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  • Feifei: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak.

  • I'm Feifei.

  • Rob: And I'm Rob.

  • Feifei: Hey Rob, have you ever wondered

  • what you'd be doing if you weren't here?

  • Rob: Hmmm... Lying on the sofa,

  • watching TV I expect.

  • Feifei: No Rob. I mean in your career -

  • if you weren't a talented presenter like you are?

  • Rob: I'd be a financial whizz-kid:

  • investing in the stock market, making loads of money.

  • Feifei: A whizz-kid? You mean someone young,

  • very clever and successful at doing something?

  • Rob: Yes, that's a whizz-kid!

  • I don't know why I didn't do it.

  • Feifei: Do you want me to tell you?

  • Rob: No. Let's just hear about some other whizz-kids

  • who are young, intelligent and successful, just like me...

  • Examples: My nephew is a computer whizz-kid:

  • he earns a fortune fixing people's laptops!

  • Our new financial whizz-kid has come straight

  • from university and he's doing really well.

  • She was a whizz-kid at university,

  • so it's no wonder she's now a partner

  • at one of the top legal firms.

  • Feifei: So they are whizz-kids - clever, successful

  • or skilful people - and most of all,

  • they are young, like kids!

  • And there's the problem Rob.

  • Rob: A problem?

  • Feifei: Yes, you're not young anymore.

  • Rob: OK, clever then!

  • Feifei: Hmm, I'm not so sure about that.

  • Rob: Alright, successful -

  • one out of three isn't bad.

  • Feifei: Well, erm, errr...

  • Rob: OK. Perhaps I'd never be a financial whizz-kid.

  • Maybe I'll stick to my other plan.

  • Feifei: Which is?

  • Rob: Sitting on the sofa, watching TV.

  • I'm off to do it now. Bye.

  • Feifei: Hmm, not a whizz-kid then,

  • just a lazy man. Bye.

Feifei: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak.

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威茲小子The English We Speak (Whizz-kid: The English We Speak)

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    martin posted on 2021/01/14
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