Video script Unit 1 Another country Part 1 Living abroad

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These days, people don’t always stay in the country where they were born.

Many people choose to live in other countries and in other cities.

They sometimes live a long way from home.

In an international city, like London, you can meet people from lots of countries.

Some people left their home country a long time ago, and some people have just arrived in the city.

They all have different reasons for moving to another country.

Mary: I left about five years ago and came to London just to work, really.

Jann: I left my home country about 20 years ago to go abroad to study.

Eva: I left in September of this year to study Shakespeare at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Living in a different country can be very exciting.

You experience a new culture, and it’s great for learning a new language.

People often love their new home.

But it can also be a challenge living far from your own country.

And there are some things that everyone misses …

Mary: I suppose I miss my friends and my family a lot. I have a lot of friends in London as well, but you always remember your friends from home.

Jann: I miss the culture, the language, and my family.

Eva: I miss having children in my life. My nephews and my nieces running round.

Living in a different country, whether it’s for family, work, or study, can be a great opportunity.

And for some people, the longer you stay, the harder it is to go home.

Part 2 Adriana: Life in England

Adriana Gonzalez-Vera trained as a vet in her home country.

She came to the UK with her British husband Mark 10 years ago.

Adrianna: I was born in Santiago, capital of Chile, in South America.

She didn’t only work with animals when she lived in Chile.

Adriana swapped the busy lifestyle of a South American city for the peace and quiet of the English countryside.

What did her family think about her moving to another country to live?

They thought that it was very far away for all of us, and that it was going to be a little bit more difficult to meet up.

Adriana doesn’t work as a vet in the UK.

She’s using other skills from her home country, Chile.

I run my own Spanish consultancy company, where I train company directors and help them with their presentation.

I also do some translations, and some Spanish teaching.

Most of my family are still in Chile.

I have my mother, my father, my younger sister, her husband and her daughter, and my two grandmothers living in Chile.

I miss the weather, I miss the hot summers, and I miss the warm people, the friendly people in Chile.

I miss my Mummy’s cooking, really, and I miss the long talks with my father.

Adriana’s two daughters are now 9 and 7 years old.

For now, Adriana enjoys the quiet country life in England, but she would like to go back to Chile one day.

Anita Patwardhan moved from her home city of San Francisco to live in the Spanish city of Barcelona.

Her parents are Indian, but she was born in the United States.

Anita: Well I first came to Barcelona in 2003, because I wanted to study Spanish, and then I fell in love with the city at that time, so I decided that I wanted to come back.

Luckily, in 2005, Anita found a job in Barcelona.

Today, Anita’s home is in an area called San Gervasi, about 15 minutes walk from the city centre.

Anita spoke fluent Spanish when she came back to Barcelona, and found a job with an American online marketing company.

As well as a great job, Anita has many friends in Barcelona.

Although she has got a good job and close friends she still misses home.

But staying in touch with family overseas is much easier today.

Anita really loves her new life in Barcelona.

But still she’s not sure where her life will take her in the future.

New York City is one of the busiest, noisiest, but most popular cities in the world.

Eight million people live in New York’s five boroughs.

The largest is Queens, then there’s Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

The smallest borough is Manhattan.

But this is the borough most people talk about when they talk about New York.

For people who love city life New York is the perfect place to live and for visitors it’s the trip of a lifetime.

There’s so much to see and do.

It’s got amazing shopping and restaurants, exciting theatres, and some of the most famous architecture in the world.

But not everyone enjoys New York life.

It’s hard to wake up refreshed in a city that doesn’t sleep.

Living in the city can be very stressful and it’s easy to feel lonely.

So where do New Yorkers go to get away from the crowds, traffic, and stress?

There are many beautiful parks in Manhattan, and they are great places to relax.

Some, like Washington Square Park, aren’t very big, but they are very popular with local residents.

People come here to chill out and have fun.

Central Park is 2.5 miles long and half a mile wide and it has over 35 million visitors every year.

When you’re in Central Park you can forget that you are in the middle of a busy city.

In 2009 a new and very unusual park opened in Downtown Manhattan.

The new park, called The High Line, is now one of the city’s most popular attractions, and it’s easy to see why people love it.

The High Line is nearly one and a half miles long, but it’s less than 20 metres wide.

It runs right through the buildings three storeys up, over the traffic and crowded streets below.

Before the High Line was a beautiful park it was a train line.

The High Line opened in 1934.

