Scripts Lesson 16

Ellen's Animals Page 18.
Transcript.
Ellen: Morning!
Ellen: Hey, Craig!
Ellen: Has anybody seen Shelly?
Ellen: Shelly!
Ellen: Never mind.
Ellen: Hey, Shelly, there you are. Would you mind making a quick Starbucks run for me? Thanks.
Ellen: Hey, how’s everyone doing today?
Ellen: Me too!
Ellen: All right. Here’s what I want to talk about today...working in an office. I don’t think we’ve talked about that in the last few years. Anybody remember?
Ellen: You don’t think so.
Ellen: OK, here’s what made me think about it...What if you’re a neat freak and you’re forced to share an office with someone who’s a pig?
Ellen: You know what I mean Francis? Come on...
Ellen: What? that’s funny. Yes, put that in. Those are the same people that carpool, right? Yes, yes, yes.What Carol, what were you going to say?
Ellen: OK, there’s no need to be sarcastic, Roger.
Ellen: Well, I like a lot of that, it’s very funny, let’s just try to beat that last joke.
Ellen: Hey, how’re you doing?
Ellen: Executives...
Ellen: H4, No, no!
Ellen: Got lunch yet Frank?
Ellen: Will you do me a favor and check that follow spot? It seemed too bright yesterday.
Ellen: Does this side look heavy to you?
Ellen: Do you have a mint?
Ellen: Darryl, do you have a mint?
Ellen: Anybody have a mint?
Ellen: Andy, my man?
Ellen: Not forgetting that 12 dollars you owe me either.


Wilson Pickett song Page 23.

Transcript.
If you need a little lovin'

call on me, alright
And If you want a little huggin'
call on me baby,
Oh I'll be right here at home
All you gotta do is pick up your telephone
and dial now
634-5789 What's my number
634-5789
And if you need a little huggin‘…
call on me,
yes that's all you've got to do now
And if you want some kissing
call on me baby, all right
No more lonely nights, will you be alone
All you gotta do is pick up your telephone
and dial babe
634-5789 That's my number
634-5789
O I'll be right there
Just as soon as I can
And if I'd be a little bit late now
I hope that you'll understand
O yeah
And if you need a little lovin'
call on me oh have mercy
And if you want some kissin'
call on me baby as that's all you've got to do now
No more lonely nights, will you be alone
All you gotta do is pick up your telephone
and dial 634-5789 That's my number
Oh yeah call me on the telephone...

Extra Work: Making a Car Rental Reservation.
Transcript.
I will be in Chicago next week and needed a rental car. I called up Bargain Rental Cars and made a
reservation. After I got through the phone tree, I spoke with a reservation agent.

Agent: Welcome to Bargain Rental Car.
Jeff: I'd like to reserve a rental car.
Agent: What city will you be picking up from?
Jeff: Chicago.
Agent: Which airport location? O'Hare or Midway?
Jeff: Hmm…I'm not sure. Is there a downtown location?
Agent: Sure. We have an office at 401 State St.
Jeff: Is that near Prairie State College?
Agent: I really don't know.
Jeff: That's okay. I'll go ahead and make a reservation for that location.
Agent: For what date and time?
Jeff: For November 11, around 7 p.m.
Agent: Returning to the same location?
Jeff: No. I'd like to drop it off at the Chicago O'Hare airport.
Agent: Okay. On what date and time?
Jeff: It'll be that Sunday, November 13, around the same time.
Agent: What size car would you like? A compact, mid-size, or full-size?
Jeff: I'd like the most economical.
Agent: That would be the compact. The rental fee would be $32.25 a day, giving you a grand total of $62.50 for the two days.
Jeff: Does that include taxes and fees?
Agent: No. With all applicable taxes and fees, you grand total comes to $77.40.
Jeff: Okay, that's fine.
Agent: Your last name?
Jeff: McQuillan. M, C, Q, U, I, L, L, A, N.
Agent: And your first name?
Jeff: Jeff.


Extra work: Mobile Distractions.

Transcript.

Mom said it over and over when you were a kid “look both ways before crossing the street”. Today she’d also tell you “put away your cellphone”. It is not just drivers who get distracted. More and more pedestrians are tripping over curbs, walking into telephone poles or stepping in front of oncoming cars because they were busy talking or texting and not paying attention. An Ohio State University  study found a number of walkers who ended up in the ER because they were distracted by cellphones cuadrupled in just two years. Teenagers seem to have the most trouble, a quarter of those patients were between the ages of 16 and 20. Other researchers found people on phone walk more slowly taking 25 percent longer to cross the street. Multitasking and on-the-go is the new “walking and chewing gum” but just like drivers, walkers need to keep both eyes on the road or the sidewalk. You can text that message when you’re standing still. That’s a page from my notebook. I’m Katie Couric CBS News.

Books for Kids About Jane Goodall.
Transcript.

PM = Patrick McDonnell

JW = Jeannette Winter.

PP = Pamela Paul

PM:   Jane had a stuffed toy chimpanzee  named Jubilee.

JW:   Jane, Jane, where are you?

