Trascrizione Video Life upper-intermediate, Sbobinature di Lingua Inglese

Scarica Trascrizione Video Life upper-intermediate e più Sbobinature in PDF di Lingua Inglese solo su Docsity! Video Life Studentsbook Video 1 p.19  Lady Liberty and Ellis Island I don’t know if there’s something to be proud of, but I have the dubious distinction of being the last resident of Liberty Island, yes. Walking around the island at night and looking up at the Statue of Liberty. It’s quite an experience seeing all the different ways she changes. Some nights she’s actually a little bit blue, as opposed to green. I had two sets of grandparents that came through Ellis Island. I wonder what they would think if they found that they great-grandson was going to be the steward of the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island. Welcome to the Statue of Liberty! Think about going to a different country, you may not speak the language and they show up. Everything that means the world to them is in these one or two bags that they are carrying. And they are told to drop those bags and go upstairs to be processed and they never even know if they are ever going to see that picture of their parents or their children that they left behind. They are relying on their faith, that everything is going to be OK, because this is a country that they want to come to. It’s been reported that we never lost a bag on Ellis Island. I guess the folks today could learn a thing or two about keeping tabs on bags. 1° interviewed: Everybody came from some places in America, except the native Americans. It’s important to keep that alive, I think. I don’t know that our generation would be as gutsy (coraggioso) as they were, to come. My grandmother was twenty, and she never went back to Italy. I don’t know why, but I got emotional when I saw it for the first time I was crossing. I think it was just part of history, it being there and it was an emotional moment, I mean, even me being born here. 2° interviewed: I guess I put myself in the emotion of all the people that came by boat and the first thing they saw was this statue, in a sense welcoming them to a new world, to freedom. 3° interviewed: Right here, at Ellis Island, this is were my family became “American”. My parents emigrated here from Hong Kong in China to be able to tell their story by using the site as a focus. I just love it, I mean, there’s no way around it. 4° interviewed: Our ancestors came over in 1914 from Lithuania. When we walked up the steps it gave you the chills down your spine, kind of what they went through when they came on the boat and came up here. During our peak immigration period at Ellis Island, we would average between eight and ten thousand people a day, and in our biggest visitation we processed over twelve thousand people. Today, our visitation during the summer is between eighteen and twenty-two thousand people a day, so we welcome quite a few more people. Of course we don’t process these people, other than putting them through security. October 29, 2011 we had closed down to do some life safety renovations. Fortunately when Sandy hit, none of those upgrades were damaged. But our entire infrastructure were all destroyed. While it was a very sad day to us, we quickly realized it was also an opportunity to make this a more sustainable park. It was also kind of moving, in this devastation, to see the Statue standing there, the flag still flying proud and defiant (provocatoria). No storm was going to bother her. Video 2 p.31  How not to climb a mountain So this one time we were trying to climb Middle Palisade, which is one of the 14,000-foot peaks in California with my good friend and climbing partner Alex Honnold, we basically were really ill- prepared. We had read the description of how to climb the mountain on our phones, and so we get to the base of this, like, really big-looking peak and we were, like, that’s for sure got to be it, I mean, it’s like the biggest mountain here. We start heading up the peak, and it’s kind of vertical and it’s getting kind of hard and I’m like: I don’t really remember the description of this route, like, having such difficult climbing on it, but I’m like: Oh, maybe we are just a little off-route. At the summit of these peaks there’s a summit register and so, you know, we were signing all the summit registers and so we get up there and we’re like: Yes, that was awesome! And we look at the summit register and Alex opens it up and he’s like: we just climbed the wrong mountain. Narrator: What a tragedy. Just still emotionally recovering from the fact we climbed the wrong mountain. Yeah, it was a big bummer. And then, like to make matters worse, we’re like: Oh, there is the mountain and we were looking out like into this huge, like, treacherous ridge, just like, just looks like death, like death on a stick. We start out across this ridge and it is terrible. It is… the rock is just peeling off (staccarsi), like, just like sheets of paper. You know it’s just one false move if you go off of that rock, you’re dead. We pick our way up, get to the top of the Middle Palisade. It’s like twelve hours later and I’m completely exhausted. What a horrible, horrible ridge! It was awful! Yes, good times, you should totally do it. You should get out there and try it, it’ll be terrible, yeah. Video 3 p. 42  3D-printed prosthetic limbs For a girl with no hands, her dexterity is remarkable, her drawing