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SECTION 1
BSerTIONIst: Good afternoon, Dreamtime Travel. How can Thelp you?
eustomer: Ob hello. I'm interested in the holidays you oer along the evsst near
bere
MECEPTIONIsT: Yes. We operate several tours up the coast, Where in particular did
you want 10 go?
custourn: Wel | tke the sound ofthe holiday that mentioned whales, Was it
“Whale Watching’?
RECEPTIONIST: Ob, that’s our (() Experience Us very popular and its Example
‘based in 4 lovely little town with nice beaches
custoMeR: ‘Ob right, and how long does it ast?
sNecuPTIONIST; [two days tht includes four hours‘ trmvel time each way trom
here.
customer Good) I don't want to be wway any longer than tit, So is that by
ouch?
RECKPTIONISI: Actually its’ © We like to keep those tours small and or
Personal so we don take a whole coachloud of people In fact,
we only take up to 2) ‘on this tour, although we do run it @z
with just twelve or thirteen
customer: Oh. right, So do you run these tours often?
MICEPTIONIST: Welt depends on the time of year. Of course in peak times like the
Summer holidays we do them every weekend, but st the moment i's
Usually once a month at most,
CUSTOMER: ‘And when isthe next one going?
RECEPTIONIST: Mmm let me see, Um tl
@ and then we don’ have another one until une the 2nd, Q3
customer: Allright, and is April a good time to go?
MACEPTIONIst: Pretty good. Though the really good time is late ia the year. I have to
Sr tnouah that the whale sighting is only ane of the many things
offered
CusTOMER: Really?
RECHETIONIST: Yes The hotel itself where you stay has great facilities W's culled
The Pallisudles.
custome; ‘The Paris what?
RECEPTIONIST: No, it's actually The Pallisadeys)” Wsrighton — Qy
the main beach there
customer: Oh. I se.
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AScEPTIONISY: Allo the rooms have nice views and the food is really good there too.
costoMer Ob right,
custome
‘And what uboat the other things? You know. that are @) in the
price.
aecrerionist: Oh, there are lols of things If you(? — want to do the whule watch
cruise, your guide will take anyone who is interested cither on
(9 through the national park near the hotel, and there's — QS/Q6
forthatorona (7. That'van QQ. think,
And there's also a) park in town ~ that costs more or less the
cusTOMER: No, I think 1 prefer whales to snakes,
Hecutionist: Yeah, And if you just want to relax you are free to sit by the hotel
pool or go down the beach. Oh, and they also have WY
at the hotel, but you have to for those by the hour. But there
are (16) tables downstairs and they're) of the 5106
yo » package. Just speak to your guide.
custom: Well that sounds good. So (5) isthe®) tou >
Arcrpnionist: At this time of year it3(@2) around @) but let me check.
Er...0h, it's (2) c or
customer: And the next tour, are there any places on that one?
RECEPTIONIST: om is it for?
‘CUSFOME! are two of us.
RECEPTIONIST: “Yes, that should be fine, Can 1 just mention that we require all
@ to be made at least @. before you travel to se
‘avoid (2) of tours And if yous) within seven days
of departure you will have to pay 50% of your total booking.
CUSTOMER: OK.
RECEPTIONIST: And you also need to pay a@) deposit at the time of booking. eo
cosrome: Cun I pay that byGU
necePTIONIST: Yes, you ean,
CUSTOMERS All right, what ('l do is 1 talk to my partner and get back to you.
RECEPTIONIST: Fine. So I'll make a provisional booking, shall 1? myoyne Whale
‘Watch Experience. Let me issue you with a customer $2)
for wien you call buck. Do you have & pen?
cestower: Yes,
RECEPTIONIST: OK, it’s three nine seven, four five, T. That's T for tango. When Ql
‘you call back, ask to speak to the Tour Manager. that’s me, Trucy.
customer: Fine. { will,
SECTION 2
Hello and welcome to today’s “Buyer Beware" programme, where we give you some on.
howto your) wisely. Now, in todiay’s show we'e looking a) for(s) and
Dbubies. Let's start by looking at baby() that's for children of up to ) old. We
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tested!) all in the Budget price ranye and. is usta, we will feature the?
the -and our (4)
The first cot we looked at was by Baby Safe and i€ had several goud points to recommend it.
‘Our testers liked the fact that it had four’) so it was easy to (2) The only
ight(?> with this cot were that ithad no({) _, but they didn’t think that mattered
too much. At first they were s bit coneerned about the(3) because they Felt babies
‘could trap their 0)” in it, but our testers felt that this was!) to happen so they
have given this one a verdict of ((e) ‘
‘The next cot was by Choiee Cots and this time our testers were((S) 0 find a cot which
is simple to (7) unlike others we looked at. On the {/5) our testers did
‘not like the Fact that the side of the cot did not > making it difficult to 1D
newborn babies. However. the (19) with this cot was thel! between the burs:
‘our testers found they wer@l)» and a buby could easily) isa). We felt this
was «real safety havard and su we have labelled this one(3) tm afraid.
‘And finaly better news for the Mother's Chowe vot. This cot wats slightly different in that.
although the side bar did nat drop down, the base could bel) orl) into wo.
different positions making iki) as well as?) The!) for this one were
quiteW) the only niggle everyone had way the fet that it has nef) and the only
fother problem anyone coutd find, was that there were() which were simply stuck
on and so could easily become detached. The makers have now promised to discontinue
this practice. As this eot will then be safe in every way, we have made the Mother's Choie
cot omG2) —_, Congratulations Mother's Choice!
So. whai(}3) should you look for in a baby’s cot? Well obviously? isa very
important factor as well as (35) and 44) We recommend that, if you are
buying a cat, do make sure that any(3}) present is not rusted or bent in any way.
You should ensure your eot hits only(3) —or(%8)-—_ edging without any) edes,
this 1s especially important for wooden cots.
