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a well-written novel, but so depressing it made me feel almost suicIdal. |
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a light and entertaining novel perfect for beach reading. |
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a fast-moving story which jumps from past to present and back again at breakneck speed. |
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a gripping story. i was hooked from the very beginning. |
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a thought-provoking novel that raised many interesting questions. |
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rather heavy-going. i really had to make an effort to finish it. |
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the characters were totally implausible. i couldn't take any of them seriously. |
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the plot was intriguing. it was impossible to predict how it would end. |
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a wonderful film. so moving it brought tears to my eyes. |
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a haunting tale which stayed with me long after i'd finished reading it. |
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i don't like opera that much. |
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i can't stand depressing books like that one. |
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the thing i liked about it most was the surprise ending. |
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what i love about lee's films is that there's always a message. |
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i'm a big fan of historical novels. |
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what i like about her acting is that she brings sth special to every role. |
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i can't get into classical music. |
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the thing that i hate about graffiti is that it's just ugly. |
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which things can only be read on a screen? |
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which things often include rhymes? |
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which things aim to give factual information? |
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which things usually have pictures, photos or diagrams? |
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which things are fictional stories? |
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what type of book would you take on a long flight? |
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which book might you say you have read in order to impress someone. |
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what books would you recommend for someone who enjoyes biographies or other factual books? |
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do you know a film that is better than the book it is based on? |
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the hero/heroine goes on a long, dangerous journey to achieve a goal. |
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a hero/heroine defeats a terrifying beast and saves others or wins a reward. |
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after misunderstandings and confusion, everything ends happily. |
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it doesn't have to be funny but if often is. |
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a person leaves home and goes to a strange place. after adventures, he/she comes back. |
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someone is in a terrible situation and then returns to happiness or is freed, often by the power of love. |
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an ordinary person discovers special talents or beauty in himself/herself and often gains great wealth. |
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a character follows a course of action which destroyes him/her. |
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this story always has a bad evening. |
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hello and welcome to arts review. |
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in tonight's programme we look at a rather surprising answer to the question: How many stories exist? |
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you might think there are hundreds or thousands of different stories in literature, theatre and film. |
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but experts like to put number rather lower, anything between one or twelve. |
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now, in a new book, Christopher Booker says that there are exactly seven basic "plots" and every story in the world can fit into one of them. |
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before we review his book, here are the seven. |
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plot one: Overcoming the monster. |
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in this story, the hero or heroine has to battle and defeat a monster. |
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this could be a real monster, for example, Dracula, or it could be a person, such as a villain in a james bond film. |
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the monster is defeated, the hero is victorious, the community is saved and order returns to the world. |
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most detective stories are actually variations on the theme of overcoming the monster. |
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plot 2: Rags to riches. |
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this idea is found in countless stories. |
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it involves a very ordinary person or someone that everyone thinks is normal, nothing special. |
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the during the course of the story, it's shown that this person is in fact extraordinary. |
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just think of the story of superman or any story of an ordinary person who ends up marrying someone rich. |
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plot three: The quest. |
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this features a main character who travels a long distance, often with companions, in search of a treasure or to do a brave or noble act. |
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at the end he or she succeeds and is rewarded in some way, often by keeping the treasure or sometimes by saving a community. |
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probably the best known example of this is lord of the rings. |
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interestingly, it's also often the basis of many computer games. |
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plot four: Voyage and return. |
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this typically tells the story of an ordinary person who is thrown into a completely strange and alien world, one that is outside their experience. |
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often they face dangers and difficulties and then have a thrilling escape back to their original situation. |
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there was a tv series called lost about people whose plane crashed on a desert island. |
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that was a voyage and return story. |
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plot five: Comedy. |
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this doesn't always mean humour although the story can be funny. |
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it's more about a situation which is full of mistakes and mix-ups. |
