Scripts

F = Finn; M1 = Man 1, etc.; W1 = Woman 1, etc.

Part 1

F: I usually get to work by bus. It takes about half an hour. Sometimes I read a book on the way. How about you? How do you get to work?

M1: I travel by bus. Um, it’s only one bus to work. It takes about 15 minutes.

M2: I get to work by car.

W1: Bus.

W2: I walk to work.

M3: I get to work on the tube and I walk some of the way.

W3: About five minutes walk to the station, Waterloo Station, and then I get on a bus which takes about 20 … 25 minutes.

M4: On most days I use the tube – my journey into work and my journey home at the end of the day.

M5: I cycle to work. That’s the quickest and easiest way.

W4: I cycle in to work every day on my bike.

Part 2

F: What do you do on your journey to work?

M3: I usually listen to music or read.

M1: Sometimes I listen to music and sometimes I read a book.

M4: I either read the newspaper or I read books.

W4: Take in the fresh air, the scenery, um … and try to avoid holes in the road which are quite dangerous.

W3: I listen to my iPod.

M5: Well, sometimes, if … if it’s a bit of a quiet road, I can think about what I’m going to do that day.

W1: I … I dream, usually. I just … I, I love … I love journeys. I love just looking out of the window.

M2: Well, it’s so short; I don’t actually do very much at all, apart from making sure I don’t have an accident.

Part 3

F: What do you like about it?

M4: It’s fairly short, so my journey to work is only 30 minutes.

W3: It’s quick.

M2: It’s short. It only takes me seven or eight minutes.

W1: Seeing how the landscape changes through the seasons.

M3: I like listening to music and having some time to think before work.

M1: It’s quite early in the morning, which means that the bus is always quite quiet, so um, I don’t have to fight for a seat.

M5: I like to have some fresh air and the exercise.

W4: I just like the exercise that I get from it and being outside in the open.

W2: It’s not too far. I can walk or run. It’s about a quarter of an hour’s walk, so I feel very healthy. I don’t have to catch a bus.

Part 4

F: What don’t you like about your journey to work?

M3: Um, I don’t like it when it’s very busy in the mornings and I don’t like it when it’s hot and sweaty on the tube.

W1: It’s a very full bus. It’s packed with people because it’s the “work bus”.

M5: There are some very bad drivers on the road.

W3: Sometimes the buses get overcrowded and a lot of people are going to the same place.

W4: I really don’t like cycling to work when it’s raining because I get wet, (and) all my books get wet.

M1: In the winter it’s very cold that early in the morning and um, sometimes if I miss the first bus I have to wait about 20 minutes for the next one to come along.

W2: In winter it’s very windy coming over the bridge and it makes my eyes water.

M2: It’s so short; there’s nothing to like or dislike about it.