And now on to beds for toddlers
SECTION 3
ANDREW: Excuse me. | was told to come here for . about.erm, (2
v Diploma courses?
Monta: — You've certainly come to the Fight place, 1H. my name iy Monica.
AxpRrW: Nice to mect you. My name ts Andrew, Andrew Hartis:
MONICA: So. Andrew: have you seen our diploma course prospectus yet?
axprew: Yes, ['ve already looked at it. In fact, | thought the information on course
content was really but malraid 'ma bit @/ — by all the different
ways you can do the course: intensive. (5) und soon.
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‘Well, let's see i T can help. 1 think euch course type has its and
@ so itreally3) on yerr_your own study(4) and your
o circumstances, of course. Are you (C) ut the moment?
Yes, I've been working in th? section of the local
for the tast\3) And) that Tworked in the|!? of a W Q2r
for (wo years, So, I've got about tive yeurs of A>
‘And what f'm hoping to focus on is Personnel Management
And are you planning to) your? to (®) Fe You
a year off?
T want to know what my options are, really. | don't want tv () or
anything and my(a0) are) for me to get some more (42)
but obviously, it would be better if | could (4) without taking (00
rime time away from work.
Right, so you don't really want to do thee) then?
No, not really. It's also a G25) You see. my(@) have agreed
to pay (09) itself, but t would have to tke) leave if Q22
F want to study) and, well, I don't think | could30) 10 support
myself with no @) fora whole year.
OK, Well, you have two other (62) : you could either do thes)
course thit would be over) —_and you wouldn't have to take any time 23
off work ~ or you could do what we call a ‘modular’ course. You could do that
in eighteen months if you wanted or longer. it's quite 49) sand it would.
be up to you.
Mim. So what does the part-time course)?
For thar you would join an evening class und have a lecture (wiee w week. Then,
you'd have to attend 3) or @S) ‘one weekend a month,
‘What kind of coursework would Phave to do?
Well. it'sa G) You'd be expected to write) each month. which aIQ25
‘counts towards your final (4) ‘You have w cuse study to do by the end
of the course, which might 42) doing Wor something like that,
«and also you need to hand in a #) every four weeks. o241925
So. that’s quite a lot of work, then, on top of working every day. It sounds like
«lot of studying ~ and really tiring.
Yes you@S) wouldn't have much free time!
‘What about the ‘modular’ course? What would I have to do for that?
‘That's where you wet the opportunity to study 4 for short periods. Om
‘That way you ean cover a lot of GD and (4 and
«during the day. And each (SD) for), say about C2 27
4a time. There are obviows(53) in this ~ the main one being that you
can study ina much more(64) which some people much better. Q28
And how many of thesdS0) would [ have todo to get the@ 9?
The current programme id 5D _-~ and then you have to choose o29
6B) work in more GD) »'- ut you can base that on your job.and so O30
you don’t need to be away from the ollice. and how long it takes is up 10 you
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‘The important thing is that you don’t have to study and work. You cun
cus on one thing at a time,
ANDREW: Yes, I can see that. It certainly sounds(6)) would be more G2)
though. I mean. Td have to support myselt without pay for cach module.
MONICA: — That's ruc, so that might be (65) af you. Look, why don’t you talk this
‘over with your employers and...
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OK, so we've been looking at the S = of various and” groups towards the
® of their personal (=) how important they fet i is ta save money. and
‘what they save their money for. Onc(6) that we haven't yet considered is‘). Soi we
consider gender issues we're basically asking whether men and women have different {?
towards() money. and whether they save money for 0) things
Back in 1928 the British writer George — ‘Shaw wrote in his Intelligent Women's
Guide 10 Soviatisan and Capitalism that ‘A “? is supposed to understand 2)
©) and ) nd is therefore unwilling to accept essential instruction,” He also
‘said, “A woman, having fewer pretensions, is far mare (1) 10°. Now, though these
days people might) a lov of the ? contained in those statements, recent
research does suggest thut there ure some quite fundamental {“\ between (20) and
‘gM im thei?) 403) matuers.
a9 have found that women are far more likely tw save for their (2°)
and they are also more likely 10 save up in order to2?? ‘one day.
‘The same studies have found that men, 2? ~'. tend to save for) which
by the way takes a isingly large amount of the household4) in 2)
But the other main{{l) Yor men when saving money is their(23 > ‘When they're
carning, they'te far more likely to pul money aside for their(5+) than women are,
Now this is rather disturbing. becwuse in fact the need for women to save for thei old age
4s far greater than for men. Let's consider this for a moment. ‘Tp stat with, itis a fact that
Uhroughout the world, women are likely td" many years” than men, so they need
money to support them during this time. Since women are likely to be the ones lft
SH) gt? in old age, they may therefore have to pray for 0 | because:
they don't have al? "to (#1 them, Furthermore the high'2> rates in
North America ard?) Gy eyele tor( r=. Its the divorced women who
will most often have to? the and thus they need more money to look
after not just themselves but others
‘So what can be done about this situation? The) in North America is likely to
contain an (75) umber of(9) women. The research (5) that at present
for women it takes a7) _(o make them think about their future‘) situation,
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e) ‘numbers of women in (62) Positions there are signs that this is
beginning to happen. Then research also suggests that women (63) effectively
with their CH). situation because of tof ‘The best way for them to
(6). this is by getting themselves sproperly 62. so they une? on
other peoples A number of (© have been set up to help them do this.
This College, for example, is one of the educational 2) which offers night classes
in.) «and {¢). numbers of women are 5)... on such courses.
Here, they ean be givenl/6) on different ways of saving Many women are {19
invest in) and) tor instance, but these can be extremely (0). Its usually
advised that at least) of a person’s 2 should be inl! ty but for
the rest, financial!) often). taking some wellinformed (22 such
as this can give women the?) “skills nd knowledge they need for « comfortable,
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SECTION 1
LIBRARIAN: Good morning, North College Library. How can help you?
