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Test 1 Section 1

Hi gorge, glad you’re back, loads of people have phoned you.

Really?

I felt just like your secretary.

Sorry, I went into the library this afternoon to have a look at a newspaper and I came across something really interesting.

What? A book?

No. a brochure from a summer festival, mainly Spanish music. Look, I’ve got it here.

Spanish music? I really love the guitar. Let’s have a look. So what’s this group guitarrini

They’re really good. There had a video with all the highlights of the festival at a stand in the lobby to the library, so I heard them. They play fantastic instruments, drum and flutes and old kinds of guitars. I’ve never heard anything like it before.

Sounds great

Ok, shall we go then, spoil ourselves

Yes, let’s

The only problem is there aren’t any cheap seats. It’s all one price Well, in that case, we could sit right at the front, we’d have a really good view.

Yeah, though I think that if you sit at the back, you can actually hear the whole thing better.

Yes, anyway, we can decide when we get there.

So will you fill in the form or shall I

I’ll do it, name, address 48 north avenue west sea

Do you remember our new postcode, still can’t remember it

Just a minute, I’ve got it written down here. Ws62yh, do you need the phone too

Please. I’m really bad at numbers

01674553242, so let’s book 2 tickets for guitarrini

Ok, if you’re sure 7.5 each is all right. How do you feel the singer

I haven’t quite decided. But I’ve noticed something on the booking form

that might just persuade me

What’s that then

Free refreshments.

Really

Yes, look here, Sunday, 17th of June, singer, ticket 6 pounds includes drinks in the garden

Sounds like a bargain to me

Yes, let’s book 2 tickets for that. So what else, I’m feeling quite keen now, how about the pianist on the 22nd of June

Anna Ventura, I’ve just remembered that’s my evening class night That’s ok, I’ll just have to go on my own. But we can go to the Spanish dancing and guitar concert together, can’t we?

Yes, I’m sure tom and kerry would enjoy that too. Good heavens, 10.5 a ticket. I can see we’re going to have to go without food for the rest of the week. We’ll need to book 4

Wish we were students. Look, children, students and senior citizens get a 50% discount on everything

If only

Section 2

Hello, and thank you for asking me to your teachers’meeting to talk about the dinosaur museum and to tell you a bit about what you can do with your students there.

Well let me give you some of the basic information first. In regard to opening hours, we are open everyday of the week from 9 am to 8 pm except on Mondays when we close at 1.30 pm. And in fact the only day in the year when we’re closed is on the 25th of December. You can book a guided tour for your school group any time that we’re open.

If you bring a school group to the museum, when you arrive we ask you to remain with your group in the car park, one or more of the tour guides with welcome you there and brief you about what the tour will be about. We do this there because our entrance is quite small and we really haven’t got much room for briefing groups in the exhibition area.

As far as the amount of the time you’ll need goes, if you bring a school group you should plan on allowing a minimum of 90 minutes for the visit, this allows 15 minutes to get on and off the coach, 45 minutes for the guided tour and 30 minutes for after-tour activities.

If you’re going to have lunch in the museum, you will of course have to allow more time. There are 2 cafes in the museum with seating for 80 people. If you want to eat there, you will need to reserve some seating as they can get quite crowded at lunch time. Then outside the museum at the back, there are tables and students can bring their own lunch and eat it there in the open air.

When the students come into the museum foyer, we ask them to check in their backpacks with their books, lunch boxes etc, at the cloakroom before they enter the museum proper. I’m afraid in the past we have had a few things gone missing after school visit, so this is a strict rule. Also some of the exhibits are fragile and we don’t them to be accidentally knocked. We do provide school students with handouts with questions and quizzes on them. There is so much that students can learn in the museum and it’s fun for them to have something to do. Of course they’ll need to bring something to write with for these. We do allow students to take photographs, for students who are doing projects, it’s useful to make some kind of visual record of what they see that they can add to their reports. And finally, they should not bring anything to eat into the museum or drinks of any kind.

There are also a few things the students can do after the tour. In the theatrette on the ground floor, there are continuous screenings of short documentaries about dinosaurs which they can see at any time. We used to have an activity room with more interactive things like making models of dinosaurs and drawing and painting pictures, even hunting for dinosaur eggs, but unfortunately the room was damaged in a bad storm recently when water came in the roof, so that’s closed at the moment. But we do have an IT center where students have access to CD-roms with a range of dinosaur games. These games are a lot of fun but they also teach the students about the lives of dinosaurs, how they found food, protected their habitats, survived threats, that kind of thing.

