TRANSCRIPT			Speaking & Listening

Student Sample: Stage BL Standard Video 1  

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 is…

Octopus.

…an octopus and it has eight legs.  

Legs.  But when…

What’s this?

Octopus.

Octopus.  How…?

This, you say, “This is…”

Eight eggs, it has eight eggs.

Legs.

Legs, and it lives in water and sometimes live in the sand, and it can stick in the rock.

Yes, it sticks on the rocks because it has these suckers, yes?

Yes.  

Is this the dangerous animal?

Yes.

No.

It, when it was, when is, it scared it change colours, greens or yellow.

Oh, are they all dangerous, all octopus?

No.

And it has…?

Eight leg.

Eight legs.

Eight legs, and Meratu was saying something very interesting, that it lives…

In the water.

In water.

Rock and sand.

Yeah.

Water.

And what did you say about this, that it…?

Stick.

That it sticks.  I has suckers:  sticks.  And then we were talking about the dangerous octopus, yes? 

Yes.

Because the rock pool visitor showed us an octopus that is dangerous because it has, why is it dangerous?

Because it has…

Change colour.

…change colours and it, when just scare it change colours and when, when is scared it change colour:  green, blue and…

Do you remember the name of it?

The name of it is…

Blue…

Blue…

Blue octopus.

…ring octopus.

Octopus.

Good.  And it is dangerous because it changes colour, but is that what’s dangerous?  

No.

What’s dangerous about it?  What does it do?  It gives…

It…

P… Do you remember that word?  Poison.

Poison.

Poison.

Can you say that?

Poison.

Poison.

Poison.  Poison, and that can kill us, yes?  

Yes.

It’s very strong poison.  Can you just choose any of these sea animals?

Yeah, turtle.

Okay, this is a turtle.

Turtle.  It has four legs and it, it lives in the water and it swims very well.  And some turtle lives in the sand, and when turtle have baby to put in egg, when have egg, put in the sand and then put sand and then the birth come and go in the water.  And some turtle come back to, and some turtle go when the turtle babies come out scare some bad in the water.

Oh, so you know lots about the turtle and the mother turtle and the eggs?  Now we’re going to play a guess, 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?  

Whale.

A…?

Whale.

Yeah, 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…

Sting…

[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.