Mans | wats wondering if it was possible to join the fi
LIBRARIAN: Are you student at North College?
May No. I'm not, but someone told me it was possible to join, even if I wasn’t
MBeARIAN: That's right, it is Are you over 18? That's our minimum joining age
nas: Yes, Lam.
LIMRARIAN: That's no problem then,
way: Could you tell me what I have to do to join?
tumkagian: Wel, you'll need to come in to the library and fl out some forms,
‘You'll also need to bring wo” with you. We also need two
documents for [D, $0 a driving licence would be fine
MAN: Eve yot that and what else? A credit card?
LIBRARIAN: No, it needs to have your address on it,
MAN: Shall Pring?) would thatdo? 2
LumeaRtan: ‘That'll be fine.
MAN: Good. Does it vost anything to join?
HIMRARIAN: Well, iv’ free for students here but otherwise it per year or £25 if
you've got u current student card from another college,
MAAN J was at Westerley College until last yeur but now Fve got a job at
Jefferson's steel factory. Br. it's more expensive than { thought. My local
library is tree.
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But you'll find they don't have the range of reference’ hooks or facilities which
we buy for our students. That's why you have to pay to bean external member.
see, How many books ean f borrow?
We allow twelve items borrowed at any one time if you're a student, and
that includes CDs PVDs and videos. However, its only eightitems for OF
members of the public.
Fine, And how fong ean | have them for?
Well. you can have both fiction and reference books for four weeks which
isn’t bad really
And what happens if J return them late? .
Like al libra, ies there's fine system in place. The minimum fine ig” — but QS
it ean be much higher for some items - up to £S per week. We'll give you &
booklet with ali the detaits when you join. You can always renew itens if
they're not required by anyone else by telephoning or logging on to our website
What about the computers? Can I use them tree of cliarge
For college stuslents it's free, but for external members like yourself the frst
hour is frce and then we make a nominal charge of €1 per hour thereafter.
Do f have to book: in advance for them?
Oh, yes, it's advisable. Most people tend to book twenty-four hours an advance
although sometimes you can get ong with only six hours’ notice. However, the
earliest you ean book a computer is” hours before younced i, 6
and you ean only book une hour at atime. IN ny-one else hay booked the
computer out, then you may be uble to have another hour if you want,
We have a wide range of databases, so the computers are in great demand.
I'm thinking of doing some writing and 1 might need to access national
newspapers. Do you have them on these databases?
We do indeed. We've got all the big nationals, The Guardian and
The Observer. The Independent and The Times and Sunday Times.
iso got all thd” and a wide selection of magazines, or
Excellent, 1 assume you have photocopying faciitves?
Of cours. Soa shes far oth Ad a A black-and-white copies and
40p a sheet for colour. You can get\”” from the counter here ~it 08
doesn’t take coins.
OK. Oh by the way. another thing f was wondering about was if you ran
‘any writing classes through the library?
We do. but you'll have to speak to John Grantingham about that. He's our
resident author, Hee runs the ereative writing classe
Jobin. Grant Coehd you spl hat oe me pease?
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Ave the classes here at the library?
Yes he¥ here on Thursday evenings ob nosorry(? — — he's just ow
changed it. You can contact him by emailing the library.
‘Okay, Right. well that’s about all [need to know. Thank you. Vl be along
later this week to join. Thanks. Bye.Test 2
SECTION 2
My name’ Dan Pearman ang I'd like to talk but the work of Pedal Power, a small *D
baseal mainly in the UK. I'l be giving our contact details ut the end. pyone would like to
find out more about how to support us, eet
But first, how thecharity™ 1 gorthe idea of (3) 2» bicycles to levétiping countries
while 1 was in Eguador. I went therein 199% just ‘graduating from university. After
three years of studying. I wanted (0 Moved travelling. so Leecidedl 10 join a ou
(9 and was sent to Ecuador to. ‘carry out kind surveys. ‘The project
came to an end after five yearsand when | returned to the UK in 1998, I started ‘planing
Pedal Power. *
Where 1 lived in Ecuador was a very{i) My neighbour had thoi) «01 in
acaulte, whereas everyone else walked everywiere. My neighbours) was
unusually ® and for years J couldn't understand why. Then I realised havinga 12
bikemeant he could (i) — svithout mush trouble. Other foval
Carpenters could only accept jobs in a thrce-kilometre radius. so no matter how Ww
they were, they could never do as many jobs is my neighbour
ALPedal Power: we-colleci{(2) bikes in the LIK and send them to somie of the
wo in the world. When we distribuie bikes overseas we don’t give them away
for thee. We'd like to. but long term that doesn’t really help the local economy. The (
for bikes is enormous. which makes them very expensive locally. So we sell ‘them for 5% of
the normal price. But in arderto (5) we nced to-hawe a. on
of bikes which we send out 6)
‘One eximpie of a town that’s recived bicycles from Pedal Power is Rivas. [twas the first
lace I sent a full comtainer of bieyeles te. Most people there now oun x bicycle. The) gre
somuch, vou.wouldai\") — jtasthesume place. lo Tact,
there are more bikes than on the streets of Arnsterdam. if you've ever been there,
But Pedal Power stil needs your help. You may have read about some of our recent
(2 inthe British media. In August 2000. we simply} money. We had
containers of bikes ready 10 send. butl’3) At was a terrible situation. Q75
We managed to ensure the bikes went out on (ime. but the other problems carried on
Yor several months
Fortinately in October 2001 we won an Enterprise Award which helped {us enormously,
We invested fifteen of the (023) prize money to help secure our Q16
future. Winning the award helped raise our profile, and the money enabled os te pay all
ours) which represent our greatest expense. Pedal Power changes lives when
eeabne wets a bieyel from us. they sees 147% increase in ther income. We're currently
looking to invest ing) ‘$0 thal our office staff can do anieven better job. Because Q/7
of our work. people in a number of countries now have a better standard of living so far
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‘we've provided 46,000 people with bikes But we'd like to send more, af least $0,000 by
the end of the year.
