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Time stamps,key moments, chapters
0:00 Intro
0:59 example
1:56 Part1 (Q 1to6)
4:34 (Q 7to10)
6:51 Part2 (Q 11to14)
9:44 (Q 15to20)
12:39 Part3 (Q 21to24)
15:35 (Q 25to30)
19:43 Part4 (Q 31to40)
26:43 outro
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Now turn to section one section one you will hear a telephone conversation between a woman who is looking for a job and a man from a company that organizes cycling holidays first you have some time to look at questions 1 to six you will see that there is is an example
That has been done for you on this occasion only the conversation relating to this will be played first hello Pembrook cycling holidays Bob speaking oh hello I’ve seen your advert for people to lead cycle trips are you the right person to speak to yes I am could I have your name please it’s
Margaret Smith the woman’s surname is Smith so Smith has been written in the space now we shall begin you should answer the questions as you listen because you will not hear the recording a second time listen carefully and answer questions 1 to six hello Pembrook cycling holidays Bob
Speaking oh hello I’ve seen your advert for people to lead cycle trips are you the right person to speak to yes I am could I have your name please it’s Margaret Smith are you looking for a permanent job Margaret no temporary I’ve got a permanent job starting in a few
Months time and I want to do something else until then what work do you do this will probably sound crazy I used to be a lawyer and then I made a complete career change and I’m going to be a doctor I’ve just finished my training right and have
You had any experience of leading cycle trips yes I’ve LED several bike tours in Africa the trip to India that I had arranged to lead next month has now been cancelled so when I saw you were advertising for tour leaders I decided to apply okay now we normally have two
Or three leaders on a trip depending on the size of the group some tours are for very experienced cyclists but we’ve got a tour coming up soon in Spain which is proving so popular we need an additional leader it’s a cycling holiday for families would that suit you it
Certainly would I enjoy working with children and I probably need some more experience before I go on a really challenging trip that tour includes several teenagers have you worked with that age group before yes I’m a volunteer worker in a youth club where I help people to improve their cycling
Skills before that I helped out in a Cycling Club where I taught beginners Well that’s great now the trip I mentioned is just for a fortnite but there might be the possibility of leading other tours after that would that fit in with your plans that would
Be fine I’ll be free for 5 months my job is due to start on o October the 2nd and I’m available from May the 1st until late September good now is there anything I need to know about the food you eat we usually have one or two
People in the group who don’t eat meat or have some sort of food allergy so we’re always very careful about that yes I’m allergic to cheese would that be a problem no as long as we have enough notice we can deal with that that’s great before you hear the rest of the
Conversation you have some time to look at questions 7 to 10 now listen and answer questions s to 10 it sounds really interesting would you like me to fill in an application form yes please where should I post it to could you send it to 27 our bunot
Place a r b u t h n o t place dumre and what’s the post code please d g74 p8 was that P Papa or B Bravo P Papa got that if you could return the application form by Friday this week we can interview you on Tuesday next week say
Halfast 2 would that be possible for you yes it’s fine you’re quite a long way from where I live so I’ll drive over on Monday should I bring anything to the interview we’ll have your application form of course but we’ll need to see any certificates you’ve got that are
Relevant in cycling first aid or whatever okay and at the interview we’d like to find out about your experience of being a tour guide so could you prepare a 10-minute talk about that please you don’t need slides or any complicated equipment just some notes right I’ll start thinking about that
Straight away good well we’ll look forward to receiving your application form and we’ll contact you to confirm the interview thanks very much thank you than you Margaret goodbye bye that is the end of section one you now have half a minute to check your answers section
Two you will hear a podcast about an area called the Sheep Market in a New Zealand City first you have some time to look at questions 11 to 14 now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 14 welcome to this podcast about the Sheep Market which is one of the oldest
Parts of the city as its name suggests there was originally a market here where Farmers brought their sheep but now it’s been redeveloped into a buzzing vibrant area of the city which is also home to one of of the city’s fastest growing communities the nearby university has always met the area popular with
Students who come in to enjoy the Lively nightlife but now graduates embarking on careers and the worlds of fashion and design are buying up the new apartments recently built here to replace the small houses where the market workers used to live the narrow old side streets are great places for finding original
Pictures jewelry and Ceramics which won’t break the bank as well as local produce like fruit and veget there’s also lots of pavement cafes where you can have a coffee and watch tourists from all over the world go by the oldest buildings in the area are on the main streets including the city’s
First department store built in the 1880s which is still open today the Sheep Market is a center for fashion and there’s a policy of encouraging new Young designers the young fashion competition is open to local young people who are passionate about fashion this year they’ve been asked to design an outfit
