Maria: When dinosaurs just eat people. Jurassic Park. And Rory, what are popular novels that have been adapted into films?
Rory: I don't know. I'm not very good at this. Starship Troopers was a movie that was adapted from a book. And that's quite violent as well, actually, thinking about it now. Contact is also adapted from a book. Those are both examples from science fiction. We already mentioned Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter. What else, Maria?
Maria: Forrest Gump, for example.
Rory: Oh, Solaris. If we want a Russian example or a Soviet example, I don't know which era that comes from.
Maria: Dracula. Fight Club. All right? Oh, The Devil Wears Prada. Rory, your favourite book. Come on.
Rory: Oh, yeah, I read that book, didn't I? I forgot about that.
Maria: Yeah, well, the Harry Potter series. Is this... Yeah, amazing. The Silence of the Lambs. Anthony Hopkins film. Amazing. The Talented Mr. Ripley. Yeah, just, you know, go for it. Reading habits. My reading habits have changed since I was a child, you can say.
Rory: I like these questions. It's a good chance to use used to.
Maria: Exactly! So, when the questions are about your childhood, what has changed now and before, you said, I used to read course books at school, but now I read fiction or science fiction. You can listen to our previous episodes about reading and books where we discuss different genres and we give you more vocabulary, which you can use in all speaking parts and essays. So, yeah… I used to read until I got bored or I used to read until I got tired. But now I limit myself to a chapter a day. See, so I keep my reading regular. I keep my exposure to books regular. So, I read regularly every day, but I limit myself to a chapter a day, which is a very nice strategy, Rory. Well done. And I let myself mull over the ideas. A Band 9 phrasal verb for you. If you mull over something, yeah, you think carefully about the ideas for a long time. So, not just like you read a book and you forget the book. You kind of mull things over. You mull over the ideas. See, you are processing a book. You are digesting a book. You kind of think about the ideas. And some books are real page turners. So, a page turner is a book that you can't put down. So, you can't stop reading it, right? It's so interesting, so exciting that you want to read it quickly. And for example, you could say, his latest novel is a real page turner. I kind of read it, I turn the pages, and I can't stop.
Rory: And if that's a new thing for you, you could say it's a novel experience. Oh, it's a joke. Do you get the pun?
Maria: No, you should explain it.
Rory: Oh, well, a novel experience is a new experience, but also the word novel is a kind of book. We're talking about books and reading. It just occurred to me there. Oh, don't say that in your exam, though. Oh, my God.
Maria: We're gonna wrap this episode up with a joke. Rory, but you should teach our listener one word. Rory, who is a bookworm? A bookworm.
Rory: Oh, a bookworm is someone that likes to read.
Maria: So, if I say I'm a real bookworm, I enjoy reading. For example, Rory is a bookworm. Is this positive or negative? Is it like something cruel and rude? Like, oh, you're a bookworm.
Rory: It depends on how you say it rather than just the word itself.
Maria: Right, dear listener. So, the joke goes: what should we take when we go fishing? Bookworms. Funny, huh? So, we go fishing. We go and kind of fish the fish out of water. OK, go fishing. And what should we take? Bookworms. So, pretty much like people who enjoy reading books, but when we go fishing, we take worms. Worms, like these little thingies that the fish usually eats.
Rory: I feel like a fish out of water in this explanation.
Maria: Thank you very much for listening. We'll get back to you with more stupid jokes in our next episode, OK? Bye.
Rory: Bye!