‘Now there are many ways in which you can support the work of Pedal Power, not just
by taking « bike 10 a coligction in your area, 1 should also like to say if you do have a
bike 10 ZW it doesn’t mutter whut condition it’s in ~ if we can’t repair it, we'll strip
itdown for spare parts, Of course, to do that we aways need) which are 2) gisiiviz0
10 buy. so we welcome any that you can give. Also, you could help by contacting the
voluntary staff at our offives, they'N be abte (o suggest (5) you could@) go QUAIIVI20
eingioi) focus. People do all kinds of things ~ including, of course, sponsored.
bike rides. Also, we're always interested to hear of other?) that would®3) from — Q/8/7 9120
:G) —_ wconsignment of 85) and welcome suggestions from peuple who've been to
developing regions on their travels. We hope that by (ulking on radio programmes like
this, we will be uble wo) public G1) which will lead « G2) organisations
also giving us regular @) support, something that we really need.
{f you'd like some more information about where to donate an old bieyele or offer help in
other wa,» please contact us on...
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TUTOR: First of all Td just like to say, Cristina and tbrahie, that {really enjoyed
watching your video about © last week, and T could see that the rest
‘of the group did too. You did really well, and { hope that you gor a lot out of
it. Pa like to use this asa) session, where you refleet on the
‘experience of doing the project. So Cristina, 1 was wondering, what did you
(© most uhout making the video?
casstina: (0 using the(
HeroR: —— Isit the first time you've oporuted one like that?
‘CRISTINA: Yes itis:
TTR: Well the results were very good! Anything else?
CRISTINA: [also enjoyed visiting one of the British students we filmed. Vd never been
insidew Britis? before. or
‘OK Cristina. thanks, What about you, Ibrahim? What did you enjoy?
Well for me it was avery good £) 10 get to know students who are on
jother courses, because everyone in our group is studying English, und we
don't usually have much to do with the rest of the college.
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‘TuTOR: Great! if you haven't decided what to make yet {can tell you they'll love
tryingd) dishes. And of course, i's good for your English too. Cristina.
what did you tind”! What was the most ((2) of the project from the
point of view of the English practice?
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the @ ‘And that was very goou practice for me. And 1 also leamed
sone (s> that [hadn't heard before.
What abour you Horatiim? What was the most uscful for your English?
{twas listening to the/© students because they don't speak as slowly as
most of the( on our course, | think they: speak at (2 soit
forces me to got used 10 it. And they use a lot of &)
So you learned some new words which will be useful?
Yes.
Good. I'm glad it helped. Well, we've talked u little bit about (0> and
about (1) Were there any other‘! 9 What else did you feel
you'd learnt from the (lS) 2 Was it C4) in other ways?
es, well firstly, I earned how to use a video camera, And also, I think 1 really
earned a lot about working together with other people, I've never done
anything with a group before, and we had to find ways of (© erm,
and le) and sometimes (2) people, when they don't agree
with you.
“Yes, that is a very, 8) Iknow.
What about you, Ibrahim?
Weil think [learnt «tot ubout how important(®) ji, When you're fling
you think that everything's going to be @>) —_, but in fact we cut uround
half of it in the end, and then it was much better.
‘Good. Well, one lust thing 1 like to ask. What) do. ‘you think you, as
‘a group that is, made? 1 mean, to put it another way. if you had to do i all
over again, is there anything you'd dob) t
We didn’ very well. Por exumple, we didn’t (2) - when we'd
wo ‘each (t) of thee?) und we should huve agreed about
that in the beginning, because we were always late with everything!
Right. Anything else?
J think we should have tried 19 @r) more with the? {mean with
(©) nd the focus und that kind of thing.
So you should have been more(>) Do you agree, tbrahim?
Not really. In fet, think we were 100 @) We were 3s) sand
we didn’t have a lot of time, and we tried to do 100 much, 1o make a 6D
Next time I would make a shorter one and try 10 get the (© better,
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) wh udifferent() of course but you'll have an (23)
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Tonight I'm going to Uulk tw you ubout that remarkable continent Antarctica remote. hostile
and st present uninhabited on a permanent basis. For early() it was the ultimate
survival contest; for® ¢ me, it remains a place of great intellectual challenge:
while for the modern ()) its simply a wilderness of great beauty.
First. some fuets and figures. Antarctica isu place of extremes the (6) and
continent and over(*) limes the size of the UK. The iee-cap contains 31
almost 707% of the world’s fresh water and 90% of its ice. but with very low snows,
most of the continent technically falls unbelievably into the category of 6) | Huge Q32
icebergs, (0 the continent each year, while in winter half’ the surrounding ocean
WO over, which means its size almost doubles.
Research and exploration hus been going on in Antarctica for mre than |)
years. and has involved scientists from many different countries, who work together on.
research stations. Here (2) id technical support have been integrated int very 033
cost-effective way our Antaretic rescarch programme has several summers mily stations
aind lwo all-yeur-round ones, I was based on one of the all-yeur-round ones,
The@) are really self-contained communities of about twenty people
here’ living and working space. x Kitchen with a huge foad store, aQt) and Qi
ic) co enstire everyone keeps fit in thei spare time. The station generates
iwewngy —* ant G9 withthe outside worl using a etelite tek
Ourstution Zero One had some(C) {U wasn't built on find but oa an
(9 -shett hundreds oF metres thick. Supplies were beought to us on large sedis from
420) filteen kilometres away at the ive ede, O35
Living in the Antaretic hasn't always been so comfortable. (4) build-ups caused:
‘enormous problems for four previous sttions on the same site, which were 23? and
Finully®) dy the weight. Fortunately no-one was hurt, but these buildings became
«huge challenge te aeghitects who finully came up with a remarkable solution the
buildings are placed on) which can bef2S) — above the changing snow level 036
oon leys which ane extendable
@) sone of the most important aspects of survivi in polar climate, People living there
Aeed to obtain a lot more (ct) from their food, both to keep warm and to undertake
heavy physical work. Maybe you know that an adult in the UK will probably need about
) _ kilocalories « day on average: someone in Antarctica will need ibout(j) just Q37
over double! This energy is provided by foods which are high in carbohydrate and fat
Rations for fieldwork present un additional problem. They need to provide maximum energy.
