15 Multi-ethnic Britain 45 Reading: An interview with Fatima Cummins Read the text boxes below and put them in the right order. If you get stuck, try to find question-and-answer pairs. Then sort the pairs. 1 Fatima: Thank you. 2 Fatima: Yes, of course! I’m 39 years old and was born in Notting Hill. Our family is from Trinidad, and I’m British. I’m a single mother with a 10-year-old son. I have a part-time job as a waitress at a pub in North London. I also sing a lot in our local school, and I sometimes help out in the after-school club. This is great fun with the kids from our neighbourhood. 3 Fatima: No, not at all. Our community is very strong and there is hardly a weekend when we don’t get together somewhere. Sometimes it feels like in the old days when we met in our front room. But things have also changed a lot. When I was young, nobody was well-off. So we shared a lot. It’s not like that today, though. There are quite a few people in the area who have made a lot of money recently and that shows. 4 Fatima: Well, I’m not sure. When I see them walk around with their smartphones and stuff I think they are pretty spoiled today. They cannot share the feelings we had when we were young. The situation is totally different. And sometimes I have the feeling that they are not aware of the history of their community. But … what really counts is that people have got used to us being around. That’s probably the biggest change. 5 Fatima: Hi, John, and thanks for the invitation. 6 Fatima: Well, sort of. I mean I went to a normal school in the area, but I was also part of the Caribbean community. My friends were mostly from the West Indies. But later, when I started going out, I also met a lot of other people. Quite a common thing in London these days. 7 John: But do you think that the younger generation has the same identity as yours? 8 John: Sounds great, Fatima. Let’s talk a little about your family and your background. You have grown up in a Caribbean community, is that right? 9 John: Well, Fatima, can you tell us a little about yourself, please? 10 John: Well, Fatima, thank you very much for this interview. It was great talking to you. 11 John: This is John Garner and this week’s programme of Colourful Britain with lots of interviews and music, music, music! This week the focus is on Trinidad. Our first guest is Fatima Cummins, whose parents were born in Trinidad. Hello, Fatima, and thank you for popping in to our studio this morning. 12 John: What about traditions? Do you still share the traditions of your community or have these memories faded away? 11 5 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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