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Unit 1919.1 Section AGood morning, John.Morning, Hugo.Youve got a bicycle now. I see, good idea. Its much better for you than going by car.I prefer going by car.I see, well.But Ive sold my car, you see. And I only got $500 for it. Only $500?Oh, dear. What a shame! Well I must be going!Now that I dont work at Plastic Box any more. I cant afford a car. What a pity! Well, see you, John.See you. Give my love to Annie!Geez, its hard work! I smoke too much, thats the problem!Gosh, look at that gird over there! Isnt she amazing?I wonder if shed like to go out with me? If I go over to she and say-aaagh!Look where you are going, cant you?Gee, my head!Are you alright, dear?What happened?You fell off your bicycle, dear. Shall I call am ambulance?No, Ill be alright. I must hurry; Ill be late for work!What am I going to do?I guess Ill have to leave the bike here and take the bus.Morning, Mr. Cashbox, Im sorry Im late.Ive just had a really terrible accident on my bicycle; I almost died!Im not interested in your private life, Mr. Berry.If you get here late once again, Ill fire you, Ok? Now get to work.Gee, yes, thank you Sir. Youre just too kind, Sir.What kind of job is this, Anyway?Still, you never know.Perhaps one day a beautiful girl in a Rolls Royce will come in and say “Why dont you come away with me?”Hey, you! You with the glasses.Ill get into her car, and away well go, and Whats the matter with you? Are you asleep or something?Oh, Im sorry!Listen, Im taking the highway to Now Camford, and I dont want to have to stop. So fill it up, please.Fill what up?This truck, of course!Theres the tank! Heres the key! You turn the key to open the tank. Got it? Now wheres the toilet, please?Go past the office, and its on your, or right.Help! Theres a man in here! Help!Im sorry, madam. I thought this was the gentlemans toilet.Sorry about that!What that your idea of a joke? You show me the ladies toilet, you Hey, What the hell you think youre doing?Sorry, Im new here. Whats the matter now?Youre putting gas in the tank!Im sorry! Er where did you want me to put it?I dont believe this! Im going to complain to your boss. Hey!Yes? Any problems?Yes? Any problem?Yes, plenty! The attendant of yours has just shown me to the ladies toilet, and filled me tank with gas!Im sorry, sir. What have I done wrong?Havent you learned yet that you put diesel in you a truck?Gee yes! Of course! I remember now! I wont make that mistake again, sir, believe me!No, you wont! You wont get a chance to make it again. Youre fired!Oh, no, sir! Please give me another chance! Perhaps I can do something else! I can clean the cars, perhaps. Ill put water in their types and air in their radiators. I mean air in their tyres and. Just get out of here, will you!19.1 Mini BONANNA, CAPONE AND SMITH:FAMILY LAWYERS AND FLUERAL DIRECTORSLONDON-CHICAGO-NEWYOURK-PALERMOMr. John A Berry Flat 3B Trueleigh court, 11 Church Street, 40532 WashdonDear Mr. Berry,Im writing to you about an accident which happened at the Go West Gas Station on Wednesday 19 March. You will of course remember that at that time you were an attendant ant the Gas Station employed by my client Mr. Bent Cashbox. My client tells me that a large truck belonging to the Assoil Gas Company came into the Go West Gas Station on that morning, and the driver asked you to fill the tank. You filled his tank, with gas, my client tells me, so that he has just had a letter from the lawyers of the Assoil Gas Company asking for $12.850 to pay for the damage to the truck. I am asking you, Mr. Berry, to pay this, plus my own costs in the matter, let us say, $20,000 in all. Im sure you would not like me to put this into anyone elses hands, if you see what I mean. I hope to hear form you soon.Yours N.G. Sinistery19.2 Section ACan I help you, sir?Yes, Im looking for a job.I see. Do sit down, wont you?Now, what kind of job are you looking for?Does it matter?We try to find the right job for everybody, you see.Now, are you employed or unemployed at the moment?Unemployed.And what was you last job?I cooked as an attendant in a gas station.How long did you work there, please?For two and a half days.Oh! Is that all? And may I ask why？I got sacked.Oh! I see, well, lets see what we can find for you.Ah! This is a very nice job! Just night for you, I think.Ill just have to ask you a couple of questions.First, do you have a drivers license?Yes.Can I have a look at it, please?Here you are.Thank you. Secondly, have you ever been in prison?No, I havent. Why?Excellent! Youre just past the right man for the job.What job!Ill give you the address: Gobal Car Parks, 233 Eastway.Say youre come for the job as attendant.Car Park attendant?Thats right. Im so glad to have helped you. Goodbye.Sir!Does she expect me to work in a car park?Me, John Berry? Ive been an important executive: on big man in plastic boxes!I had my own secretary! What does that woman think I am, huh? Oh, well. I guess its better than nothing go cents, please! Go cents, please! Go cents, please! Oh, sorry-45 cents for motorbike!This is even worse than the gas station!Would park my car for me, please? Im in a terrible hurry!Oh, yes, certainly! Its her! The girl I was thinking about!Ill be away for a couple of hours. Thank you so much!Hey, are you doing something tonight! I know a really nice restaurant.Never mind, shell be back soon.Gee, Ive never driven one of these before. Oh well, heres the key.What the hell are you doing? Open the barrier, will