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In the podcast, people are asked about reading. They talk about whether they read much or not, the last books they read, their favorite books, and the fictional characters they most like to be or meet.
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1. She likes to read non-fiction books about history and politics, and she also likes to read some poetry.
2. Do you read much?
3. The interviewees all say that they read a lot.
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1.He I'd most like to meet the
fictional character, er, John
Self from Martin Amis'
novel Money, which is
the (funniest novel) I've
ever read.
2.I think that would be the
Mad Hatter from Alice in
Wonderland. Um, just his
irrationality, or irrationality
to everyone else who looks
at him, um, but to him,
he's (completely normal).
3.That's quite an (easy) one:
Batman. I'd love to be
Batman, and I'd love to
meet the Joker.
4.Um, I think I'd like to meet,
um, Humbert Humbert
from Lolita, which is by
Nabokov, um, because he's
such a (complex) character,
and in the book you really
empathize with him even
though he's got such (dark
and monstrous) desires.
5.Perhaps one of my, the
people I'd most like to meet
would be Mr. Darcy
from Pride and Prejudice.
And I suppose, (by default),
that means I'd quite like to
be Elizabeth Bennett.
Reference:
1. The website believes that storytelling should be egalitarian or democratic, that is, everyone has a story.
2.He was surprised at the number of contributions (i.e. 15,000 in a couple of months), and he didn’t expect that so many of the stories were sad – he had thought that a lot of them would be funny or playful.
3. Lots of those stories convey a sense of regret or disappointment.
4. Examples are:
1. They've been overwhelmed by the thousands who (took up the challenge).
2. Everyone has a story. We say that over and over. That's our (tag line).
3. So (playing off) the great literary legend, the Hemingway story, we thought, "Let's ask our readers their six-word life story, a memoir, and see what happened."
4. In a couple of months we got 15,000 entries, and I was just (blown away).
5. This woman (took life under control). Whether she just always felt that her soul was a redheaded soul or simply at some point in life, she was gonna (make a switch).
6. I thought people would (come back with) a lot of funny things, some playful things, plays on words ...R
eference:
1. A book written by Gerald Durrell.
2. Five.
3. The island of Corfu in Greece. / An island in Greece.
4.Because the beginning of their life in Greece isn’t easy.
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Books
Speakers Preferences Reasons The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo Amy – / Barbara √ She likes detective novels; likes the main
character – edgy, strange, brilliant but messed
up.
Carl (Man) × He doesn't like detective novels, and modern
ones are too violent for him.
Life of Pi Amy
– / Barbara × She couldn't get into it / couldn't stand it; she is
not really into fantasy.
Carl (Man) √ It's brilliant – about courage and survival;
exciting; wants to know what happens next.
Pride and prejudice Amy – /
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Barbara √It's the most romantic story ever written; written
in beautiful English.
Carl (Man) √He loves it. (Reasons not mentioned)
Reference:
1. I'm a big fan of detective novels.
2. What I really liked about it was the main character.
3.I’m not that keen on detecti ve novels.
4. I just couldn't get into it.
5. I couldn't stand it.
6. I'm not really into fantasy.
7. The thing I love about it is the writing.
Reference:
1. The saying the story disproves is "If at first you don't succeed … try, try again".
2. Paragraph 2: The writer gives the time, location, and background of the story.
3. Paragraphs 3 and 4: The writer describes in detail what happened to him, i.e. his failure to learn how to windsurf although he tried it many times.
4. Paragraphs 3 and 4: The writer tells us how he felt by using words such as "stupidly" (Para. 3), "embarrassed" (Para. 3) and "defeated" (Para. 4).
5.He learned that if he couldn’t succeed in doing something at first, he should give it up rather than try it again and again in vain. This is stated in Paragraph 5.
6. Partly. When I read the title, I felt the author is going to tell a story that proves the saying. But when I came to the sentence "But I’m not so sure that’s always true", I sort of knew what the ending looks like – it disproves the saying.
7. In the last paragraph, he rewrites the saying mentioned in the first paragraph to give a logical ending to his story.
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Almost forgotten these days, Mollie Panter-Downes' work provides a vivid impression of life in the Second World War.
A Londoner by birth, Mollie Panter-Downes wrote for The New Yorker for about 50 years. In the 1930s, she sold the magazine a few poems, some short stories, and a piece about Jewish 1) (refugee) children coming to England. In 1939, with war approaching, Harold Ross, the editor of the magazine, was 2) (desperate) to find a London correspondent, and his fiction editor suggested Panter-Downes.
Thereafter, she started to write for The New Yorker, specifically for a column 3) (entitled) "Letter from London" Weekly or fortnightly, Panter-Downes would put together a letter of about 1,500 words and had it cabled to New York. There it needed almost no editing because her writing was always concise.
American readers 4) (became informed of) the war in England through Panter-Downes' letters. They read of the evacuation of pets as well as children, and the difficulties people 5) (are confronted with), not just in terms of losses of ships and territory but also in terms of no food and hot-water bottles. The British temper found a splendid 6) (spokesperson) in Panter-Downes. She also desired to give voice to the people of all classes, and her willingness to 7) (seek out) working-class Londoners was evident in a report about a dustman's family in 1944.
Panter-Downes went on writing "Letter from London" into the 1980s. She wrote reporter pieces and 8) (profiles) on such subjects as the British Museum and novelist E. M. Forster. Several of her books, for example Ooty Preserved(1967) and At the Pines (1971), largely appeared in The New Yorker. She 9) (stayed loyal to) the magazine for decades until 1985, not long after it was acquired by Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr.
Today Panter-Downes is 10) (virtually) unknown in Britain. It seems a terrible shame to risk losing a writer who makes accurate yet subtle observations about human beings and how they deal with life.
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In many ways, his life is as interesting as his work. And, of course, many of his books and stories were based on his personal experience. Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899. He was the son of a doctor. And it was his father who first introduced him to the outdoor life –16) ________( hunting), fishing, sports, all those things that he loved so much. When he was in high school, he played on the 17) ________(baseball) and football teams, but he also began to write. In 1925, he 18) ________(published) his first collection of short stories, called In Our Time. Most of the stories were really about his 19) ________(childhood). A year later, his first two 20) ________(novels) appeared –Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises. The second book was about that lonely, 21) ________(hopeless) "lost generation" of America that he knew in Europe. Three years later, his fourth novel, A Farewell to Arms, made him famous throughout the world. This love story was about an American 22) ________(ambulance) driver and a British nurse. In 1952, he wrote a short novel which is one of his best: The Old Man and the Sea. The book tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman, but is really about man 23) ________(against nature). For this book, he won the Pulitzer Prize. And two years later, he received the 24) ________(Nobel Prize) for Literature. In 1961, sick and unable to live the active life he loved, Hemingway killed himself with one of his own shotguns. So ended the life of the man who has had one of 25) ________(the greatest influences) on American literature in this century.