Vocabulary

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Video: 25:00 to 33:30

 

 
 
 
 

Transcript

 

It’s so fun lots of fun in the village, bubbling away here. What she say? Oh she wants to go . . . I have no idea what anybody’s saying here. I have no idea what anybody’s saying. I think she wants me to take her on a plane.

Emma: “The usual. Yeah they’re just being funny. I guess, how long, how long . . . ”

Guide: “Chocolate. Where is the chocolate?”

Emma: “I didn’t know I was coming here; it’s his fault. It’s his fault. They want chocolate.”

Guide: “But now they want money to buy chocolate.”
Emma: “Oh they want money for . . . You have the money. I gave him all my change.”

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Emma: “I’m cooking and everybody’s watching.
Guide: “Can you please lower your left hand?”

Emma: “There’s something quite satisfying about this. The women are all laughing. Wow!

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Emma: “Oh! Look what’s happening to my hair. She’s a hairdresser here.
Yeah, you stop it. One last time. Okay this one, this one’s the only one that cares. That feels so good . . . relaxing. Giving me a hair redo. I’ve got cameras in my face here.”

Ah, thank you. Thank you. All right that’s my hair fixed now. And now we have food to eat.”

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Emma: “Okay I will eat it. The end results; end results. All these children . . . so cute.

Everything checked out here: my earrings . . . my hair . . .

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Emma: “So now I have some food here; the food I was just stirring . . . mmmm very good. Delicious. So kind.”

Villager: Very good, very good, very good.
Emma: Very good very very good very good. Perfect. Perfect. Okay I’m going to put this away now so I can eat my food.

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Emma: “I’ve finished all my food and honestly, this has been the best experience toight if I don’t do anything else in Bangladesh this this is make up for in my short time I have left. This is really really cool, really lovely people.

And everybody’s so kind; they just want to keep giving me more food, with what little food they have. And people from, they come with something like kind of receptacle like this and get their fill of food and then take it back to their house and eat it.

Community cooking. Community cooking: sharing is caring.

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Emma: Yes, okay thank you. Bye. Thank you. Bye . . . bye . . . bye . . . thank you . . . Bye, thank you. Bye. Not tonight; maybe another night. Not tonight not tonight. No sleep tonight. She’s bye invited me to sleep over for the night, but I can’t. I have too . . .

What I don’t know the way out it’s getting buggy; I need my mosquito stuff. I don’t know the way out.

All right so it’s goodbye from the village everybody is super super nice.

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Hello boys. Oh yeah it’s a video you’re all in it, Bangladesh! Bangladesh! Bangladesh! Bangladesh is very good. Bye bye okay.

I’m just about to leave this island just about to get the boat back to Mainland Dhaka and this has just been really amazing. I know I just said that a little while ago, but it’s just been an amazing experience.

And I don’t know how you would have found this other than I was with my Couch Surfing friend. But it’s very simple to get to here: you just take a boat from Mirpur area to Lunatic Island.

But then it stops at this island first and it’s very cheap and then I don’t know I just we just walked around the village so and then the the women were so nice. Everybody was so lovely, so kind, so funny and wanted me to stay for the night.

These are the experiences I love when I travel more than walking around anywhere else. I love these genuine interactions with local women — no not local women just local people especially when they’re so surprised to see a tourist.

I love it. I do so — Hi. So that’s it I’m going to sign off from this island — my SD card is almost full I think I have 2 minutes.

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Questions

 

Island. The video took place in a city. True or false? Were people singing and dancing?

Valley. Everyone there was a local. Is this right or wrong? Could Emma, the stranger, speak the local language?

River, Stream. Did the children want toys from the visitor (Emma)?

Pond, Lake. What did she do? Was it very easy, easy, in the middle, difficult or very difficult?

Rain. Were the village kids playing with Emma’s phone?

Hills, Mountains. She ate a dish of broccoli, onions, garlic and spinach. Is this right or wrong?

Sea, Ocean. Were the villagers greedy and hostile toward Emma? Was the rice and lentils for one family?

Trees, Forest. She spent the night in the village. Is this correct or incorrect? Does she prefer tourist attractions like Buckingham Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, and Neuschwanstein Castle?
 
 
 
Bush, Shrub. Have you ever visited a village, as a foreigner or stranger? What was it like?

Delta. Have foreigners or strangers visited your community? Who were they?

Plains, Prairie. Do your friends prefer visiting tourist attractions, big cities, towns and villages, or natural attractions?

Steppe, Semi-Desert. What might happen in the future?

Desert, Arid Should people visit small towns and villages, more often?