TRANSCRIPT	       	   Speaking & Listening

Student Sample: Stage BL Standard Video 2  

I’ll show you some of the animals and I’ll talk to you about the animal.  Now this animal is a…?

[together] Crab.

And a crab has pincers, pincers.  This animal…

Octopus.

Octopus.

…is an octopus, and it has eight legs.

Legs.  

Tell us:  this is…?

This is a crab.  Crab have fin-, fins…

P, pincers.

…pincers.  Crab…

What are pincers?  Where are the pincers?  What are they?  What do they do?

Mm, she’s fights with it.

Oh, okay, they fight with it, they eat.  Yes.

Mm, crab is funny.  She’s food and…

Seaweed.

…seaweed in shell.

On the shell there’s a seaweed crab.

In the.

Thank you.  How does a crab move Lazarus?  

Move…

They move side.

…side.

Sideways, yes.  Now we’re going to play a guess which animal I’m thinking of, okay?  So I’ll tell you, I won’t say the name of the animal:  you have to guess the name of the sea animal, okay?  Alright, I am very big, and I live in the sea, in the deep sea, and I have a tail that helps me swim and fins.  I’m a very big animal.  What is it Lazarus?

Mm, whale.

A…?

Whale.

A whale:  I am a whale.  Thank you.  Now Meratu, you tell, Lazarus has to guess.  You say ‘guess who’ to Lazarus.

Okay.  I have a long tail.  I have a wings.  I live in water.  Who I am?  

Um.

Sting…

Staaa ring… Mm

[together] Stingray.

Very good, excellent Lazarus.  Your turn Lazarus.

I am half a leg.  I live in water.

Anything else?  Anything else you can say?

Sometime I am very dangerous.

Mm-hm.  What do you think Meratu?  Did you say, “Who am I?”

Who am I?  Octopus.

Octopus.

Very good.  Okay, thank you.  Well done.