TRANSCRIPT			Speaking & Listening

Student Sample: Stage S2 Standard Video 2  

Transcription:

Okay, so what we’re going to do today is each of you are going to come up here and you’re going to give your speech on the homeless person, on the character that you’ve created, and then what I’ll be doing is asking you questions based on that character.  So think about what questions I’m asking before you answer, and just take time to think about what you’re going to say before you do, alright?  

Hi, my name is Anita, and am I’ve been homeless for the past three years now.  I have been homeless um for the past three years now.  Sorry.  It’s terrible for a young person like me to be homeless.  Before I was living with my mother.  Use to ah, she used to hit me when she was drunk.  Sometimes she doesn’t know what she’s doing.  My mother was um abu, abusive and keeping hit me, Life was very difficult for me and understand, to understand.  One day she become frustrated and got drunked.  She hit me with the bottle in my head, and then I start bleeding.  So I decided to leave her house before I die in her hands.  I lived in Westall Station carriage, stealing left-over food, MacDonald’s.  I become, I become a friend with a girl named Marley.  She’s, she’s drunked too.  She drink alcohol all the time.  One day I find her outside but I was scared to go and, to go and say hi to her, ask her.  But one day she come up to me and then, with a bottle of alcohol, and then she ask me, “What’s wrong?”  Well yeah, she was actually drunk and she doesn’t know what she’s talking.  But I ask her, I said, “I’m homeless,” I told her that I’m a homeless person.  So um she said, “Okay.”  Marley looked at me, um there’s this guys saw me one day sitting down with my friends, and then she look at me and she said, “That guy is looking at you.  You should go up to him and talk to him and ask him what’s wrong.”  Um I went up to him and said, and ask him, “What’s wrong?”  And the guy said he likes me, and then he ask me for how many years I’ve been living in this place.  I told him that I’ve been living in here for the past two years now, till I made this friend called Marley, and he said, “Okay.”  But this guy comes from a rich family, she help me from, getting away from problems.  And he asked me to come with him to his house but I refused, and all my friends look at me and then they blinked and then they said I should go.  So I went to his house and then um he said, he says to come in.  Well first I was scared to go in because the house inside is like a mansion.  A homeless person like me never been that house before, so he pulled me and then I went in, I went in, and then I sat down, and then he make a coffee, ah sorry, tea, and then he give it, he give it to me and then I sat down.  And then he ask me, he ask me where’s my family and I told him that I leave my family’s house:  my dad didn’t care about me, my mum didn’t care about me.  I said, “All the time she get drunked, she doesn’t know what she’s doing so I leave her house,” and that’s how we fell in love with other and then he held me for my problems.

Yeah, so Anita, can you tell me how people treated you when you were homeless?  What did they think of you?

They think of me like, I’m a person with nothing.  So as all the time they see me walking the street, they um, they keep saying these terrible things to me and because, it’s because their life is um is good, my life is not good so they taken, they think that I’m not in, I’m in a different world so they in a different world.  So I can’t compare them to that stage.

And how did you find food?  How did you find food before you found Marley?

Um. I went to MacDonald’s left-over before where, I went there when I finish it, then I find her there.

Okay, and what happened to Marley after you met Michael?

She was still in the um Westall Station, but then after that I went up to her and ask her if she want to come and live with my and if she said yes.  And then I take, I took her, and then I took her with me and then we live together.

Okay, thank you.  

You’re welcome.