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the whole story gets more and more confused until at the end everything is sorted out and there's a happy ending. |
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plot six: Tragedy. |
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as its name suggests, this plot never has a happy ending. |
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it's about what terrible things can happen when someone tries to get power or go against the system. |
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this person often has a weakness in their character and this weakness is the reason that everything ends badly. |
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there are lots of examples in theatre, such as romeo and juliet, who fall in love although their families hate each other. |
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plot seven: Rebirth. |
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this plot is about a person in a dark and difficult situation. |
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maybe they've lost all their money or their job or they're in prison. |
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or perhaps he or she is unpopular or has an unpleasant personality. |
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then a series of events happens, often amazing events, and the situation or the person changes so that the character becomes a kind of hero, a very positive character. |
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so that's all seven. |
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before we go onto discuss these, there's an interesting quote from the american novelist. |
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last night i saw jean at the top of a ladder, climbing into the upstairs window of a house. |
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she was using a ladder to get through the upstairs window because she'd forgotten her key. |
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she was using a ladder to get through the upstairs window because she was robbing the house. |
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she was using a ladder to get through the upstairs window because she had been painting the downstairs floors all evening and they hadn't dried yet. |
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she was using a ladder to get through the upstairs window because she'd been using the door all her life and she wanted a change. |
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one day the old man was fishing as usual when he saw something shiny in the water. |
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in 1995 ella was teaching in the sudan and became well known locally as the "Canadian lady". |
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i'd known javier for many years and when i read he was in prison i knew there must be a mistake. |
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he noticed that someone had left a briefcase on the park bench. |
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the prince had been searching in the forest for over ten hours and was beginning to lose hope. |
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ella had been looking through old photo albums all morning when she heard a knock on the door, and that moment inspired the lyrics to her greatest hit. |
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by that evening the children were exhausted and hungry because they'd been walking in the forest all day with nothing to eat. |
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we'd driven 30 km when the engine suddenly stopped; someone had taken most of the petrol out of the car, someone who wanted us dead. |
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in the morning everything was white because it had been snowing all night. |
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how long had the victim been coming to this club? logan asked. |
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my brother was furious because i had broken his mp3 player. |
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how much money had you made by the time you were twenty? |
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i had a sore throat because i'd been singing all evening. |
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had she ever done anything like that before? |
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they hadn't been planning to move, but a flat became available suddenly. |
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the computer had been making strange noises since the installation of the new software. |
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an eight-year-old boy has been rescued by an enterprising Bangkok firefighter. |
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the boy from thailand is autistic and had been feeling very nervous before his first day of school but initially he seemed to be ok. |
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however, during the first lesson his teacher was explaning something to the class when she realised that the boy had climbed out of the window. |
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he was sitting just outside the window with his legs swinging over the edge. |
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the rescue services were called in when the boy's mother had also failed to get the boy down. |
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everyone was beginning to run out of ideas when one of the firefighters, somchai yoosabai, overheard the boy's mother talking about her son's love of superheroes. |
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the quick-thinking fireman rushed back to the fire station and changed into his spider man costume. |
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until then, Mr Somchai had been using the costume to make school fire drills more interesting. |
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i told him, "Spider man is here to rescue you". |
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no monsters are going to attack you. |
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the sight brought a smile to the youngster's face and he immediately walked into his rescuer's arms. |
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once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons. |
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many years ago a crowd gathered outside the paris opera house to see a performance by one of the most famous singers of the time. |
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tickets had sold out weeks before, and the opera fans had been looking forward to this epic moment ever since the performance was announced. |
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it was a gorgeous spring evening, and everyone was wearing their finest clothes in celebration of the event. |
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in the moments before the curtain went up, the house lights dimmed slightly, and a hush fell over the audience as they saw sth every theatregoer dreads. |
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a man in a suit was slowly walking out onto the stage. |
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it was the house manager, and he announced to the audience that unfortunately, the famous singer had fallen ill and that her understudy, an unknown opera singer, would be performing in her place. |
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a sense of disappointment pervaded the theatre. |
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some people got up and left. |
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moments later, the curtain went up and the performance began. |
