Part 1: Student Accommodation
SECTION 1
Questions 1 – 10
Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
KEYS
1.3834
2.holidays
3.Home Welcome
4.flexible
5.studio
6.48
7.water
8.transportation
9.(a) deposit
10.references
TRANSCRIPT
Section 1: Student Accommodation Inquiry
Context/Task: You will hear a student from overseas phoning the Student Accommodation Office of a college in the UK for some information.
Staff (Darren): College Accommodation Bureau, Darren speaking, how may I help you?
Student: Oh, good morning. I’m starting at the college in September and I need to find some accommodation.
Darren: Right. Well, there are various options. The first one is to stay in college accommodation.
Student: That’d be a single room. How much would that cost?
Darren: Well, it depends. For a standard room, you’re looking at £3,276 for the year. That’s just for a room with wash basin, or £3,834 if you want a non-sweet. That’s with your own small bathroom.
Student: I see. That’s more than I expected.
Darren: It does include heating. That’s quite a saving because energy costs can be high, especially in winter.
Student: Does it include meals as well?
Darren: No. All our rooms are self-catering now. There’s a shared kitchen on each corridor where you can cook if you want to, or there are plenty of places to eat out on campus.
Student: Okay, and you said that’s the price for the whole year?
Darren: Well, you pay annually, but actually it’s for 36 weeks. It doesn’t include holidays. You have to vacate the room then.
Student: Oh, um… I’d need somewhere to stay in the holidays. I can’t afford to go home. The flights are too expensive.
Darren: Well, there is another option. Several families who either work at the college or have children studying here offer visiting students a room in their homes. We call this arrangement Home Welcome and we’ve still got a few places left at the moment. You pay £150 per week and that includes breakfast, a packed lunch and dinner, as well as heating.
Student: Is there a contract? Do you have to stay for the whole year?
Darren: No, it’s flexible.
Student: It sounds really good, but I’m not sure. I really want to be a little more independent.
Darren: What about finding somewhere to live off-campus?
Student: Yes, you can rent a property in town privately. You might want to rent a room in a shared house. You’d have a room of your own and share the kitchen and bathroom with other students.
Student: What about if I don’t want to share?
Darren: You can get what we call a studio. They’re often quite small but they’ll have everything you need.
Student: Right. How much would those two options cost?
Darren: Well, prices vary depending on which part of town the property is in. Generally speaking, the cheapest is around £275 a month for each student.
Student: Oh, uh, that’s not too bad.
Darren: Yes, but it can also be as high as £490 and then you’ll have to pay all your other bills.
Student: What sort of amount would I be looking at for those?
Darren: Well, last year students were paying on average about £43 per month each for gas and electricity. This year it’ll probably be somewhere in the region of £48.
Student: That’s a lot.
Darren: Yes, they’ve gone up quite a bit and on top of that you have to pay for water and that’ll probably be around nine pounds.
Student: That didn’t occur to me, and I guess I’d have to pay for transportation, too.
Darren: That’s right. Most of these properties are quite a long way from the College.
Student: Oh, it just gets worse and worse. What’s the minimum contract on this type of accommodation?
Darren: Six months and you have to pay a deposit, but of course you can stay there over the holidays. That’s true and you’d have to provide references—they want two from someone in this country.
Student: I see. That’s not a problem.
Darren: If you do choose this option, we can’t find the property for you. You’d have to go through the estate agent which manages the property for the owner.
Student: Right. Thanks. Well, I think I’d like to see what’s available privately. Could you give me the estate agent details?
Part 2: Museum Audio Guide
SECTION 2
Questions 11 – 20
Questions 11 – 18
Choose the
correct letter, A, B or C.
11 The Heritage Clothes exhibition was put together by
A museum staff.
B local residents.
C clothing manufacturers.
12 The photographs show the clothes worn by
A their owners.
B professional models.
C design students.
13 The exhibition called Toys from the Past is
A displayed in a new gallery.
B on show for a limited time.
C aimed specially at children.
14 Visitors to Toys from the Past are recommended to
A play with the toy trains.
B look at all the dolls.
C see the board games.
15 The miniature toys have been
A made by the museum.
B bought by the museum.
C borrowed by the museum.
16 The biscuit factory made tins
A for people all over the world.
B of different shapes.
C for many famous people.
17 People’s favourite biscuit used to be
A an unsweetened one.