Before that, from the 1850s until the early 1930s, trains travelled along the streets of Manhattan.

The trains carried milk, meat, and goods.

But with more cars on the roads, along with people and horses, it was very dangerous and there were many accidents.

Because of these accidents, the High Line was built and the trains now travelled safely above the traffic.

Trains used the High Line until 1980, when the train line closed.

Then, for many years, the High Line was empty and its landscape started to change.

Without any trains travelling on the tracks plants started to grow.

Some people wanted the High Line demolished, but a group of city residents fought to protect it.

They dreamed of making the old train line into ‘a park in the sky’.

And finally, this dream came true.

After years of work the first section of the High Line park opened on June 9th 2009.

In 2011 the second section opened, and the park isn’t quite finished.

But already three million visitors come to the park every year.

On a perfect hot and sunny day in July the High Line is busy with visitors and staff.

Gardeners are looking after the plants and flowers, while the guides are helping visitors, telling them more about the park’s history and environment.

In the park there are plenty of places to sit where you can relax, listen to music, or meet with friends and chat.

Many visitors are enjoying the views over the Hudson River, as far as the Statue of Liberty, or watching the busy streets below.

So what do today’s visitors think of the High Line?

The High Line is an amazing success.

It’s a pathway of flowers and grass that runs through neighbourhoods where many people haven’t got gardens.

For local residents it’s a place where they can chill out and escape the stress and noise of the crowded city.

And, for visitors, it’s an opportunity to explore New York’s amazing architecture and experience one of the world’s greatest cities in a very different way.

In New York City, the High Line makes a difference to people’s lives.

It makes people happy.

Unit 3 The Titanic

Part 1 A tragic story

In April 1912 newspapers around the world were full of the tragic story of one of the most famous ships in history – the Titanic.

At the time, the Titanic was the largest passenger ship in the world.

She was nearly 270 metres long and over 53 metres high with nine decks.

She was owned by the White Star Line.

The Titanic left the port of Southampton on the south coast of England on the 10th April 1912.

She stopped briefly at Cherbourg in France, and Queenstown, now called Cobh, in Ireland, and then started her journey across the Atlantic towards her final destination, New York.

She was carrying 1343 passengers and 885 crew members.

The trip to New York was her maiden voyage.

Some passengers, in first class, were rich and famous.

But most second and third class passengers weren’t rich.

They were people from across Europe travelling to America to start new lives.

The story of the Titanic is so famous that everyone knows how the voyage ended.

Just before midnight on Sunday 14th April, as she was sailing towards the coast of North America, the ship hit an iceberg and was badly damaged.

Two hours 40 minutes later the ship sank.

Tragically, there weren’t enough lifeboats and only 710 people survived.

In 1985 the wreck of the Titanic was finally found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, two and a half miles down.

A hundred years after the Titanic sank people are still fascinated by its story.

But, while there are hundreds of books, television programmes, and famous films about the ship’s short voyage, many people still know very little about where the ship came from and the people who built it.

Part 2 Building the Titanic

The birthplace of the Titanic is Belfast.

Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom and the city was famous for ship-building in the 20th Century.

The Harland and Wolff shipyard, where they built Titanic, still exists today.

You can see the dock where they finished the ship.

They don’t make ships here anymore, but you can still see the yard’s two massive cranes, Samson and Goliath, from all across the city.

Today, the old shipbuilding area of Belfast is called the Titanic Quarter.

There’s a lot of new development in this area.

And there’s a huge new Titanic Signature Building at the old shipyard where you can learn more about the ship.

From the outside this amazing new building looks like the bow of the Titanic.

And behind the new building you can still see the old offices of Harland and Wolff, where they designed the ships for the White Star Line.

This building is empty today, but in 1900 there were hundreds of people working here, and around 15,000 people working in the shipyards.

The Titanic was the second of three ships that Harland and Wolff were building for the White Star Line in the early 20th century.

The plans for the Titanic and its sister ship, the Olympic, were almost identical both inside and out, but the Titanic was slightly bigger.

The designers marked the Titanic’s differences in red on the ships’ plans.

You can see these original plans at the Ulster museum of Folk and Transport’s Titanica exhibition in Belfast.

You can also see a lot of the objects from the Olympic.

The Titanic had identical items on board when she sank.

At the exhibition you can also learn much more about the people who built the ship, and the people who were travelling on her when she sank.

And this is just one of many Titanic exhibitions around the world.