‘but they must also be compact and fight for exsy()) ‘Special! boxes are prepared, each
ing enough food for one person for twenty days, You may be familiar with eoffeeprocessed by freeze-drying, which() __the quality of the food product while making «
w in weight well, this type of presentation is idea! in our situation. It wasn't
available to earlier polar explorers, whose diet was commonly (25) for their health.
{think that being at the cutting edge of science has a special appeal for everyone working in
Antaretica. in whatever eapacity, As a marine biologist, my own research was fascinating: but
i's perhaps 9 research that is the most crucial field of study.
Within this general field, surveying changes in the@S) — and (2) of the ice-cup is
vital, since these may have profound effects on world ses levels und on (77) O38
A second important area is monitoring the size of the hole in the('8? above
Antarctica, sinee this is an indicator of global ultra-violet radiation levels. Thirdly, bubbles
in the ice-sheet itselt’ provide an index off) because frozen inside them are samples 39
of previous atmospheres over the pust 500,000 years, and these provide us with evidence
Tor the effeets of such human activities as (0! and
There are an increasing number of opportunities fort) people to work for a period in O40
Antarctica ~ not only as research assistants in projects like mine, but also in a wide range
of) administrative and technical positions including vacancies for (47 Thope
that the insights I've provided will encourage you to take up these opportunities in this
fascinating continent.
TEST 3
SECTION 1
MAN: Good morning, please take a seat, How ean 1 help you?
woman: Well, I'm thinking of buying a new car and Md like some advice,
MAN: Sure, yes. Had you got any particulaé in mind?
WOMAN: I'm interested in a Lida T've had one before and liked il. But T haven't really Example
‘made up my mind
MAN: Sure, We've got various models. Umm. right. What about the any
ideas?
Woman: The one I've got at the moment's a 1.2 litre engine but [find it a bit on
Jong journeys 1 like a bit mord@’ this time. . .a 1.4 should do. or
© Teed a 1.6 oF anything.
MAN: Right. Well | think the model you're looking at is the Mux, Here's picture.
WOMAN: Oh. yes... have you got one in?
MAN: Yes. Til twke you to have a look at it in a minute. 1'H just get a Rew more details.
Er. .. Is there anything ebve to do with the engine? What kind of (@
do you want? | presume you'd want a manual?
woman: fd want ve never driven « car with manual gears. @
wan: Right. Well now, heres the colour’ for the Max. Have you given that any
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Yes
But actually, {think 4 prefer this) shade here Sky". 3
Yes. that’s popular too.
Uthink Ce) that.
‘You might have to wait a week or so for that colour, but I assume that'd be
OK?
Oh yes. fine
Well, we can go outside and you can have a good look at one, und perhaps take
it out, But first. can 1 just ask you about finanee? The cash price is going to be
somewhere in the region of seven and a half thousand. How would you like to
pay? Are you in a position to pay?) or would youneed4!)
Td like) provided the terms are ) 4
‘Well you can discuss that with my colleague in a moment; we have various
arrangements. And would you be interested in us taking your present car as
part(s) 2
Yes
OK, fine, So 1'l just need some details from you and then we ean doa
valuation ... ls that OK!
Fine, yes.
Royal’?
Could 1 have your full name?
Wendy Harris, that’s (15) 5
‘And is that Mrs... Miss... Ms...
1s actually. 06
‘Ob, right. And your address?
20 Green Banks.
Is that ‘Groen’ spelled as in the colour?
Yes, that’s right
OK.
Alon,
Is that
Not quite. it @o) or
Oh yes. theat¥in Hampshiee im’ it?
That's righe
‘And do you know your postcode?
Yes It's GU8 9EW,
Do you have x daytime phone number?
Well, L work at the hospital but it’. bit difficult to get hold of me. Lean give
you a number just for(2/) and then T'H get back to you when I can, os
Is that OK?
That's fine,
WS 0-7.9-8-2-5-T-6-4-3,
Fine. And about the ear you have now, wht make is it?
lesa ContiMAN: ‘Do you know the year or Hie model nume?
WOMAN: [think it’s 1996, und it’ called w2) — like the 3)
MaN: Then it must be 1994, because they brought out the Fox alter that.
WOMAN: Oh right, yes,
MAN: Mileage? Roughly?
Woman; Pm not sure, Pkrow it tes th: (004)
MAN: OK. What colour is ir? is
WOMAN: It grey, metallic grey.
Ma ve Right and one tast thing - what sort of condition would you say it’ in?