And I think that’s all I have to tell you, please feel free to ask any questions if you would like to know any…..

Section 3

Right Sandra, you wanted to see me to get some feedback on your group’s proposal. The one you’re submitting for the geography society field trip competition. I’ve had a look through your proposal and I think it’s a really good choice. In fact, I only have a few things to say about it, but even in an outline document like this, you really have to be careful to avoid typos and problems with layout in the proposal and even in the contents page. So read it through carefully before submitting it, ok?

Will do

And I’ve made a few notes on the proposal about things which could have been better sequenced. As to the writing itself I’ve annotated the proposal as and where I thought it could be improved. Generally speaking, I feel you’ve often used complex structures and long sentences for the sake of it, and as a consequence, although your paragraphing and inclusion of subheadings help, it’s quite hard to follow your train of thought at times. So cut them down a bit, can you?

And don’t forget simple formatting like numbering.

Didn’t I use page numbers

I didn’t mean that. Look you’ve remembered to include headers and footers, which is good, but listing ideas clearly is important. Number them or use bullet points which is even clearer. Then you’ll focus the reader on your main points. I thought your suggestion to go to the Navajo tribal park was a very good idea.

I’ve always wanted to go there. My father was a great fun of cowboy films and the wild west, so I was subjected to seeing all the epics, many of which were shot there. As a consequence it feels very familiar to me and it’s awesome both geographically and visually. So it’s somewhere I’ve always wanted to visit. The subsequent research I did and the online photographs made me even keener.

Interesting, right let’s look at the content of your proposal now.

Did you find it comprehensive enough?

Well yes and no. you’ve listed several different topics on your contents page but I’m not sure they’re all relevant.

Well, I thought that from the perspective of a field trip, one thing I needed to focus on was the sandstone plateaux and cliffs themselves, the way they tower up from the flat landscape is just amazing. The fact that the surrounding soft rocks were eroded by wind and rain, leaving these huge outcrops high above the plain. It’s hardly surprising at tourist flock to see the area.

Well, yes, I’d agree with including those points

And then the fact that it’s been home to native American Navajos and all the social history that goes with that, the hardships the endured trying to save their territory from the invading settlers, their culture is so rich, all those wonderful stories.

Well I agree it’s interesting but it’s not immediately relevant to your proposal, so at this stage I suggest you focus on other considerations. I think an indication of what the students on the trip could actually do when they get there should be far more central, so that certainly needs to be included and to be expanded upon. And I’d like to see something about the local wildlife and vegetation too, not that I imagine there’s much to see. Presumably the tourist invasion hasn’t helped.

Ok, I’ll do some work on those two areas as well. But you’re right, there is not much apart from some very shallow-rooted species, although it’s cold and snowy there in the winter, the earth is baked so hard in the summer sun that rainwater can’t penetrate, so it’s a case of flood or drought really.

So I understand. Now before we look at everything in more detail, I’ve got a few factual questions for you. It’d be a good idea to include the answers in your finished proposal because they’re missing from your draft.

So you mentioned the monoliths and the spires, which was good, but what area does the tribal park cover? Do you know?

12000 hectares and the plain is at about 5850 meters above sea level Larger than I expected. Where is the nearest accommodation? That’s a

practical detail that you haven’t included. Have you done any research on that?

Yes, there is nowhere to stay in the park itself but there is an old trading post called Goulding quite near, all kinds of tours start from Goulding too.

What kind of tours

Well, the most popular are in four-wheel drive jeeps, but I wouldn’t recommend hiring those, I think the best way to appreciate the area would be to hire horses instead and trek around on those. Biking is not allowed and it’s impossible to drive around the area in private vehicles. The tracks are too rough.

Ok, lastly, what else is worth visiting then

There are several caves but I haven’t looked into any details, I’ll find out about them

Ok, good, now what I’d like to know.

Section 4

So welcome to your introductory geography lecture. We’ll begin with some basics. Firstly, what do we learn by studying geography.

