You will hear a teacher talking about photography lessons.
Listen and complete each question.
Write one word or a number or a date or a time.
Start: 3rd October
Day of course during October: .
Cost: £ .
Month when college is closed: .
College office closes in the evening at: .
Address: 59 Street.
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Joe: I’m Joe and I’m a teacher on the photography course. Photography is a very popular subject, so we offer these courses three times a year. The next course starts on the third of October and finishes in the second week of December.
All lessons are in the evenings. In the new year, the classes will be on Thursdays, but the first course, starting in October, is on Wednesdays. Classes start at 6.30 p.m. and finish at 8.30.
What else? The price of the course is £75, and you’ll need your own camera, and you’ll probably need to spend about £20 on buying photo paper.
If you want to book a place on the evening course, the college is open in July and September, but it’s not open at all in August. The college office is open from 9.30 a.m. to 12.45 p.m., and 5.30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The college address is 59 Bracknell Street – that’s B-R-A-C-K-N-E-double L. We’re very near the park, and we have a large car park.
You will hear a woman talking about a medical centre.
Listen and complete each question.
Write one word or a number or a date or a time.
Address: Park Street
Centre is next to: the .
Doctor’s name: Dr .
Doctor speaks: English and .
Closes every Tuesday at: p.m.
Hospital phone number: .
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Woman: If you’ve just moved to the town, it’s a good idea to get a doctor as soon as possible. We are the largest medical centre and you’ll find us in Park Street. That’s in the centre of town, opposite the post office and beside the library.
People who are new to the centre will see Dr Moore – that’s M-double-O-R-E. She’s from England, but she’s lived in other countries and can speak Spanish too.
The medical centre is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., but on Mondays we open later, at 8.30 a.m., and Fridays we shut at 5.30 p.m. On Tuesdays we close at 5 p.m. for staff training.
We’ll always try to see you the same day you call us. If you have a problem when the medical centre isn’t open, then you’ll need to call the hospital on 467402. They’ll give you advice or tell you if you need to go to hospital immediately.
You will hear a woman talking about renting a boat for a holiday.
Listen and complete each question.
Write one word or a number or a date or a time.
Name of boat: Moonlight
Boat is for: between two and people.
Dates available this year: 1st –31st.
Total cost: £ per week.
Must bring: .
Phone number to book: .
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Woman: Thank you for calling Riverboat Holidays. This is the information line for booking our boat called Moonlight. This boat can be booked by groups of different sizes. The smallest group is two people and the largest is eight people. There are three bedrooms and a large sofa that two people can sleep on.
The boat can be booked for holidays from 1st June to 31st August, but this summer it’s only available in August. June and July are already booked. If you book a holiday on the boat, we ask you to pay £150 straightaway, and the rest of the money four weeks before your holiday. You’ll pay £475 altogether for one week.
People often ask if they need to bring sheets and blankets, but these are already on the beds. However, there are no towels on the boat, so you will need to bring these.
If you’d like to book the boat, please visit our website – www.riverboatholidays.com – or call us on 2150699. We’re open seven days a week.
You will hear a talk about an exercise class called Extreme Bootcamp.
For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space.
You will hear the conversation twice.
Extreme Bootcamp
The use the name ‘bootcamp’ for soldiers’ training.
Extreme Bootcamp takes place on a so you can exercise and look at the river.
Members start each class at 6.30 am by doing some .
Wear the same clothes as for other exercise classes, and bring good .
The next bootcamp starts on .
Contact Ellie for more information.
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You will hear part of a training session for people who are going to work as sales assistants in a large shop.
For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space.
You will hear the conversation twice.
Training session for new sales assistants
The training manager is called Mandy .
New assistants will work on the floor.
Part-time workers have a rest day on every week.
Workers who live in the town can use the store’s service for free.
The staff discount cannot be used to buy .
Assistants need to collect their on their first day.
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You will hear a film review programme on the radio.
For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space.