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throughout the nearly three-hour opera, the understudy, who had never appeared in a major opera before, gave the performance of her life. |
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at the end of each major scene, when people usually applaud, there was literally no sound at all from the audience. |
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finally at the end of the opera, as the understudy sang her final notes and the orchestra played the last bars and stopped, there was only very faint applause. |
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suddenly, on one of the upper balconies, a little boy stood up. |
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one day a man was driving down a small country road in tennessee on a cold winter evening. |
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when he saw an elderly woman standing by her car, apparently in some kind of trouble, so he stopped. |
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the woman had been standing there for a long time and was shivering badly. |
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she looked anxious as he got out of his car, so he introduced himself. |
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you look like you need some help. |
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the woman had a flat tyre so steve sat her in his car to stay warm while he changed it. |
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after he'd finished the job, the old lady tried to give him money but steve refused. |
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she persisted, so steve said, "listen, the next time you see someone in need, do sth to help them." |
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that's the best way to pay me back. |
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they sad goodbye, and the woman drove into the next town and stopped at a busy dinner. |
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there was only one waitress and she was moving a bit awkwardly because she was visibly very pregnant. |
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'when's it due, honey?' the old lady asked. |
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'any day now', answered the waitress. |
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you don't look to happy. |
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to be honest, i don't know how we're going to manage on just my husband's pay. |
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when she was paying for her meal, the old lady remembered what steve had said. |
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she left five one-hundred dollar bills on the table, then left quickly. |
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the waitress was astonished and grateful. |
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she went home and found her husband watching tv. |
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once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons. |
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he'd never seen such beautiful birds before. |
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he gave them to a man who had been training falcons for him for many years. |
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a month later, the king was sitting on his balcony when he noticed one of the falcons in the sky, but he didn't see the other one. |
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deeply disappointed, he discovered that the falcon had been sitting on the same branch since its arrival. |
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the king called healers and magicians from all over the land to find out what the problem was, but no one could make the bird fly. |
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after he'd tried everything, eventually the king realised that he needed someone who understood the countryside. |
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so he called for a farmer. |
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the very next morning, the king was thrilled to see that the second falcon was flying high in the sky alongside the first. |
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he called the farmer and asked, 'how did you make the falcon fly?' |
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it was very easy, Your Majesty. |
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i simply cut the branch where the bird was sitting. |
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did you eat snake in china? yes, you know what they say: 'when in rome do as the romans do.' |
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you should buy your new phone online. no, last time i shopped online my credit details were stolen. (once bitten, twice shy). |
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since my accident, pam's been so helpful. |
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you were always there for her. (what goes around comes around). |
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shall i enter the talent show? |
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oh, go on! after all, nothing ventured, nothing gained. |
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joe was fired but now he's found an even better job. |
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really? well, every cloud has a silver lining. |
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how does the writer link the introduction (under the title) and end of the story? |
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which paragraph sets the scene? |
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which verb forms are used to do this? |
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which paragraph develop the story? |
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where does the writer include his feelings? |
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where does he describe what he learnt from the incident? |
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i used to love the saying 'nothing ventured, nothing gained', but now i'm not so keen. |
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i started work as a computer programmer just after university, but it had always been my ambition to be a stand-up comedian. |
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i'd been thinking about it for some time and my friends were always telling me i was funny. |
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but i was nervous about the idea of going on stage. |
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anyway, stupidly, i listened to my friends. |
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i worked on some material and put together a twenty-minute show. |
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i practised if for my girlfriend, which wasn't easy since naturally it was difficult for her to laugh at the same joke twenty-five times. |
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finally, after i'd waited a couple of months, i was given time at a local comedy club. |
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i was late at night when i went on, and the audience had already been sitting there for three hours. |
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my friends were there - they'd reserved seats in the front row. |
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i started, and on the first joke i tripped over my words awkwardly. |
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apparently, the surest way to kill a joke is to hesitate. |
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but i pushed on, and realised that my mouth was so dry i couldn't speak. |