Well, we learn a great deal about all the processes that have affected and that continue to affect the earth’s surface. But we learn far more than that because studying geography also informs us about the different kinds of relationships that develop between the particular environment and the people that live there.

Ok, we’d like to think of geography as having 2 main branches. There is the study of the nature of our planet, its physical features, what it actually looks like and then it’s the study of the ways in which we choose to live and of the impact of those on our planet. Our current use of carbon fuels is a good example of that.

But there are more specific study areas to consider too, and we’ll be looking at each of these in turn throughout the semester. These include biophysical geography, by which I mean the study of the natural environment and all its living things; then there is topography that looks

at the shapes of the land and oceans; there is the study of political geography and social geography too, of course, which is the study of communities of people; we have economic geography, in which we examine all kinds of resources and their use, agriculture for example; next comes historical geography, the understanding of how people and their environments and the ways they interact have changed over a period of time; and urban geography, an aspect I’m particularly interested in, which takes as its focus the location of cities, the services that those cities provide and migration of people to and from such cities. And lastly we have cartography, that’s the art and science of map-making, you’ll be doing a lot of that.

So, to summarize before we continue, we now have a key answer, studying the subject is important because without geographical knowledge we would know very little about our surroundings and we wouldn’t be able to identify all the problems that relate to them. So, by definition, we wouldn’t be in any informed position to work out how to solve any of them.

Ok, now for some practicalities. What do geographers actually do？Well we collect data to begin with, you’ll be doing a lot of that in your first field trip. How do we do this? There are several means, we might, for example, conduct a census, count the population in a given area perhaps. We also need images of the earth’s surface which we can produce by means of computer-generation technology or with the help of satellite relays. We’ve come a very long way from the early exploration of the world by sailing ships when geographers only had pens and paper at their disposal.

After we‘ve gathered our information, we must analyze it. We need to look for patterns, most commonly those of causes and consequences. This kind of information helps to predict and resolve problems that could affect the world we live in

But we don’t keep all this information confidential, we then need to publish our findings so that other people can access it and be informed by it. And one way in which this information can be published is in the form of maps. You’ll all have used one at some stage of your life already. Let’s

consider the benefits of maps from a geographer’s perspective.

Maps can be folded and put in a pocket and can provide a great store of reference when they’re collected into an atlas. They can depict the physical features of the entire planet if necessary, or just a small part of it in much greater detail. But there is a drawback, you can’t exactly replicate something that is 3-dimensional, like our planet, on a flat piece of paper, because paper has only 2 dimensions. And that means there’ll always be a certain degree of distortion on the map. It can’t be avoided. We can also use aerial photographs. Pictures taken by cameras at high altitude above the earth, these are great for showing all kinds of geographical features that are not easy to see from the ground. You can easily illustrate areas of diseased trees, or how much traffic is on the roads at a given time, or information about deep sea beds for example. Then there are landsats. These are satellites that circle the earth and transmit visual information to computers at receiving stations. They circle the earth several times a day and can provide a mass of information. You’ll all be familiar with the information they give us about the weather for example.

So what we are going to do now is to look at a short presentation in which you’ll see all…..

Test 2 Section 1

Good morning, total insurance, judy speaking, how may I help you

I recently shipped my belongings from overseas back here in Australia, and I took out insurance with your company, some items were damaged during the move, so I need to make a claim, what do I have to do?

Ok, well, first I need to get a few details about this. Can you give me your name please

Yes it’s Michael Alexander

And your address please

My old address or my current one

Your current one

It’s 24 manly street milperra Sydney

What was the suburb sorry

Milperra

Who was the shipping agent

You mean the company we used

Yes, the company who packed everything up at the point of origin

It was first class movers

Where were the goods shipped from

China, but the ship came via Singapore and was there for about a week Don’t worry, all of that information will be in the documentation. Now, the date, do you know when the ship arrived

It left on the 11th of October, and got to Sydney on the 28th of November Ok, I need one more thing, there is a reference number, it should be in the top right-hand corner of the pink form they gave you.

Let me have a look, yes, here it is, it’s 601ACK

I need to take down a few details of the actual damage over the phone before you put in a full report. Can you tell me how many items were damaged and what the damage was

Yes, well, 4 things actually, I’ll start with the big things, my TV first of all, it’s a large one, very expensive

Our insurance doesn’t cover electrical problems

It isn’t an electrical problem, the screen has a huge crack in it, so it’s unusable.