You will hear the conversation twice.
THIS WEEK REVIEW
The film Jungle Fever is a about a family of tigers.
Actor Steve Wills plays a in his new film, Call it.
Swim! is about a man who wants to swim in a local.
COMPETITION FOR LISTENERS
Listeners can enter an online quiz at www.co.
Winners will receive tickets.
Entries must be received on by 2 pm.
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You will hear a woman talking to a receptionist about photography lessons.
Listen and complete each question.
You will hear the conversation twice.
Start: 3rd October
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You will hear a man telephoning a medical centre for advice.
Listen and complete each question.
You will hear the conversation twice.
Address of chemist: Park Street
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You will hear a woman talking to a customer about renting a boat.
Listen and complete each question.
You will hear the conversation twice.
Name: Philip Cook
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It's early morning in a small village in Kenya, Africa. Women and children are carrying heavy containers of water on their heads. They walk many miles to get this water. It's hot, and they are tired. They can only carry a few containers a day. A young British woman learns about the problem she wants to help. Who is the young woman? Her name is Emily Cummins. How did she help? She invented a water carrier for the people in Kenya. They can pull it like a suitcase. Cummins is an engineer. She designs useful products for places without many natural resources. These places often don't have a lot of water. They also don't have a lot of oil, coal, or gas. These resources are not renewable. That means you can't replace them when you take them from the earth. Cummins' products don't use oil, coal, or gas. They use other sources of energy, such as the sun. This makes the products sustainable. People can continue to use them in the future without hurting our planet. How did Cummins get started? As a young child in England, she loved to work with her grandfather in his workshop. He taught her how to use his tools. He showed her how to make toys and jewelry boxes from small pieces of metal. She designed her first product when she was in high school and just 15 years old. Her grandfather had arthritis. He couldn't squeeze a tube of toothpaste with his hand. Cummins invented a tube with a lever. The lever pushes the toothpaste out of the tube. You don't have to squeeze the tube. While she was still a high school student, Cummins designed a new kind of refrigerator. Why? Refrigerators normally use a lot of electricity. They are too expensive for many people in developing countries. Cummins' refrigerator is not expensive. Here's how it works. One container of the refrigerator keeps food and medicine clean and dry. This container sits in another container filled with water and sand. The sun's energy makes the water in the sand evaporate. In other words, the water goes into the air and takes heat from the sand with it. This cools the sand. The cool sand keeps the food and medicine cool. The design is very simple and it uses cheap local materials. People can even make the refrigerator themselves. After leaving school, Cummins spent five months in Africa. She wanted to learn more about life there so she volunteered at a school in Namibia. There, she could test and improve her designs. Her refrigerator became a great success. Today, it helps thousands of people. Cummins studied business at the University of Leeds in England. Today, she continues to design sustainable products. She has won many awards for her designs. Her inventions are famous because they use local resources. They don't hurt the planet and the materials are all recyclable. Do you have ideas for sustainable products? Maybe you too can become an engineering superstar. This is the end of the audio program. This is the end of the audio program.