skills on a par with other kids her age. Charlotte lost both hands and both legs to meningococcal septicaemia but hers is not the sad story you might expect. Mum: I think some people are surprised when they see her like, how mobile she is, and how she can write and draw and, you know, the fine motor skills she’s still got even without her hands. You know, even though, like I said she’s so independent and so able, she does need help with things. Charlotte: I do not Person 1: You don’t need help? Charlotte: definitely not… this one is my old leg! Video 6 The unexpected beauty of travelling solo (p.78) Your call cannot be taken at the moment, so please leave your message after the tone. Speaker 1: Hey… I thought I’d try to catch you before you got on the plane. But I guess it is too late. I know I’ve said it before but I’m really sorry that I couldn’t come with you. I was really excited and I know we spent a lot of time planning it, but you know that I couldn’t come. I had to stay. I’m really really happy that you decided to go anyway though even though you were really nervous about going by yourself. Anyway, give me a ring when you can or send me a message or something… It’s me again, I’ve been sending you messages and trying to ring on Skype but, no luck so far. I guess you are really busy, but it would be good to hear from you. I just want to know you’re ok. I’m trying to figure out where you are. I guess you’re in Poland if you’re sticking to the plan but maybe you’ve decided to change things. I know what happened was really tough and I know that you blame me, but I hope you’re still having a good time and doing everything you wanted to do. Ok – speak you soon… it’s really weird to keep talking to you answer machine but, but I don’t know what else to do. You still haven’t got in touch with me. It’s been such a long time. I guess you’re still angry or maybe you just don’t want to talk to anyone right now. I always think when you are somewhere by yourself, you experience it so much more. Like you’re more aware of what’s going on around you. And I bet you’ve taken some great shots with your camera. I know you never go anywhere without it. Maybe we can watch it together when you get back. Just stay safe and hope you’re having a great time… Hello? Speaker 2: Hi.. Video 7  Eating insects (p.90) Every resort town in the Us has a candy store, but one store in Pismo Beach, California, goes beyond the usual toffee and caramel apples. If Hotlix has its way, Americans will be snacking on everything from caterpillar and cockroaches, to mealworm-covered apples. Larry Peterman is a candyman on a mission. For more than a decade, he’s been promoting a valuable food source that most Americans find revolting. In a land of plenty, people resist. Larry knows why. From an early age, parents teach children to avoid insects. Larry: in our culture, from the time that we’re really small, we’re taught to avoid insects, they might bite you like a mosquito or just swat them (this has a good cricket in it). But kids are the only ones munching on bugs. Around the world, more than 1,400 insect species show up on menus. Insect eating or entomophagy, is part of healthy diets in Asia, Africa, Australia and Latin America. This trend is anything but new. Archaeologists have found evidence of it dated to the earliest humans. Advocates of insect-eating like to note that it’s environmentally sound. Producing a pound of caterpillar takes a tenth of the resources needed to produce a pound on beef, and insects brim with vitamins and minerals. But despite all the benefits, most Americans can’t stomach bugs. Waiter: Welcome, welcome, welcome… have a seat. Unlike Larry Peterman, who celebrates them at his dinner parties. The evening begins with Larry’s version of the classic shrimp cocktail. Chef: we’ve just finished preparing a cricket cocktail. It’s a lot like a shrimp cocktail, only instead of shrimps we use crickets… it’s the first course… enjoy! While you’re enjoying this, I’m going down and I’ll get your next course. The main course is a stir-fly with a special garnish. Several courses later, Larry presents his pièce de resistance. It’s the “Pismo surfer”, a banana with whipped cream and a really good cockroach on it. You don’t have to eat the wings and the head, unless you want to. Customer 1: do you know where this cockroach has been? Waiter: We can do another one next week if you like Larry predicts he’ll eventually win people over. Larry: As we become more and more insect food-oriented, our tastes are going to change and so I see a niche for somebody that does gourmet insects. Could have some snob appeal, like people taste flies and “Mm this good, this bug is good” Video 8  What would you do if money didn’t matter? (p.102) What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like? Let’s suppose… I do this often in the vocational guidance of students. They come to me and say ‘Well, we’re getting out of college and we haven’t the faintest idea what we want to do.’ So I always ask the question: What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?’ Well it’s so amazing – as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say, ‘well, we’d like to be painters, to be poets, to be writers, but as everybody knows you can’t earn any money that way’. Or other person says ‘well, I’d like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses.’ I say ‘do you want to teach in a riding school? Let’s go through with it – what do you want to do?’ When we’ve finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him ‘ you do that and forget the money’, because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if you do really like what you’re doing it doesn’t matter what it is, you can eventually turn it, you can eventually become a master of it. It’s the only way to become a master of something, to be really with it… and then you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don’t worry too much… that’s everybody… somebody is interested in everything. And anything you can be interested in you’ll find others who are. And it’s absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don’t like, in order to go on spending your time doing things you don’t like and to teach your children to follow the same truck. You see, what we’re doing is bringing up children and educating them to live the same sorts of life we are living, in order that they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing. So it’s all retch and no vomit: it never gets there. And therefore it’s so important to consider this question, ’What do I desire?’. Video 9  News: the weird and the wonderful (p.114) Story 1: An amazing fact about one of the nature’s larger and gentles animals, the humpback whale has recently come to light. Humpbacks are already known to use their superior size and weight to fight off killer whales or orcas when their young are under attack. But now researchers have found that they also protect other species from attacks by orcas. A study from the Journal of Marine Science found that in over 80% of cases where Humpback whales fight off orcas attacks, the humpbacks are defending other animals, such as seals, sealions, sunfish and grey whales. Orcas are much smaller whales, weighing on average four or five tons. But they are ruthless hunters, hunting in large packs and coordinating their attack to overwhelm their prey. Once they have made sure there is no escape, the orcas’ sharp teeth make quick work of any victim such as this unfortunate sealion. But the researchers have observed several instances of single humpbacks trying to prevent the orcas getting to the prey using their own bodies to get in the way and swiping at the orcas with their long flippers. The fights can last up to six or seven hours with, it seems, no particular advantage to the humpbacks… at least none of the researchers have found. Could it be that they are just kind neighbours to other more vulnerable sea creatures? Story 2: An ordinary-looking fried chicken stall in Chiang Mai, Thailand. But this is no ordinary fried chicken seller. Seven years ago, Khan, the owner of the stall discovered that he was immune to burns from hot oil. Khan: ‘I found out about seven years ago. A squirrel was eating a mango on the tree and it fell into my fried chicken wok. The oil splashed all over me on my head, on my body. Than the taxi took me home and the next day I woke up and I was going to go to see the doctor. I looked in the mirror and found my skin had no burns or anything. So the next day I just came back to work to fry chicken again’. Tourist 1: ‘This guy is crazy! It’s just unbelievable. It does nothing to his skin, he just dips it in water. Dripped a tiny bit of oil… a tiny bit… burning like crazy. Someone told me the story about how he burned himself. He wasn’t even burned then, you know, covered in oil and wasn’t even burned then, either. I’ve no idea how he does it… no idea.’ Some might be put off by Khan’s strange ability, but it’s proved to be great business to his stall because many tourists, like these young men, come to see from themselves. Video 10  Queen of Egypt (p.125) She has a reputation for beauty, power, controversy and ultimately tragedy. In 69 BC, Cleopatra was born into Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty; a dynasty in decline and under the protection of Rome. At the age of eighteen, she became queen and ruled Egypt with her younger brother, Ptolemy the 13th. But the royal couple did not have a good relationship and Cleopatra was soon forced to power. But losing did not suite Cleopatra and she waited for a chance to prove her capabilities. That opportunity came when Julius Caesar, the winner in Rome’s recent civil war, arrived in Alexandra, Egypt, in pursuit of a rival Roman general. According to legend, Cleopatra managed to get herself into Caesar’s court rolled up inside a rug. Caesar was completely charmed. He defeated Cleopatra’s rivals and helped her seize the throne. Shortly after, she gave birth to a boy, Caesarion, whom she claimed was Caesar’s son. Egypt was a very rich country and Cleopatra was fiercely determined to keep it independent of Rome. Her relationship with Caesar kept the Romans from taking direct control of Egypt. But after Caesar’s murder, her position and the future of her country became uncertain. Searching for people who could help her among Rome’s new leaders, she was overjoyed when Mark Antony, one of Caesar’s potential successors sent for her. Like Caesar before him, mark Anthony was charmed by the elegant Egyptian queen and her riches. Together they ruled Alexandria, an arrangement that made Cleopatra a fully independent ruler. Cleopatra and Anthony shared a hunger for power. They eventually married and became the power couple of the eastern Mediterranean. Antony tried to help her acquire some Roman lands.