102 Audio scripts The underlined sections of the audio scripts indicate where the answers to questions can be found. cD1 Track 01 Stev Jenny: Steve: Jenny: Steve: Track 02 Reception: Customer Reception: Customer: Receptior Customer: Customer: Travel agent: Customer Travel agent: Hey, Jenny! Oh, hi, Steve. Nice to see you. Good to see you, too. How's it going? Fine, thanks. I'm so glad the exams have finished. Me too. So, are you going on holiday this summer? 0 to Mexico for the whole summer vacation, six weeks in total. That sounds great! What are you going to do there? Well, actually, it's a working holiday. 'm going to work at a school teaching English to children. What about you? I'm going to Paris for two weeks. ‘Are you going with your family? No.|'m going with my best friend, We've enrolled in a Language school to study French That sounds like fun. Have a good trip. You too. Good afternoon. Royal Mount Hotel. How may | help you? Helio ... Er, 'd like to book a twin room, please, for next week. One minute, please ... ll just check if we have one available. ... Yes, we do, sir. Now, I just need to take down a few details, if | may. Yes, of course. What name is the booking under? My name ... Duncan Geoffrey, That's G-E-O-double F-R-E-. s. jouble ‘Aha. And could | have a contact telephone number, please? Yes, 5762 23821 When will you be arriving, sir? ‘Some time on the evening of the nineteenth Of September? Yes, and we'll be leaving on the twenty-third. How much will that be in total? So ... That's a twin room ... For a twin, it would normally be £235, but | can give you a special rate as it's low season: £210 for the six nights. Great. Thank you. ‘And how would you like to pay, sir? We accept cash, cheque or credit card, IU pay cash on arrival, if that's OK. Of course, sir. We look forward to seeing you. So, what are the differences between these four hotels? Well the main difference is in the facilities they offer. The Hotel Sunshine is the only one which has a gym and it’s also got one of the top health spas in the area. It's next to a lake so you can do water sports there. But if you really ike sailing or waterskiing, then the Highland Hotel would probably be the best place because it offers great instruction programmes in these sports, ‘Actually, I'm not a sporty person. OK. Well, what about the Hotel Carminia? It's a brand new hotel, and it prides itself on its cinema and multimedia centre. And then there's The Roval. This one has a conference room, a meeting room, and free computer access, but its not really appropriate for children; there’s not much in the way of entertainment. Listening for IELTSTrack 06 Tourist office assistant: Tourist: TOA: Tourist: TOA: Touri TOA: Tourist: TOA: Tourist TOA: Tourist: TOA: Tourist: TOA: Tourist: To Tourist: CD1: Tracks 01-06 Well, 'm going on holiday, not to work, and it's just my wife and me so | think we'll book with the Hotel Carminia, please. So, there's a great walking tour tomorrow morning. Or tomorrow night we could go on the cruise round the harbour. What do you think, John? Well, we've got theatre tickets for tonight, so we'll be too tired for the walking tour in the morning. But | don't fancy the cruise, either. Why not? It'll be fun! Look, it's a dinner cruise, and it’s only $12 each. Lhate the sea, and 'llbe sick with fear ifthe waves are big! And dinner ... ona boat ... just couldn't But we'll be in the harbour! Still... Ah, but what about this? There's a bus tour tomorrow evening I's only $5.50 and it goes all ‘around the main tourist sites! Yeah, that sounds OK .. [fade] Where shall we eat tonight? Well, there are plenty of options. The guide says this city has hundreds of restaurants. What kind of food would you like to have, John? Well, I quite like seafood. There’s The Captain's Table on Firth Street. The guide gives it four stars. | don’t know ... The hotel receptionist told me the service is slow. But if you like seafood, there are a couple more places in the guide. ‘Ah, yes ... Mangan’s or Joe's Café. What about those, Sam? Mangan’s could be a good option. It's nicer than Joe's Café, and there are fantastic views as well We'd probably pay abit extra ... Joe's Café is much cheaper. But we're on holiday; think we should splash out! That sounds great! Oh, no. Hold on. It's closed tonight. What a shame! Shall we go to Joe's Café, then? Yes, | suppose we'll have to. Ill give them a call and book a table. Can | use your phone? Ah, er ... no. Sorry. 