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unfortunately, a couple of people in the audience started to giggle, but i knew they were laughing at me, not my jokes. |
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well, twenty minutes isn't such a long time, and eventually i finished. |
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as i collapsed into a chair backstage, in my mind i rewrote my favourite saying to: 'nothing ventured, nothing los.' |
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and i ventured nothing after that for a very long time. |
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what is the challenge each person faces? |
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how do they manage in their professions? |
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our series on people who have achieved success in their field in the face of extraordinary challenges. |
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for more than thirty years, soprano janine roebuck has delighted audiences with her singing in opera and musical theatre. |
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for most of that time she has kept a closely guarded secret: she's profoundly deaf. |
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janine comes from a family with hereditary dafness. |
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at first she thought she had escaped the disability but at university she was diagnosed with progressive loss of hearing and was advised to give up her dream of a singing career. |
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however, janine decided to hide the truth from fellow musicians. |
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janine believed that she wouldn't be employed as a singer if people knew about her disability. |
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because they would see it as a major problem. |
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so she developed coping strategies to enable her to perform. |
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when she sang with another person, she watched their breathing so that she could come in at the right time. |
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she felt vibrations from the music and occasionally she asked her fellow performers to tap the beat on her back. |
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now janine has decided to reveal the truth. |
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instead of being terryfied of being found out, the singer is proud of her achievements and is using her story as an example to encourage other people with disabilities. |
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as the word about janine's deafness spreads, responses inclued astonishment and admiration. |
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one conductor turned to the orchestra after she sang and told them she was deaf. |
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their applause delighted her. |
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if you listen to Dean du plessis on the radio you will hear an articulate sports commentator with a comprehensive knowledge of cricket. |
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it's incredible then to realise that zimbabwean du plessis has never actually seen a game because he's been blind from birth. |
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how does he do it? |
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he says his heightened sense of hearing compensates for his lack of sight. |
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he uses microphones placed around the ground to help. |
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dean listens to the sound of the players during the game. |
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he can tell who is who by the sound they make when they hit a ball or run across the pitch. |
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each player runs differently, for example, some players run in a particular way or use more effort than others. |
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he also listens to the sounds when the bat strikes the ball, as well as the crowd. |
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born near harare, zimbabwe, du plessis was lucky enough to attend the famous worcester school for the blind in south africa. |
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at school, much to the annoyance of his schoolmates, he would stay up late in the evening and do commentaries alongside the radio. |
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one evening a teacher overheard his commentating and told him to take it up as a profession because he was exceptionally good at it. |
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in 2001 dean tried out with the microphone at harare sports club and since then has never looked back. |
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his passion and knowledge make him enormously popular with listeners and leave visiting teams and his commentators awestruck. |
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it was a terrible blow to me. |
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it can be a sharp crack or a quieter sound. |
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until then i thought i was one of the lucky ones. |
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your other senses become more acute. |
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i refused to give up. |
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why now? well, with age you don't really care so much. |
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it was non-stop action all the way through. i love films that are fast-paced. |
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it's just about the most shocking film i've ever seen. it's very controversial. |
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he was good. i'd describe his performance as a Bond as intense. |
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the film was so funny. in fact, i'd go so far as to say it was hysterical. |
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the plot is really clever. you could never guess the ending. it's outstanding. |
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you can't take your eye off him. his performance was stunning. |
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it really made you think. i'd describe this film as thought-provoking. |
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the main character is this strange old man who wears black. he's really creepy. |
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i was on the edge of my seat all the way through. it was absolutely gripping. |
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he gave an amazing performance. i thought he was absolutely superb. |
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at the end, he takes revenge by shooting everyone. it's gory. |
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the way that he helped his wife recover after the accident was really touching/moving/poignant. |
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it was such a sad story. i found it very poignant/touching/moving. |
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it's about the relationship between a dying grandfather and his grandson. it's really poignant/moving/touching. |
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i didn't know how the film was going to end. it was so full of suspence. |
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in the 1920s, ernest hemingway bet ten dollars that he could write a complete story in just six words. |
