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Anna, a schoolgirl

Clip Anna
At the moment, I like boys with quite long hair. Also they’d have to be quite a lot like me, like
the same things, but not treat me like a girl, treat me more like a friend. I have seen the perfect
boy actually, whom I walk past everyday as I go to school. He’s absolutely gorgeous. But boys
in general, as long as they’ve got a good personality, although that sounds like a cliché, it is
true, that is the only thing that really matters - but good taste in music and clothes also helps!
Sue: Anna is 15 years old, and she goes to Prendergast school - a secondary school
in South East London. Like most teenagers, Anna’s very interested in pop
music and clothes, and she juggles school studies with spending time with her
friends. During the programme, we’ll hear Anna talk about where she lives, and
her favourite pop bands. First, Anna describes her bedroom at home. In one
corner, there are the treasures of a much younger Anna - dolls and teddy bears.
But there is plenty of evidence of her current passions for fashion magazines
and pop music, especially a kind of American pop music called grunge. Anna
even describes herself as a “grunger”!
Clip Anna
I’ve got loads of posters on the walls of my favourite bands - which are grunge bands and
metal bands - and I have a desk with my work concealed inside and next to my bed I’ve got a
CD player and speakers and a radio. I also enjoy reading magazines as you’ll notice - on my
floor we have a lot of magazines spread everywhere which I haven’t tidied up yet. And in the
corner of my room I still have my dolls’ house which I’ve had since I was about 4. This is kind
of a memory of days gone by when I was a little girl and not a grunger. I also have dolls and
teddies which I still love very much and I can’t bring myself to get rid of them, so they have to
stay there.
Sue: In another corner of Anna’s bedroom is her guitar, and she’s recently learnt to
play several pop songs. So, on a typical weekday evening, before she settles
down to do her homework, Anna practises playing songs like Live Forever by
Oasis. Oasis is one of the most successful British pop bands of the 1990s. As
well as playing the guitar, Anna listens to something from her CD collection
almost everyday!
Clip Anna
When I get in from school, I generally like to put some music on and listen to rock music,
grunge or metal - which is kind of guitar based music. I like to listen to Nirvana, Bush, Placebo
but I also like Oasis which I’ve liked for quite a few years now and I also like to play the music
on the guitar and sing it. And Live Forever by Oasis is one of the first songs I actually learnt to
play on the guitar which I’m quite proud of and memories of that song often come back to me.
Sue: Now Anna introduces us to her best friend, Rebecca. They’re both in the same
class at school, and they both face GCSE exams in a few weeks’ time. GCSE
stands for General Certificate in Secondary Education - these are the major
public exams taken by students at the age of 15 or 16 in England, Wales and
Northern Ireland. To get a place at college, you have to achieve good results in
about 6 GCSE exams - so for students like Anna and Rebecca, the pressure is
on! The girls first met when they were 11 years old.
Clip Anna
My best friend is Rebecca Toogood. We’ve known each other for going on about four or five
years now, I can’t tell exactly what it is but we first met at this school when we both started in
the first year. I don’t remember exactly how met, but I think we were talking about subjects - it
was one of the first days of school and I think we just hit it off.
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