TRANSCRIPT			Speaking and listening

Student Sample: Stage B1 Standard Video 1  

Who wants to go next?

Me.

You want to Feda, do you?  Alright, let me find your form.  Yeah, okay.  Alright Feda, I wonder which one Feda will choose?  Ah-ha, okay.  Alright Feda, off you go.  Listen now.

He is a fireman, he help the people, ahh, he have a think trouser, he have a hot, helmet.

Sure does.

And ah, it’s called..

Do you know the name of this thing on his face?

Ah, is it…?

Don’t tell:  you’re not allowed to tell.  I’m asking Feda.

Mask.

Oh yes, it does look a bit like a mask but it’s something that helps him to breathe I think, don’t you?  What’s this here, going down the back of the man?  What’s he breathing through there?  

Oxygen.

Yes, you’re absolutely right.  What a good word you used just then Feda.

He have a, gloves.

Absolutely.

And thick boots.

Yeah.  Okay, does anybody have a question please, because I think there’s one thing that Feda hasn’t told us about this?  You’ve told us lots of things:  I think, one other thing he hasn’t quite told us.  Oh, you want to say what it is?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He put, he put, he put out the fire with the water and the foam.

Absolutely.  Wow, okay.  You have a question Van?  Yeah?

The fireman go too fast or slowly, and why?

The fireman go fast…

In?

…in the fire.

Fire, what’s it called, the name of what he drives in?

The fire, the fireman drive the fire engine.

Absolutely, yeah.  And…?

And why the fire go fast?

Ah…

Why does the fireman go fast?

Because the fire…

What do we call it when something like that is happening in our community?  Something that’s not good?

The fireman and the, no, the emergency.

Absolutely, it’s an emergency.  What a great word.  Well done.  Okay, did anybody else have any other questions?  

No.

Do you think Feda has told us all that he knows about a fireman?  Yep, I do.  Thank you Feda, well done.

[applause]

Thank you.