you?Wait a moment. Ive got to park this car first! How the hell does this thing work?Whats going on? Come here! Etc.Look, Im sorry about that! Anyone can make a mistake! Wont you give me another chance, please?I know, I ll. clean you cars. Would you like that? Ill do it for nothing!Ill empty your ashtrays; Ill clean your carpetNow, I wrote to you last week. Did you get my letter?Yes thank you, Mr. Black.And have you thought which kind of computer youre going to get?Well, its real kind of you Mr. Black, but you know. I think I can do without a computer. You see I only have a small store. I just sell fruit and vegetable, you know.Then you certainly cant do without a computer. Your customers expect it.These days if you havent got a computer, people think youre old-fashioned. They think you just dont try.A computers not a luxury these days. So when can I come over and see you?But I dont think I can afford a computer.Oh-dont worry about that. Theyre cheaper than you think.So, what about next Wednesday at three? Ok, but-Bye-bye for now!Stupid old idiot? Dont you get fed up with all these little guys, Jim? “I dont think I can afford a computer. ”I dont know Mantion. Little fish, big fish; when youre hungry any fish is better than none.Any way, its ten to six. Im going to the bar. Do you fell like a drink?No, thanks. Im going out with a girl from our Los Angeles office she is over here for a week.Her name is Jolene; Shes really something!Very nice for you, Martin. Dont work too hard, oh? Well see you in the morning!Hey Jim, my head is killing me! You havent got a few aspirins or something, have you?Got a headache, have you? Sorry, cant help you.Heres you table, “Sir”? Thank you what about a bit of champagne, Jolene?Why, I love champagne, Mr. Black!Oh, you mustnt call me Mr. Black- Martins my name.Ok, Martin!Hey, you! A bottle of champagne, pleaseSo, what do you thin of Washdon, Jolene? Have you even been here before?No, I guess not. Ive ever been to Mexico, but Ive never been to Washdon.Well, how do you find it?Wow! I havent really thought about it, you know.Heres your champagne, Sir ”!Only a little for me, please. “I dont want to get drunk!”Oh, you dont want to worry about that! Well, cheers, Jolene!Cheers, Martin1Maybe I can show you around Washdon? Ive got a great new car-you know the new Bmws? -and-aaaagh!Whats the matter, are you alright?No! I think its my heart. Ive got a terrible pain here! Aagh!Oh my god, what am I going to do?Get me a doctor! Come on do something!Oh, right!Now dont go away now, will you?19.3 Section AIm standing here at a petrol station on the main south coast road between Brighten and Eastbourne in the County of Sussex. Its a very busy road; so many cars stop here to fill up with petrol. Lets talk to a few of the customers. Lets start off by talking to you, Sir. How much metering do you do a year? Not very much, just going to and from work. Do you have more than one car in you family? Yes my wife got a car as well, yes.So do you find motoring expensive? I suppose its pretty expensive really. Yeah, but there again I again I suppose, if we went by train, you know, thats probably a bit more actually. I would work out more.Do you think that we ought to be encouraged to us public transport more? Oh, very much so, actually. Perhaps it makes it cheaper. Yeah, Im very much in favor of subsidized public transport.I mean I think really we will be better to keep cars off the road altogether. Thank you very much indeed. O, Thank you, Right.And heres the lady filling up her Nissan car. What do you like about this car? Its easy to drive, and economical, easy to park because its small, and it got quite good. What about the driving on the road? What do you think the standard of drivers that you meet?I actually only passed my text last Thursday, so I dont really think Congratulations!I dont really think that Im ready to criticize other people yet.Thank you.Thank you.Well, heres a taxi driver, sir, you must do quite a lot of driving!Yes, I do indeed.How many miles do you reckon you cover a week?About seveneight hundred miles.What are the British drivers lie? Are we good drivers or bad drivers?In a nutshell about 85% of them out here have got the IQ of a carrot andWhat can you say? Ive come out here everyday and everyday somebody teaches me something else that they can so with a motor car that I wouldnt have said it was possible.Marvelous! Thank you very much!Youre welcome.Safe travelling to you!Thank you! Bye-bye!Right. And the pump is running. A lady here is filling up herwhat is this car, madam?Its a Nissan Micra.Micra. Does it use a lot of petrol?No, its very economical-thats why I bought it.And I see youre using unleaded petrol. Is that an important thing for you?Yeah, I wouldnt have bought the car if it hadnt been the fact that its unleaded that it can take unleaded petrol!So the environment and the state of environment is something that is very important to you?Yes, very important. I try to recycle everything. I buy recycled paper, all that sort of thing.There are so many cars on the roads these days. What do you thin can be done to keep the number down?Well, I think people should use bused. I mean, I feel very guilty about using my car. But I had to learn to drive because the bus service isnt very good.Tight, thank you for chatting to us.Youre welcome.Thanks.Now, heres a gentleman not with four wheels but two, a motorcyclist. This is quite a big motorbike. How powerful is it?Its a thousand c.c.How fast can it go?About 165