TRANSCRIPT 			Speaking & Listening

Student Sample: Stage S3 Progressing Towards Video 1  

Transcription:

Okay, welcome back everyone.  Today we’re going to continue on with our Community of Enquiry:  we’ll be picking up from where we left off last period.  If you recall, we used this particular painting as a prompt, so the first step in today’s process will be for us to recall the ideas that you as a group came up with in regards to this particular painting.  So we’ll start that off and then we’ll take it from there.

Ah Shukria.

Oh. He’s a begger

A Begger?

Yep.

Okay, so he’s, so you think he’s begging for money here?

Yep.

There’s students are studying very hard.

Okay, so the students are studying very hard, is what you’re saying?

Yeah.

Okay.  A parent has three kids and wants to divide $300,000 between them before she or he passes away, which means dies, okay?  The question we’re going to be discussing is, how should the parent divide this money between the kids, okay?  So these are the parameters, these are the limits of the actual scenario, okay?  We know nothing about whether it’s a mum or a dad, okay, and we haven’t said anything about the gender of the kids, whether they’re boys or girls.  So what are your thoughts about the question?  What do you think?

Okay, so you’ve come up with a couple of ideas already here:  equality of need, and equality based purely on giving equal amounts to each child.  Just interested about the other ideas that you’ve heard.  You’d like a bit of time to think about it, share review or…?

Um, I think the parents, they should not divide the money to the children because, because some of them, they will be greedy for the money and instead to divide it to their children they have to give to poor people.  Yeah.

Okay, quite interesting.  So your idea is that the parents should not give it to the children at all?

Yeah.

Okay, so give it to the poor?

Yeah.

Okay, well we’ll come back…

Because if one of them start fighting, they’re being more greedy for money.

Okay.

Yeah, they’re each other and this. 

Okay, quite interesting.  Why do you think people are greedy?

Because they want to be famous, this stuff, and they want more money to sort of, I mean, to show the people their money and [overtalking]…

Okay, okay.  Well why do they want to do that?  What motivates them, what makes them want that?

Makes different, cool, they have money and they need some more.  Whenever the pass, he or she pass so people say, “Oh he’s, he or she is so fill with money,” and stuff, things.

Okay, very good.  Well, we’ll come to that now.  Do you think Ali, do you think Shukria’s answer is similar to Kanika’s and Jamilla’s 0:03:49.0 or different?

No, it’s different.

Different?  How?  How do you think it’s different?

She didn’t tell by the greedy, she didn’t tell for greedy.

Ah, okay.  Are you still talking about this or something different?

Yeah, sorry I did, I think so, I think so.  It’s my answer, this what is it.

Okay, okay.

Yeah.  

Our want doesn’t come from us usually:  it’s other things outside of us that tell us what we want.  Would that be a fair conclusion?

Yeah, yeah.

Sure, what was your, what did you pick up from the whole discussion, the main point, that something that really interested you in the discussion?  Shukria?

As Jamilla said.

The same idea?

Yeah, same.

Could you put it in your words what that idea is?

As you said, that the, she was, she had the old phone when she saw her friends, like iPhone, when she use the stuff things and that.

Wanting the same thing that others want?

Yeah.

Sure.