B one covered in chocolate.
C one filled with cream.
18 The hands-on activity allows people to
A make some biscuits.
B taste some of the biscuits.
C pack a biscuit tin.
Questions 19 and 20
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
19 The gift shop is located beside the …………………………… on the ground floor.
20 Free …………………………… are available for visitors’ belongings.
KEYS
11.B
12.A
13.B
14.C
15.C
16.B
17.A
18.C
19.information desk
20. lockers
TRANSCRIPT
Section 2: Museum Audio Guide
Context/Task: You will hear an audio guide introducing visitors to a museum.
Audio Guide:
Welcome to the Global Museum, located at the heart of this truly multicultural city, which is home to more than 60 different nationalities. The Museum has a number of exciting displays and exhibitions, and this audio guide is designed to help you make the most of your visit.
All together, the Museum has 18 different galleries, and this season sees the opening of three new exhibitions. We recommend that you begin your tour by visiting this season’s highlights.
The Heritage Clothes Exhibition is located in Gallery 5 of the Museum. People who live in the area have spent two years preparing this exhibition, which brings together some of the fascinating garments traditionally worn in their own communities. They researched the history of their community’s clothing traditions, and the customs and rituals associated with them. All together, 16 countries are represented, from Ghana to Korea, from Turkey to Nepal.
The photographs that accompany each display case were taken by some of the City College students who are studying design, and show the clothes being modelled by the real people who wear them in the course of their everyday lives.
Another highlight this season is the exhibition called Toys from the Past, which can be found in Gallery 9. This exhibition, which will appeal to people of all ages, is on tour throughout the country, and will be here for 10 weeks only. The exhibits include dolls made over 100 years ago, with beautiful porcelain faces, and, in some cases, real hair. The collection covers the favourite toys such as wooden train sets from many different generations, and provides plenty of interest for children and adults.
The gigantic board games, which are laid out on the gallery floor, are one of the most popular activities in the exhibition, and should not be missed. This exhibition concludes with a special display of miniature toys. These small objects are on loan from countries all over the world, and in some cases, measure no more than a few centimetres. There’s a tiny car made from matchsticks, a toy aeroplane complete with pilot and passengers made out of seashells, and some exquisite little buildings no higher than four centimetres.
The final gallery highlight of the season is the Biscuit Gallery, number 15. Many years ago, this city was famous for its biscuits, although today the factory no longer exists. Did you know, for example, that before biscuits were packed in paper or cardboard boxes, biscuit tins were fashion items? The factory made tins—round, square, triangular, hexagonal—for a whole range of different occasions, to celebrate national events, festivals, famous faces and so on.
One fascinating display deals with people’s favourite biscuits. There are sweet biscuits and savoury ones, biscuits filled with jam and biscuits filled with currants, biscuits with pink, yellow and white sugar icing, or coloured sugar flowers. When the factory finally closed, it announced that people’s favourite biscuit was not, as you might expect, a chocolate biscuit or one filled with jam and cream, but a plain savoury one which was eaten with cheese.
When you get to the end of the exhibition, there’s an entertaining hands-on activity to fill your own biscuit tin. All the biscuits ever produced by the company are piled up on a table along with various tins. The biscuits are made out of thin pieces of wood, but the weight, colours and shapes replicate the original biscuits. Your job is to fill a tin with biscuits so that when the lid is taken off, they sit there as neatly as they did when the job was done by machine. It’s not as easy as it looks.
If you would like to buy a memento of your visit, there is a museum gift shop selling postcards, souvenirs and handmade pottery, next to the information desk on the ground floor. And finally, if you don’t want to carry your coats and bags around with you during your visit, please make use of the free lockers provided by the museum. Enjoy your visit.
Part 3: Discussion – Anthropology Assignment
SECTION 3
Questions 21 – 30
Questions 21 – 24
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
Pacific tapa cloth
21 Pacific tapa cloth is different from other types of tapa cloth because it is
A the only tapa made today
B better quality than others
C put to a wider range of uses
22 What does Helen say about the paper mulberry tree?
A It is also a source of food
B It is not native to the Pacific
C It can grow in any environment
23 Why did the Maori people of New Zealand stop making tapa?
A They could not find the right trees in New Zealand
B They were introduced to other fabrics by the Europeans
C They found a better material for making fabric
24 Large pieces of tapa are made from smaller pieces which are
A stuck together
B woven together
C sewn together
Questions 25 – 30
According to the speakers, what function has tapa cloth played in the following countries?