I see, any ideas of the price to repair it

No, well I don’t think it can be repaired, it will need a new one.

Ok, I’ll make a note of that and we’ll see what we can do

Now what was the second item

The cabinet from the bathroom was damaged as well, it’s a lovely cabinet, we used it to keep our towels in

And what is the extent of the damage

Well the back and the sides seem ok, but the door has a huge hole in it, it can’t be repaired, I’m really not very happy about it

And how much do you think it will cost to replace it

Well, when I bought it last year I paid 125 dollars for it, but the one I’ve

seen here in Sydney is a bit more expensive, it’s 140 dollars

Right, what was the third item

My dinning room table, it’s a lovely table from Indonesia, it must have been very hot inside the container because one leg has completely split down the middle, the top and the other 3 look ok, thank goodness

Any ideas of the price to repair it

Well I had an estimate done on this actually because it is a very special table to us, they quoted us 200 dollars which is really pricey, so I hope the insurance will cover the total cost

I’m sure that will be fine, what was the last item

We have a lovely set of china plates and dishes, you know, with matching cups, saucers, the lot. They were all in the one box which must have got dropped because some plates were broken, 6 actually

And can you tell me the replacement value of these

Well, it’s hard to say because they were part of a set. But they can be up to 10 dollars each as it is such a good set

Ok so that would be around 60 dollars altogether

Yes that’s right

And is that all of the items

Yes so what do I have to do now?

Section 2

Welcome to green vale agricultural park, as you know, we’ve only been open a week, so you’re amongst our first visitors. We have lots of fascinating indoor and outdoor exhibits on our huge complex, spreading hundreds of hectares. Our remit is to give educational opportunities to the wider public as well as to offer research sites for a wide variety of agriculturists and other scientists.

Let’s start by seeing what there is to do. As you can see, here on our giant wall plan, we’re now situated in the reception block, here. As you walk out of the main door into the park, there is a path you can follow. If you follow this route, you will immediately come into the rare breeds

section where we keep a wide variety of animals which I shall be telling you a little more about later. Next to this, moving east, is the large grazing area for the rare breeds. Then further east in the largest section of our park is the forest area, south of the grazing area and in fact just next to the reception block is our experimental crop area. In the middle of the park, this circular area is our lake, this 2 small rectangular shapes here are the fish farms where we rare fish for sale. To the east of those is the marsh area which attracts a great many migrant birds, in the southeastern corner, beyond the marsh is our market garden area growing vegetables and flowers.

All these areas can be visited by the general public for almost all the year, although, please take note of the large signs at the entrance to each area which tell you when certain areas are being used for particular controlled experiments and are therefore temporarily out of bounds to the public. You can see for yourself what a huge area the park covers and a key question is always how can we move around. Well you have a choice of means. All environmentally friendly, cars are banned in the park, we have bicycles which you can hire behind the reception block, the healthy ones of you can go on foot. And finally there is our electric tram powered from solar cells. You find more information about this at the front entrance.

A good place to start on your tour is the rare breeds section. We keep goats, sheep and hens and other kinds of poultry. We are also thinking of bringing cows and horses but we do not, as yet, have facilities for these bigger animals. The animals are fed in public twice a day and a short lecture given on their feeding habits and nutritional needs. These are very popular with the public but of course you mustn’t lose sight of the main purpose of having this section, not as such to preserve rare animals but to maintain the diversity of breeds to broaden the gene pool for agricultural development. Green vale changes with the seasons with different events happening at different times of the year. May will be perhaps our most spectacular month with the arrival of the Canadian geese and when our fruit trees will be in full blossom. But there are interesting events on all year round, for example, john havers, our expert fly fisherman, is currently giving displays on the lake. Each of the sections has its own

seasonal calendar. Please consult the summary board at the main entrance. And the final section, as we return to the reception blocks is the orchard. Do take time to browse round our shop, there is a wide selection of books on wildlife, some of them were written by local authors, and the history of farming, including organic farming, something which the park will be diversifying into in the coming month.

