Speaker 1 Kevin is very quick to think negative things about people. Even when he talks about his best friend, he always tells you about his faults. And if somebody hasn’t got any faults, he invents them

Presenter

Wow! That’s a lot of money. So, what went 

wrong?

Trudy

Eventually, people got suspicious. The Boston 

Post began to investigate where Ponzi’s money 

was coming from and the investors got nervous.

They started asking for their money back, but 

Ponzi couldn’t pay: he owed them millions of 

dollars he just didn’t have. His scheme 

collapsed, and Ponzi was arrested. He spent 

fourteen years in prison and then he was 

deported to Italy. From there, he went to Brazil, 

where he died penniless in 1949.

Presenter

Which just goes to show that it doesn’t pay to 

cheat. Trudy Metcalf, thank you for joining us.

Trudy

My pleasure.

2.31 Cumulative Review 5, Exercise 1

1

I love the commercials Sony made to advertise the Bravia 

television – they did quite a few of them at the time. My 

favourite one is the paint one, because it’s so colourful. The 

advert starts with a shot of an old tower block in a fairly 

bleak-looking housing estate. During the advert, the tower 

block gets painted, but not in the way you might expect. 

What they do is to have the paint exploding like fireworks, so

that there are big splashes of colour all over the screen. The

explosions are timed to coincide with the music, which is a 

stirring classical piece – it’s really well done. The only 

person in the ad is a clown, but I’m not really sure what he’s 

there for.

2

My favourite ad is the Darth Vader one – do you know the 

one I mean? This little boy is dressed up as Darth Vader 

from Star Wars, and he goes around his house trying to 

make things move. First he tries his mother’s exercise bike, 

but that doesn’t work, so he tries the dog, the washing 

machine and even a doll in his sister’s room, all without 

success. Then his dad arrives home in his VW Passat and 

the boy tries his luck with the car. To his delight, he 

manages to start the car. Of course, it’s his dad who has 

done this from the kitchen with the remote control, but the 

boy doesn’t know that. I just love the way he jumps back in 

surprise when the headlights come on.

3

I think one of the best adverts I’ve ever seen is the one for 

the game 

Clash of Clans

. It features the actor Liam Neeson 

and he’s in a café, waiting for some doughnuts and playing 

the game. When he loses, he starts threatening his virtual 

opponent like he does in one of his films – 

Taken

, I think it’s 

called. In the film, Liam Neeson’s daughter is kidnapped and

at one point, he’s talking to the kidnapper on the phone: ‘I 

will find you and I will kill you,’ he says. Anyway, in the ad, 

he uses similar words spoken with the same kind of voice – 

it’s really quite scary. The server in the café thinks so, 

anyway, especially when Liam corrects him for getting his 

name wrong.

4

This one’s an advert for my favourite chocolate: Terry’s 

Chocolate Orange. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen one of 

these, but it’s a big orange made out of pieces of chocolate 

and you have to hit it to make the pieces come apart. 

Anyway, back to the advert. It starts in an office, and one of 

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the employees breaks the chocolate orange open with her 

phone. Next we see a man breaking an orange with one of 

his wife’s new shoes, and a little boy opening one with a toy 

hammer. Then we see a boyfriend and girlfriend sitting on 

the sofa waiting for the girl’s mother to bring in the tea. Just 

as she opens the door with the tray, the boy tries to break 

open his chocolate orange on the table, but the table is 

made of glass and he breaks it. You really feel for him in 

that moment.

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