WouaN: 1d probably deseribe it as (5) Do you need to see it? I's purked outside,
Man: Not at the moment. no. Perhaps you could callin one day next week
SECTION 2
wan: As said earlier, there is | think at Rexford an excellent combination of
Physical and geographical W as well as having a rueal setting and
stillbeing® —to() London, something that will, certainly be of interest
to you is that Rexford is just (4) tomb) At Rexford we
have a strong (4). capability. We came 7th out of 101 universities in last
year’s research assessment, carried out by a government body and did
Particularly well in your particular subjects) ® and). Actually
we gol a top research grade of five for engineering. geography and computer
sciences One further point ~and { know from talking to you individually that
4 number of you may be looking for some(3) in industry after the
course is that ull our science and engineering research departments have
unusually close (0) with @ inthe) . Anyway that's enough
sales talk from me... Ul just take a sip of this coffee thats just arrived, thank
you. and then I'l say something about what actually happens when you apply,
Right . . . Now if you do decide to make an (3) what you do ik)
it directly to me in my department. | will then immedi ely send ds)
and the application process begins. Er... 1d like to say a this point that you
shouldn't worry if this process doesn’t work all that quickly ~ I mean
Ep onally there are postal problems, but most oflen the hold-up is caused by
~ the people you give as referees, shall we say, take their time to
‘reply. Anyway, its absolutely normal for this process to takel#). 10 W)
‘What I do in this period is keep in touch with you and reassure you
that things ure moving along.
(One of the wavs we've devised to help you decide about applying as well as
{ater when you've been accepted ... hopefully ...is to put you in contact
with. if possible,» student from your own(s) who is at present studying
with us What you can do is@@)~. them up — we will, of course, liaise between
you -and @ your @ with them. That way you can get an objective
opinion of what you can expect if you come to live and study at Rexford - not
only the (28) atmosphere but important details like what the}
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facilities ure like and wither the English ‘7. and food are really as ors
as everybody says!
If you decide you can face it, the contact can also help you just before you
(2. with tips on what to pack and that sort of thing. At the moment I think
we've got two) students and one (S) from this country.
Now to move on to the other concerns you expressed earlier, Ata UK
university ~as I'm sure you know - you will be in an (5) where
a —lcamningisthe(® — which takes most students a() to () lo
to, and at a time when you will be ((() from your normal (12)
and. in most cases, yourl3) This can bea/!) time. But remember that
something like“) of our student body are (/b) students like
yourselves, and that there are several (/!) in the university and city
whose main!) is to offer!) and ensure that your) with us is
oo and(i2)
‘One or two of you touched on the subject of (8) earlier. So Tit
Just add a few points: it is the University’s policy to give) in the
allocation of residence places td!) and those are: °"/
studems,”) students and 2 zstudents. However, 2 ar
exceeds, $0 theres still a need to put your name down carly for #/)
accommodation. particularly if your(22) is ©)... you. This means
that the earlier you decide whether you want to study with us... . und so get
the( moving, the better it will be for everybody. Yes?
What if you would’) to tive) the university?
If you're planning to live (27) -you've got (0 sort things out even earlier.
As with everything in\) supply, the good accommodation ge e up
months before the beginning of “) —in other words if youre “jg ors
= ing. 7 “or aL the very latest, So
You do need (o think very carefully ubout what you need, how much you can
(Ste pay, well ingens, What you? dois) it untit« few days
before the ©) of “? The” “in town ure pretty good — its just »
matter of () them in good time. Of course, we have a full-time
‘accommodation (2) . available to help all students. She'll get in?) with
you when you'ress) ~she's B0t plenty of contacts in the town and will o19
GY. ‘with the) "on your($?)
One or two of you asked me earlier about your\®) of (/5 )
Obviously most of you have already (i)) a lot -T wish I could speak your
language half as well. Having said that though, I'm alraid the 6) will
make little or no (62) forthe?) of (speakers in the
audience. So unything you cun do to (6): - your spoken English - even
beyond the pretty high levels most of you huve already reached
make your stay with us that bit more fun for you. Some(Ab), it
you/() - isworth more than. . . for example (5(), afterwards, when
you won't really have time. Ob .... and one last thing before I invite further
questions: i's very important that you ..
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SECTION 3 se
‘Oh Ben ~ 1 just remembered I never for Nick did you do it?
The course ack form?
Yes. If you want, we can de it together, I've got mine here.
EN: Is that OK?
ANNIE: Yeah,
EN: OK. let's have a look then. What do we huve to do?
ANNIE firs, ler’ see. Course, Course code...
ion . «in. . Business, I do know that, but what's the code?
©B162, isn't it?
axnis: Mmm, that’s it, OK and dates, when did we sturt? 1 remember,
« andit was (© itmust have been 7
WEN: Gosh, dosn't seem that long age. does it?
ANNIE; No, and we( ‘ so that’s Q)
wen: Br (a Right, that was ihe easy bit, now let's have a 2
look - “Please give your on the following 3) 3
OK, what's the first one? Oh, C3) Whit do you think?
anak: Er, clear? I was, wasn't it?
Ren: Yow. I think they (4) OK, anything else for course organisation” (23
Aww: Lew a good thing he gave ws” G5) atthe beginning, in the first Q2y
‘hat was useful, so I'l put that down, shall 1? Now, going on to 4)
‘one thing that wasn’t so good, Lhink we could have done a bit
‘More work at the beginning. I mean at the ‘beginning it seemed dead easy.
‘thought it was going 10 8 really easy and then all of a sudden in the (Ig) ors
of the course we gor x Whole load of work, reading to do and essays and, 4,
things. ss
men: Yes itl be beter ic was more even. OK. now (If) 3 does that 0)
annie: Yeah, | suppose so, Well. whut | thought was wally good on this course was the
(20 ~ Actually 1 mean some of the tecichers were betterthan = 25
jpibers but the standard generally Was fine. Much better than other cour ve
been on. r
we elt agree, Lets put tat then, What about 2) ?
ante: 1. «I didn’t think it was all ‘that wonderful when we had ereat long @7
@3) ‘that went on for hours and hours. | don’t mean we shoulder
ussions, just that they shouldn't go.on too tong.
Now.on0 @é)
‘Oh, now what was soadabout some WE wits the) 028
es Tthought att the £6) were good actittly, ‘and some were great, with
ey) and everything,
"eX: One problem though with materials was the 50)
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Annie: Yes! There just weren't enough (1) .- om: in thelS).-... And it you can't
Bet the key texts before the/ how are you supposed to do the ©?