Section 3

Good morning everyone, in today’s seminar Grand Freeman, a biologist who specializes in identifying insects and who works for the Australian quarantine service, has come to talk to us about his current research work. Right, well over to you Grand

Good morning everyone, I’m sure that you know that the quarantine service regulates all food brought into Australia. Well obviously they want to protect Australia from diseases that might come in with imported goods, but they also want to prevent insect pests from being introduced into the country, and that’s where I have a part to play. Anyway, my current research involves trying to find a particular type of bee, the Asian honey bee and finding out whether there are any of them around in various states of Australia. We discovered a few of them in Queensland once and eradicated them. Now we’re pretty keen to make sure that there aren’t any more getting in, particularly to new south wales and other states.

What’s wrong with Asian honey bees, are they so different from Australian bees?

Well in fact, they look almost the same but they are infested with mites, microscopic creatures which live on them, and which can seriously damage our own home-grown bees, or could even wipe them out.

Well, what would happen if Australian bees died out

Well, the honey from Australian bees is of excellent quality, much better than the stuff the Asian bees produce. In fact, Australia exports native queen bees to a large number of countries because of this. When the

European honey bee was first discovered out in the bush, we found they made really unpleasant honey and they were also too big to pollinate many of our native flowers here in Australia.

That must have had a devastating effect on the natural flora. Did you lose any species?

No, we managed to get them under control before that happened. But if Asian bees got in, there could be other consequences. We could lose a lot of money because you might not be aware, but it’s estimated that native bees’ pollination of flowers in vegetable crops is worth 1.2 billion dollars a year. So in a way, they’re the farmer’s friend. Oh, and another thing is if you’re stung by an Asian honey bee, it can produce an allergy reaction on some people, so they are much more dangerous than native bees.

How will you know if Asian bees have entered Australia

We’re looking at the diet of the bird called the rainbow bee eater, the bee eater doesn’t care what it eats as long as they’re insects, but the interesting thing about this bird is that we’re able to analyze exactly what it eats, so that’s really helpful if we’re looking for introduced insects. How come

Because insects have their skeletons outside their bodies, so the bee eaters digest the meat from inside, then they bring up all the indigestible bits of skeleton and, of course, the wings in a pellet, a small ball of waste material which they cough up.

Sounds a bit unpleasant, so how do you go about it

In the field we track down the bee eaters and find their favorite feeding spots, you know, the places where the birds usually feed. It’s here that we can find the pellets, we collect them up and take them back to the laboratory to examine the contents

How do you do that

The pellets are really hard, especially if they’ve been out in the sun for a few days, so first of all, we treat them by adding water to moisten them and make them softer. Then we pour them apart under the microscope, everything’s all scrunched up but we’re looking for wings, so we just pull them all out and straighten them, then we identify them to see if we can find any Asian bee wings

And how many have you found

So far, our research shows that Asian bees have not entered Australia in any number, it’s a good result and much more reliable than trying to find live ones as evidence of introduced insects.

Well, that’s fascinating, thank you for those insights, I hope that you might inspire some of our students here to conduct some similar experiments

Section 4

I’ve been doing some research into what people in Britain think of doctors, the ones who work in general practice, the first call for medical care, and comparing this with the situation in a couple of other countries.

I want to talk about the rationale behind what I decided to do.

Now I had to set up my program of research in 3 different countries, so I approached postgraduates in my field in overseas departments, contacting them by email to organize for me at their end. I thought I’d have trouble recruiting help, but in fact everyone was very willing, and sometimes their tutors got involved too.

I had to give my helpers clear instructions about what kind of sample population I wanted them to use. I decided that people under 18 should be excluded because most of them are students or looking for their first job. And also I decided at this stage just to focus on men who were in employment, and set up something for people who didn’t have jobs and for employed women later on as a separate investigation.

I specifically wanted to do a questionnaire and interviews with a focus group. With the questionnaire, rather than limiting it to one specific point, I wanted to include as much variety as possible. I know questionnaires are very controlled way to do things but I thought I could do taped interviews later on to counteract the effect of this. And the focus group may also prove useful in future, by targeting subjects I can easily return to, as the participants tend to be more involved.

So I’m just collating the results now. At the moment, it looked as if in the UK, despite the fact that newspapers continually report that people are unhappy with medical care, in fact it is mainly the third level of care,

which take place in hospitals, that they are worried about. Government reforms have been proposed at all levels and although their success is not guaranteed, long-term hospital care is in fact probably less of an issue than the media would have us believe. However I’ve still got quite a bit of data to look at.

