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[Music]
hello again and welcome back to English
today this is DVD 20 and the third DVD
of your advanced level and in this DVD
we'll start with another two episodes of
our story that's life and then in our
special TV programs there will be a
discussion about how to manage change
known as change management then we'll
move on to cinema and take a closer look
at Star
Wars then in the grammar section we'll
look at ways of expressing your opinions
in
English then we'll study the
construction used to which we use when
we're talking about habits all right so
have
[Music]
fun Edward
stop put that infernal Gadget away
that's enough there's a limit to
everything you know great that's it an
gone like that you are fantastic oh
fantastic sck my eye I told you to cut
it
out
Alice Alice yes and what can I do for
you stop laughing and tell your director
friend to to give it a rest and put away
that damn video camera I absolutely do
not want to be filmed like this have I
made myself perfectly
clear hi Alice hey good morning Edward
can't stop working eh what's on the menu
for today's
shoot wow an you look
beautiful excuse me um could I use the
bathroom for a
moment thanks just oh calm down an none
of these sessions are going to be shown
for air at least for
now what exactly does for now mean well
once all the material has been put in
place cut and edited Edward's planning
on showing it to a producer if it's
accepted the idea is to go for our own
TV program isn't that a great idea what
yeah
producer television mhm let me in Jack
let me in no let me
in let me in
[Music]
so
an what do you think of Edward in what
sense as a man or as a director do you
really have to ask as a man of
course well I've just met him so I can't
really say but um as a director my view
is that he's a bit too intrusive come on
and get over it that's his
job in my opinion I think he's just
great
oh what's this I'm
hearing our little Alice might
be in love well
yes as I see it and this is the first
time in my life I've fallen head over
heels in love so much in
love but he doesn't even notice me you
know we share so many common interests
and we see things in the same way we can
talk for hours on end but it just ends
there he looks on me as a good friend
nothing more nothing
less you know I'm really not used to
that role usually I'm the one to keep
others a b
yes I remember um Tom Frank David how
many broken hearts have you left
behind so tell me have you asked Edward
how he feels about you no of course not
look Edward isn't interested in some
relationship he's he's profound and
introspective spiritual
he's a person who enjoys observing and
analyzing others yes if you ask me too
much
so anyway I can't agree with you I'm
afraid
even Spiritual Beings personal longings
I think you should tell him and who
knows your Edward might be much more
human than you think oh maybe you're
right
but I have to think of a special way to
show him just how I
feel maybe I should see what my
horoscope has to
say yes yes yes I'm just had a brilliant
idea hello again and welcome back to
your live English language TV program
did you hear in that episode how the
girls were talking about their love
problems they were exchanging opinions
about their love problems well that's
what I want to study with you now is how
do you express your opinion in English
and how do you ask other people for
their opinion now to do this I want to
talk about an article which I read um
yesterday in fact in this magazine about
women and the article made some
statements and I want to ask you what
your opinion is about the statements
that I read and I will tell you mine all
right well I read this women are less
rational than men women are less
rational than men what do you think
about
that yeah well I can go along with that
I I agree in a way women are more
emotional and more instinctive yeah do
you agree next thing other thing they
said is women are less intelligent than
men women are less intelligent than men
now what do you think about
that well I totally disagree with that I
don't know about
you women are less intelligent than men
who wrote this article men are stronger
than women do you
agree well yeah I mean physically men
usually are stronger than women maybe
emotionally and morally we could debate
the fact yeah maybe okay next one men
make better leaders than women do you
agree with
that yeah up to a point I mean most of
the leaders in this world are men but
maybe it's because women haven't had
enough chance to be leaders yet who
knows all right and the last one is A
Woman's Place a woman's real place is in
the home what do you think about
that uh I totally agree A Woman's Place
should be in the
home
article let's move to language maybe
it's better let's talk about the
language we use when we Give opinions
and let's use the
screen so asking for somebody's opinion
how can you do that well you can say
what do you think about that what do you
think about that simple question or
what's your
opinion we can also ask what do you feel
about that which is more related to
emotions rather than to the intellect so
what do you feel about that or what are
your thoughts what are your views about
that all right so those are all ways of
asking for somebody's
opinion when you want to give your
opinion you can say I think I
feel in my opinion we
should my view is that we should my
view or as I see it as I see it I think
we should all right so that's giving
opinions now often you want to talk
about
agreement now how do you ask a person
for
agreement we don't say are you agree
many languages translate that wrongly
it's not are you agree but do you agree
with me all right do you agree be
careful do you agree another alternative
is do you go along go along means have
the same opinion do you go along with
that all right now imagine that you want
to agree totally with someone do you
agree with
that exactly you can say I totally agree
with you I
completely agree with you
you can say yeah I go along with that I