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he wrote, 'for sale: baby shoes, never worn'. |
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he won the bet. |
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an american online magazine has now used that to ispire its readers to write their life story in six words. |
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and they've been overwhelmed by the thousands who took up the challenge. |
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they've published the best in a book which they've given the title of one of the submissions: not quite what i was planning. |
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i asked the editor, larry smith, what made him think of the idea. |
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so we thought, 'let's ask our readers their six-word life story, a memoir' and see what happened. |
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we really didn't know what would happen. |
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and what did happen? |
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it was incredible. |
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in a couple of months we got 15,000 entries and i was just blown away. |
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funny, poignant -- i really believe that everyone has a story. |
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and i was just so inspired by how serious and intense folks took the six-word memoir challenge. |
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ok, but before we look at the examples. |
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it's one thing. |
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because the hemingway is a story but it's not a story of a life. |
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that seems to be a bit of a challenge to fit that in six words. |
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weel, it's interesting because some folks clearly tried to tell a whole story of a life in six words, and you can tell. |
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and other times they're telling a moment in their life, right at this moment, sth that they're feeling right now. |
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or perhaps something that's been a thread throughout their lives. |
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well give us some examples. |
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wasn't born a redhead. fixed that. |
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this woman took life under control. |
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whether she just always felt that her soul was a redheaded soul. |
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or simply at some point in life she was going to make a switch. |
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she could have quit her job. |
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she changed her hair colour. |
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but a lot of them are.. quite sad or there's a sort of sense of regret or disappointment in a lot of them. |
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i didn't expect that. |
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i thought people would come back with a lot of funny things, some playful things, plays on words. |
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but those are really interesting reality. |
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people really told us. |
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it's tough out there. |
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found true love. married someone else. |
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never should have bought that ring. |
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which sentences probably come from a conversation and which from a written text? |
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i've never seen such a dramatic change. her hair went white overnight. |
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a collection of jokes and hilarious anecdotes. guaranteed to make you laugh. |
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she told us some really moving stories about her life during the war. |
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it was incredible --- the car hit her, but she was ok. |
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this teacher was so inspiring that he changed each of his students' lives. |
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a poignant tale of heartbreak and loss. don't miss it. |
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she was just too intense for me. i never felt i could relax. |
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this woman's remarkabcle story of success at the age of eighty-five will amaze you. |
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i wish i could do it all again ~ any chance i could start again? |
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i wish i weren't so anxious ~ worry about tomorrow, rarely enjoy today. |
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i wish i'd stayed where i was happy ~ born london, lived elsewhere, died inside. |
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i wish he'd pay more attention to me ~ married, tv, computer, never any flowers. |
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if only i hadn't become a doctor ~ really should have been a lawyer. |
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if only i'd been born twenty years later ~ wrong era, wrong class, wrong gender. |
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for each pair of sentences, complete the second sentence so that is means the same as the first. |
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the film ending was very dramatic. i could hardly watch it. |
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that play was absolutely hilarious. i nearly cried with laughing. |
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the life of Gandhi is very inspiring. |
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i found that poem about war very poignant. |
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jane is very intense --- she's very focused when she speaks to you. |
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brian finished his 3,000 word film review last night --- that's remarkable. |
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i really liked the end of the film, the special effects were incredible. |
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the story of the children was very moving --- it nearly made me cry. |
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a survey of over-30s suggests that many people share the same regrets about the past. |
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some of the results are unsurprising, but others are unexpected. |
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the top regrets are:. |
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one in ten people wishes they had worked abroad at some stage in their life. |
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just under a quarter of people wish they had saved more money in their twenties. |
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a quarter of people wish they hadn't begun smoking. |
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nearly a third of people wish they'd paid more attention at school. |
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one in three people wishes that they hadn't got married so young. |
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many people wish they hadn't left full-time education so early and regret that they didn't go to university. |
