Key
Exercise 1:
1G 2D 3C
Exercise 2:
4K 5I 6B
Exercise 3:
1F 2A 3H 4 G
Exercise 4:
1. diving 2. badminton 3. basketball 4. swimming 5. cycling
6. football 7. table tennis
Exercise 5:
1J 2L 3M 4I 5B 6F 7G 8E
Exercise 6:
1. A 2.D 3.E
4. B 5.C 6.F
Exercise 7:
1.E 2.G 3.A 4.C 5.B 6.I 7.A 8.B 9.B 10.A
Transcript
Exercise 1:
Melisa: Thanks for offering to drive us all to the concert. It’s really kind of you and makes getting there much easier. I don’t live far from you at all. First, you need to turn right onto Maple Avenue and drive to the bottom of the road, passing the supermarket on your left. Then, you need to turn left at the traffic lights and then take a sharp right onto Main Street. You can also go straight on here, past the surgery, but I usually drive down Main Street. Follow this road until you reach a roundabout – you’ll pass a park and some shops on your right. When you get to the roundabout, take the first turning on the left, onto Silver Street. As you approach the crossroads here, my house is the first on the corner.
Exercise 2:
Melissa: Sorry, I’ve just remembered, Itold Sarah you would collect her on the way. Forget the route I just gave you, I’ll give you another set of directions. This route might even be easier. Again, you need to turn right onto Maple Avenue, and go up to the lights. Instead of turning left here, turn right, with the park on your left. Then after the zebra crossing, take the first turning on your left onto New Road. Drive along New Road until you reach the bridge. Sarah’s house is the second house after the bridge. That’s on the right; there are shops on the left. Once you’ve picked up Sarah, take the first turning on the left, onto Silver Street, and go straight ahead until you reach the roundabout. Go straight ahead at the roundabout and then take the first turning on the right, Oak Avenue. My house is number 1. It’s on the corner.
Exercise 3:
Tanya: Hi Jane, this is Tanya. I’m calling to make arrangements for the concert on Saturday. I can’t believe you’ve never been to the Arena before. I often go at the weekend. There isn’t just the Arena concert venue, there are also lots of other things to do: shopping, restaurants, exhibitions. I’m giving Melissa and Sarah a lift, so shall we all meet up for a coffee before the concert? I’ll give you directions. OK, listen carefully. As you walk through the main entrance, you come to a square with a big fountain in the middle. This is where people usually arrange to meet up and sometimes they have live music here. Beyond the square, on Main Avenue, on your right, there are several restaurants, and opposite these on your left is an exhibition centre. There used to be a cinema here, but they moved it when they finished building the Arena. So there are several coffee shops to choose from, one near the fountain and one in the north end of the building, but I suggest that we go to the one at the end of Main Avenue, because it’ll probably be less busy than the others. It’s right at the end, after you pass the art gallery on the right. So shall we all meet there at seven o’clock? Then, after we’ve had a coffee, to get into the Arena we just need to go through the shopping centre, which will be on our right once we go back down Main Avenue. It can be a bit tempting, but there’s no other way to get there, as the Arena is the other side of it. Oh, and there are toilets beside the entrance if you need them. And then after the concert, they open the door opposite and you can go straight out into the car park, which is very convenient. Let me know if you can make it for seven. I’m looking forward to seeing you – it’s been a while.
Exercise 4:
First of all, welcome to our activity summer camp. I hope you enjoy all the activities we have on offer. We start our tour at the outdoor theatre here, where we hold many of our evening activities. From here you can see our various watersport activities. Directly in front of the campsite, on the edge of the lake, we have the kayaking centre. And then in front of the beach, we have an area reserved for diving. Swimming isn’t permitted here. If you like racket sports, just behind the beach you can practice badminton in the large building. That’s quite popular in the evenings. We also have some outdoor tennis courts. We used to have basketball in the building too, but now you can play it on the court behind the building. And if these activities make you hungry, the path from there takes you straight to the cafe and dining hall. However, we’ll continue our walk along the lake shore and I’d like to draw your attention to two other areas. One is this part of the lake which is perfect for swimming, but, for safety reasons, only when an instructor is present. Unfortunately, we can’t offer sailing as an option here this year. And I also want to point out, just across the lake, a track for cycling. Some people in the past have also gone running on the track, but there were a few accidents because there isn’t enough space for runners and cyclists, so now running isn’t allowed. So now let’s take this path here, towards the tennis courts. On our left, you can see there’s a football field. Gary’s our coach and he’ll be organising tournaments during the week. He’ll arrive tomorrow, because he’s taking part in a rugby game today. And now if we walk up to the right of the tennis courts, we can see the archery field, surrounded by trees. And in the building just to the right of this, you can hire equipment for the archery and buy snacks and drinks. It also has some table tennis tables, so you can go there and have a game if the weather turns bad.
