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[English]

[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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
management /ˈmænɪdʒmənt/ B2	noun - the process of dealing with or controlling things or people
habit /ˈhæbɪt/ A2	noun - a regular practice or tendency
intrusive /ɪnˈtruːsɪv/ C1	adjective - involving unwelcome interference
introspective /ˌɪntrəˈspɛktɪv/ C1	adjective - examining one's own thoughts and feelings
spiritual /ˈspɪrɪtjʊəl/ B2	adjective - relating to the soul or religious belief
opinion /əˈpɪnjən/ B1	noun - a personal belief or judgment
agreement /əˈɡriːmənt/ B1	noun - a harmonious arrangement or consent
disagreement /ˌdɪsəˈɡriːmənt/ B2	noun - a lack of consensus or harmony
radical /ˈrædɪkəl/ B2	adjective - relating to the fundamental nature of something; extreme
strategy /ˈstrætədʒi/ B2	noun - a plan of action designed to achieve a goal
consolidate /kənˈsɒlɪdeɪt/ C1	verb - to make something stronger or more solid
implement /ˈɪmplɪˌmɛnt/ C1	verb - to put into effect
feedback /ˈfiːdbæk/ B2	noun - information about reactions to a product, service, or performance
champion /ˈtʃæmpiən/ B2	noun - a person who supports or defends a cause
rethink /ˌriːˈθɪŋk/ C1	verb - to consider again, especially in a different way
embrace /ɪmˈbreɪs/ B2	verb - to accept or adopt willingly
canvas /ˈkænvəs/ C1	verb - to solicit opinions or suggestions from a group
rational /ˈræʃənəl/ B2	adjective - based on reason or logic
emotional /ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/ B1	adjective - relating to feelings
instinctive /ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv/ C1	adjective - guided by instinct rather than conscious thought

Key Grammar Structures

• I think we should go for our own TV program.

  ➔ Modal verb **should** + infinitive is used to give advice or make a suggestion.

  ➔ I think we "should" go for our own TV program.

• Do you agree with me?

  ➔ Use **do** + subject + verb *agree* + *with* to ask for agreement.

  ➔ "Do" you agree with me?

• I can't agree with you, I'm afraid.

  ➔ Polite disagreement: **can't agree** + *I'm afraid* softens the statement.

  ➔ I "can't agree" with you, I'm afraid.

• I totally agree with you.

  ➔ **Totally** + *agree* emphasizes complete agreement.

  ➔ I "totally" agree with you.

• I agree with you up to a point.

  ➔ **Up to a point** expresses partial agreement or limitation.

  ➔ I agree with you "up to a point".

• I'm getting used to speaking Italian every day.

  ➔ **Get used to** + gerund describes the process of becoming accustomed to a new habit.

  ➔ I'm "getting used to" speaking Italian every day.

• I'm used to getting up early in the morning.

  ➔ **Be used to** + gerund expresses a state of being accustomed to something.

  ➔ I'm "used to" getting up early in the morning.

• As a man, I think his approach is too intrusive.

  ➔ **As a + noun** is used to compare or describe someone's role or perspective.

  ➔ "As a" man, I think his approach is too intrusive.