Shadowing-Übung: Chapter 2 16 37 04 - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Chapter 2 Monday in the office Early on Sunday evening,
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I phoned Geoff Clayton on his home number.
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Hi, Mr. Clayton.
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Shirley Holmes here.
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Can we talk about my plan for tomorrow?
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Is this a good time?
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Oh, hi Shirley, I mean Sally.
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Listen, please call me Jeff.
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I don't do this mister thing.
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Or do you want me to call you Miss Holmes?
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I mean Miss Hawker?
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I laugh.
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OK.
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Jeff, now about tomorrow, I'm going to be a journalist called Sally Hawker,
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and I want to talk to your design staff about their work.
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I'm writing a long piece for Flipside magazine. Do you know it?
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Yes, I do.
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It's good.
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So, you want me to tell the staff about you before you arrive?
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When are you coming?
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About ten o'clock.
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Is that all right?
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Fine.
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I have files on all my staff here on my laptop.
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Do you want me to email the files to you?
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Great, I say.
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Please send them right now.
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When I arrive at the Clayton Electrics office on Monday morning, I know names, addresses, ages,
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families, schools, universities, but I need to know much more.
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It's a small office, everything open, no closed doors.
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Faces are friendly, interested.
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I'm something new in their working day.
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I tell them about me and the IET, the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
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I use my smiley journalist face and my smiley voice.
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The IET wants more young people in schools to be interested in technology, I tell them.
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So they asked me to write something for their flipside magazine.
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That's the one for eleven to fifteen-year-olds, says Harry.
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I wrote something for them once, many years ago.
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Harry Bowman, fifty-nine, electrical designer.
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Ten years with Clayton.
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Very good at his job but getting old.
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So, what do you want to know? asks Anna.
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Anna Lund, twenty-nine, electrical designer, two years with Clayton, very clever.
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Tell me about your working day, I say.
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What do you do?
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Where do you go?
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Who do you talk to?
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Anna laughs.
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You must talk to Ken.
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He usually goes out with Jeff and talks to the clients.
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Me and Harry just stay here and do the work.
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Ken smiles at me.
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Don't listen to Anna, he says.
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She gets out to see clients too.
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Ken Okobi, 32, electrical designer.
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Five years with Clayton.
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A good listener.
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Good with the clients.
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There are the three designers and some office staff.
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I stay with them all day.
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I sit next to the designers at their laptops.
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We talk about their computer programmes and electrical design.
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I laugh when they laugh.
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I drink coffee with them, I watch and I listen.
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I talk to the office staff too.
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Nice people, but they don't know computers.
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They can use them, but they don't understand them.
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No hackers here, I think.
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I go out to lunch with the designers at an Italian restaurant.
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I ask them about money.
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Is the pay good?
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Very good, Ken says.
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Jeff Clayton pays well.
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Ah, says Anna.
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I'd like more money.
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Oh, you always want more, Anna, Ken says, smiling.
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And why not, says Anna.
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I'm good at my job.
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She looks at me.
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I don't like working for other people.
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I want to start my own business.
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I want to be a rich woman before I'm forty.
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The two men laugh.
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When we walk back to the office, I walk with Harry.
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Do you enjoy the work?
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I ask.
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"'Yes and no,' Harry says.
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"'You see, my wife is not well, and I'd like to be at home to take care of her.
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She needs the sun, and I'd like to buy a house in Spain when I stop working, but that's never going to happen.
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Ken is walking in front of us, and suddenly I see his shoes.
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They look very expensive.
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Yes, they're Gucci shoes, I'm sure of it.
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Back in the office, I watch the designers at their laptops again.
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Ken is very helpful.
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He tells me a lot about his work and shows me some of his designs.
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Do you take your laptop home at night?
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I ask.
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Yes, we all do, says Ken, and I always need my laptop with me when I visit clients.
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I work at home in the day sometimes, says Harry, because of my wife.
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I sometimes need to be at home.
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Interesting.
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They take their laptops home.
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So it's easy for the hacker to do things at home when nobody is watching.
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5.30, going home time.
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They're closing down laptops, putting on coats.
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The working day is finished.
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So, which one of them is the hacker and the cyber thief?
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It's one of the three designers.
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I'm sure.
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Is it Harry?
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He wants a house in Spain for his wife, but he hasn't got the money for it.
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Anna?
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She's clever, quick, wants to be rich, and she wants it now.
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She doesn't like waiting. And there's Ken.
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He's a nice guy, good at his work, but he's wearing Gucci shoes.
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I get out my laptop, Google Gucci shoes, and look for the prices.
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Four hundred and seventy pounds for a pair of shoes.
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Where does Ken get that kind of money?
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I need to know more about Ken's home life.
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But first, I need to visit the weasel.
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I don't know the weasel's real name.
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Nobody knows it.
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He lives in a great big apartment in Bayswater.
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It's really just one big room with computers.
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computers big and small, computers everywhere.
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The weasel is probably the best hacker in England, maybe in Europe.
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I sit on one of the weasel's black chairs, drink black coffee and look around the great dark room.
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The only light is from computer screens.
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Indian music is playing quietly from one of the computers.
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Don't you ever go out, I say.
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See some daylight.
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Look at some trees.
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Feel the sun on your face.
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Why do I want to see daylight, our trees?
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The weasel says.
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He looks around at his computers.
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All the world comes to me here.
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I don't need daylight.' He looks at me.
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"'And what do you need, Hawker?' He always calls me Hawker.
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He likes that name better than Holmes.
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"'You always need something.' Years ago, the weasel went through a bad time.
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I helped him then, and he doesn't forget that.
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I can ask him for help when I want.
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I tell him about Jeff Clayton's problem.
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I want to watch three laptops, probably through the night.
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I need to catch the person when they get through the security on the main office computer.
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How many passwords?
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The weasel asks.
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Two.
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One for the quotations folder and then every file has its password too.
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Hmm, that's a clever hacker, says the weasel.
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OK, you need a Trojan horse programme.
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I can write that for you.
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Give me twenty-four hours.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

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