Based on ideas from the music and Technology that’s part of their everyday life using both natural and man-made fibers the garments will be judged by a panel of experts and fashion designers and the winning entries will be modeled at a special garer evening parking at the sheet Market is
Easy there are plenty of pay and display car parking spaces on the roadsides which are fine if you just want to stay for an hour or two but if you want to spend the day there it’s better to park in one of the four underground car Parks
It’s it’s not expensive and if you can present a receipt from one of the local stores you’ll not be charged at all after 600 p.m. many of the car Parks have a flat rate which varies but it is usually very reasonable before you hear the rest of
The podcast you have some time to look at questions 15 to 20 now listen and answer questions 15 to 20 the the Sheep Market is one of the main centers for art and history in the whole of the country if you look at our map you’ll see some of the main
Attractions there most visitors start from Crawley Road at the bottom of the map the Reynolds house is one of the oldest houses in the city and is open to the public it’s on the north side of Crawley Road next to the footpath that leads to the public gardens the area is particularly
Interesting for its unusual sculptures the thumb is just what its name suggests but it’s about 10 m high you’ll see it on Hill Road across the road from the bank the Museum’s got a particularly Fine Collection of New Zealand Landscapes it’s on the east side of the
Sheep Market on City Road it’s on the other side of the road from the public gardens immediately facing the junction with Hill Road the Contemporary Art Gallery is on a little road that leads off Station Square not far from the public gardens the road ends at the gallery it
Doesn’t go anywhere else that’s open every day except Mondays the Warner Gallery specializes in 19th century art it’s on City Road near the junction with Crawley Road on the same side of the road as the public gardens it’s open on weekdays from 9: to 5:00 and entry is
Free finally if you’re interested in purchasing highquality artwork the place to go is nucleus you need to go from Crawley Road up through Station Square and East Long Hill Road until you get to a small Winding Road turning off go up there and it’s on your right if you get
To City Road you’ve gone too far that is the end of section two you now have half a minute to check your answers section three you will hear two students Katie and Joe discussing a presentation in their film studies course first you have some time to look at questions 21 to 24
Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 24 Joe you know I’m giving a presentation in our film studies class next week yes well could we discuss it I could do with getting someone else’s opinion of course Katie what are you going to talk about it’s about about film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays
I’ve got very interested in all the different approaches that film directors take uhhuh so I thought I’d start with janetti who’s a professor of film and literature and in one of his books he came up with a straightforward classification of film adaptations based on how faithful they are to the original
Plays and novels right I’ve already made some notes on that so I just need to sort those out before the presentation I thought that next I’d ask the class to come up with the worst examples of Shakespeare adaptations that they’ve seen and to say why that should
Be more fun than having their favorite versions yes I can certainly think of a couple right next next I want to talk about Rachel Malco I came across something on the Internet about her work on film adaptations and I was thinking of showing some film clips to illustrate
Her ideas will you have enough time though both to prepare and during the presentation after all I doubt if you’ll be able to find all the clips you want perhaps you’re right okay well I I’d better do some slides instead saying how various films relate to what she says that should encourage
Discussion next I want to say something about how plays may be chosen for adaptation because they’re concerned with issues of the time when the film is made you mean things like patriotism or the role of governments exactly it’s quite true but I’ve got a few ideas I’d like to
Discuss before you hear the rest of the discussion you have some time to look at questions 25 to 30 now listen and answer questions 25 to 30 and finally I want to talk about a few adaptations that I think illustrate a range of approaches and make some
Comments on them do you know the Japanese film ran I haven’t seen it it was based on Shakespeare’s King Lea wasn’t it that’s right it was a very loose adaptation using the same situation and story but moving it to 16th century Japan instead of 16th century Britain so for example the
King’s Daughter daughters become Sons because in Japanese culture at that time women couldn’t succeed to the throne okay I hope you’re going to talk about the 1993 film of much ad do about nothing I think that’s one of the best Shakespeare films it really brings the
Play to life doesn’t it yes I agree and I think filming it in Italy where the play is set makes you see what life was like at the time of the play absolutely right what’s next uh next I thought Romeo and Juliet the 1996 film which moves the action into the present
Day yes it worked really well I thought changing the two feuding families in the original to two competing business Empires even though they’re speaking in the English of the original play you’d expect it would sound really bizarre but I found I soon got used to it me too
