Starter Unit 4 DVD script
N = Narrator L = Lynn D = Dave S = Steve B = Ben
M = Miriam
N: The Amish people live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. They have a
traditional lifestyle, very different from other people in America. In this
programme we visit an Amish family and learn about their day to day
life.
Our visit takes us to the home of David and Miriam, a young husband
and wife, and their five children.
L: Good morning.
D: Good morning.
L: How are we?
D: I'm good. I'm David Lapp.
L: So nice to see you. This is Steve.
D: Hello Steve.
S: Good morning David. Good morning.
L: It's a lovely day, isn't it?
D: It is. How are you this morning?
S: Very well.
D: This is my young son Bennon.
L: Hello. Good morning.
D: Say hi Ben.
B: Hi.
D: We got visitors.
M: OK! Good morning.
S: Good morning.
L: How are you?
M: Fine, how about you?
L: Good, good. It's a lovely day out there, isn’t it?
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Starter Unit 4 DVD script
M: Yes it is.
L: Yes.
M: Hi Steve.
D: This is Katie. This is our oldest daughter.
M: Katie Lynn.
L: Actually, it's a little, little bit dark in here. Could, could we ... ?
N: It's dark in the house because the Amish don't use electricity. The
Amish don't use modern machines: no television, radio or internet.
Family is important, and the children help their parents around the
house. They cut wood together.
They collect eggs.
They travel everywhere by horse and carriage.
M: It takes at least five minutes to get my horse out, and, er, the children.
But I like it. I always like to get out with my horse.
N: But they also go into town and go to normal shops.
They go to the supermarket.
They eat at a fast-food restaurant.
Miriam goes to the bank and gets money.
Amish people use telephones, but not in the house, so David's phone
is two minutes away, in a small building, called a shanty.
D: This is the phone shanty. Er, the traditional Amish in Lancaster
County don't have phones in their houses, so they have a phone in a
shan, shanty outside somewhere.
N: David has a building business. He works together with non-Amish
workers.
He loves his work but at the end of the day, he's happiest when he's
at home and his family is all together, enjoying their traditional Amish
lifestyle.
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