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  • Let's talk about what you do.

  • Do you work or are you a student?

  • Yes I am both actually. I work part-time as well as a student.

  • What job do you do?

  • I'm a payroll controller. I control the payroll in a property management company.

  • Do you meet interesting people in your job?

  • Not many, but yes sometimes. I have to visit the banks and the site, so yes I do.

  • How long have you been doing this sort of work?

  • For a year and a half now.

  • Let's go on to talk about friends now. Are you friends mostly your age or different ages?

  • Nomany different ages. Why?

  • Well it changes. It's basically because I am not from this place.

  • I am from Nepal, and when I came here I met people from my country, as well as people from different places at work and at different places.

  • So they are all over the place.

  • Do you usually see your friends during the week or at weekends?

  • It depends, but I see them over the week I think.

  • Work friends at work, after work drinks and things like that.

  • So yeah, all throughout the week.

  • Okay. The last time you saw your friends, what did you do together?

  • Oh we went out for a movie last Saturday.

  • There was this interesting movie that we heard was out, Due Date.

  • So we all decided to go for it, and it was pretty nice.

  • In what ways are your friends important to you?

  • Oh they are very important to me because I hate to be lonely.

  • I need to talk to someone every now and then.

  • Becausecan't just sit, not to say do nothing,

  • but I need someone to come front and talk to so I hold them I give them a great importance in my life.

  • I'd like to move on to talk about food and cooking now. What kind of food do you like to eat?

  • I like Asian food quite a lot because it's it because of  its taste its variety and things like that.

  • What kind of new food would you like to try?

  • That would be French.

  • Pure French food I would say. Why?

  • I've heard a lot about it. But because of its tasteits originality, so but I haven't got a chance to have the original French food as yet.

  • So yeah, I would like to try that.

  • Do you like cooking?

  • No that's not just my cup of tea, not at all. Why not?

  • I don't know. I've been here for three years now and I am a single.

  • I live alone with my friends.

  • But it just does not come into me.

  • Even when I enter the kitchen I think I go grocery shopping anddo things but,

  • once I entered the kitchen I just end up making some noodles and two minute food and

  • that's it I end up I end up having that but

  • I never got into cooking.

  • And one interesting thing - I don't know the taste of salt.

  • So I don't know I... if I cook and I call my friends over it would be a disaster.

  • What was the last meal you cooked?

  • Oh that was that was stuff.

  • Oh just noodles again I would say. No pasta - two minutes food again.

  • We've been talking about a well-known person you like or admire,

  • and I'd like to discuss with you one or two more general questions related to this.

  • Let's consider, first of all, famous people in your country.

  • What kind of people become famous nowadays?

  • These days in my country people who become famous are politicians I should say,

  • because since the time we've entered into democracy they've come into a lot of media attention.

  • And they've because of the manner their the way they've been doing things for the betterment of the country.

  • They've come into a lot of tension.

  • And also within for improving media in my countrythe stars over there movie stars have come into great attention.

  • Why do you think politicians and movie stars are famous and popular throughout the world?

  • Movie stars and singers undoubtedly are famous all over the world

  • because of what they do.

  • They entertain people and the way they do things.

  • and politicians I think gain attention of on to

  • tend to gain attention on when they take over the country.

  • Of what they are doing for the betterment of the world,

  • for the betterment of the country, sorry.

  • And what steps they are taking

  • to do much better or how they're going about it.

  • How would you compare the famous people today with the famous people of the past?

  • Big difference between the two.

  • Back then there wasn't so much of media attention I could say so.

  • As far as I know, people used to be people used famous people used to

  • they used to be role modelsand there used to be good role models.

  • But these days famous people are role models yet

  • for many of them, students as well as adults, but

  • can we call them all good models?

  • I don't think so.

  • So do you really think that famous people in the past behaved better, or is it just that we don't know what they did in their private life?

  • It's probably a bit of both.

  • They behaved they behaved a lot better because since we've become more advanced

  • these days we can do what we feel like these days of more celebrities

  • and famous people take things for granted and to do what they like.

  • What kinds of people do you think will be famous in the future?

  • Um... continuing to be movie stars and singers

  • and some people who really made changes to the world.

  • I could say so other than that.

  • Do you imagined it in the future maybe people who are more worthy of fame will become famous, like scientists and writers?

  • Up to some extent yes, because if if they're really

  • if they're really covered I mean they're really they really put themselves out to the world,

  • then yes they could get famous.

  • Butwould still say not as much as people not as much as celebrities.

  • Okay, let's go on and talk about celebrity culture.

  • For example, how are famous people used in advertising?

  • Famous people are used in they are used in advertising these days for a lot.

  • We can see football stars, almost all the sports stars, are into advertising.

  • Including and including the movie stars and singers as well.

  • The way they put their the way they put themselves...

  • Because they are famous people, the marketing people think that they are going to

  • get they're going to they will sell their product much better.

  • Why is that, do you think?

  • Because of like I said before because they are their role models.

  • So people will think that 'oh he is doing that so I can do that as well'.

  • And people will tend to follow their footsteps.

  • Do you think people really do that? That they will buy something because the famous...

  • Yes I do, sometimes. Advertisement makes a lot of big difference to sales.

  • I've been there and I can say yes they do quite often.

  • Do you think that there could be some negative effects of this culture of celebrity on young people especially?

  • Yes to a great extent. There has been a lot of because people take

  • celebrities as their role models, and the celebrities have misused their fame

  • and power and money up till such a to do things that they should not.

  • Sometimes yes, I think that it will create a negative effect on

  • especially on young people more and more than adults.

  • Right. Thank you very much, Aashish. That's the end of the Speaking test.

  • Thank you.

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