N = Narrator W1 = Woman 1 etc

N = Narrator W1 = Woman 1 etc.
N:
In Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra the Egyptian Queen is a 
very beautiful woman, and this is what people believed, up to now. This 
two thousand year old coin shows Antony on one side, and Cleopatra 
on the other. She doesn't look beautiful at all.
W1:
It's very difficult to find out when this idea that Cleopatra was a great 
beauty came into vogue. Cleopatra has a very low brow, a very hooked 
nose, and she does look as if she's forgotten to put her teeth in.
N:
This coin, now on display at Newcastle University, is a recent 
discovery. Because of it we now think of Cleopatra in a different way.
W2:
It's pretty ugly, um, I'm not sure how Cleopatra would have taken it.
W3:
This coin has given a lie really to how, ah – that she was what we now 
think of as a beautiful woman.
N:
This man wears fashionable clothes. He's got a long nose, a fine beard, 
and long brown hair. He is handsome, and looks intelligent. Is this a 
portrait of the man who wrote Hamlet? Is it a portrait of William 
Shakespeare?
We know very little about Shakespeare's life. This famous portrait was 
made seven years after his death. He has a thin beard, and he's nearly 
bald. In Stratford Upon Avon, in the church where he is buried, there is 
a statue of Shakespeare. He doesn't look like a great poet.
So is this portrait painted in his lifetime a true picture of William 
Shakespeare? We don't know. But a lot of people will go to Stratford 
Upon Avon to see it.

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Elementary
Unit 8 Video script
PHOTOCOPIABLE © 2011 Pearson Longman ELT
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N = Narrator T = Tomeku B = Boy
N:
At the end of August every year the streets of Notting Hill in London are 
full of people, music, and colour. The Notting Hill Carnival is a huge 
street carnival, like the famous one in Rio de Janeiro. About a million 
people come here to take part. Or simply to watch.
At the heart of the carnival is a spectacular parade. Seventy bands take