<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>14:02 er <,> families our family you want to go ahead well word it'll have to be something specific like er melinda she's grown up now and er er she'll be going to college due to go to college next year we haven't decided what college she's going to well <.>n what do you think er should we send her away to a boarding school or should we keep her at college here i'd like to but <.>i i think we might have to um tut oh i don't know <.>i <.>i i think if we can't <.>af afford to send her to to a boarding voc college i think we're going to have to look at a college here but i don't really want her to go east i'd like to see her go to a catholic school where <&>15:00 <&>microphone noise they make her make her er <,> do her school work oh i suppose they do it <.>at er with east but <,> sniffs i think the education at a catholic school is a lot better than a with a normal <{><[>school <[>or do we let her choose where she wants to go or do we tell her where to go no i think that's up to us we tell her where she's to go to oh <{><[>word <[>she might think different <{><[><.>but <[>well i think she should have some input into that er as well as us she's quite comfortable to go to east i think er but from from hearing talk back from her she's she's thinking that she quite <.>li would like quite like to go to wellington er high school <,> er they've got a good curriculum there <,> voc however it's you know it's getting towards the end of the year now and we haven't got that much time to make up our minds well she hasn't so we'll have to do something er sooner or later about you know getting her enrolled in er <.>mon one school or another <&>16:00 voc er you've still got to pay her her school fees THIS year yet yeah i'll pay it <{><[>next <[>so they'll have to <.>be that'll have to be done er pronto i'll pay it next er next pay right <,,><&>3 er well you'd have to get her to do i don't know what she's been doing as far as her homework is concerned but nothing well you might have to get onto onto her or on to moana to make sure she er she brings home some homework cos she hasn't been doing any spelling she hasn't been doing any mathematics so i don't know where the <{><[><.>hang <[>she reckons there's no no <{><[>er she's got no study no mathematics <[>well i well i suggest well i suggest you get hold of moana and find out what the hang is going on <,> because her mathematics are terrible her writing's terrible <&>17:00 i've spoken to her about her writing i mean er <,,> and she just shrugs and <{><[>says so what <[>right well let's get on to eru what about eru eru eru have you been in touch with his dean can't get hold of him i've left messages because <{1><[1>eru's not progressing very well either <,> from <{2><[2>all accounts <[1>and <.>he's <[2>oh eru's progressing but it's not he's not um he's not attending he's he's lazy for his first and second period his first period is is religion well we've always known that that eru's not interested in in no religion mind you his report <,> his last report in religion is is quite good <.>l a lot better than what it has been i'm not <.>concer too too concerned about his religious activities at school it's <.>his well those are the only ones that <{><[>are <[>his english and <.>his and his <{><[>mathematics and his other subjects <[>his english is <.>not er not too bad his report's not too bad in that either well he doesn't seem to display it very much <&>18:00 at home as far as his english <{><[>is concerned <[>no well he doesn't he doesn't talk very much voc at home well maybe we've go to try and get him involved with us a lot more than we have been <{><[>rather than him going and doing his own thing which he's been doing for the last over the past year maybe we should take <.>a <.>b <.>a <.>m er a much er more in depth interest in him <,> than we've been doing in the past <[>voc oh <{><[><.>goodn <[>cos <.>he he virtually he just comes and go as he pleases just about <,> and just remember his parents is paying a lot of money for him to be over here word so i think we should take you know some interest in what he's you know more interest in what he's doing than we have been mm er well you've got to turn around and help with that too <{><[>cos sometimes <.>i i wanted you to come and and you can't be bothered <[>voc well let you make the first approach and let's you know <.>w i want to see him have a good exam <&>19:00 report this year <,> make <.>m approach him and we'll set set aside the time word and for both him and melinda cos i'm sure that they've got to <.>im they've got to improve a lot more on their schooling than they have been in the past well you need to put your input into that too not i don't i mean that's <.>n it's not fair that i should do it all the time well you set a time apart for us and we'll let's do it <,> voc say monday nights would be the ideal night to do it while <.>whil while whilst we're into family home evening ha don't give away trade secrets we don't have a family home evening well laughs better have it <,> er <,,> and get our get our children involved seeing we have er nathaniel <.>to to bring up now <,> er and how's nathaniel oh nathaniel is fine er i think yeah it should take him another <&>20:00 couple of months before he he will be starting er to understand us and what we what we do er <,,><&>4 what else do we need to do as far as our family are concerned us we need to we need to really we need to turn around and be more more together than er that's sometimes hard especially with the with the church activity we've got to do at the moment oh it <{1><[1>doesn't oh i can still do my church church calling and tut and um sniffs i can still do my church calling and and run the family too at the same time i don't have any <{2><[2>problem <[1>but still <[2>yes but you're running around during the day all the time <,,><&>3 yeah but <{><[>it doesn't <.>inter <[>doesn't <.>give doesn't give you much much things to do you know much time to spend at home when you're running around during the day all the time <,> <{><[>every day of the week <[>but i can <.>s er my family don't suffer from it <&>21:00 oh well let's make <.>a <{><[>a bone of getting something cracking <[>i was although i'm doing something for other people <.>i <.>i i still my family don't suffer with it for it sniffs okay is there anything else we need to do as far as melinda's concerned voc <{><[>yeah she's she's what she's twelve sniffs twelve she'll be thirteen soon so you're going to have to start treating her like a <.>f like a young lady and not and not fool around the way you've been doing with her lately <,> it's got to stop <[>word what about our <.>other what about marlene what's going to happen to marlene haven't got a clue voc sniffs marlene voc i <{><[>wouldn't like her to go home i'd her to find a job even keep at it cos i think <&>22:00 she's grown to be quite grown or got quite a liking to the place now <[><.>k word yeah but and she seemed to be settled down a lot better now than she has been in the past <,,><&>4 yeah well <,> maybe don't know sniffs just have to to wait and see this week about marlene yeah mm if she gets a job then when's she <{><[>going for an interview <[>word tomorrow i think tomorrow mm oh well <,,> so let's keep it at that eh yeah word <,,> i don't know how to turn this thing off <&>22:42 <&>end of sample