Certainly I will need to do more far-reaching research than I had anticipated in order to establish if people want extra medical staff invested in the community, or if they want care to revert to fewer but larger key medical units. The solution may well be something that can be easily implemented by those responsible in local government, with central government support of course.

This first stage have proved very valuable though. I was surprised by how willing most of the subjects were to get involved in the project. I had expected some unwillingness to answer questions honestly. But I was taken aback and rather concerned that something I thought I’d set up very well didn’t necessarily seem that way to everyone in my department.

I thought you might also be interested in some of the problems I encountered in collecting my data. There were odd cases that threw me. One of the subjects who I had approached while he’s out shopping in town, decided to pull out when it came to the second round. It was a shame as it was someone who I would like to have interviewed more closely.

And one of the first-year students I interviewed wanted to reassurance that no names would be traceable from the answers. I was so surprised because they think nothing of telling you about themselves and their opinions in seminar groups.

Then one of the people that I work with got a bit funny. As the questions were quite personal, and one minute he said he’d do it, then the next day he wouldn’t. and in the end, he did do it. It’s hard not to get angry in that situation but I tried to keep focused on overall picture in order to stay calm.

The most bizarre case was a telephone interview I did with a teacher at a university in France, he answered all my questions in great detail, but then when I asked how much access he had to dangerous substances, he

wouldn’t tell me exactly what his work involved, it was a real……….

Test 3 Section 1

Good morning, how can I help you

Hello, I’m interested in renting a house somewhere in the town

Right, could I have your name please

Yes, it’s steven godfree

And tell me how many bedrooms you’re looking for

Well, we’d need four because I’m going to share the house with 3 friends Ok, there are several of that size on our books, they mostly belong to families who are working abroad at the moment. What about the location It would be nice to be central

That might be difficult as most houses in that size are in the suburbs. Still, there are a few. What’s your upper limit for the rent

We’d like something around 500 pounds a month, but we could go up to 600 if we have to, but we can’t go beyond that

Do you know how long you want to rent the house for? The minimum let is 6 months, as you probably realize

We’re at college here for 2 years and we don’t want to have to move during that time if we can avoid it.

And how soon do you want to move in, all our lets start on the first of the month

Well, as soon as possible really, so that means September 1st.

Ok, let me have a look at what we’ve got. We have photographs of all the houses on our books, so you can get an idea of what they’re like. There is this one in Ocen avenue at 550 pounds a month, combined living room and dinning room with a separate kitchen, it doesn’t have a garage, though you can park in the road

We prefer to have one if possible

Have a look at this house in mid street, it’s got a very large living room and kitchen, bathroom, cloakroom

How much is it

That one is 580, it’s very well furnished and equipped, it also has plenty of space for parking and it’s available for a minimum of a year. Oh, and there is a big garden.

I don’t think we could cope with that, to be honest. We’ll be too busy to look after it

Then there is this older house in Hamilton road, living room, kitchen-dinner and it has a study, 550 a month

That looks rather nice, but whereabouts in Hamilton road

Towards the west end

Oh, that’ll be very noisy, I know the area.

Yes, it’s pretty lively, some people like it though. Well, what about this house in Devon Close

That looks lovely.

There is a big demand for houses in that area, so prices tend to be quite high, but this one hasn’t been decorated for a few years which has kept the rent down a bit. It’s got a living room, dinning room and small kitchen and it’s 595 a month. I think it would suit you from what you’ve said. Sounds fine.

Why is that part of town so popular

Well, there is a big scheme to improve the district and it’ll soon have the best facilities for miles around.

What sort of thing

There is a big sport center under construction, which would be very impressive when it’s finished. In fact, the swimming pool’s already opened ahead of schedule, and it’s attracting a lot of people.

What about cinemas, are there any in the area

The only one closed down last year and now it’s now in the process of being converted into a film museum, the local people are trying to get a cinema added to the scheme.

I think I heard something about a plan to replace the existing concert hall with a larger one

That’s due to start next year

It sounds an interesting area to live in, could I go and see the house please

Section 2

Hello, welcome to focus on the arts. I’m your host Stave Green, and this your very own local radio program. Every Friday evening, we put the spotlights on different arts and culture facilities, and look at the shows and events that are on offer in the coming week. And today the focus is on the national art center.