agree with that you can also say that's
right exactly or
absolutely there's always ways of
agreeing
totally now imagine that you agree sort
of you agree
partially the language here is yeah
that's a good point but I agree with you
up to a point I agree with you up to a
point so that's partial agreement but
not total agreement all right now
disagreement to be polite uh you can say
I can't agree with you I'm afraid if you
say I don't agree with you that's quite
aggressive so it's better to say I can't
agree with you I'm afraid for example if
you're in a meeting but if you want to
be aggressive you can say I totally
disagree with you all right so that's an
aggressive
disagreement and you can also say oh
come
on come
on all right so there we looked at
exchanging opinions giving opinions
asking for opinions and then talking
about agreement gree agreeing totally
partially and disagreeing I'm sure
you'll find that very useful because
it's what we do every day all right so
happy practicing and see you in the next
lesson bye
[Music]
Alice are you feeling okay oh yeah hi an
I'm just preparing a little lunch for
Edward
Edward what's with the French
accent I thought you said he was
Canadian he is from the French part his
mother's French so
he's fully
bilingual well now that you mentioned it
I had noticed a slight French accent yes
isn't it
adorable well I must say love does work
wonders I'm not at all used to seeing
you as a a housewife well to tell you
the truth I haven't got used to it yet
you know I just hope I got the recipe
right you know I followed the
instructions to the
letter but you know I feel like a fish
out of water with these
things so um you've decided to go for
Edward's jugular well not only that
here's the crowning
touch what is it it's a Chinese fortune
cookie with a little note inside
what a romantic idea do you think I
wrote the note
myself I thought I would surprise him by
hiding it inside his napkin like this
what do you
think I think it's just
perfect you'll see we'll go straight to
his
heart stop
hello yes this is
Alice it's already come in what oh in
half an
hour um yeah okay okay I'll I'll be
there in a few
minutes
and could I burrow your car please I
have to go and pick up a pack my father
sent me but uh the post Office closes in
half an hour and I won't make it on foot
um my
car you don't have a license don't worry
about it I have it and anyway I always
used to drive you know my dad's got a
car just like yours okay I'm
off tell Edward I'll be back in a Flash
Alice
Alice but who's going to clean up this
mess get used to it
an it's the same old
story now I'm
[Music]
late oh I can't believe I always get
myself into these situations I'm late
and here I am helping Alice with her
grand plan I am oh hello oh that smells
great my compliments to the
chef no no no edwi it's not like you
think I have to go I've got a meeting
with my
boss Alice has just gone out she told me
to let you know that she'll be returning
soon bye-bye
well I'm
starving H what's
this a little
note a little Delight for the man who's
got my heart raising
what what's this all
about there must be some mistake oh well
yes
this is my
napkin who could have written
this oh my
God and but but but she was just here
and she was so shy this is getting
interesting and is very cute so what I'm
going to do now I'm not used to these
things now where has it gone but it's
not here it's not there either Edward
yes
have you seen my mobile phone oh look
here it is
thanks pardon
me why are you eyeing me like
that nothing
nothing well all right I've got to
run
byebye she's acting like nothing is
happening at
all this is getting very
[Music]
interesting hello again and welcome back
did you notice a grammatical form that
they used used to and get used to did
you pick that up when they were speaking
because these are forms that we use
inish English when we're talking about
habits it's not an easy form and I'd
like to teach you that now and to do
that to give you an example of the
grammar in action I want to talk to you
about when I moved to Italy and I lived
there for some time and I had to change
some of my habits I had to adopt some
Italian habits I had to get us used to
new things all right so I'm going to use
the grammar construction as I talk about
this try and listen and pick it up now I
wrote a list actually because really
fascinating you would think that Italy
and England being very close wouldn't be
very different but in fact there are
some noticeable differences for example
driving on the
right I had to get used to driving on
the right in England we drive on the
left so you can imagine it's a question
of life and death so the first thing was
I had to get used to driving on the
right you hear that to get used to
driving on the right now that means that
I had to adopt a new habit to get used
to doing something we'll look at the um
grammatical form after for now just
listen how I use it all right another
thing oh yeah Italian driving I had to
get used to Italian driving red lights
are not really red lights red lights
traffic lights are
negotiable and I had to get used to
being very flexible driving on the roads
in Italy I can assure you
now oh speaking Italian
now when you speak Italian you divide
the world into masculine and feminine
and you know that in the English
language we don't have masculine and
feminine for table is neutral whereas in
Italian it can be masculine or feminine
um for example computer is masculine so
I had to get used to dividing my world
into objects which are masculine and
feminine which for an English person is
really quite a challenge so another
thing was rolling my R in in English we
don't say it doesn't exist but in
Italian for example if you want to say
red you have to say
Roso it took me one year to learn so I
had to get used to Rolling my R terrible
coffee in England we have mugs of coffee
like this in Italy I had to get used to
small amounts of strong coffee so that
was a new habit but then I found
capucino so that was the