And not enough® ~ You have to wait ages to get one.
wen: OK,(2 and 2) » =well, I don't know, it’s hard to say until we've got
our \) back.
Annis: Don’t talk about it, I only got mine in yesterday, it was a (!0)- Thate to
think what mark Pil get,
EN: Yes, but at least we've done the i4)) T thought that was good, the
way T got my (:):-. reully quickly,
Awwte: Yes, it was. And I liked the way we knew whut we'd be) on, we knew the
+80 we knew we had to think about (5). , and s0 on.
BEN: Yeah, but I'm: {(/) about the) ‘One thing [ think is that O29
there's just 100 much, i’ really stressful.
ANNIE: Yes, I'd agree and I don't see why they can't let us know thé. they use for
marking,
pen: The 1). 2? Rut he told us .
‘annie: No, for the final exams. What are they looking for - what are the? What
makes a! org
Yeah, never thought of that. I be really useful
OK, any other commenis?
| thought student support was excellent. 930
Yeah, me too. OK, excellent, Other comments?
‘No. I can’t think of anything else.
Nor me. OK, so that's done. Thanks, Ben,
en: No, thank you,
SECTION 4
STUDENT: Well, my group has been doing a project on how () is recycled
in Britain,
‘We were quite shocked to discover that only 9% of people here in the UK
@ to reeyele their household waste. This is figure than in
most other Europein countries, and needs to (¢P in the next
Few years if the government is going to meet its(©)
‘The agreed targets for the UK mean that by 2008 we must ©) our
(co emissions by), compared with 1990. And recycling can 3
help to achieve that goal, in two main ways: the (2) of recycled (0)
and@!) uses much tess (2? than producing them from\/?) materials,
and also recycling reduces (it) ‘emissions from landfill sites and
&) 932
As part of our project, we carricd out a survey of people in the street, and
the thing that came up over and over ‘again is that people don't think it’s easy
enough to recycle their waste. One problem is that there aren't enough(/l) 033
(Bites, that is, the places where the public are supposed to) their(/?)
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We also discovered that waste that’s collected from householders is taken to
places called “bring banks’, forv) and) _ into loads. One?
here is taking out everything that (5) placed in the recycling
containers: people put all sorts of things into bottle banks, like plastic bags
and even broken umbrellas. All this has to be removed) __. Another
difficulty is that toughened glass used fot.) doesn’t Fully melt at the O34
temperature required for other glass, and so that wlso has to be picked out by
hand. 1ov ae
(Git is easy to recycle because it can be reused over and over again without
becoming weaker. Two million tons of glass is thrown away each year, that is,
seven billion bottles and jars; but only(2) tons of that is collected and 35
recyeled.
daly enough, half the glass that's collected is green, and a Jot of that is
imported, s0(/7) green glass is recycled than the UK). Asa result, new
uses are being developed for recycled glass, particularly green glass, for example
in fibreglass manufacture and water filtration. A company called CLF
‘Agaregates makes a product for) and 30% of the material is crushed glass. 036
For recycling paper, Britain comes second in Europe with 40%, behind
Germany's amazing 70%.
‘When recycling started, there were quality problems, so it was difficult to
vuse( 24) in office printers, But these problems have?) been 3?
‘and Martin’ based in South London, produces a range of office stationery
which is 100% recycled, costs the same as normal paper and is of?) high
quality. :
‘But this high quality comes at a cost in terms of the waste produced during
the process. Over a third of the waste paper that comes in can't be used in the
recycled paper, leaving the question of what to do with it. One firm, Papersave,
currently sells this to farmers as 4) though this practice will 37
soon be banned because of transport costs and the smell, and the company is
Jooking into the possibility of (4)
(H) causes problems, because there are so many different types of plastic
in-use today. and each one has to be dealt with differently. Pacrite recycles all
sorts of things, from bottles to car bumpers. and one of its most successful
activities is recycling plastic bottles to make () which are used all over 38
the country to collect waste. ee
“The Save-t-Cup scheme was set up by the vending and(y) ) "" to
recycle as many as possible of the three-and-a-half billion polystyrene (0)
used each year: At the moment 500 million polycups are collected, processed
and sold on to other businesses, sich as Waterford. which ((') the cups into
(47 :and Johnson & Jones, a Welsh-based firm, which has developed a wide 039
varity of terme inctoding (34) 040
‘Well, to sum up, there seems to be plenty,of research going on irito how to
re-use materials, but the biggest problem is getting people to think about
recycling instead of throwing things away. At least doing the research made us
much more careful
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SECTION I
apviser: — Good morning, how can I help you?
StupenT: — Good morning. Umm, I understand you help?) students with host
armies.
apviser: That's right .. .are you interested in...2), sy .
STUDENT: Yes...
ADVISER: Well please sit down and I'll just take a few details,
svupeNt: Thank you. “
apviser: Right now... what name is it?
stupenr: Jenny Chana
‘Apviser: — Can youll) that please?
Stupent: Yes.) Example
apviser: Right. .and what is your) address?
STUDENT: Sea View Guest House,(?) a
apviser: OK, and do you know the phone number there?
sTupens: Yes... : Ihave it here, ummm... . 2237676, but lm only there after about 7 pm.
abviser: So when would be the best) to catch you?
stupext; — Lsuppose(?) dete see , before I leave for the college. Q?
apvisek: Great. .and can J ask you your age?
STUDENT: I've just had my nineteenth birthday.
apviscR: And how long would you want to stay with the host family?
stupent: — rmi(f) onstaying(() but at the moment I’m definitely here for» Q3
four) only. Ihave to get an extension tomy {!))
abviseR: You're working on it? Fine... . and what will be your((:) while
you'rein the UK? se
stupent: Studying English? .
AbviseR: And what would you say your!) of English is?
