SWITCH ON VIDEOSCRIPTS Unit Narrator: St Ann’s is a neighbourhood in Nottingham, England People from other areas think St Ann’s is a bad neighbourhood, but the teenagers who live here are proud of it Girl: A lot of people say it’s a bad area, but I grew up here – I think it’s a pretty good area to be honest Narrator: St Ann’s has a good community spirit – people know their neighbours and help each other Nicky-Lee: Everyone watches out for each other Narrator: But there aren’t many activities for young people in St Ann’s Nicky-Lee: There’s not a lot of things to round here Narrator: Olympic ice-skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean want to change that, by helping local teenagers put on an iceskating show in the heart of their community Jayne: We actually grew up in Nottingham Because I had the opportunity to go to the ice rink that’s where it all started for me Our idea is to build an ice rink on the estate, with a view to putting on a show Chris: What we need is you Narrator: At first, the local teenagers aren’t very interested in Jayne and Chris’s idea – only a few volunteer But interest grows and at the first training session hundreds of young people attend The volunteers find out that skating can be very difficult But, gradually, Chris and Jayne teach them how to dance on ice with each other, in preparation for the big show The show will happen on a specially made ice rink behind the school Volunteer Nicky Lee hopes that the pop-up ice rink will change the way people think about St Ann’s Nicky-Lee: I think the pop-up ice rink will open people’s eyes and see how good St Ann’s actually is – it’s not that bad Narrator: The whole neighbourhood comes along to the show And, thanks to all their practice, the kids perform very well Friends and family are amazed by how good the show is Woman: Absolutely amazing! Absolutely loved it! Narrator: They have put on a great show for their community thanks to Chris, Jayne, and their own hard work Everyone has come together for this special occasion – and that’s what makes St Ann’s a good place to live Unit Narrator: The Kanneh-Masons are a bit different to most families, because all seven children are excellent musicians Their mum, Kadie, thinks they are good because they practise a lot Kadie: How was your day? Sheku: Good Good, good, good, good Kadie: As soon as they come home from school the children in their heads, think – well the first thing is food, then it’s music and they just go straight to it I never have to ask them to it That’s just part of the structure of their lives Narrator: And they don’t just practise in their bedrooms! Kadie: They all practise anywhere they can, in bizarre spaces Aminata: I practise in there – the green bathroom I think because I can play in front of the mirror Narrator: Another reason the Kanneh-Masons are so successful is because they help each other – as seventeen-year-old Sheku explains 150  2ND EDITION A2+ Sheku: We always come into each other’s practice rooms and give each other comments Your … So your … If you look If you look at my wrist … Narrator: Sheku is the family’s biggest success story He started playing when he was six years old Kadie: The moment he picked up the cello you could see that this was something that he was always going to And his focus and his passion and his seriousness about it was incredible Narrator: Sheku practises for at least two hours every day after school, and then on Saturdays he travels two hundred miles to London for lessons with expert teachers at the Royal Academy of Music And all that practice has paid off – Sheku won the 2016 UK Young Musician of the Year competition But in some ways Sheku is just like any normal person his age: he goes to school and plays football with his friends And if he feels like doing even more cello practice while he’s there, he can use the sports hall Sheku practises so much because it means that he can what he loves the most – play concerts Sheku: It’s more the result of practice that I enjoy as opposed to the actual practice Because I love the feeling of being able to perform to an audience That kind of motivates me to my practice Narrator: And in 2018 he performed in front of a very important audience – at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle! Sheku has gone from his bedroom to the concert hall because of hours and hours of practice And all the hard work is definitely worth it Unit Narrator: These Santa Barbara Middle School students produce their own TV news show – Teen Press For the past few years the Teen Press team have interviewed movie actors at film festivals Boy: OK we’re live at the film festival on the red carpet – we can’t wait and it’s really exciting Will Smith: OK, that’s a very good question Narrator: They’ve interviewed some big stars! Each semester, eight new students join Teen Press Ella: I signed up because it seemed like an amazing opportunity and I’d never done journalism before and it just seemed like something interesting Narrator: The students have to practise skills – like how to meet new people Sofia: I’m not all that good at meeting people At first, I don’t have that much self-confidence … Yeah, I wanted to ask her … Alexis: I mean it’s awkward when you’re, like, you know, ‘nice to meet you’ and you’re looking, like, straight into somebody’s eyes I mean, especially our age, we don’t, like, when we meet a new friend, it’s not like – ‘nice to meet you.’ Narrator: The students also need to arrange interviews – which means making lots of phone calls Jayden: Hi, this is Jayden from the Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press PA: Hi Jayden, how are you? How can I help you? Narrator: Jayden arranges an interview with a Personal Assistant – but it’s not easy! Photocopiable © Pearson Education Limited 2019 SWITCH ON VIDEOSCRIPTS Jayden: That was really nerve-wracking Narrator: This semester, instead of interviewing movie stars, the students are interviewing politicians and business people, so they need to work extra-hard on their research Nico and Jayden are interviewing a successful businessman named Christian George, who started out with nothing Nico: So, people say there are no ‘rags to riches’ American dream stories anymore What you say to that? Christian: There are no rags to riches? Oh, rags to riches Well, first of all, I didn’t even know English when I first decided to come to America Nico: It’s something that really inspires me I love when people come from something like nothing and they turn it into something; that just … that just hits my heart Narrator: The students also interview important politicians like Congressman John Lewis and important business people like Yvon Chouinard, the founder of outdoor clothing brand, Patagonia Having conversations with these important people boosts their confidence Ella: I’m taking away from Teen Press more confidence but also a power that you feel that you can speak to people that normally you feel like you don’t have the authority to speak to Narrator: Being part of Teen Press has helped Jayden, and the seven other team members, to find their own voices Jayden: I think I learned that I actually have a story as well I don’t think I really realised that before now I don’t think I realised I had anything to say But I feel like after seeing all these different people who have something to say I feel like I have something to say about my life and myself as well Unit Narrator: These British teenagers go to different types of schools Bemrose is a state school State schools are run by the government Warminster is a private school Private schools are independent, and parents pay for their children to go there Now, for one week, Warminster and Bemrose students are swapping schools to see how different they really are … and what they can learn from each other Brett is a Bemrose student At Bemrose he finds it difficult to focus and he often messes around in class But in class at Warminster, Brett has to behave better Discipline in lessons is stricter – students who talk over the teacher are immediately sent out of the classroom Class sizes are smaller at Warminster too, usually with only fifteen students At Bemrose most classes have thirty students But even though the classes are bigger, John, who is a Warminster student attending Bemrose for the week, thinks that teachers like Mr Thomas might be better than his Warminster teachers John: He’s constantly helping you, he’s walking around, he’s being interactive It’s maths which is one my less enjoyable lessons, but I really enjoy maths when I’m being taught by Mr Thomas, which is a really good thing Narrator: John also likes that at Bemrose classes finish at 3 o’clock so he can leave school and play Xbox At Warminster classes don’t finish until p.m.! When he’s at Warminster John is a boarder – which means he sleeps at the school When Brett goes to Warminster for the week he has to share a room with John and two other boys And every morning at a.m a teacher wakes them up! Teacher: [singing] … blackbird has spoken, like the first bird Morning! Wakey wakey! 151 2ND EDITION A2+ Narrator: At Warminster, unlike at Bemrose, students have to attend clubs and activities in their spare time Brett has joined the army cadets – which he enjoys Brett thinks that the extra activities available at Warminster are a good thing Brett: You can concentrate on this kind of stuff because, like, it’s more practical than sitting at a desk writing about stuff I like more practical things Narrator: In fact, Brett likes Warminster so much, that he’d like to stay! Brett: Everyone’s so nice, man It’s, like, better than my school I actually really like it here I really would like to stay Narrator: But Nazh, another Bemrose student who is attending Warminster for a week, isn’t so keen Nazh: I don’t think I would be happy here I feel like if you’re going to a private school you’re almost, like, separated from the other half of the world I’m not that kind of person that would want to come here Narrator: By doing the school swap, both groups of students have learnt almost as much about themselves as they have about the difference between private and state schools Unit Narrator: British teenagers Joe, Faith, Sam, Alice and Ellie are visiting Cambodia in Southeast Asia They are going to live and work with people who make some of the everyday things the children take for granted Today, they are working in a clothes factory They will be making onesies for high street shops in the UK To get paid, they need to learn quickly and a good job, just like the eight hundred