新视野视听说BI P13 U1_2_3

Group discussion Scripts I = Interviewer; W = Writer I: We are very pleased to have you here, George. Shall we start from the beginning? Could you tell us about your childhood? W: Yes, of course. I was born in a small town in the northeast. My father was a truck driver and my mother worked part-time in a hospital. I have a brother and a sister. We all went to the same local school. I: You wrote your first novel just one year after you left college, didn’t you? W: Yes, that was in 1993. I was only 22 then. And the next year I went to Brazil. I: Is that period of your life related to your later career in any way? W: That’s a good question. You see, it was my experience there that inspired my film Lost in the Forest, although I didn’t actually make that film until several years later, in 2008. I: When did you start making films? W: In 2003. That was after I gave up farming. I: Farming? W: Yes. I stayed in Brazil for 7 years, during which I met my wife. After we came back we bought a farm in the south of the country. A kind of experiment, really. I: That sounds interesting. Why did you give it up then? W: It was very hard work. I was also busy working on my second novel …