've left my phone in the hotel, We can ask the receptionist to doit. Let's go back now and sort it out. We can get changed and have a drink before dinner if you like. OK, good idea. Hello, how can I help you? Um, hello. Is it possible to book a bus tour of the city here? Of course, sir. When would you like to take the tour? There are tours in the morning, afternoon, and evening ... sometimes it's nice to see the city at night with the buildings lit up. We'll be going out for dinner tonight, so we'd prefer to go this afternoon. Oh, and it's for two people. Right. Now | just need some details. Can you give me the names of the two people, please? Yes. Susan Field and James Carter. Susan Field and James - sorry, can you spell your surname for me, please? It's Carter, R Thank you. And can have a contact telephone number? Why do you need one? Just in case we have to cancel the tour and need to contact you. | see. Well, my mobile number is 07988 636197 (0-7-9-double 8~ 9-7). That's 07988 636197. Now, can you also tell me which hotel you're staying at? The Crest Hotel. Oh no, sorry. That's the hotel we're staying in next week. It's the Riverside Hotel. Oh! The Riverside is a lovely hotel. Are you enjoying your stay? Yes, we are, very much. We'd definitely recommend it to others. Oh | am glad. Now, | can book you on the tour at 4 p.m, Would that suit you? Alternatively, there is one at two, ‘Two would be better for us, please. Audio scripts 103TOA: Tou Track 07 Tourist: Tourist office assistant: Tourist: TOA: Tourist: TOA: Track 08 Dance schoot manager: Right, that’s booked for you, sir. Two people at 2 p.m. today, August 14th. You pay the bus driver when you get on, and it's £4 per person. Thank you very much, Can | also ask you about the museum in the main square? | was reading about it in my guide bbook and was shocked to see that the entrance price is £10. Why does it cost so much? Well, the museum has the largest collection of Latin American art in Europe. People come from all over the world to see it. But that's not the reason why it's so expensive to get in. You see, the building is very old and it needs repairs. The €10 ticket cost will go towards repairing the roof and the walls. I see. Well, I suppose it’s worth paying €10 to see the collection: Yes, | think so too. Is there anything else I can help you with? Actually, there is. | was wondering i you knew of any good restaurants in the area. Well, there are a few restaurants near the harbour, and a couple on the beach which are nice The problem is that the smell of the fish market is quite strong down there Mm, | don’t think my girfriend would be very pleased. | know what you mean - i's not very romantic, is it? My advice would be to go to the next town, 's bigger, and the restaurant selection is wider. You can get there by taxi and it only takes about ten minutes. The town is quite picturesque ... Is it for a special occasion? Yes, it's my girlfriend's birthday so I'd like to go somewhere special. Um, do you know any of these restaurants well enough to tell me about them? Well. | know about a few of them, and there are pictures in this leaflet here. This one here is. lovely - the Belleview — and it's extremely popular. Ithas a famous chef, so i's not cheap, but the standard of the food is very high. It's right by the sea and there are wonderful views if you get a good table. Then there's The Lighthouse Café - you can see the picture here ~ which isn't really a café at all. Infact, it's a great restaurant and a lot of TV celebrities and actors eat there. The place has been going for over a hundred years! It's quite an institution around here. Mm. I'm not sure about those two ~ they sound too expensive to me. Iwas thinking of somewhere small, not too up-market, but with good food In that case what about Harvey's? The same family has run this restaurant for over a century, {and i's reasonably priced and really popular with local people. And there's another family-run restaurant, Stonecroft House, New owners took over a month ago and they're getting good reviews. There's a new chef there and the food is meant to be very good. This leaflet has the contact details for all the restaurants so you can just call them if you'd like to book a table. Great, thanks. You've been very helpful. Hello, everyone. Sorry to interrupt your class. | just want to make a quick announcement about ‘our summer timetable. Shimmers Dance School will be offering new classes this spring due to strong demand. Angela Stevenson will be back this term, running the ballet class. This class will be on Tuesdays, and instead of the normal hour from 6.30 to 7.30, we'll be running the class for an hour and a half, soit will continue until 8 o'clock. This means we have to charge higher fees, but only slightly higher: from €8.50 (eight pounds fifty) to £10.50. That's only £2.00 for the extra half hour! Next, Janine Davis will still be teaching the tango classes. Instead of being on Mondays these classes will be on Wednesday nights from 7 o'clock to 8 o'clock. The fee will still be £7.50 for the hour. Last but not least, Andrew is taking over the tap class. This class is for early risers as it starts at 8.30 on Saturday morning and finishes at 10. We expect this class to be very popular as tap is a great way to get fit while learning new dancing skills. This will cost £11.00. All the other classes remain the same as the winter timetable. We hope there's ‘something for all of you at Shimmers! 