Then I thought I’d include a real Hollywood film one that’s intended to appeal to a mass commercial audience there must be quite a number of those yes but I’ve picked the 1996 film of Hamlet it included every line of the text but it’s more like a typical Action Hero movie there are
Loads of special effects but no unifying interpretation of the play all show and no substance exactly then there’s prospero’s books based on the Tempest that was really Innovative from a stylistic point of view didn’t it include dance and singing and animation as well as live actors yes it did I also
Want to mention looking for Richard did you ever see it no but I’ve read about it it was a blend of a documentary with a few scenes from Richard III wasn’t it that’s right it’s more a way of looking into how people nowadays connect with the play right the play is really just
The starting point and that’ll be where I finish well it sounds as though it will be very interesting that is the end of section three you now have half a minute to check your answers section four you will hear part of a lecture about noise in
Cities first you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40 now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40 this lecture will be about the science of acoustic ICS the study of sound in relation to Urban environments such as cities as an acoustic engineer myself I
Think this is an area where we’re likely to see great changes in the past researching Urban soundscapes was simple we measured levels of sound in decibel so I used to take my sound meter and I measured the noise somewhere and then I might ask a sample of people to say at
What level the sound became annoying with data like this acoustic Engineers have been able to build up what we call noise maps maps of the sound environment but actually these aren’t a lot of use what they do show is that the highest noise levels are generally on roads well that’s not really very
Surprising but there’s quite a lot going on that these Maps don’t show because they can’t capture the complex way that sound varies over time so they ignore important issues such as the noise someone might hear from the open windows or Gardens of their neighbors and this sort of noise can be
Quite significant in summer we don’t have any databases on this sort of information as well as that these records of sound levels take no account of the fact that people vary in their perceptions of noise so someone like me with years of working in Acoustics might be very different from you in that
Regard but anyway even though these noise maps are fairly crude they’ve been useful in providing information and raising awareness that noise matters we need to deal with it and so it’s a political matter and that’s important we need rules and regulations because noise can cause all all sorts of
Problems those of you who are City dwellers know that things go on 24 hours a day so City dwellers often suffer from interrupted sleep it’s also known that noise can lead to a rise in levels of stress due to physical changes in the body affecting the composition of the
Blood and there are other problems as well for instance if school children don’t have a quiet place to study their work will suffer now one problem with decibel measurement is that it doesn’t differentiate between different types of noise some types of sounds that most people would probably
Think of as nice and relaxing might well score quite highly in decibel levels think of the sound made by a fountain in a town square for example that’s not necessarily something that we’d want to control or reduce so maybe researchers should consider these sorts of sounds in Urban
Design this is going to be tricky because just measuring decibel levels isn’t going to help us here instead many researchers are using social science techniques studying people’s emotional response to Sound by using questionnaires and so on so what exactly do people want to hear in an urban environment some recent
Interdisciplinary research has come out with results that at first sight seem contradictory a city needs to have a sense of activity so it needs to be Lively with sounds like the Clack of high heels on a pavement or the hiss of a coffee machine but these mustn’t be
Too intrusive because at the same time we need to be able to relax one of the major problems in achieving this will be getting Architects and town planners to use the research apart from studying the basics of Acoustics these people receive very little training in this area but in fact
They should be regarding sound as an opportunity to add to the experience of urban living whereas at present they tend to see it as something to be avoided or reduced as far as possible or something that’s just a job for engineers like the street drainage system what’s needed is for noise in
Cities to be regarded as an aesthetic quality as something that has the qualities of an art form if we acknowledge this then we urgently need to know what governs it and how designers can work with it we need to develop a complex understanding of many factors what is the relationship between
Sound and culture what can we learn from disciplines such as psychology about the way that sound interacts with human development and social relationships and the way that sound affects our thoughts and feelings can we learn anything from physics about the nature of sound itself today’s powerful Technologies can
Also help us to show us their ideas and help us to imagine the effect their buildings will have Architects and town planners already use Virtual Reality but these programs are silent in the future such programs could use realistic sounds meaning that soundscapes could be EXP lorded before being built so hopefully
Using the best technology we can lay our hands on the city of the future will be a pleasure to the ears as well as the eyes that is the end of section four you now have half a minute to check your answers