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hello my name is Harry welcome to real
English with real teachers and today
we're asking the people of London what
are your plans for today
Melvin I'm Harry lovely to meet you so i'm
here with melvin umm and Melvin what are
your plans for today?
well i'm about to see a new agent to
take on some modeling jobs and then
after that I'm going to get the train
back to Nottingham where I
live
wow ok what what type of modeling jobs?
well who knows i suspect it might be
woolly cardies OK yeah good for
this kind of type of weather right well
it is yes but I think it's
probably knitwear for the older more
distinguished gentleman
ok ok anything that would suit me? well I
can see clearly that you are a
distinguished gentleman but perhaps not
an older distinguished gentleman such as
myself
nice to meet you and you are
adam, pleasure, so Ryan Adam what
are you doing here today today we're
looking around London to find different
spots to do a film filming we're
filming? well sort of we're finding different
locations
okay what kind of filming are you doing?
we're in the process of producing our own
short flm so now we're just doing
location scouting to shoot it next month so
i'm here with James and katie and we
are next to big ben and I'm wondering
what are you up to today? probably go to
Camden check out some of South bank you know
and then just bum round London I suppose for a bit
no hard-and-fast plans yet but we'll see
where it takes us nice nice phrase hard
and fast I like that
i'm here with Roger today outside the
millennium wheel and I just want to know
Roger what are you up to today? I'm going
to have lunch with a friend
ok anything else? and I'm in a play
reading group afterwards so quite a busy
day
yeah actually we intend to pop into the
national gallery to look at the
Caravaggio's, so a hard working day ha ha ha
well i worked until I was 70 and now I'm
retired so you're able to enjoy your
retirement now
yes indeed congratulations and may
I ask you what're your plans for this
evening?
well I'm gonna go home I'm going to pick
up my two little dogs, Archie and Kipper
I've got two small miniature schnauzers
which strangely enough look exactly like me
clearly they take after their father
what are your plans this evening? This evening errrm
go to the gym I think after the gym get
something to eat maybe a few drinks later
on
nice and what about you? Same i'll be
joining him ha ha ha
ok and what are you doing this
evening? we're actually going to IKEA
because I just moved up here with
them and we're just gonna go find some
furniture so it's not very exciting but
something to do so it's not so bad
lovely very nice ya okay what are you
doing this evening? umm.. this evening
is our play reading group. There will be about
a dozen of us and we take turns on
deciding what the play so ...
the rest of us don't know until we turn up
what sort of character you're going to
be wow okay and going back to the
last play reading what was.. what was
happening in that play reading? that was
an Alan Ayckbourn comedy so it was a
a social comedy is good but .. we have
a huge variety they'll be tragedies and
dramas and whodunits and comedies it's a
mix occasionally even Shakespeare not
too often though oh that sound quite
serious Shakespeare though
are you quite a professional actor would you
say? no not really.. more of a hobby?
umm well I did win a prize once for
singing I was unanimously voted worst
karaoke singer of the night
fantastic what song was it?
'raindrops keep falling on my head' and
behave yourself or I'll sing it again! ha ha that's
amazing! and do you have any plans..
any holiday plans for the near future?
any holidays booked? D'you know what I don't i was
just thinking the other day that this is
really remiss of me not having anything
planned for the autumn
I would very much like to go to Japan
have you ever been to Japan Harry? I've never
been to Japan I went to Asia I've been
to Cambodia and Thailand but never
Japan.. and what interests you about Japan?
well besides the culture the erm....
..the scenery is fantastic and.. it's an
island nation very similar to ourselves
I think we've probably got a lot to learn
from one another
absolutely and do you like sushi? D'you know I'm
vegetarian, so I do like vegetarian sushi
but I don't eat anything that's ever had
a pulse
ok fantastic well thank you very much
for speaking with me today and have a good day! You're welcome!
and towards Christmas have you got any plans
for that for that month?
Ummm nah not at the moment.. I'm not really a
big Christmas person so no plans at the
moment
okay and what about yourself? that month
it's my birthday that much so yeah I
haven't set anything (plans) yet though
no plans well I hope you have a good
month with christmas and the birthday thanks
very much have a lovely day. Cheers, thank you. Cheers
going on towards Christmas Have you got any
plans for Christmas? not yet probably.. I've got
Uni(versity) so do that. Might pop over to
Disneyland try and get a cheap deal there
apart from that there isn't anything I
don't really plan that far in advance
yeah i'm the same I'm the same
excellent and have you been anywhere
nice this summer? I've been working in Italy
so I've been working for about
two-and-a-half months and then i go back
next year as well to work so... whereabouts
in Italy? Verena so.. working on one of
the campsites there and then next year
it's Venice so it's quite nice sounds beautiful
thank you very much both of you
no problem. It was a pleasure have a lovely
day!
thank you thank you okay and last
question and have you been anywhere
recently in the last summer months
abroad?
yes we've just come back from a cruise umm.. in..
taking us from Southampton to
Bordeaux and then northern Spain
Portugal southern Spain and finishing
off in Barcelona that sounds lovely
bordeaux a lot of wine? Well it would be rude not
to drink it when you'e there wouldn't it!?
unfair to the Bordeaux people.. it would
be rude not to!
ok brilliant thank you very much Roger
my pleasure thank you very much