Intermediate Video script Unit 12

Life in a new country

Wanted down under New Zealand

NC = Nicki Chapman CC = Charlie Callan ID = Imogen Daltry D = Dad W = Woman

NC: Every year thousands of us are drawn to New Zealand to start a new life, it's a

country renowned for its beautiful scenery and relaxed life style, it's the same size of

the British Isles but with a population of only four point seven million, however leaving

behind everything you know can be a lot harder than people expect.

Imogen Daltry and Charlie Callan have one week to see if they want to swap their

lives in Kingston-upon-Thames for a new start down under. It will be a huge decision,

probably the biggest they've ever had to make.

Home for Imogen Daltry and her partner Charlie Callan is Kingston-upon-Thames just

outside London. Imogen is a language teacher at a secondary school and Charlie

works as a recruitment consultant in the City. Imogen and Charlie want to find out if

New Zealand's capital Wellington could be the perfect place to start the next chapter

of their lives.

New Zealand is renowned for its extreme sports and spectacular outdoor pursuits.

Okay maybe it's not extreme sport but Imogen has always been drawn by the outdoor

life style that's available in New Zealand. … However city-loving Charlie has his

reservations.

CC: Well it's not amazing I wouldn't stay out and do this for hours and hours, it's a bit

boring.

ID: I'm sure I can do things like this in the UK I just think it's more beautiful to be able to

do it here, I mean the weather is fantastic today, and it's the middle of winter. For me,

being able to outdoor sports and things like this is a really big pull.

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NC: Today the couple are meeting up with Imogen's mum and dad. Along with her

brothers, her parents emigrated to New Zealand eight years ago. Imogen stayed in

the UK to finish studying, and now they're a big part of her reasons for wanting to

move down under.

D: We, we really do love it here and of course we would love you to come out and join

us.

ID: I think seeing my parents you know today has been quite a big pull in terms of you

know me wanting to move here, um, but at the same time you know Charlie's parents

are in Scotland so, it's going to be quite a tough decision to make.

NC: Imogen has been given a chance to do what she loves: teach.

ID: What do you think this says at the top, it say, Qu'est que tu aime?

Teaching's my passion it's what I love doing so, if I couldn't teach over here in the

New Zealand I think I'd have to go back home and, um, think long and hard as to

whether or not a move here would be the right decision for me.

NC: Meanwhile Charlie is in the city for an interview at a multinational recruitment

company.

CC: I was looking for some advice on like you know what recruiters earn in … in

Wellington?

W: A … a salary sort of for this type of role, again it would depend on experience and

there is a range but it would be somewhere around the region of sixty to seventy

thousand New Zealand Dollars which would if you converted it currency wise be

about thirty five thousand pounds, plus commission on top of that, so the earnings

could quite easily be in excess of a hundred thousand, it's up to you, and earning on

such, such levels in New Zealand would buy you a very good quality of life here.

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CC: That's something that I would need to think about you know from what you said it's a

massive cut.

NC: Now as they face the final vote, have they come to an agreement about where their

future lies?

ID: After everything that we've experienced here in New Zealand our final vote goes to:

The UK.

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Life in a new country

World view

A = Anna C = Carol D = Denise B = Bethan

A: I'm from Germany and I, um, came to the UK to London a couple of years ago, um,

because my husband got a job here, and I really like living in London, I think one of

the best things is really that there is always so much to do there are so many

museums and galleries and, yeah, it's a very diverse city.

C: I am originally from Minnesota which is in, um, America in the Mid West, um, just on

the border of Canada, and back in 1998 I went to China to study for a semester, a

year later I decided to go back and teach and I stayed there for about eight years.

Um, and I really love China. Um, I love the food, the people, the culture, the

language, um, there were all kinds of things that kept me there for a long time.

D: In 2003 I moved to South Korea from Canada, and it was my first major overseas

experience. Um, I went there because I wanted to experience what it was like to live

in a different culture. The best part about it was it was life changing, um, it opened my

eyes to a different way of living.

B: I moved from the UK to Italy, um, when I was twenty … it was part of my university

degree, I studied Italian at university. And after I graduated I'd had such a great

experience in Italy that I decided to move there permanently. So I moved in 1999,

um, I had a, a fabulous time. I, what I really loved was learning a new language.

A: One thing that I don't really like too much is that, um, it's a place where people come

to live just for a couple of years, um, and so it happened a couple of times that, um, I

just became friends with someone and then they moved back to their home country

or just moved to a different place.

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C: Towards the end of my years there I decided that if I wanted to have a family and

settle down China was not the place for me as a foreigner so, um, I decided to move.

D: Probably the most difficult thing about living in South Korea was, um, being so far

away from friends and family, um, and the language barrier, ah, it was quite difficult

not to always understand what people were saying, or where they were coming from.

B: It was difficult being so far away from my family though 'cos I'm quite close to them so

that's something I found a bit more problematic, couldn't just take a train home. But

overall it was a really positive experience.

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