104 Listening for IELTSTrack 09 Man: Track 10 Camp manage Track 11 Woman: Track 12 Leisure centre manager: CD1: Tracks 07-12 Internet safety is a big concern nowadays and to protect your children and teenagers online, it's 2 good idea to monitor the sites they visit. Don’t be put off from letting your kids use the Internet; it's essential for their education and can help them make friends too! Now, let me tell you a bit about some sites we've found for children. Of course, there's a limited number of sites for the very young, but we would suggest one called Playtime Online. It’s designed for children from four to six years old. I’s really colourful and helps children learn skills for games. Children love it and it helps them when they begin school. Then, from say five until about ten years of age, there's a really useful website called Moving Up. This takes Playtime Online a step further and enhances the maths and language skills of the child. Teachers speak highly of this site for child development. When children get into their teens, the Internet can be a more dangerous place. Net Aware, for the twelve to sixteen year age group, makes young people more aware of online dangers. It's a {good site for your child to look at before they start surfing on their own, Now, all teenagers love chatting, and Chat Electric is a site designed specifically for teens from thirteen to sixteen to make friends online with people their own agi The last site is invaluable for teens studying for exams. Sixteen- to eighteen-year-olds love Tes! Doctors, which is a site designed to help students revise for their exams and is full of handy hints ‘and tips. The site is run by subject specialists so it's packed full of information. The Health and Action Summer Camp in the county of Cork in southern Ireland is ideal for young people who would like to learn new sports and activities. It has a beautiful location near a river and occupies five acres. The camp has two types of accommodation; tents and cabins, both of which are modern and comfortable. The cabins are by the river and the tents are on higher ground, away from the river and next to the wash rooms. There are two washroom blocks, fully equipped with showers as well as toilets. We also have facilities for cooking here. We provide al the pots, pans and utensils. All cooking is done in the cooking area, which is situated in the centre of the camp. This gives the camp a real social focal point. The Duke of Edinburgh's Award is a programme of activities designed to help young people from all backgrounds develop personally. There are three levels: Bronze, Silver and Gold, and for each level participants have to complete a series of activities in four categories: volunteering, physical. skills, and expedition. This talk will explain what you have to do in order to get a Bronze award. The first thing you need to do is find a Duke of Edinburgh centre near you. This could be your school, college, or youth club. Then you'll need to pay a small fee to enrol in the programme. Once you've enrolled, you'l get a. welcome pack which explains the four categories in more detail. Then you can start planning what to do. You can do many different types of activity for each category, but you must byyour Duke of Edinburgh Coordinator before you start so you don’t waste time doing something ‘hich is not approved. The other important person is your assessor. This is the person who wil certify that you've completed each activity by signing your record book. After you've completed all the activities in the time given, your assessor will send your record book results to the operating authority, who will check it. If everything is satisfactory, you'll get your certificate confirm you've completed the award. And after that, you can start working on the Silver award! Good morning, everyone, and thank you for coming to find out more about the new Teen Programme here at the Park Hill Leisure Centre. I'd like to take you through the programme, the classes available, describe the building itself, and then give you some information about how to Audio scripts 105106 Track 13 Leisure centre manager: Track 14 1 glaciers register and sign up for the sports and activities we offer. Afterwards, you'll have an opportunity to take a tour of the centre. We also have some taster sessions with our instructors, which we hope you'll enjoy, and which will motivate you to sign up! Let's go through the classes first. As you can see from the Teen Pragramme handout in your pack, we have lots of classes on offer. Our instructors are highly qualified and have lots of experience training young people. Diana is our dance instructor, and she gives classes in jazz and. salsa on Wednesday and Thursday evenings respectively. Jim usually takes the football practice sessions, but this year he is branching out into American sports and will be running the baseball club on Saturday afternoons. We think this will be very popular. So Steve will now run the football practice. This class has been changed from Saturday to Sunday afternoons. Steve will also take the skateboarding class on Monday evening, The roller-skating course is for beginners, and this will be taken by Stella, who was last year's under-21 London roller-skating champion, so you'll be in good hands with her expert advice. The day of this course is stil to be arranged but it’s likely to be ‘Tuesday. We'll confirm the day by the end of this week. Now some of you won't have been to Park Hill Leisure Centre