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Chuhachi Ninomiya was a young man with a dream. He wanted to invent a flying machine. He watched birds fly for hours and hours. He also studied insects and flying fish to get ideas. Did Ninomiya's dream come true? The story of his life will give you the answer. Ninomiya was born in Japan in 1866. As a boy, he loved flying kites. People called him kite flying Chuhachi. Ninomiya also loved to design kites. His kites were unique because they had pockets. Some businesses used Ninomiya's kites for advertising. They put advertisements into the pocket of a kite. The pocket opened and let the ads fall to the ground. Then, the pocket closed again. Ninomiya built his first model of a flying machine in 1891. He was just 24 years old. He called his model the crow, which is the name of a kind of bird. It had a propeller and landing gear, but its wings did not move. Ninomiya's model actually flew. In 1894, Ninomiya became a soldier in the army. He thought flying machines could be very useful in a war. He gave his engineering plans to the army. The plans had drawings and specific directions for building a flying machine. However, the army didn't pay attention to Ninomiya. They said, humans are not supposed to fly. They thought he was crazy. Ninomiya left the army in 1898. He continued to design airplanes. He started to build a plane that was more like a modern airplane. Ninomiya's plane wasn't a model this time. It was a real full-size plane. The plane was almost finished. All Ninomiya needed was an engine, and he ordered one. Then one day, he read in the newspaper about the Wright brothers. These two men from the United States flew their first plane in December of 1903. Ninomiya read about the brothers' success just one day before he received his engine. This was bad news for Ninomiya. He stopped building his plane, and he never built another one. After that, he became a Shinto priest. Most people think the Wright brothers designed the first airplane, but this isn't true. Ninomiya designed and flew model planes many years before the Wright brothers did. However, the Wright brothers flew their first plane before Ninomiya finished his full-sized plane. Unlike Ninomiya's plane, the Wright brothers plane did not have landing gear. It also had a kind of wing that wasn't as modern as the wing on Ninomiya's plane. In 1991, an expert in aviation used Ninomiya's engineering plans to build an airplane. He said that Ninomiya's plane was better than the Wright brothers plane. Ninomiya never lost his interest in airplanes and flight. He even built a shrine for people who died in airplane accidents. Before he died in 1936, he received an apology and an award from the army. Today, he has the greatest honor of all. The Japanese call him the father of Japanese aircraft. This is the end of the audio program.
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Humans are great builders. Examples are all over the world. The Egyptian pyramids, the Panama Canal, and the Alaska pipeline are just a few. Thousands of people worked on these enormous structures. What makes these structures such amazing achievements? Is it their size? Is it their beauty? Is it the number of workers? Is it the danger of the work? The ancient pyramids of Egypt are still a mystery today. No one knows exactly how the Egyptians built them. The biggest pyramid is the great pyramid of Giza. The Egyptians built it in about 2550 BCE. The workers used 2.5 million limestone blocks. The great pyramid covers 123 acres, 50 hectares, or 500,000 square meters. It's 480 feet, 146 meters high. The sides are 755 feet, 230 meters long. How did the workers build the great pyramid? There were no wheels at the time, so there were no cranes or pulleys. Experts think the builders used simple machines, such as levers and ramps. The great pyramid took over 80 years to build. Approximately 30,000 people worked on it. What was the most dangerous engineering project? It was the Panama Canal. This waterway in Central America is 50 miles, 80 kilometers long. It lets ships pass between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The French started the project in 1881. However, the work was too difficult and they stopped. The United States continued the project in 1904 and completed it in 1914. A total of 56,307 people worked on the canal. The area around the canal was very dangerous. It had a tropical climate. That means it was very hot and wet, with about 105 inches, 267 centimeters, of rain a year. The heavy rain often flooded the rivers. There were mosquitoes. No one knew that mosquitoes caused malaria. Thousands of workers died from malaria and accidents. One of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century was the Alaska Pipeline. In 1968, an oil company found the largest oil field in North America. How could they get oil from Alaska to the rest of the United States? They worked with other oil companies to build a pipeline. The Alaska Pipeline is the longest pipeline in the world. It carries oil for 800 miles, 1,287 kilometers, through the cold hard Alaskan wilderness. It crosses three mountain ranges and more than 800 rivers and streams. More than 70,000 workers built it. They worked for nine years in sub-zero temperatures. They completed the work in 1977. Since then, over 15 billion barrels of oil have traveled through the pipeline. There are many other amazing engineering projects around the world. For example, the Great Wall of China was the largest building project in history. The Great Wall is approximately 4,500 miles, 7,242 kilometers long. Another example is the Pan-American Highway. It is about 20,300 miles, 32,670 kilometers, and it is the longest road in the world. It goes through Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America. Can you think of other examples of great engineering projects? Which project do you think is the greatest of all? This is the end of the audio program.
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