1. Pictures are a great help for predicting what you will hear. Imagine you’ve just
turned on the television and see the map below.
a) What kind of programme would you expect to be broadcast? Answer in a com-
plete sentence.
b) Think about the sort of vocabulary that would be used with this map.
Write 2 sentences that the presenter could say. (about 30 words in total)
2. You expect TV programmes, especially documentaries, to give information and an-
swer some questions. Example: When a programme is about a historic figure, you
expect to learn when the person lived and died.
Imagine you saw the picture below at the beginning of a TV programme.
a) What do you think the topic of the programme will be? Answer in 1 or 2 com-
plete sentences. (about 30 words in total)
b) What kind of information would you expect to gain?
Write down three questions that the programme could answer.
c) You’re interested in programmes about the natural world and decide to watch
this. Then you hear the words “… and in the final part of this series, Henry Milton
travels to XX to find out how businesses today cope with the threat of natural
disasters …” Would you continue watching or switch to another channel? Give
your reasons in complete sentences. (about 30 words in total)
3. Below is an extract from an interview with Maki Kuwayama, who works as an
architect in Germany.
Listen to the audio file and complete the text below by filling in the gaps with the
words you hear.
“… And then after you received your degree in the US, you worked there for a year,
but very quickly you left the US.
Yeah. Then I went to the UK and practised there, because it’s a different type of
_________ in the UK. In America, depending on the type of university you go to,
you’re _________ into someone who does working drawings, which are the details of how to build a building, or you become a designer and you design the building
which is kind of, two _________ routes that you take. The designer does the main
design, gives it to the architect who does the working drawings and they figure out
how to build it and then it goes back and _________. It’s a dialogue back and
_________. In the UK you do everything, _________ pricing. British architects are
not allowed to price their buildings. They need a _________ surveyor for that.
So, that would be the differences already.
Exactly. There’s almost _________ from the three countries a big difference. So, in
the UK I had design and working drawing experience, _________, which also de-
signers don’t do in America, which British architects do. And when we came to,
when I came to Germany, I had to learn how to do _________, which I wasn’t al-
lowed to do, _________ you are not allowed to do it in the UK. …”
4. You’re in a restaurant with your friend Hannah. She is able to order a meal but
otherwise doesn’t speak much English. Now you’re waiting for your meals.
Which word would you stress in the sentence: She asked you for a fillet steak with
mashed potatoes” in each of the following situations? Underline the stressed word.
a) The waiter is unsure which table to go to and is asking people who ordered a
fillet steak with mashed potatoes.
“She asked you for a fillet steak with mashed potatoes.”
b) The waiter has brought a rump steak.
“She asked you for a fillet steak with mashed potatoes.”
c) The waiter has brought a fillet steak with a baked potato.
“She asked you for a fillet steak with mashed potatoes.”
d) The waiter says that he didn't take that order; perhaps it was another waiter who
did.
“She asked you for a fillet steak with mashed potatoes.”
5. You are going to hear an interview with Kevin O’Connor, who is an educational
manager for a large international company in Germany. The interviewer asks about
how in-company training has changed in the last few years and what the main issues
were at the moment.
Before you listen, read each question carefully.
Remember that Kevin may not use the same words as are found in the questions.
1) Kevin’s customers have … for training today.
a) slightly less money
b) the same amount of money
c) a lot less money
2) Charges for training should be reduced by
a) 15 %
b) 50 %
c) 55 %
3) The trainers receive their money from
a) the individual departments.
b) the students.
c) the training department.
4) The organisation offers
a) all kinds of courses.
b) two types of courses.
c) six types of courses.
5) Kevin uses a computer system that
a) controls the course contents and student’s applications.
b) deals with course contents and the internal invoices.
c) manages everything concerning the courses and students.
6) Kevin thinks that training managers
a) should have taught before they become training managers.
b) should have been taught by the training department themselves.
c) should teach in the classroom themselves.
7) All of Kevin’s trainers can teach all the courses that are offered.
True or false?
8) The training department offers
a) classroom courses
b) one-to-one courses
c) classroom and one-to-one courses.
9) Needs analysis is an important part of Kevin’s job.
True or false?
10) Kevin’s trainers have to find out what the students need before courses start.
True or false?
11) An EMS is an
a) education management system.
b) educational management system.
c) educational monitoring system.
12) Kevin says he has to digest the figures. This means he has to
a) add up the figures.
b) collect the figures.
c) understand the figures.
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