Feifei Hello and welcome to The English We Speak. I’m Feifei.
**Rob
**And I’m Rob.
FeifeiHey Rob, have you ever wondered what you’d be doing if you weren’t here?
**Rob
**Hmmm… Lying on the sofa, watching TV I expect.
FeifeiNo Rob. I mean in your career – if you weren’t a talented presenter like you are?
**Rob
**I’d be a financial whizz-kid: investing in the stock market, making loads of money.
FeifeiA whizz-kid? You mean someone young, very clever and successful at doing something?
**Rob
**Yes, that’s a whizz-kid! I don’t know why I didn’t do it.
FeifeiDo you want me to tell you?
**Rob
**No. Let’s just hear about some other whizz-kids who are young, intelligent and successful, just like me…
**Examples:
**My nephew is a computer whizz-kid: he earns a fortune fixing people’s laptops!
Our new financial whizz-kid has come straight from university and he’s doing really well.
She was a whizz-kid at university, so it’s no wonder she’s now a partner at one of the top legal firms.
FeifeiSo they are whizz-kids – clever, successful or skilful people – and most of all, they are young, like kids! And there’s the problem Rob.
**Rob
**A problem?
FeifeiYes, you’re not young anymore.
**Rob
**OK, clever then!
FeifeiHmm, I’m not so sure about that.
**Rob
**Alright, successful – one out of three isn’t bad.
FeifeiWell, erm, errr…
**Rob
**OK. Perhaps I’d never be a financial whizz-kid. Maybe I’ll stick to my other plan.
FeifeiWhich is?
**Rob
**Sitting on the sofa, watching TV. I’m off to do it now. Bye.
FeifeiHmm, not a whizz-kid then, just a lazy man. Bye.