STUDENT: —_Uram. Good, I think Id like to says) but my written work is
‘below the level of my spoken, so 1 suppose it’s (4) oO
Abviser: Certainly your spoken English is advanced. Anyway, which area do you
think you would prefer? z
stupent: — Umumm, well 'm studying right in’ the’ceritre but I'd really like to live in
the (1) es
apviseR: That shouldn't be a great problem .". We usually have lots of families up
Abvise!
stupenr:
ADVISER:
STUDENT:
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there,
And do you have any particular (9 fort) >
‘Well, I'm hearly a0) Snot quite, ee Oe
Shall PSA} you are? 1e¥’piibablf taser that way. te
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ADVISER: Anything about your actual room?
StevENT: — T would prefer my own i!) ‘en suite’, is that right? And also if it’s
possible a TV and I'd also like the house to have(2) rather than 7
Just a yard, somewhere I could sit and be peuceful.
avviser: Is thatall?
STUDENT: — Well. . . I'm really serious about(3) my English so Td prefer to be
the oniy(4) if that’s possible? 8
Apviser: No other guests... Yes, you get more practice that way. Anyway, obviously
all this is partly dependent oni) you're willing to pay. What did you
have in mind?
STUDENT: — Iwas thinking in terms of about()) a week, but I'd go up tof?) 9
if it was something special,
apviser: Well [ don't think we'd have any problems finding something for you,
STUDENT: Oh, good,
ADVISER: And when would you want it for?
STUDENT: Tid like to move in approximately 4)
apviser: — Let me see, it’s the 10th today ....so if we go forthe!) it's the
G0) i ou
srupenr: Yes,
apviser: Right... . good, and if | could ask one last question . .
SECTION 2
Good evening everyone and thank you for coming to the |! meeting. It’s good to
see $0 many parents and children here tonight, and I know you are looking forward to a great
football? >. Now Ti like to take a few minutes to tell you about some!) 10 the
Soccer Club for the coming season,
Now. this season we'll be playing all our matches for both the and! . competitions
at King’s Park, instead of Royal Park, which was last season,
{P. for@) os we've going to use the ! in King’s Park, and the” meeting QU
will be held in the clubhouse on the’) of “)
Asusual, we hope to!) — the 1) with aff? at the clubhouse. Please Q/2
try and come to the picnic as it’s always good fun. The weck of the season we usually
& and presentation of\(" tothe “and more information about this Q/3
will be given to you later in the season,
This season we have? than ever. We hope tohave” teams. fin gre
the junior“) and they will play on()) . beginning at“ a.m.
a sessions will be held in King’s Park on(5) Jor the (2? ols
and they will be wearing") again this year.
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Inthe’) competition, there'll be”? teams, the same as ast year, and their games will
be played on (5) ‘sng ad, a00y, ie be 0? start, and
the (%4) forl3”? is planned for36
Now I'd like to introduce you to the new(;7) for the Soover Club for this season.
Firstly, let me welcome Robert Young. the new President, who will 5? the meetings for
the next two years. Robert’ son has been pliiying football with the club for over five years
‘now, and many thanks to Robert for taking on the job of (597
Next we have Gina Costello, she's the 0), and she will(#)) _ from you for
the season, Please try and give Gina your fees as early as possible in the season, as the
‘club(#2) the money to buy some new 7
“Then there's David West who has volunteered to be the club €) and one of the many
Jobs he will have is t0,(45) 40 you regularly. If'you have any information
‘that may be useful, please let David know so that it can be included in these“)
‘Also I'd Tike to introduce you to Jason Dokic who is the Head (f/) For all he new
members here tonight, this isthe third year that Jason has been with us as Head Couch,
and we are very lucky to have such an (“7 ‘coach and(7) player at our club.
He will continue tol) - at training sessions and on) days.
Now before we finish and have some refreshments, does anyone have any questions
they'd like to ask the new committee?
SECTION 3
TuTor: Right, Jason and Karin, now | asked you to look at the case study for Box
‘Telecom as part of your (0) It's interesting because they are in the
© ‘at the moment and I want you to how they
them, Lets start with you, Karin, Having read through the case study, can you
jus) ‘whut the (8) ‘were that Box Telecom had to take on board?
Karin: Um, yeah... . Well of course what first cume to their was that, despite
wnew(f) _ they were suffering from\9) = and this is
something that fad many causes. On top of that (4) «what had
‘also happened over the lust wo years was that, although they had () an
wD they had to face up to (43) And, before they
hhad a chance to get to grips with the effects of that, they were stalled by a strike
cand it was just when: ‘were thinking about making a colossal (4)
new 19) for theik’#) So they were'really if trouble,
Teron: Yes. | think that's fair. And Jason, you) the MO didn’t you?
‘What did the company) as the() for these)? ©
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a too(4) or at the wrong time, but in fact the signs were good and
what they were set back by was higho » At the same time, their O23
- problems, which were affecting their market were eventually
credited 10 poor(?) —_~ und having looked at the details in their last report Q24
ik that’s right,
‘TuToR:
KARIN:
‘TuToR:
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TuToR:
KARIN:
JASON:
TUTOR:
‘So, onto the larger issues then. Karin, what do you think the) —_will do?
Hmm . .. Well, obviously they have the choice of aecepting the very favourable
terms that another company - KMG Plc - have given them to buy them out.
‘That would mean creating a new company with « new image. Or they could
decide on a bolder move and offer some new} ) if they wanted, But I think
they're much more(0) than that and they will start trying tofind = Q25
on. 2D shey ness,
‘Well, you mustn't always (33) that (4 require dramatic
(5) ~ Sometimes there's a simple fix such as changing the guy at the top.
If they truly are cautious, then 1(&) _. they will seek to (3D some of
their shops. But a more (39) and one which I think would
have more(s3) _would be to() howtheyre(4!) — shings - the 26
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