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almost a half of people wish they had learnt musical instrument. |
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the top regret of all? nearly half of people wish they had travelled more when they were younger. |
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she can't stand the way the press keep asking her about her private life ~ she wishes the press would stop asking her about her private life. |
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i'd prefer to be at home right now; it's too cold here ~ i wish i was/were at home right now; it's too cold here. |
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it's terribe -- we owe so much money ~ if only we didn't owe so much money. |
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they didn't tell him the cost before he started the treatment ~ if only they had told him the cost of the treatment before he started it. |
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i hate it when you interrupt me ~ i wish you wouldn't interrupt me. |
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that's a great idea! why didn't i think of it? ~ i wish i'd thought of that idea. |
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wayne wishes he'd kept his temper ~ if only wayne had kept his temper. |
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i can't see anything from here ~ if only i could see something from here. |
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unfortunately, we don't have enough time ~ if only we had more time. |
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you just didn't listen to me ~ i wish you'd listened to me. |
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read the programme information and answer the questions. |
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where is the story set? |
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what two things do the female characters have in common? |
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how do you think they react when angel arrives? |
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how do you think he 'saves' them? |
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do you think the story has a happy ending? |
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this film of thomas hardy's 19th-century novel tells the tragic story of tess. |
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the daughter of uneducated peasants in rural Wessex. |
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the semi-fictional setting for many of hardy's novels. |
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in this episode, tess and three other dairymaids are all in love with angel clare, the son of a local clergyman. |
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on their way to church one sunday, the four dairymaids find their way block by a flood. |
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but fortunately angel arrives to save them. |
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why do you think this type of costume drama is popular? |
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is it a kind of drama you like to watch? |
| 335 |
we can't get there without walking through it. |
| 336 |
that's that then, i'm going back to bed. |
| 337 |
marian, get back here, now. |
| 338 |
good morning ladies, and how lovely you all look. |
| 339 |
now i see the problem. |
| 340 |
perhaps i can be of assistance. |
| 341 |
who's first? |
| 342 |
first for what, sir? |
| 343 |
i'll carry you across the water. |
| 344 |
i'm supposed to pur my arms around his neck and put my face against his. |
| 345 |
and feel his arms around me and put my face against his. i don't think i can. |
| 346 |
there's nothing in it, retty. |
| 347 |
that's what you say. i think i'm going to burst. |
| 348 |
thank you, mr clare. |
| 349 |
retty, a nice easy one this time. |
| 350 |
i'm going to kiss him. |
| 351 |
i don't care what happens, i'm going to kiss him. |
| 352 |
you wouldn't mind would you if i tried? |
| 353 |
i know that you're his favourite and all. |
| 354 |
but i've got to try, haven't i? |
| 355 |
i might never get another chance. |
| 356 |
how do i look? do i look pretty? tell me, tess. |
| 357 |
very pretty, iz. |
| 358 |
here i go. wish me luck. |
| 359 |
what are you going? |
| 360 |
i think i can climb along the bank after all. |
| 361 |
really i'm quite all right. |
| 362 |
and you must be so tired. |
| 363 |
i've undergone three quarters of the labour just for this moment. |
| 364 |
they are much better women that i, all of them. not to me. |
| 365 |
i'm not too heavy? |
| 366 |
compared to marian you're like gossamer; you're a billow warmed by the sun. |
| 367 |
that's very pretty, i seem like that to you. |
| 368 |
i didn't expect an event like this today. |
| 369 |
nor i. the water came up so quickly. |
| 370 |
that's not what i meant, at all. |
| 371 |
come on. will be late. |
| 372 |
i was sure he was going to kiss me. |
| 373 |
i absolutely love faulty towers, i've seen this hundreds of times and it's my absolute favourite. |
| 374 |
it always makes me laugh - in fact, it makes me cry with laughter sometimes.. can't get enough of it. |
| 375 |
and the main character, basil fawlty, played by john cleese, is absolutely brilliant. |
| 376 |
it's like a lesson in comic acting. |
| 377 |
the more bad things that happen to this man the more we laugh. |
| 378 |
my favourite scene is the scene with mrs richards and basil fawlty. |
| 379 |
and it's very cleverly done. |
| 380 |
mrs richards wears a hearing aid and basil fawlty hates mrs richards. |
| 381 |
she's a terrible, grumpy, old, complaining customer who he really doesn't like. |
| 382 |
so he comes into the room and he mimes at her. |
| 383 |
so he moves his mouth but he doesn't make any sound. |
| 384 |
so that mrs richards turns up her hearing aid so that she can hear him. |
| 385 |
and then he mimes again and he moves his mouth again not making any sound. |
| 386 |
so she can't understand why she can't hear him, so she turns up he hearing aid again. |
| 387 |
and then once he's sure that her hearing aid is of volume he shouts at her, 'mrs richards' |
| 388 |
of course which deafens her and it's very funny. |
| 389 |
and it's amazing because he gets his own back on her 'cos she's been awful to him, so he kind of wins in the end. |
| 390 |
oh it's just brilliant. |
| 391 |
if you've never seen it, you really should see it. |
| 392 |
there were very few episodes made. |
| 393 |
i think there were only ever one series, maybe eight episodes, sth like that. |
| 394 |
i'm not entirely sure about that, but not very many made and, they're really fantastic. |
| 395 |
every one is absolutely priceless. |
| 396 |
my favourite scene is the one in jaws. |
| 397 |
it doesn't happen until a long way into the film. |
| 398 |
you have been getting glimpses of the monster for a long time. |
| 399 |
so the tension has been building up for over an hour. |
| 400 |
you've mainly seen shots of people trying to get away and heard the disturbing music several times. |
| 401 |
it's very cleverly done with a very slow build-up and lots of tension. |
| 402 |
so there are now three of them on a boat, the police chief, a biologist and a world war 2 veteran. |
| 403 |
and it's all very quiet and one of them is just throwing meat into the water. |
| 404 |
there's no music, just the sound of the water the people talking. |
| 405 |
then the shark suddenly appears when you least expect it. |
| 406 |
and roy scheider is so cool. |
| 407 |
he goes quiet for a minute, then he walks back into the cabin and says, "you're gonna need a bigger boat" |
| 408 |
he doesn't even drop his cigarette. |
| 409 |
it's a lesson in perfect timing and it always sends shivers up my spine. |
| 410 |
if you never seen it, you really should. |
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