Exercise 5:
Good morning. I’d like to thank the council for agreeing to this meeting and for welcoming us here today to explain to you our plans for Pine Woods Centre. Our aim is to make Pine Woods a place where people of all ages can come and enjoy their free time. The centre will feature our Tree Tops Challenge – only for the brave and fearless! For the less brave, and for families with children, there will be adventure playgrounds, indoor and outdoor, and a feeding area for farm animals and we will also offer cycle trails through the woods. I’ll give you an overview of Pine Woods first and then tell you more about each area in more detail. This first slide shows the overall layout of the centre and where all the activities will be situated. As you can see from the map, the entrance to this attraction will be on the south side. As visitors enter from the car park, they will walk along this path leading them to the cafe and gift shop. The gift shop will be where tickets are on sale and therefore needs to be near the entrance. So this building here on the right will be the cafe and the building on the left will be the gift shop. There will also be a picnic field behind the cafe for the warmer months. It’s the area just to the right of the cafe as you look at the map. And in the bottom right-hand corner of the picnic field we’re planning to have a barbecue area, where people can hire a barbecue and bring their own food to cook. It’ll be great for parties. In summer we plan to have bands performing here in the evenings.
To the west of the gift shop is where the Tree Tops Challenge will take place. There’s a path here winding through the forest, and up in the trees there will be all sorts of high-level adventure apparatus- rope swings, awesome rope bridges and tunnels, and zip wires where you can fly way above the forest floor. This adventure experience will only be open to those aged 15 and over. Beyond the Tree Tops Challenge there will be an adventure playground. To get to it, you go along this path from the entrance until you reach the crossroads, then you turn left. The young children’s playground will have a fence around it, making it safer and keeping them away from the lake. The indoor play area, only for the very young, will be on the east side of the farm, near the cafe and just inside the picnic area. And finally, let’s turn our attention back to this area here, where the paths meet and form a crossroads. This path leading to the east end of the farm will take our visitors to the area which houses the farm animals. Children will be able to watch the animals being fed and cared for, and in some instances they will be able to feed the animals themselves. The sheep will be in this first area on the right here, directly opposite the pigs, and the goats will go at the very end there. We haven’t quite decided on the other areas yet. So those are our plans. We hope they will be approved, and we look forward to welcoming you back in the not too distant future to see the final result.
Exercise 6:
Jeff: Hi. This is Jeff here. I’m calling you all about the inter-college sports competition at the South Hinton Sports Centre next week. I’m really sorry but there’s been a change of plan. We can’t have the competition at the centre because of the flooding last week after all the rain. It damaged a lot of our equipment and also the floors in some of the rooms. Luckily, I contacted the North Hinton Sports Centre and they’ve kindly agreed to let us use their centre and their equipment for the competition, so I’m phoning to give you directions on how to get there and instructions about what to do there to prepare. You’ll need to meet the others there next Tuesday at about nine o’clock to get the centre ready.
OK, as I’m not sure if you know how to get to North Hinton, I’ll give you directions avoiding the town centre, because it can be quite busy in the morning. First, come out of our sports centre into Lily Road. Turn left and go about two hundred metres and you come to a roundabout. You see a sign to Hinton saying turn left, but that takes you into the centre of town, so don’t take that one. Go straight over that roundabout and you come to a crossroads. The left turn here also takes you into the centre, so don’t take that one either. Carry on for about a kilometre. The road goes up onto a flyover over the motorway to Longchester. After the flyover, you come to the junction with Bramley Road. This is where you go left, because that takes you round the town to the sports centre. Carry on for about five hundred metres. Then you go left round a bend and just after the bend you see a petrol station on the left. The turning for Hinton is just after that at the traffic lights, so make sure you look out for it. Turn right into West Road and carry on. The sports centre is on Green Lane, which is just past the Woodland Hotel on the right. You can’t miss it. There’s a car park there so you shouldn’t have a problem parking. Please don’t be late as we have a lot to do.
