新视野大学英语视听说教程1 Unit1_P13An interview with a writer

新视野大学英语  视听说教程1（第三版）

Speaking for communication: Group discussion (Get ideas) P.13

I = Interviewer; W = Writer

I: We are very pleased tohave you here, George. Shall we start from the beginning? Could you tell usabout your childhood?

W: Yes, of course. I wasborn in a small town in the northeast. My father was a truck driver and mymother worked part-time in a hospital. I have a brother and a sister. We allwent to the same local school.

I: You wrote your firstnovel just one year after you left college, didn’t you?

W: Yes, that was in 1993. I was only 22 then. And the next year I went to Brazil.

I: Is that period of yourlife related to your later career in any way?

W: That’s a good question.You see, it was my experience there that inspired my film Lost in the Forest,although I didn’t actually make that film until several years later, in 2008.

I: When did you start makingfilms?

W: In 2003. That was after I gave up farming.

I: Farming?

W: Yes. I stayed in Brazil for 7 years, during which I met my wife. After we came back we bought a farm inthe south of the country. A kind of experiment, really.

I: That sounds interesting.Why did you give it up then?

W: It was very hard work. Iwas also busy working on my second novel …

Key

1.

1)       He wasborn in a small town in the northeast.

2)       Hewrote his first novel in 1993, when he was only 22.

3)       Hemade the film Lost in the Forest in2008.

4)       Hestarted making films in 2003.

5)       Hestayed in Brazil for 7 years.

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The expressions you hear are 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10.