TRANSCRIPT (TEST 2)

1. 17 - 20

Okay, everyone. I want to review the first two days of our travel itinerary for the trip. Okay, yeah, please
take out the paper that I _______________ earlier. Okay. Uh. First of all, we have been very fortunate to
have been able to purchase ___________ ___________to cover most of the transportation costs and
_____________ activities. And I want to also thank the, uh, group of parents who, uh, worked very hard in
order to, uh, raise______________, uh, through different businesses in the community. I really appreciate
that.

Um, let’s see. Okay, everyone should meet at the airport at 6:00 a.m. This will give you time to
____________and get through security. Our plane departs at 9:00.

Uh, our plane arrives in New York at 3:00 p.m, and we will take a bus from the airport to the hotel. We’ve
been able to get great rates on this hotel because we’re staying on a weekday ___________________ the
weekend.

In the morning, for any of you who like to get exercise, we will be meeting in the lobby around 6:00 a.m.
to _________________ around Central Park for about 45 minutes, and we’ll get back to the hotel about the
time when the _________________ opens, so you’ll enough time to ____________ a quick breakfast
before we leave the hotel at 8:00. We’ll be taking a ________________ ride to Ellis Island and then to
Liberty Island to visit the Statue of Liberty. I mean, this is something that you really can’t miss, and later,
we will go to Times Square where you can have lunch on your own for about _____________ from about
1:00 to 2:00.

Later in the afternoon, you have the choice of visiting the Empire State Building or the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Either one of these is . . . are great, and we have some great, uh, group discounts. Uh, we
will meet back at the hotel at 6:00 p.m., and we’ll have dinner at a very nice ________________ restaurant
downtown, and then we’ll catch an exciting broadway musical around 8:30 p.m.

Uh, any questions?

2. 21 - 25

Woman: Frank, tell us about some of the ships you've discovered.

Man: Well, there's nothing quite like finding your first old ship - it was 300 years old. It was just lying at
the _________ of the sea, so it ______________ to find. Most are covered in sand and rocks - but this one
wasn't.
I'm actually a teacher, not a ________________ - I dive in my free time but I often get to them before the
professional divers, because I have good __________________ equipment. Another thing that helps is
talking to fishermen who tell me about their local area. I've even written a book about some of their
experiences.
At the moment, I'm looking for the gold from a ship called The Seabird. It was an ___________ well-built
ship and it was coming from Australia on a winter night in 1859. Everything was going fine until the ship
reached the English coast, when it ____________ into some rocks in a very strong wind and sank to the
bottom of the sea. It was carrying gold from Australia, and most of it is still at the bottom of the sea.
My wedding ring is actually made from gold which I found on an ___________________ sailing ship. A
friend of mine, another diver, has already found £88,000 worth of gold from different ships. He's now
decided to ____________ his job and become a full-time diver.
My house is full of things like coins, bottles and old guns. My wife is always complaining about the
number of objects around the house - she says I should open an antiques shop - but I love all these old
things. Anyway, in the end, I gave some things from my collection to museums, because I didn't want to
sell them. But my wife still wasn't very ________, I'm afraid.
As diving is a dangerous hobby, it's not a good idea to try to teach yourself. I'd advise anyone interested to
do what I did. There are some excellent diving clubs like the one I joined, which run courses for beginners.
It is best to do one of these before you go on a diving holiday ...

HISTORIC PLACES TO VISIT

Black Rock Caves

- Over 2 million years old.

- For half a million years, people and animals, especially (1) lived here.

- Special evening tours during the month of (2)

Salter House
- Built in the year (3)

- Made famous by the television series called Aunt Dorothy.

- All visitors want to see dorothy's (4) .

The Old Port

- Have a ride on an old tram to the (5) village.

- In the factory, find out how people used to make (6) .

3. 26 – 30

Well, I’d like to tell you about some of the historic places open to visitors in this part of the country.

Let’s start with the oldest first. Black Rock Caves have been here for over two million years. And, for half
a million years, they were home to people and various animals,_______________ (1) tigers. You can
explore these ___________homes and imagine what life was like for the people who lived there. The caves
are open (2) daily from April to October. A special attraction on evenings in (3) August is a walk by
candlelight. Don’t take this tour if you are _____________the dark!
Next I recommend a visit to Salter House. This was built by Sir Joshua Salter and
__________________seventeen sixty-five. The Salter family are still living there today. The house
became (4) famous in ____________________when the television series Aunt Dorothy was (5)
filmed there. The furniture and paintings are well worth seeing, but the attraction nobody wants to
____________ is the (6) kitchen. This is where Aunt Dorothy cooked her enormous meals and gave advice
to anyone who passed through this part of the house.

And don’t forget to visit The Old Port. You will need several (7) hours to see everything there, especially
if you take a trip along the riverside in an old tram as far as the (8) fishing village. The ________________
there all wear traditional ______________and you too get the chance to try on clothes from a hundred
years ago. You can buy (9) gifts in the old village stores and eat delicious snacks in the Tea Shop. If you
visit the village factory, you can see how (10) sweets were made a hundred years ago, and
____________them, too.

So, you see there’s plenty of. . .

TRANSCRIPT CAMBRIDGE GRAMMAR (UNIT 19 – SECTION 2)

Hello everyone and welcome to Greenville community centre. Today we're going to be talking about what
we as a community can do to help each other in severe weather. Our lovely little village is, as you know,
quite remote. There may be other similar sized communities only 25 kilometres away but emergency
services have to drive 500 kilometres to reach us from the closest large town. That can mean a wait of up
to ten hours before help arrives.

Having said that, we are very lucky in that we've always had our own fire service and, thanks to the arrival
of Dr Jones earlier this year, we no longer have to drive so far if anyone gets sick. What we don't have,
and are unlikely to get in the near future, is a weather station.

Now, the National Weather Bureau can provide a lot of helpful information and even warn us about severe
storms, but they can only do this if they build up a database of information and to do that they need local
help. That means us. What we'd like to do is set up a group of volunteer storm spotters to pass information
on to the Weather Bureau.

So, what do these storm spotters have to do? Well, thankfully you don't have to be particularly skilled at
anything. Quite simply, immediately after a storm has passed, the first thing you have to do is call the
national weather station to let them know. After that you have to complete a report card, which is very
simple and won't takc more than a few minutes to do. The only other thing they ask is that we keep an eye
out for any reports in the local newspaper of storms or storm damage. You need to cut these out and send
them in as well. Damage that makes news here is unlikely to make it into the national papers, so these can
be an important source of extra information

So that's all as far as the duties go. Now, what sort of thing do you need to report? Well, they don't want to
hear about every single storm that we have, only the ones that bring some unusual conditions. For example,
we don't need to call them just because there is hail, but we should report any hailstones that are two
centimetres in diameter or bigger. They also need to know about damage caused by high wind, especially
if it uproots large trees. Again, don't contact them every time you see a tree fallen over. You should use
your common sense and restrict it to those big enough to cause a problem, especially on our roads. They'd
also like to hear about very heavy rainfall and more especially any localized flash floods.

So, what should you do if you care about our community and you want to help? Well, obviously you'll
need a bit more information and preparation than I've given you today so we'll be conducting a training
session next month. This will only take up a day, so don't worry too much about it. If you do have the time
and would like to come along, then you'll need to talk to the police who are coordinating the event. And as
our storm season is from November right to the end of January, you'll need to put your name down by the
end of October at the very latest, but if you'd like to get in early, Sergeant Phillips is here this afternoon
and he's happy to take names now. This really is important for our community, and we're hoping to get a
lot of support. Thank you