Write the correct letter, A, B, C or D, next to questions 25 – 30.
Functions
A.recreational
B.practical
C.spiritual
D.commercial
Countries
25 Samoa …………….
26 Tonga …………….
27 Cook Islands …………….
28 Fiji …………….
29 Tahiti …………….
30 Tikopia …………….
KEYS
21.C
22.B
23.C
24.A
25.C
26.B
27.C
28.D
29.A
30.B
TRANSCRIPT
Section 3: Discussion – Anthropology Assignment
Context/Task: You will hear a discussion between a student called Helen and her tutor about an assignment that Helen is working on.
Dialogue:
Tutor: Come in Helen, how can I help you?
Helen: Well, I’m doing research for the anthropology assignment and I was hoping to check a few details.
Tutor: Sure. You chose the topic of Pacific Island tapa cloth, didn’t you? What have you found out so far?
Helen: Well, I was going to introduce my assignment by saying that the tapa cloth is a fabric made from bark, just the outer layer of the trees. It’s particularly common in the Pacific Islands, but not exclusive to them. In fact, many other peoples around the world have made high-quality cloth from bark, but what sets Pacific Tapa apart is the incredible variety of roles it’s played in this region.
Tutor: Yes, nice introduction, though I think you could be more specific regarding dates.
Helen: Okay, so what about the raw materials used?
Tutor: Well, tapa cloth is made from several species of tree. In the Pacific the paper mulberry tree is most common but it doesn’t thrive in all conditions. In fact it wasn’t originally found in the islands but was carried in their canoes by the first migrants. Tapa is also made from the breadfruit tree which is convenient because its fruit is a staple food. The paper mulberry tree is only grown for tapa making though.
Helen: Yes, that’s good. Now, what about the Maori people here in New Zealand?
Tutor: But the Māori don’t make tapa now.
Helen: That’s right, and you need to account for it. We know that when Maori migrated here from the other Pacific Islands, they were prepared to make tuppa because they brought the paper mulberry tree with them. The thing was, after they’d been in New Zealand a bit, they found the flax plant, which is superior to tuppa, because it makes a stronger fabric. By the time Europeans arrived in the 18th century, Maori were making all their fabric from flax and had been for some time.
Helen: Okay, so with the production process itself, first the inner bark is beaten with wooden hammers to soften the fibres. Then the different pieces are glued together using an adhesive paste made from the arrowroot tuber. This is the only way to fabricate large pieces of cloth because bark strands are too fine to be woven together, and stitching isn’t strong enough.
Tutor: So now you need details about different countries. Where would you start?
Helen: I think Samoa is the obvious place. It’s famous for its very fine cloth called Siapo, which is hand-painted with representations of the ancestors. Still today, at the most profound events in life such as births, funerals, weddings, and the investiture of chiefs, Samoans wear Siapo robes to add significance and meaning to the ceremony.
Helen: OK, then I could talk about Tonga. It seems to me that the great innovation in Tonga has been developing a simple coarse cloth which is quick and easy to make. This is suitable for all sorts of everyday functions around the house like bed covers, mosquito nets and curtains.
Tutor: Good point. Now, what about Cook Islands tuppa?
Helen: Well, the soil there is poor quality, so the breadfruit tree is often used. One type of thick cloth called tikuru was wrapped around the poles and used to mark the entrances to places of worship, so it was highly regarded in local culture. You might mention Fiji as well, which is interesting because tapa was actually used as a currency there. Fijians used to sail between the islands and exchange tapa for other commodities like canoes or pigs.
Helen: I know that in Tahiti the tapa cloth is different because the patterns are in colour, which is considered more valuable than the usual brown patterns.
Tutor: You’re right about the Tahitians using coloured pigments, but they aren’t more valuable. The colours are only a decoration. People enjoy wearing bright robes, especially for dancing and competitive games, and do it just for fun.
Helen: Oh, I’ll make a note of it.
Helen: Well, the last place I was going to mention was Tikopia. Even today, it’s commonplace to see people wearing clothes made of tuppa cloth. In many of the other islands, the tuppa only comes out on special occasions. But here, you see people working in the gardens wearing tuppa.
Tutor: Sounds promising, Helen. I’ll look forward to reading your assignment