The tragedy of the Titanic was very difficult for the people of Belfast and for many years no-one in Belfast talked about how they built the Titanic.

But this changed over time and today people in the city are proud of their family histories.

There’s a memorial to the men of Belfast who died on the ship outside the City Hall.

And tour guide Susie Millar has her own very special family story.

Susie: I can remember as a small child, my grandmother taking me to see the Titanic memorial, which stands in the grounds of Belfast City Hall, and she pointed up at, at the name, Thomas Millar on the plinth and told me that that was my great-grandfather.

My great-grandfather worked here in Harland & Wolff, in the shipyard which built Titanic and he had helped to construct the engines for Titanic and its sister, Olympic …

And Tommy Millar has a special place in the history of the Titanic.

Like many people on the ship, Tommy was leaving Ireland to start a new life in America.

Sadly, Tommy was one of the crew members who died. But his family never forgot him.

… my grandfather kept those two pennies all of his life and he passed them down through the family and we still have them in the family today.

But why is the story of the Titanic still so famous after a hundred years?

Susie Millar thinks that there are two reasons that people will always be interested in the Titanic.

… you’ve got the biggest ship in the world with the richest people in the world and the poorest people in the world, sailing across the Atlantic and on the maiden voyage, it hits this iceberg and it’s a disaster.

There are many reasons for differences in life expectancy, that is, the average age that people live to.

But one of the most important secrets to a long life is food – having enough food, and eating the right food.

We all know it’s not always easy to eat well.

We have busy lives. Nowadays, a lot of people don’t cook traditional food at home.

Fast food is quick and cheap everywhere.

But a bad diet can reduce your life expectancy by many years.

So, do you think you have a healthy diet?

Do you think some countries have a better diet than other countries?

In the United States the average life expectancy is only 78 years.

A lot of traditional American food isn’t very healthy.

Often there’s a lot of fried food and meat and there aren’t many fresh vegetables or salad.

But luckily in cities like New York there are lots of places to eat and drink where you can find the most delicious food from around the world.

Part 2 Italian food

At over 81 years, the average life expectancy in Italy is one of the highest in the world, and food is one of the most important parts of Italian culture.

And when Italians move to other countries, they take their food with them.

New York is full of Italian restaurants.

Italian food is a great example of the Mediterranean diet – a diet that is one of the healthiest in the world.

This is PJ Charlton, an Italian Restaurant on Charlton Street in Greenwich Village, New York.

Phil Mouquinho opened the restaurant in 1979.

The area around the restaurant has changed a lot in 30 years, but PJ Charlton’s still serves fabulous Italian cuisine to residents and visitors to the city from around the world.

So, what is it that makes Italian food so healthy?

The heart of any good Italian cuisine begins with garlic, onions, and olive oil.

And once you begin with that, and you introduce the great San Marsano tomatoes, you begin to create a Marinara sauce.

Your greens, I like to refer to all of those greens as captured sunlight.

It’s basically all of the vegetables that you can think of, err, with a little bit of garlic and oil.

In addition to that, when you talk about pasta, it’s nothing more than flour and eggs.

What could be more simple than that, more healthy and more nutritious?

Some of the pastas that we use here at the restaurant are linguini, spaghetti, and we have rigatoni, penne, and then we have the cannelloni, and we have ravioli, and we have what we call the stuffed pastas.

How do you cook the food?

The Mediterranean diet isn’t just good for you because of the healthy ingredients.

Eating a healthy Mediterranean diet is about eating delicious food together, and most of all it’s about enjoying your food.

Part 3 Japanese food

The longest life expectancy in the world is in Japan.

Life expectancy for women in Japan is over 86 years old!

And one of the secrets to the long lives of the Japanese is their traditional diet.

The traditional Japanese diet is very healthy, and today Japanese food is popular around the world.

Jing Chen is the manager of Miraku, a Japanese restaurant in Long Island, New York.

So, what is it that makes Japanese food so healthy?

Jing Chen: Japanese people live a very long life, and I think that’s mainly due to their diet of eating a lot of fish.

Fish have omega 3, which is good for the body.

What ingredients are popular in Japanese food?

How do you cook the food?

What about Jing? What’s her favourite meal?

Like the Mediterranean diet, the Japanese diet isn’t good for you just because of the healthy ingredients.

It’s about a different way of eating.

Japanese food looks beautiful.

There are a lot of small dishes, and a lot of variety.

People eat slowly, and they eat less food.

But everything tastes amazing!

Unit 5 Alternative energy