	And it didn’t attack her?
A:	No. The amazing thing is that the tiger ran off. 
B:	Wow, there’s no way I’d do that!
A:	Not even for me?
B:	Not even for you! You’re the one who’s always telling me to stop.
A:	Stop what?
B:	Stop helping people so much.
A:	I didn’t mean to stop helping me!
Conversation 2
A:	Hey, Mike. Did you buy a lottery ticket?
B:	No, why?
A:	Well, you want to be careful. It says here that some store clerks are taking the winnings. You know, when customers take in a winning ticket and they have to check it in the store …
B:	Yeah …
A:	Well, these guys have been telling customers that they didn’t win and then they take the winning tickets for themselves.
B:	That’s so wrong! Suppose it was, like, a big amount? 
A:	One of the tickets was for a thousand dollars and the …
B:	That’s totally outrageous!
A:	Yeah. Exactly.
B:	So, how did they find out?
A:	The police did some undercover investigations at convenience stores. And ... yeah, one of them was for a thousand dollars and the …
B:	Hey, maybe we won something …
A:	In your dreams. You don’t buy lottery tickets anyway.
B:	That’s true. 
A:	But it’s weird that the customers didn’t notice, isn’t it? That’s more surprising than the actual theft.
B:	Yeah. I do think they should do something about it.
A:	Who?
B:	The lottery companies.
A:	They are doing something about it. They’re going to install machines so you can check your own numbers.
B:	That is a good idea.
Conversation 3
A:	That’s extraordinary!
B:	What is?
A:	This story about the baby in China. 
B:	What happened?
A:	It’s about a baby and apparently it climbed out onto a window ledge on the second floor. Oh, there’s a video … And, oh look, you can see these people underneath just holding out their arms because they know it’s going to fall. And there are some people putting cardboard down to try and break the fall. Wow!
B:	Let me see. Wow! Look at that man! How on earth did he catch it? 
A:	‘Just human instinct,’ that’s what one man said.
B:	What a catch! That’s such an amazing thing! 
A:	It’s lucky the men noticed the baby.
B:	Yeah, I suppose they saw some movement.
A:	Or maybe they heard something.
B:	What’s that? The woman’s bringing something.
A:	It’s hard to say, but it looks like a cushion.
B:	Yeah, it could be a sofa cushion.
A:	I guess they thought the baby might fall on it.
B:	That must be the luckiest baby alive.
A:	Absolutely incredible. Let me see again.
 UNIT 7 Recording 5
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The amazing thing is that the tiger ran off. 
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Wow, there’s no way I’d do that!
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You’re the one who’s always telling me to stop.
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That’s so wrong!
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That’s totally outrageous!
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I do think they should do something about it.
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That is a good idea.
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How on earth did he catch it? 
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That’s such an amazing thing!
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Absolutely incredible!
UNIT 7 Recording 8
A:	Did you hear this story in the news about this guy that swapped a paper clip for a house?
B:	No.
A:	 It sounds a bit out there, but apparently what happened was he started … he was at his desk looking for a job or phoning up about jobs …
B:	Yeah.
A:	… and, um, he saw a paper clip on his desk, and he thought, I wonder what I can do with this paper clip – whether I can swap it for something.
B: 	Oh.
A:	Anyway, so he got onto the internetand he made this website – I think it’s called the-red-paper-clip dot com.
B:	Right.
A:	And he put this, this on the internet, photographs it, puts it on, and sees if anyone wants to swap something with him.
B:	And did, did anything happen?
A:	Yeah, so first of all, I don’t remember all the details, but as I recall, two Vancouver women, um, took up the first challenge and they swapped the paper clip with, I think it was a pen shaped like a fish they had found …
B:	Random.
A:	Yeah – they had found on a camping trip, yeah, random. But he meets up with all these people he doesn’t just send the things. And so then from that, I believe, this guy in Seattle wanted the pen and swapped it for a doorknob. And the door knob was swapped for something to do with camping …
B:	Oh, so he kept trading up each time.
A:	Yeah, he kept trading, trading up so, and then that was swapped for a beer keg, I think. Apparently, what happened was all these people were … the same sort of thought patterns as him and they wanted to sort of meet up and it was about a social event as well.
B:	Ah.
A:	Anyway, the next thing he got was a snow globe and, according to the report, it said a film director wanted it and said he’d swap it for a part in his film. And then this town decided they had this house in this town, and that they would swap the house for a part in this film.
B:	No! So he went all the way from the red paper clip to getting a house.
A:	… a house. And my impression was that he, he was just crazy at the beginning but he, he ended up having this – I’m not sure how good the house was, but, well, yeah.
B:	Well, better than a paper clip.
A:	I know, basically that’s what happened.
B:	Wow!
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