PM:   She held Jubilee and took her everywhere she went.

JW:   Everyone had been searching for hours and hours looking for little Valerie Jane Goodall.

JW:   Jane Goodall to me is almost like a religious figure. The peace that she seems to carry with her. That calmness.

PM:   She's got the mind of a scientist but the heart of a poet.

JG:    Looking directly into my eyes he very gently squeezed my fingers which is how chimpanzees reassure each other.

PP:    This is NY times children's book editor Pamela Paul. It's a fortuitous coincidence for young children that this spring there are two new picture books about Jane Goodall, the world's leading authority on chimpanzees and tireless advocate for protecting their disappearing habitat. I spoke with the authors of both books and with Goodall who collaborated with author and illustrator Patrick McDonnell on "Me Jane".

JG:    Well, the message I always try to get across which was what Patrick picked up on in the book is that, you know, if you have a dream as a child, you should follow that dream even if people laugh at you as they laughed at me for my dream.

PM:   Her life really shows how one person can change the world and started at such an early age, it was really like predestined.

PP:    “Me Jane” begins with a young Goodall receiving a stuffed chimp named jubilee as a gift. the story highlights the quality she possessed as a little girl that would come to define her career as a scientist. Patience, inquisitiveness and a love for the outdoors.

JG:    From a very young age, I just knew I wanted to do something with animals, I just didn't know what. I was watching them and writing about them, making up stories about them

PP:    “Me Jane” even contains detailed drawings and diagrams that Goodall herself made as a child. In contrast to “Me Jane”, “The watcher”, Jane Goodall's life with the chimps follows her life trajectory, from her native England to Kombe Park in Tanzania, Africa, where she patiently gained the trust of the chimpanzee there and discovered that they used tools, and kissed, and behaved more like humans than anyone had realized. Just design wise the pictures at home are very small and confined and when she finally reaches Gombe, I used full, you know, double page spreads and so it just expands out. I was, you know, trying to show that she was fine that she was where she wanted to be and he could let her passion flower.

PM:   I was just so taken by the little dynamo Jane as a young girl, you know, in particular the story of her going into the chicken coop.

PP:    Both authors included the story of a 4 year old Goodall hiding out in the chicken coop for hours. She wanted to figure out how something as big and hard as an egg could come out of the hen.

JG:    If you look back on that whole story, isn't that the making of a little scientist? Curiosity, asking questions, not getting the right answer, trying to find out for yourself. Not the internet. It didn't exist back then. So doing it wrong, not giving up and learning patience, the whole thing. 

PP:    And the books that you read were also influential.

JG:    Dr. Dolittle was the first actually 'cause you know, he was this wonderful doctor who landed the language of animals and I wanted to do that. And then I found the books about Tarzan and I was somewhere between 10 and 11 and of course it was the books, you know? Today kids you know they get it on TV.

PP:    You were outdoors all the time with a lot of free time exploring, observing. Do you see a big difference now in the way that children live their lives?

JG:    Yes, a huge difference. In the US, in the UK especially. But you know all the time is organized, and they do off to school, they do something, they do dancing, they do this kind of sport, they do that, parents drive them here and there and everywhere. We just off the school, we were on our own, we had our friends, we went out on the cliffs with my dog and we were free.

PP:    How important was that kind of time spent outdoors, in the open at the time to becoming a scientist?

JG:    I think it was very very important because always I was watching and making notes, seeing the spiders carrying eggs and then babies on their backs, watching caterpillars turn into butterflies and you know, watching a little plant grow, all those things were really important for me.

PP:    One of the other big concerns today, in addition to children not having the free time to be outdoors and explore is that girls are not interested in science and then when you look at the number of women who pursue advance degrees in science, it's still not as high as in other areas. Why do you think that is?

JG:    I think it's because science has come to be thought of as rather cold, you know like when I first went to Cambridge university I hadn't been to college, when I began the chimps and I was told that you shouldn’t be giving chimps names they should have numbers that's more scientific. And you can’t talk about them having personalities or minds or feelings, those were unique to us, so you know, a perception that to be a good scientist you must be cold and objective.

PP:    What else do you think parents and educators and book authors all of us could do to help encourage girls to perceive the sciences?

JG:    You know, to be a good scientist you should be a human being first and a scientist second, not the other way around. You know, so that there are certain qualities which I think are particularly pronounced in women, girls. And that is empathy and intuition and this shouldn’t be squashed out. It's part of who you are, who we are. It's something that should be very special and unique. So the lesson is, use your intuition, and from that, you make it a feeling of understanding that you wouldn't have otherwise. And from that point you can then test whether your feeling is right.

