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You will hear a number of different recordings and you will have to answer questions on what you hear there will be time for you to read the instructions and questions and you will have a chance to check your work all the recordings will be played once only the test is in four
Sections at the end of the test you will be given 10 minutes to transfer your answers to an answer sheet 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 one to six you will see that there 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 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 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 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 a 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 7 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 pH 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 Margaret goodbye bye that is the end of section one you now have half a minute to check your
Answers now turn to section two 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 the city’s fastest growing
Communities the nearby university has always meant the areas 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 street are great places for finding original pictures jewelry and Ceramics which won’t break the bank as well as local produce like fruit and vegetables 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 design 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 Galler 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 not expensive and if you can present a receipt from one of the local stores you’ll not be charged at all after 6 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 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 high quality artwork the place to go is nucleus you need to go from Crawley Road up through Station Square and East along 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 ansers now turn to section three 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 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 shakespare adaptations that they’ve seen and to say why that should be more more fun than having their favorite versions yes I can certainly think of a couple right 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’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 government exactly it’s
Quite tricky 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 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 sing 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 playright the play is really just the starting point and that’ll be where I finish well it sounds as though it’ll be very interesting that is the end of section three you now have half a minute to check your answers now turn to section four 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 Acoustics 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 surp 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 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 here 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 some programs could use realistic sounds meaning that soundscapes could be
Explored 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