before, so let me just tell you a little about the layout. As you can see, the reception area here is very spacious, and there is plenty of oom to meet your friends and have a drink. We also have brand-new dance studios with floor-to- ceiling mirrors and the latest audio equipment. The dance studios are to the left of the reception area, behind the swimming pool, No ... sorry... | meant opposite the swimming pool. Both the roller skating and skateboarding classes will be held in the Skate Arena. This has also been refurbished and we have a new five-metre ramp in there which is proving to be popular. The arena is behind the changing rooms, which you can see behind us, between the aym and tennis courts. ‘The tennis courts are on the right of the arena. You'll see both of these new spaces on the tour later, "Now, the final thing | want to talk about is how to join the Park Hill Leisure Centre and enrol for the classes. First you need to complete an enrolment form with some of your personal details, including your address and telephone number and the name of your school. If you're under sixteen years old, then you'll also be required to get your parents’ permission to take part in the classes. Please ask ‘one of your parents to sign the authorisation form attached to the enrolment form. You'll find the form in your information pack. When you've done this, you just hand the forms to reception. You can annual subscription of twenty pounds, or alternatively, you can pay each time you use the facilities. There is a one pound sixty admission fee in this case. Whether you decide to pay in one go or with each visit, you still need to complete the forms in your pack and become a member. Once. ms, we'll send your membershi ur home address. All you need to do is show this card every time you come to the centre, and if you want to book a class, you just need your membership number on your card. Itis assumed that glaciers move slowly, but occasionally they have surges and move up to fifty times faster than normal. 2 salinity ‘The Dead Sea is famous for the salinity ofits water. 3 humidity ‘The humidity in tropical areas can make you very tired. 4 kilometres The oceans can reach depths of eleven kilometres in places. 5 pressure Altitude sickness is due to a reduction in air pressure.CD1: Tracks 13-17 6 evaporation Rain is mainly caused by evaporation from the oceans. 7 environment We need to look after the environment around us. 8 biology Biology is a branch of the natural sciences. 9 brightness Our perception of the brightness of the sun changes with the seasons. Track 15 Hi, everyone. How are you all? I'm fine thanks, Linda. Actually, 'm not feeling so well - | think I've got a cold, Oh no, Steven. I'm sorry to hear that. What about you, Joanne? Joanne: _ I'm fine, but I'm very busy with my biology course, John: Oh, me, too ~ there's so much work to do. Joanne: _ In that case, we should get started on our essay. John, do you want to start? John: OK... Let me start by telling you my ideas for the essay. Track 16 Alice: We've really got to decide who does what for our Natural Earth project. Karl: OK, Alice. Well, we've got all our cloud research so let's decide how to break it down, Well, we should probably start by saying how clouds are formed. Good idea, and then maybe move on to the different types of clouds. We can separate it into low-lying, medium-level and high clouds. What do you think, Jenny? Yes, | think that's a good idea, and we should also make a PowerPoint to make ita bit more interesting, ‘and put in pictures of the different clouds. Good idea, Jenny! We should probably have cue cards, too. I'm useless at remembering what to say without them! Karl: Yes, me too! Well, 'm quite happy to organise everything we've found out about clouds and make sure it fits into our presentation times Alice: Actually, Id better do that. I've got all the research on my computer so it makes sense. How about if you make the presentation slides, Karl? Karl: OK, Alice, That's fine by me. Well if you guys are going to do that, then Ill took on the Internet for pictures of the different types of clouds. That'll be great, Jenny. IL also make the prompt cards so we don't forget what we're saying during the presentation. Karl: Sounds great. Let's have a run through on Tuesday. What sections does everyone want to talk about? I don’t really mind. Lh king in front of people so I'd prefer not to do the introduction. | don’t mind, IU do that. if you don’t want to talk much, then why don’t you just do the middle bit about the medium-tevel clouds? Yes, | can do the low-level and high-level clouds part, 'm sure Jenny can handle the summarising, too. Thanks, guys. We can all take questions together. Hi, Roger. Debbie! Hi. How are you? Oh... I've been struggling with my Natural Earth assignment. I's proving to be really dificult. The one for Professor Black? Me too. I'm writing about volcanic activity. What are you doing yours on? Acid rain. | thought that would be OK, but the process is really complicated. Well, | can help you with it!| know alot about acid rain. | studied the causes and effects last year. Audio scripts 107