Exercise 7: You will hear a tour guide giving information about a historic house and the organisation that owns it. First you have some time to look at questions 1 to 6. [pause} Now listen carefully and answer questions 1 to 6.
As you know, Holloway Estate is one of the few surviving estates in this area that still retains many of the farming features of the past. Let me quickly explain where you can find some of the key attractions. If you take a look on your map, we are now standing at the foot of the steps to the Manor House. Can everyone see it, marked with an arrow? Don’t forget – this is our meeting point for when we leave. So, directly behind us is the fountain. From here, heading left, the path takes you to a gate which leads into the famous Holloway orchards, where for hundreds of years the estate has been growing its highly prized apples, cherries and plums. Incidentally, if you fancy trying them, a range of delicious Holloway jams and preserves are available in the gift shop. Speaking of which, the gift shop is to the right of the main house. If you go through the gate, the left-hand path takes you to the apiary, that’s to say, the bee hives, where Holloway honey has been collected for more than 250 years. And yes, before anyone asks, you can also buy Holloway honey.
If you take the right-hand path, you will come to some old farmer’s cottages which have been renovated and are rented out as holiday cottages. Please feel free to admire them from the outside, but as there may be guests staying in them right now, please respect their privacy. From the back of the main house, crossing the car park and just before you get to the cattle fields, you will find a row of three buildings. The middle one is the old dairy. The dairy is actually working, producing butter and cheeses using traditional methods. Next to that, on the left are the former cattle sheds, where the livestock was kept. Nowadays it’s used as a museum, so those of you who are keen to explore Holloway’s farming past should pay it a visit. The building furthest from the manor house is the old ice house, which is no longer in use and is due to be restored, hopefully next year. Last but not least, you may have noticed on the way in that on either side of the main gates are two small houses. This is a traditional feature of country houses of the period. On the right-hand side as you enter the estate is what was known as the gatekeeper’s lodge. This has now become the estate office, and the estate manager runs the estate from there. OK, I think that just about covers everything…
Before you hear the rest of the talk you have some time to look at questions 7 to 10. [pause}
Now listen and answer questions 7 to 10. OK, everyone, before we begin the tour of the Manor House, I’d like to take a few minutes to tell you about the organisation that now owns the estate, and for which I work – the National Trust. The National Trust is the largest membership organisation in the UK with 4.24 million members. Our annual revenue is £494 million. At the present time, we have 5,899 paid members of staff and an additional 61,000 volunteers. That’s an approximate number because new volunteers are joining us all the time. The Trust owns about 350 heritage properties. Many of these are large country houses that the owners donated to us because they could no longer afford to maintain them. The Trust also owns gardens and industrial monuments. The Trust’s sources of income include membership subscriptions ,entrance fees, donations and revenue from the gift shops and restaurants within our properties, with much of the money raised being invested back in the preservation of the properties themselves. And of course, this is the principal purpose of the National Trust: the conservation and protection of historical places and spaces, with a view to making them available to the public. As well as owning stately homes and houses associated with famous people, the National Trust has gradually extended its collection of art, and it also owns valuable books, clothing, furniture, ceramics and all kinds of unusual objects Now if you would like to join the National Trust, I have the forms here, or you can visit our website, and join online. You will get unlimited access to hundreds of wonderful days out across the country. Lifetime membership costs £1,555, but most members join for a year at a time. Individual membership is currently £64 annually but it’s cheaper to join with your partner or another family member as it’ll be £108 for two people living at the same address. For a family of four (two adults and two children) a year’s membership costs £114. It’s a great gift for a birthday or other special event. There are lots of benefits to being a member. As well as free parking at all our locations, you receive a National Trust handbook full of information to help you plan your visits, and if you pay by direct debit, you’ll receive a free pair of binoculars. Oh, I almost forgot, all members receive a free copy of the National Trust magazine sent to you by post three times a year.