Extra Work: Air Travel: Checking in to a Flight.
Audio Index:
Slow dialog: 1:50
Explanations: 4:05
Agent: Next please. Hello! Can I help you? What’s your destination today?
Robert: Hi, I ´m heading to London but I have a connecting flight in Chicago.
Agent: Ok, …and could I have your flight reservation and passport please?
Robert: Certainly. Here you are. I´ve just got one bag to check and I wasn´t sure what the baggage allowance is on international flights, I might be over the limit.
Agent: The allowance is 20 k. If you can just place your suitcase up here on the scale we can find out. Now… did you pack your own bags today? And have they been in your possession at all times?
Robert: Yes, I´ve packed them myself and yes I had them with me all the time.
Agent: Okay, 19.2 k, no problem. Let me tag that and … do you have a seating preference: window or aisle?
Robert: I prefer an aisle seat near the front of the plane if possible so I can get off fairly quickly. And if there is something behind the bulk head with extra leg room, that´ll be great!
Agent: Let me see what can I do. I can put you in the 11C that´s an aisle seat in an emergency exit row, so you´ll have a bit more leg room.
Robert: Great!
Agent: And… I see you have a carry-on item there, please make sure you don´t have any of the prohibited items on this list. Ok, you´ll be departing at 10:30 from gate B4 and you should be at the gate at least half an hour before departure. Here is your boarding pass.
Robert: Sounds great, that´s gate B4, half an hour before departure. So, should I get through security now or do I have time to do a little bit of looking around?
Agent: There is lots to see and do at the departure areas. I´d suggest making your way through security now. It´s backed up with the increased alert level and the new body scan systems, just up the escalators there and to your left.
Robert: Sounds like fun, thanks very much.
Agent: You´re welcome, have a nice flight!


Extra work: Las Vegas's Changing Landscape Video.

Transcript.

For the longest time those of us who have moved to the west have had the pioneered experience of moving in, putting out vast amounts of turf, trying to recreate Kentucky and Tennesse and things that fly on the east coast. And that’s not going to work anymore.
Over the last decade Las Vegas has been one of the country’s fastest growing cities. But despite misleading appearances, the city is facing a water shortage that some are calling the worst in the region’s history. And officials are struggling to find ways to get people to conserve this rapidly dwindling resource.

Surprisingly, it’s not the casinos who are the biggest users of water.

Watering your lawn alone is probably around 60% of our water use. So for us the time has come and this community is embracing it to change the way we landscape around our homes and our businesses and how we very thoughtfully use grass in areas where we need it.

Xeriscaping is trying to not necessarily come up with a landscape that is a couple of rocks and a cactus, but it’s designing with the idea in mind that we’re trying to use less water but have the same amount of impact as some of the more traditional landscapes. There’s ways to get shade, and there’s ways to have lush looking garden and take half or even a third of the water these other landscapes will take. I’d say about 75 to 80% of my landscapes are a lot more water savvy than what they used to be.

We first went after new development and said you can no longer put grass in the front yard, you can only have 50% of the backyard be grass landscape. In order however to allow our existing residents to make the conversion, we began to pay our customers a dollar per square foot to take grass out, we cut everybody for whom a dollar per square foot were penciled out. We have now set a rife. For the first 15 hundred square feet we will pay 2 dollars per square foot, around 25,000 people have taken us up on the offer, and we have spent over 80 million dollars taking turf out in Southern Nevada. We’re saving what, over a 25 billion gallons a year in water now as a result of it. We’ve added some other colors this year, we’re putting some more land tan as we’ve soft that didn’t survive the cold.

I’m Tom Portale, my wife Pat Portale. We live in Las Vegas in Topaz Rich, and when we first moved in we had almost three thousand foot of grass out in the front. And our first water bill came in it was about 165 dollars just to water the grass. With that we decided the grass had to go.

We’re looking to save, have to save water. Here in the desert, it’s on my mind all the time.

As part of their campaign the water authority has also produced a series of humorous commercials to get people to turn o their water clocks to conserve water.

Can I help you?

To find your watering schedule, go to changeyourclock.com

We don’t have to have cactus to be you know, draught tolerant or drought savvy, a lot of the grasses, a lot of different plants, you don’t need to agaves or cactus just to have a water thrifty landscape. There’s a lot of other options out there.

If you live in the desert like me you’ve got to be a hundred feet plus. We’re at two thirds of what the lake used to be, and we don’t know if we’re going to get the rain in the next 5, 10 years to actually fill it up back again. I think that honestly it needs to hit people where it hurts,

So this is the financials to the project, you’ll see things like an elementary school and parks. Vegas in 2000 was the foster child for how not to develop a city in the desert. In the ways we’ve developed towards water usage in particular, is that we’ve completely changed the way we landscape our projects. For instance, we’ve completely eliminated turf use, except in usable areas or parks for instance ball parks and things like that. And then, instead of using subtropical plants, use the plants that thriven the desert on minimal water.


The holdouts are going to come slowly but shortly the holdouts will be continuing to pay more and more and more for the luxury of having that grass. The culture change we’re embarking on is the same culture change that has to happen in Arizona, in California, and in all the western states. We’re just leading the way because we’re a little more on the edge that they are. You’re going to see a very different west in the next 50 years. One where people who are moving to the west understand what it means to live in the desert. They find the desert beautiful, they have come to appreciate the landscaping, they love the climate, you wouldn’t move to Alaska if you don’t like the cold. Or don’t move to the desert if you don’t enjoy the landscaping that flourishes here naturally.