Interviewer: With me now are Sandra Wilson and Mike Tripp. Mike is owner of a ____ new travel company, Just Trips, and Sandra works for him as Publicity Manager. They were actually in the ____ at school, though at that time, they did not ____ with each other! They met again by chance last year, when Sandra went for an interview at Just Trips and was ____ to find Mike across the table. Sandra, when you were at school, did you think Mike would become successful like this? Sandra: To be ____, no one thought Mike would get anywhere - he was the original ____! That's why we didn't get on. My group of friends were quite ____ - you know, we did all the homework, made an effort in class - but Mike was the complete ____. He was bad news, actually. Interviewer: Is this ____, Mike? Mike: I'm ____ so. I wasn't the only one though. It was uncool for boys to work, a whole group of us were like that. I don't remember being especially ____ to Sandra ... Sandra: Talk about a selective ____! Interviewer: Why? Sandra: Well, he would regularly do ____ things like stealing my ruler or hiding my books. You saw it as a big ____, I suppose, Mike? Mike: Never thought about it. I can see now that I might have been a bit. ... a bit of a ____. Sandra: I've ____ you though! Interviewer: And you've done very ____ since, Mike ... Mike: Yeah. I got on with my life. Um ... I don't really ____ my ____ back then - obviously I shouldn't have made trouble for you, Sandra - but for myself, it didn't matter... I've done OK in spite of school. Sandra: You have, Mike, but there are lots of others in your gang who ____. Mike: Mmm... I can think of one or ____ ... But I still think, if you know what you want out of ____, you'll get there. I mean, look at me, I didn't pass many ____ I even walked out of some, like ____ ... wrote my name at the top of the paper and thought, I ____....oh, what the heck, the sun's shining, I'm ____. Sandra: Incredible! I was totally ____ during exams, spent hours revising, and Mike managed to fail virtually everything and still be ____. Interviewer: Should you have been more ____ at school, Sandra? Sandra: That's easy to say now. I had a lot of ____ on me to do well. My parents, my brothers ... all my family ____... the best.

FCE Unit 13 Interview Script

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