alternative and the last thing that I
had to get used to was the Italians
gesticulating the Italians use many
gestures like oh and oh and they they
use their shoulders oh and noises as
well and when I saw Italians in the
street at the
beginning I thought they were always
arguing but in fact they're not it's a
normal way for the Italians to
gesticulate so I had to get used to
reading the language as not necessarily
aggressive all right so that's some of
the things I had to get used to all
right
let's go and look at this grammatical
form now because it's not easy to use
all right let's look at the screen so to
get used to is followed by the Geren
form and it describes this process of
changing and taking on a new habit look
at the
examples I'm getting used to speaking
Italian every day
used to speaking Italian now we use the
verb get get used to because it
describes the process and you can put
the verb get into any tense present
tense past tense future no problem here
we have it in the present continuous so
I'm getting used to speaking Italian
every day listen to the pronunciation I
said
us with a t sound us not used or
used us that's very important to
distinguish it from the other verb use
okay
used the next example I still haven't
got used to driving on the right here we
have it in the present perfect I haven't
got used to driving on the right next
example don't worry you'll get used to
it for the future you'll get used to it
all right so here we have an example in
the future used to it which is an
object in the past I had to get used to
it in the question form how long did it
take to get used
to okay how long did it take to get used
to so a difficult form now let's move on
to the next uh section which is the verb
to be used
to this is very interesting because when
you change a habit it's a process but
then when you have adopted The Habit
it's a state so we use the verb to be
the
examples I'm used to getting up early in
the morning that means that now I do it
regularly with no problem I am used we
use the verb to be for the
state he isn't negative used to working
alone in the past I wasn't used to
driving on the right so here we have a
state of a new habit using the verb to
be to get used to do something something
is adapting a new habit is the process
so that's a difficult grammatical form
but it's the only way in English that
you can describe taking on new habits so
it's terribly important for you to learn
don't worry you'll get used to it slowly
but
surely okay bye for now
hello and welcome to this week's edition
of let's talk our evening discussion
program with our commentators Tom and
Marie good evening everyone good evening
according to a recent report from the EU
on the economies of the Euro Zone many
companies are going through a difficult
period senior managers are realizing
that business as usual is no longer
possible many companies need to embrace
radical change in order to survive what
do you think about this situation
well it's true that today companies must
face up to the fact that they may have
to change the way they do business new
technology is making this change
necessary and new competition can result
in a company having to completely
rethink its business plan I agree
another example is when a company
decides to enter a new market and
becomes very successful this success can
require changes to the way the company
does things
all these situations result in changes
being needed to the way a company
operates it's not easy to make changes
to the way a company operates and the
way people work how can a company do
this successfully well there's been a
lot of research on this topic U it's
called the change management process I
see so what are the elements of a
successful change management process
where do you start well it's important
to analyze the situation carefully
before embarking on a process of change
a good analyst will identify the key
areas of a company's operations that
need to be changed then an effective
change strategy needs to be drawn up
this says exactly what needs to be
changed that's right input to the
strategy can come from the management
team or an external consultant in
addition all the company's workers
should be asked for ideas sorry I don't
quite follow that do you mean that the
workers in a company should be able to
decide what changes are made no that's
not what I mean everyone in the company
should be canvas for suggestions on
changes that could be made to the
company this enables employees to buy
into the change process they feel
included and are more likely to
implement the changes once they've been
decided okay I see it's clear now so
lots of people input into the change
strategy and what happens next well now
the strategy has to be implemented it
has to be put into action this can be
the most difficult stage of the change
management process staff need to be told
about the changes and some may need
training on new ways of doing things a
member of the management team should be
available to answer questions from
employees about the changes taking place
H and once the changes have been
implemented is that it no it's not it's
very important to consolidate the
changes to make sure that employees
don't go back to the old way of doing
things a manager should be chosen to act
as a champion for the changes and should
collect feedback from the employees to
see what they think about the changes
this Champion should praise employees
who have implemented the changes of
course it's very important to raise the
morale of staff at this time otherwise
there is a risk that they'll revert back
to the old way of doing things so it's
quite a complex process well companies
need to know about change management
techniques in order to survive in
today's rapidly changing markets thanks
to Tom and Marie for their explanation
on how to bring about change in a
company goodbye Eric
goodbye and goodbye everyone and see you
again next week for another edition of
let's
talk so the change management process is