people who work in the factory every day Their first challenge is the most difficult job in the factory – sewing cuffs on the onesies The girls are competing with the boys to see who can the most in one hour And they need to be perfect, or the factory will reject them! Joe is finding it difficult And so is Alice Alice: Oh! I can’t it Narrator: But she works hard and starts to much better Alice: I did it! Narrator: Soon it’s time to find out who has done better, the boys or the girls Presenter: So, the girls … managed fifteen Boys … you didn’t even manage one Zero Alice: Aw, boys! Narrator: The girls win The boys’ work is so bad that the factory rejects all of their onesies Joe: It’s kind of embarrassing that we didn’t even one together as a team Narrator: So Pat, the factory boss, gives Joe and Sam an easy job next: ironing the onesies But the boys find this difficult too Joe: Sam, how are you doing? Sam: That’s way too hot Joe: Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow Too hot Narrator: Pat is not impressed by their work Pat: You see this one, not good Sam: So, I’m ironing in creases Pat: You have to it again Photocopiable © Pearson Education Limited 2019 SWITCH ON VIDEOSCRIPTS Narrator: The boys are much too slow – Joe has only ironed one onesie A local worker irons 150 in the same time It’s another failure for the boys For the final task, packaging leggings, the girls and boys are working together But they argue with each other and this task badly too Five regular workers at the factory can package five thousand pairs of leggings in an hour But our team can’t even package one pair correctly At the end of the day Pat decides which team members deserve to be paid for their work Only one of the teenagers gets paid, Ellie, because she did really well in the first challenge Everyone else gets nothing The group has learned that working in a clothes factory isn’t easy … and perhaps they will think about their time at the factory when they go shopping for new clothes back home Unit Narrator: These ring-tailed lemurs live in a zoo in Ireland But, unlike most zoo animals, they don’t live in a cage Instead they live in a large forest area, which they sometimes have to share with visitors And the lemurs enjoy their freedom They love to climb trees, play with their friends and family, and eat the delicious bananas that the zoo-keepers give them This year the lemurs at the zoo have had a record five babies! Kitty has twins, Olly and Orla Olly and Orla are very lively Like all lemurs, they love to play, jump around and climb trees By exploring, the twins learn the skills they will need as adults But play can be dangerous In the wild, half of all baby lemurs die before they are one year old So, Kitty needs help to make sure the twins are safe Catherine and Louise work at the zoo on lemur patrol – they help Kitty look after Olly and Orla If the twins go too far from their mum, Catherine and Louise bring them back to the group with tasty food! And it’s not just the zoo-keepers who look after the twins – the other mother-lemurs help Kitty too, by babysitting for her Which means every so often she can take a break to a bit of sunbathing! And the dads help out too Catherine: When there’s a lot of people in the park babies and mothers tend to get separated but I’ve actually seen a male go back, pick up the baby and take it back to its mother So, the males have an important role to play as well Narrator: These lemurs might not live in the wild, but life at the zoo can still be dangerous for babies By working together – and with a little help from lemur patrol – the adult lemurs have happy, healthy, curious little kids like Olly and Orla Unit Narrator: For hundreds of years, people have celebrated special occasions with cakes But nowadays, it’s not enough for a cake to look and taste good – it also needs to have the ‘wow-factor’ And one way to get that is by hiring one of the UK’s ‘extreme bakers’ From chameleons to cows, carousels to sculptures, and dinosaurs to helicopters – they can bake a cake into any shape, for any occasion! Nastassja is creating a sculpture cake to celebrate the opening of an art gallery It’s very difficult to make – because the design has a big hole in the middle! Nastassja: I think the artistic design on this one has definitely got ahead of my cake-making skills Narrator: But in the end she gets it right, and the cake is a huge success – though it does confuse some people Client: People that are here are asking about the cake, saying ’Is it a cake? Is it not a cake? Can we eat it? Can we not eat it?’ They’re just asking questions, so, we’re quite happy with the result 152 2ND EDITION A2+ Narrator: Karisha is making a very big wedding cake Karisha: With a 42-inch base and standing over two metres tall it is definitely for me the biggest cake that I have ever done Narrator: Karisha’s cake has a horse carousel at the centre! The bride and groom love how it looks, and the wedding guests like the taste of it too! Bride: It’s really good Narrator: Extreme baker Molly is making a cake for a local show It’s the main attraction so it needs to be very special As the show is in the countryside, Molly wants to make a giant cow cake First, Molly builds a wooden structure to support the weight of the cake Then she makes the cow’s body out of chocolate fudge cake It’s hard work Molly: This bit is just a lot of work You get quite tired after this bit  It’s just building up and building up It’s just the weight we have to worry about, really Narrator: Next Molly makes the skin out of icing And then she paints the cow’s markings with food colouring, before adding the final touch – the eyelashes The attention to detail makes Molly’s cow the star attraction of the show Man: The icing is delicious The cake is very nice Absolutely fantastic Narrator: Extreme cake makers like Molly are like artists and bakers And whatever the occasion, their special cakes always give the guests something to look at, talk about – and eat, of course! Unit Narrator: These eleven girls from the United States are preparing for an amazing trip They are going to hike up a mountain in Peru! The girls are excited, but also nervous Most of them have never been abroad before Alexis is interested to see how people live in Peru Alexis: How they live is just amazing to me It’s not even that I’m so into travelling or anything It’s just, there’s girls around the world who the same things as I and just … it’s just cool to get a different perspective of it Narrator: When they arrive in Peru, the girls enjoy the new sights and sounds They spend time at a local school, playing with the young children The children are very excited, and the girls have a great time too Kendal: It was really empowering to me to feel so important to them I couldn’t even believe how happy they were over it It’s, like, really motivating and inspiring Narrator: The next day the girls start on their trek up the mountain They’re joined by some Peruvian girls their own age from the local school The Peruvian girls are used to the altitude, so the hike is easy for them but some of the American girls find it difficult The altitude makes Alexis feel sick Alexis: I feel so bad Group leader: Don’t feel bad – we’re all in this together Alexis: I was getting, like, dizzy and headaches and stomach-aches, but like, it was more mentally, so it was mind over matter Narrator: So, she carries on with the help of a horse! And soon, the group reach the snow-line It’s the first time many of them have ever seen snow Eloise: Being able to travel to a new country for the first time and seeing snow there … Eloise’s sister: Like, we’ve never seen snow before Photocopiable © Pearson Education Limited 2019 SWITCH ON VIDEOSCRIPTS 2ND EDITION A2+ Narrator: When they finally reach the top of the mountain the girls are really happy Alexis: Reaching the summit I think was probably the best moment of my life Narrator: Before going home, the group has one more site to see – the amazing ancient city of Machu Picchu The girls have seen a lot of new things and had many exciting adventures in Peru They’ll remember these experiences for the rest of their lives Unit Narrator: The Ashby-Hawkins family are spending the next four weeks going back in time – to the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s They are changing everything in their lives: from their house to their clothes and hairstyles; and their food to their technology For Daisy and Seth, the biggest change will be how they spend their free time They both go on social media a lot, and they can’t imagine life without the internet Seth: I don’t really remember life before the internet because I’m only twelve Daisy: The whole ‘not being able to message my friends’ – I’m dreading that No wi-fi – really, really dreading that Narrator: So, the family’s first week in the past – in the 1950s – is going to be difficult! The family are having fun in their living room – 1950s style! Daisy is sewing, while Seth is doing a jigsaw puzzle Seth: I’d normally be on, like, my phone or watching TV I haven’t really made a lot of jigsaws since I really turned ten Daisy: The only thing that you have to entertain yourself is a piece of cardboard with a bit of a picture on it Narrator: Life in the 1960s is a bit more fun and free, with TVs arriving in most houses … trips to the fairground on weekends … and phoneboxes in the street Unlike today, telephone communication was not very mobile in the 1960s! The 70s brings more activities for Daisy and Seth to – with swing ball, keyboards, and even the first computer games! But surprisingly, the thing they enjoy most about the 70s is spending more time as a family:  going camping and playing games like darts Seth: It seems that it’s just a lot more family time now that’s being spent in the 70s So, it just seemed a lot … nicer now I don’t know why, it just felt a lot nicer Narrator: The 1980s brought even more fun things to – from arcade games to break-dancing, and home computers to karaoke But Daisy prefers the 1970s to the 1980s Daisy: The best decade for our family time was the 70s It was just entertaining And you forget how funny your family are when you’re upstairs all the time, so it’s really nice to spend time with them and I think it really made us so much stronger Narrator: The Ashby-Hawkins’ house has returned to the present and they’re using their modern technology again But they are going to keep doing one fun thing from the past: they are going to spend more time together as a family 153 Photocopiable © Pearson Education Limited 2019