TRANSCRIPT 		Speaking & Listening

Student Sample: Stage S3 Standard 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.

He’s looking at the people in the class and he sees, like everyone is having fun, they look good.  Yeah, they’re studying and he can’t do it.

And he cannot do it?

Yeah, he cannot do it, yeah.

Okay, so…

Yeah, so he sees people having good time.  Looks good, yeah.

Sure, so can you predict, can you guess what he may be thinking or feeling?  

Maybe he wants to, he wants to study, like those ones in a class.

Okay, okay.

Yeah.

Thank you Mohammed.

So that idea has come up a couple of times already:  we’ve talked about the idea of being poor, not being able to afford to go to school.  So do you think Fatima, do you think there’s a difference between the boy at the door and the boys inside?

Yeah.

What do you think is the difference?

Because he’s a poor guy and they are not.

Okay, so the difference is one of class or wealth, yeah?

Yeah.  

Is that what you’re thinking?

Yeah.

Similar to that?

Yeah.

How can we express that with one or two words, the idea that people are not all on the same level?

Equality.

Again please?

Equality.

Equality.

Yeah.

Very good, equality.  

Okay, Mohammed?

I think equal, to be equal, to be same.

So same as…?

Yeah.

So you think the emphasis is on…?

But it can be, you know.

…sameness?

Yeah.

Okay.  Now were possible, very good, where possible we’ll be using the exact words that you’re giving, okay?  And then we’ll discuss them in more detail later.  

Any other idea?  I’m just going to, I’m not going to go in turns now:  I’m just going to open it up for you guys.  Any other ideas that you may have, either about the prompt or about any of the ideas on the board?

I just want to talk about the picture over there.

Sure.

I think the artist who draws the picture, he draws, like he choose the colours and the person who once drew I think he wants like make people who wants to see the picture feel sad, do you know what I mean?

Okay, very good.  Okay.

Like the colour and the guy.

Sure, so you think that the painter…?

Yeah.

…well first of all you’re guessing that the purpose is to…

Yeah.

…draw sympathy to the character?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So what about the colour do you think arises that feeling in the viewer?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What’s in the colour?  What about the colour?

Yeah, that’s what I’m saying:  the colour makes like…

Well what about the colour?  Like which part of the colour?  Can you give a bit more [overtalking]?

Oh yeah, you know the part that is a bit dark.

A bit dark?

Yeah.  It just feels like, because the guy, he doesn’t, he doesn’t wears like proper clothe, you know, nice ones:  he wears like dirty ones.

Okay.

So he puts a bit dark, so I think the colour and the picture makes people a bit, feel sad.

For him?

Yeah.

Sure.  You’ve already quite a few times, most of you as a group, you’ve equated equality with fairness, you’ve come up with idea of fairness in terms of having ability to educate ourselves.  Would that be a correct conclusion?

Yeah.

As one conclusion?

I think this picture shows to people that no one cares about poor people, like we cannot see any equality in this world.

So what, okay, very good.

Yeah.

So what in the picture shows you carelessness?  So what you’re saying, carelessness, so which part of the picture?  What about this painting shows carelessness?

The whole picture, like you can see there’s like some rich people, or maybe well, good people, is studying there.  And you can see poor guy is just watching them, so he’s, I think the whole picture shows that, yeah.

The whole picture?

Yeah.

Sure, sure.  Okay, very good.  So we’ve come up with some key ideas here, okay, we’ve recapped.  We’ve come up with some key ideas:  equality, poverty, social justice which mentioned.  We’ll discuss that shortly as well.