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Unit 3 Discovering your niche holiday

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Scripts

P = Pasha; M1 = Man 1, etc.; W1 = Woman 1, etc.

Part 1

P: Hi. I enjoy doing a lot of different things in my free time. Most of them are to do with music: I

DJ both in London and internationally, and I try to go to concerts and festivals whenever I can. How about you? How do you spend your free time?

Part 2

M1: My free time, when I have any, is playing golf. I ... I discovered golf eight years ago and I’m ... I’m addicted: Whenever I can, I’ll get out on a golf course.

W1: Photography; I like to watch films; um ... really into music.

W2: In my free time I’m an amateur opera singer and I also run an amateur opera company. M2: I spend my free time shopping, cooking, uh, going to exhibitions, traveling, going to the theater.

W3: I exercise a lot: I spend a lot of time walking, running and boxing.

M3: I play football, I play table tennis, I go bowling. Um, I also do a radio show at my university. W4: Well, during my free time I read, I, um, watch the news online, um, and watch TV series and

go out with my friends.

W5: Er, I spend most of my free time with my friends and, just getting together and watching films, listening to music. I like to read a lot and I like to draw and make clothes.

Part 3

P: How would you spend your free time differently if you had more time or money or opportunity?

M1: I’d travel more. I’d take my children to see more things around the world. They’ve traveled a

little bit, I’ve traveled quite a lot, but I’d like t o take them to see some of the things that the world has to offer.

W5: If I had more free time, I think I’d be able to develop my own creativity.

M3: Finding, maybe, a bit more about my, er, my heritage. I ... I’m quite interested in that, and speaking to my parents about how they grew up and their parents and things like that.

W2: I would spend more time practicing music.

W3: If I had more time, I would travel more.

W4: If I had more free time, I’d see more of my friends and people that I don’t get to see enough.

And I’d probably relax and go to the park a lot.

Part 4

P: What are the benefits to society of giving people more downtime or more holidays?

W1: I think if you had more time off you’d be able to do, you’d be able to explore your mind a lot

more and you ... people (would) become more educated, more intelligent and more aware of

what’s going on in the world.

W5: If we all had more free time, I think we’d all be able to let ourselves be more creative, as opposed to just work, work, work all the time.

W4: I think that today when people don’t work from nine to five so much anymore, I think that

more free time would do everyone a lot of good, um, as long as you have something to do with it, and you have, kind of, hobbies or friends to see.

W3: They would be less stressed, I believe, because I, I think that people are very, very stressed nowadays.

M2: I think society benefits from giving people more free time because it enables them to lead

less stressed lives, reduces the pressures on them, and also increases interests, and I think that

a society that has a broad range of interests, a broad range of things they like doing, is generally beneficial.

Listening

Scripts

K = Katie Derham; A = Alison Rice; C = Charlie Connolly

K: The buzzword de jour is “niche travel”. Rather than the usual beach flopout, we’re turning instead to a growing band of small tour operators offering Thai cooking weeks, trips to Sri Lanka for tea lovers, the ultimate trekking or trekkie experience or poignant visits to obscure battlefield s. Well, I’m joined here in the studio by Alison Rice, who’s been a travel writer for many years and Charlie Connolly, author and broadcaster, who among other things has traveled the globe in search of the legacy of Elvis Presley. Welcome to you both. Alison, let’s start by turning to you first. This definition of niche travel these days, what does it mean to you?

A: I think some people would say we’re just talking about activity holidays where, instead of just

lying on a beach you follow a particular interest or hobby with like-minded people. Walking holidays, gardening, cookery, painting, yoga, bird-watching – you remember when

bird-watching was just for geeks? There’s (There’re) masses of bir, bird-watching holidays. Battlefields, music, theater festivals – these are all pegs around which we can build a holiday. C: I do believe in going to a place for a reason and rather than just cos there’s a nice view or something. I’m a big believer in people. I think people make a place and the atmosphere of a

place.

K: What would your favorite niche holidays (be) if you’ve come across recently?

A: Oh, for me, it’s definitely singing. If you google “singing holidays”, you’ll find 416,000 entries. Whole choirs go on holiday now, or if you want to just join a choir, you can join a holiday where you learn a piece, rehearse it through the holiday, sailing down the Nile, there is

one in Malta next year where you’ll be singing the Messiah ... and then the holiday ends where you put on a concert for the locals.

C: There is a, a tour you can do of Chernobyl. Um, it’s, it’s a one day tour from Kiev and you