Now, if you don’t already know it yourself, I’m sure you’ve all heard of it. It’s famous throughout the world as one as the major venues of classical music.

But did you know that it’s actually more than just a place to hear concerts. The center itself is a huge complex that caters for a great range of arts, under a single roof, it houses concert rooms, theaters, cinemas, art galleries and a wonderful public library as well as service facilities including 3 restaurants and a bookshop. So, at any one time, the choice of entertainment there is simply enormous.

So, how did they manage to build such a big art complex right in the heart of the city? Well, the area was completely destroyed by bombs during the war in 1940, so the opportunity was taken to create a cultural center that would be, or they called, the city’s gift to the nation. Of course, it took a while for such a big project to get started. But it was planned in the 60s, built in the 70s and eventually opened to the public in 1983. Ever since then, it has proved to be a great success.

It not privately owned like many art centers, but is still in public hands. It’s run by the city council. Both our national symphony orchestra and national theater company were involved in the planning of the project and then they are based there, giving regular performances every week. And as the center is open 363 days of the year, there are plenty of performances to choose from.

So, to give you some ideas of what’s on and to help you choose from the many possibilities, we’ve made a selection of the star attractions.

If you’re interested in classical music, then we recommend you go along to the national on either Monday or Tuesday evening at 7.30 for a spectacular production of the magic flute, probably the most popular of all Mozart’s operas. It’s in the garden hall and tickets start at only 8

pounds, but you’ll have to be early if you want to get them that cheap. And remember, it’s only on for those 2 evenings.

For those more interested in the cinema, you might like to see the new Canadian film which is showing on Wednesday evening at 8 pm in cinema 2, and that’s called 3 lives. It’s had fantastic reviews and tickets cost just 4.50, which is a reduction on the usual price of 5.50, so it’s really good value especially for such a great movie.

But you can see the center’s main attraction at the weekend, because on Saturday and Sunday, 11 am to 10 pm, they’re showing a wonderful exhibition that hasn’t been seen anywhere else in Europe yet. It’s a collection of Chinese art, called faces of china, that’s in gallery 1, and it has some really fascinating paintings and sculptures by leading artists from all over China, and the good news is that it’s completely free, so don’t miss it.

So, why not go along to the national art center next week for one or all of these great events. And you can always pick up a program and check out all the other performances and exhibitions on offer, or coming soon, on almost everyday of the year.

Next week, we’ll be looking at the new museum of science.

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I’ve been reading your personal statement Paul, first, let’s talk about your work experience in south America. What took you there, was it to gain more fluency in Spanish?

Well, as I’m combining Spanish with Latin American studies, my main idea was to find out more about the way people lived there. My spoken Spanish is already pretty good in fact.

So you weren’t too worried about language barriers.

No, in fact I ended up teaching English there, although that wasn’t my original choice of work.

I see, how did you find out about all this

I found an agency that runs all kinds of voluntary projects in south

America.

What kind of work?

Well, there were several possibilities.

You mean construction, engineering work

Yes, getting involved in building projects was an option. Then there was tourism taking tourists for walks around the volcanoes, which I actually chose to do. And then there was work with local farmers.

But you didn’t continue with that project, why not?

Because I never really knew whether I’d be needed or not. I’d thought it might be difficult physically, but I was certainly fit enough, now I wanted to do something that had more of a proper structure to it, I suppose, I get de-motivated otherwise.

What do you think you learned from your experience, it must have been a great opportunity to examine community life.

Yes, but it was difficult at first to be accepted by the locals, it was a very remote village and some of them were reluctant to speak to me, although they were always interested in my clothes and how much I’d had to pay for them

Well, that’s understandable.

Yes, but things soon improved. What struck me was that when people became more comfortable with me and less suspicious, we really connected with each other in a meaningful way.

You made good friends

Yes, with 2 of the families in particular.

Good, what about management, did you have a project manager

Yes, and he gave me lots of advice and guidance.

And was he good at managing too

That wasn’t his strong points. I think he’s often more interested in academic side of things than filing reports, he was a bit of a dreamer. And did you have a contract

I had to stay for a minimum of 3 months. My parents were surprised when I asked to stay longer, 6 months in the end, I was so happy there And did any thing on the administration side of things surprise you, what was the food and lodging like?

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