Stage: S2.3		Skill:  Speaking & Listening

Student Name: Mehdi		Clip Number: 33

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 and 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’s Max, I am 14 years old.  My father kicked me out from home.  Mum, oh, I live at Sydney and I came to Melbourne.  I live by my, I live with myself.  My level, the first time my level was very good, my father, my mum loved me.  And one day I asked my dad, “Can I have money?”  He said, he said, “Why?”  I said to him, “Can I have money?  I need to go with my friends.”  He said, “No,” and after that he slapped me in my face.  My mum came, my mum came, my came and asked me what happened and I was, told my mum, “Oh, my dad slapped me.”  My mum went to my dad, told, told my, my dad told my mum he need money and they talk, talk, talk, talk, and after that they went upstairs.  And after that I stole, I stole my dad’s wallet and run away from home.  And I came to Melbourne.  I came to Melbourne:  first night I went to KFC.  I find some scrap foods, foods.  And one girl came to me:  she said, “What are you doing here?”  I told, I said to her, “I am a home-, homeless person,” and after that she helped me to find foods, to get a place to, where to live.  And I was sleeping at a bus stop.  One night cops came to me and the cops wake me up; the cops waking me up and the cops said, “What are you doing here?”  And the cops, I told the cops, “I am a homeless people, I am a homeless person.”  And the cops help me to take the trains to police station and there they said to me, “Oh, you can sleep here for night and you can go tomorrow.”  After that, after that I was looking for, I was looking for food pers-, to live somewhere:  shelter to shelter.  And my mum, my mum and my dad came to Melbourne; they ask my friends, “Where’s Max?”  And they ask my friends, “Where’s Max?” and they told, “He’s in Melbourne.”  And after that my mum and my dad came to Melbourne and they said, ah, they, to find me.  My mum saw me at Flinders Street.  She called me, “Max, Max.”  I thought, “That’s my mum.”  I looked behind me, I saw my mum.  I ran to her and my dad.  My dad was standing near, near to my dad, to my mum.  After that I, my dad said to me, “I’m sorry.”  We went back home with my family.  

Alright, so Max?

Yeah.

You said your family was a very loving family?

Yeah.

Why did you steal money and run away from them?

Ah, because my dad, I was so small, I was 14 years old and my friend told me, “Get money from your dad.  We can go camping.”  And after that my father didn’t give me, he said, “You’re too small for money.”  And after that, and my mum came, and yeah.

And how did you get to Melbourne?

One of my, one of friend, his dad help me to get in Melbourne.  He was like kind of drunk and that, and he said, “Oh, do you know how to use credit?”  I said, “No.”  And he, he showed me how I took some money from my, my dad’s credit, and I came to Melbourne.

Okay, and the last question is, how did people treat you when you were homeless?  What did people on the street [overtalking]?

Ah, one day it was sort of raining, and my dress was like so yucky, and the guy said, “Get lost from here.”  You know, you know how family and that, they feel me right, really sad, and yeah.

Okay, thank you.