Elementary 4

Ravi: Hello again and welcome to LearnEnglish Elementary podcast number four. I’m Ravi – from Manchester
Tess: And I’m Tess – from London. Hi. Now, as usual we’ve got loads of great stuff for you to listen to but before we tell you about that - Ravi, I have to ask you, are you feeling better now?
Ravi: Oh, a lot now thank you.
Tess: On Saturday morning Ravi called me and he terrible. “Oh Tess, I feel really bad.”
Ravi: Yeah, OK. I did feel terrible. I had a really bad cold, a , ugh! I had a football match on Saturday afternoon too.
Tess: You didn’t play football, did you?
Ravi: No, I felt too . Do you know what I did?
Tess: What?
Ravi: A friend and we watched all of the Lord of the Rings films – all three of them. Ten hours of !
Tess: You’re joking. I can’t watch TV for that long. I get bored. Anyway, I didn’t really like Lord of the Rings. I liked the book. The film’s never as good as the book, I think.
Ravi: I haven’t read the book so I don’t know but, believe it or not, that’s exactly the question we asked people in ‘Your ’ this week – ‘Which do you prefer – the book or the film?’
Tess: Really? I bet everyone says that books are better.
Ravi: I’m not so sure. Anyway, that’s for later.

Ravi: Now it’s time for ‘I’d like to meet’. In this part of the podcast we ask people a simple question – which famous person, dead or alive would you like to meet? And we ask them to explain why. So let’s say hello to this week’s guest, Marcus, from London. Welcome to ‘I’d like to meet’ Marcus.
Marcus: Thank you Ravi.
Tess: Hello Marcus.
Marcus: Hi Tess.
Tess: And you’re from London Marcus. That’s where I’m from.
marcus: That’s right. I was here - and I’ve lived here all my life.
Tess: And what do you do?
Marcus: I work in a supermarket, but I want to be a professional musician – that’s my for the future.
Tess: We all need ambitions Marcus – and that’s a good one. Now I’m going to ask the question. So Marcus, which person, dead or alive would you like to meet? I think I can guess – you’re going to talk about a musician aren’t you?
Marcus: You’re right Tess.
Ravi: Hmm. She’s always right!
Marcus: I’d like to meet Bob Marley.
Tess: Bob Marley! He’s one of my . I’m sure all our listeners know Bob Marley, but could you explain who he is for us?
Marcus: Bob Marley was Jamaican – and he was the man who gave music to the world – the world outside Jamaica of course. And the religion too – he was also famous for his religious beliefs. He was born in 1945 and died in 1981. So, he died very young – he was only in his .
Tess: Hmm.
Ravi: How did he die?
Marcus: He had .
Ravi: And why did you choose him to talk about today?
Marcus: Bob Marley never wrote a bad song. My father was a big Bob Marley fan so I grew up listening to his music at home when I was a kid – I used to listen to it when I was sad - it’s impossible to listen to Bob Marley and feel unhappy - that was his to the world –“‘Don’t worry, be happy”. He wasn’t interested in negative things – his music was always positive. He’s a legend. He was the first ‘superstar’ from a poor country – and that’s why people from poor countries all over the world love him so much – his music speaks to them. Everywhere you go, everywhere in the world, people know and love Bob Marley – everywhere. He was poor, he grew up in an called Trench Town - a very poor area in Jamaica, with gang problems and drug problems. He left school when he was fourteen and started work. His message is universal – it’s a protest really. It’s about how human beings are all the same, black or white, rich or poor, and his religion helped him to understand that. He once said “I don’t stand for the lack man’s side, I don’t stand for the white man’s side – I stand for God’s side”. God was very important to him - he was a very man. I’m a musician and I want my music to have a message – I want to make people feel good. Like in the song “One love, one heart, let’s gettogether and feel all right” – that’s the message - it’s so simple.
Tess: And is there a special question that you’d like to ask him Marcus?
Marcus: Thousands! But no, not really, not one special question. I’d like to sit and to him for a long time – all night if I could - but no, not one special question.
Ravi: I enjoyed that Marcus. Thanks a lot.
Tess: Me too. Thank you.
Marcus: Thank you