the process a company uses to change the
way it operates due to new technologies
and new competition many companies have
to rethink their business plan to to
rethink something means to reconsider to
think again about a choice you made
before A business plan is a strategy for
running a company remember to run a
company means to manage it companies
have to embrace change to embrace
something means to accept it and put it
into practice so to embrace change means
to start making changes companies must
face up to the fact that that they have
to change the way they do business to
face up to something means to accept a
difficult situation
exists so how does the change management
process work first an analyst identifies
the areas that need to be changed an
analyst is an expert who looks at all
the elements of a situation he analyzes
a
situation everyone in a company should
be canvased for suggestions take canvas
means to ask people for their opinions
this enables employees the people who
work in the company to buy into the
changes to buy into something means to
believe in something then a strategy is
drawn up the phrasal verb to draw up
means to prepare we use it for documents
for example you draw up a contract the
strategy must then be implemented to
implement means to put into action once
the strategy is implemented it's
important to consolidate it to
consolidate it means to make stronger
and employees should be asked for
feedback to see what they think of the
changes feedback means opinions about
something well folks we've come to the
end of today's program see you again
soon good morning everyone and and
welcome to another edition of Talk
Cinema this morning we'll be talking
about the most famous of all science
fiction sagas Star Wars as always in the
studio with me is sanjie Gupta our
Cinema expert welcome sanjie Hello Lucy
hello everyone a question to start with
sanjie just how many films make up the
Star Wars saga six in all and how many
of these have you
ah all six of course and
you uh four I think when was the first
film made the first film A New Hope was
released in
1977 the last film Revenge of the Sith
was released in
2005 and who's the director well George
Lucas wrote the scripts for all the
films and directed four of them and what
about the other two Irvin kersner is the
director of The Empire Strikes back and
Richard Marin directed The Return of the
Jedi what's so special about the Star
Wars films sanjie lots of things
actually Lucy you know the first Star
Wars film back in
1977 broke new ground with its special
effects new methods were used whereby
the action shots were taken against a
blue background with real models it
doesn't sound sophisticated compared
with today's computer generated effects
but 29 years ago it was
revolutionary in fact the amount of time
Lucas spent on the special effects
almost resulted in the film not being
finished why do you think the films have
been so enormously popular we're dealing
with science fiction here but really the
storylines in the films draw on themes
common not only to science fiction but
also to classical mythology really
interesting yes then there's the obvious
struggle between good and bad there's
the famous Force the energy field that
can be used for good but also for bad
love plays a big part in The Saga as
does the eternal struggle for power and
domination love power and domination yes
so have the films made a lot of money
it's been estimated that the films along
with the TV series books and video games
that have been made around the Star Wars
theme have generated ated $2 billion
over the last 29 years so $20 billion
yes that's rather a lot of money and
what about the music in the movies I
really love the music yes I think the
music has played an important role in
helping people to remember the films
John Williams composed the scores for
all six films the style he uses has
changed as the years have gone by in the
first films he associated ated light
motives with each character quite a
simple approach in the later films he
changed his mind and took a richer more
sophisticated approach to the music one
last question is the Saga definitely
complete now I wouldn't bet on it there
are rumors that George Lucas may be
working on a sequel but for television
not for the cinema so we may be seeing
Luke Skywalker again soon wonderful well
thanks sanjie and goodbye
goodbye to all of you and sanjie May the
force be with you
goodbye now let's have a look at some of
that vocabulary we just used so six
films make up the Star Wars saga to make
up something here means to go together
to form the whole of something
the six films form the entire Saga to
make up something is a phrasal verb that
can also mean to invent something for
example I made up a story means I
invented a story the first Star Wars
film was released in
1977 we say a film is released when it
can be seen at the cinema for the first
time time it broke new ground with its
special effects to break new ground
means to do something for the first time
it broke new ground because it was the
first film to shoot the action shots
with Real Models an action shot is a
scene of a film with action for example
a car chase or a battle and what are
special effects
their visual effects added to a film
after the shooting has been completed
the shooting is the filming process of a
film the special effects used in the
first Star Wars films were not very
sophisticated compared with the computer
generated effects of today's films
computer generated effects are special
effects that are made using a
computer the sound soundtracks of the
Star Wars films have also become very
famous the soundtrack of a film is its
music in the first films John Williams
the composer of the soundtracks
Associated light motifs with each
character a light Motif is a reoccurring
musical or visual theme associated with
a particular character situation or
emotion well we have as usual run out of
time so goodbye for
now
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