Hilary lodge retirement home #real exam listening 2021

you will hear a telephone conversation between two people kathy and john john hopes to volunteer at a

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first you have some time to look at questions one to ten hello hillary

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kathy speaking hello my name is john shepard could I ask you if you're the house manager, that's it, well hi cathy, a friend of mine volunteers at Hillary Lodge and I'd also like to help you if you need more people. I work part time, so I have plenty of free time. We are always happy to have more help, John, could you tell you about some of the activities that volunteers participate in?

Well, on Monday nights we organize computer courses. We have six portables and five or six residents attend the sessions regularly. Now we can all write and send emails, but our trainer just moved and we need two or three volunteers who can help residents create documents. Simple things. I would

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ly be interested in doing it. So on Tuesday afternoons I have an informal singing class that most of the residents attend. We have a keyboard and someone who plays, but if you want to join in singing you would be welcome. I work Tuesdays at the moment, although that could change.

I'll have to let it go for now, I'm afraid that's fine, so on Thursday mornings we usually have a session in our garden. Several of our residents enjoy learning about flowers, where they grow best, how to care for them, etc., is that something like that? Are you interested? I'm not an expert, but I enjoy gardening. So yes, I would like to participate. Do you have your own tools at home? We have some, but not many. I could bring some with me when I come, thank you very much. One very important thing for volunteers is that we hold a monthly meeting where everyone meets with the staff.

It's an opportunity to make sure we're working well together and that everyone knows how the residents are doing and what's going on. in the house now, obviously we would need to meet you before you become one of our volunteers, of course, could you come for an informal interview later this week? Maybe it will be busy the next few days, but it would be possible on Saturday. Certainly, come any time during the day. I won't be working then, so you'll see my assistant. Merade. Sorry, how do you spell it? Alright. I understood that it is not a name I am familiar with.

Oh, it's an Irish name. You come from Dublin, of course, and the road Hillary Lodge is on is called Bridge Road, isn't it? Number 73. Well, something else that might interest you. We will be holding a couple of open days and we still need some volunteers. If you are available, what are the dates? There is one on April 9 and another on May 14. They are both Saturday and all-day events. I can certainly manage May 14th. I have another commitment on April 9th ​​so it would be a great help, we have several guest entertainers, singers, a music band, etc., and we expect many visitors, so one possibility is to help take care of the entertainers or you could spend about a hour organizing people as they arrive and then being part of the team making sure everything goes well.

Will I show people where they can park? Thank you. One reason to hold open days is to get publicity for Hillary Lodge locally so you can find someone from a newspaper who wants to interview you. They will want to know two or three people why they are volunteering to help a home. We're trying to get a TV station to come too, but they don't seem very interested, I don't care. being interviewed, well if you come to chat as we agreed, take it from there thank you very much for calling me, it's my pleasure, bye, that's the end of section one.

Now you have half a minute to check your answers. Now move on to the section. 2. Recording 68 you will hear the director of a center that offers evening classes for adults. She will explain some recent changes that have been made to the center. First, she will have time to review questions 11 to 15. Hello, as some of you know. I'm elaine marriott, director of the university's learning resource center. We have invited everyone who takes evening classes and leisure activities to come and see the changes we have made to the center over the last month. An important change we have made.

Here on the ground floor is the layout, as you can see by looking around. I'm sure you'll recognize the desk that's still in the same spot as it has to be right inside the door, but you'll see that the periodicals are now on the shelves in the corner behind the desk, we've moved them closer to the door. entrance because a lot of people like to come in just to read magazines, we now have a much wider variety of periodicals than before, so we have decided to separate them from the newspapers, this means that the newspapers are now right on the other side of the stairs, near the study area.

Another thing is that we have brought the computers downstairs, people used to complain about having to go upstairs to use them, so now they are On the other side of the building on the right, in the corner facing the parking lot, we now have an additional photocopier, so that in addition to the one above, there is one below. You can see it right in front of the entrance, next to the back wall. However, the biggest change and one that I'm sure many of you will appreciate is that we now finally have a coffee shop that we've been asking for for years.

If you turn right as soon as you pass the desk, you will see At the door in front of you it became possible to have a cafeteria because the building was expanded and we now have a new office and warehouse area. What else should I tell you before taking a walk? Oh yes, we have had so many requests. For sports books, we have purchased many more and they are all together immediately to the right of the entrance. Before you listen to the rest of the conversation, you'll have some time to look at questions 16-20. Now listen and answer questions 16-20.

Okay, that's enough with the new layout, we'll get into that in a moment, but first to do something with the people who are here to help you, of course, all the staff will do their best to answer your questions, but now. We will each specialize in certain areas, so if you ask a member of staff about something and they don't think they can help you enough, they will direct you to our specialist. Jenny Reed is the person who can see if there are movies. She would like us to stock as she has taken the responsibility of purchasing them.

She'd better warn you that our budget is limited, so I'm afraid we can't promise to buy everything you ask for. Phil Penshurst can help you improve your writing, if he needs to produce reports for your course you can book a half hour session with Phil to get started and then if you want more help he will arrange follow up sessions with you. I should mention Tom Salisbury, many people are interested in doing research. or just read about this region, people's occupations change over the years, etc. Tom is a specialist in this particular field, so if he needs help, he can point you in the right direction.

We have a large collection of relevant documents from antiquity. maps for wildlife studies we have a new staff member, syed actor. I'm sure you'll meet him soon and you'll find him very useful if you're unemployed and want some advice on the nuts and bolts of job hunting, syed. He is the person to talk to. He has also written a very useful book on the subject which, of course, we have on our shelves. Many of you will know Shilpa Desai, who has been working here for about five years. Shilpa now has the added responsibility of providing information. and advice on anything to do with housing, like finding out what's available or whether you're eligible for financial help.

Well, that's enough from me, so let's walk through the library at the end of section 2. Now you have half a minute. to check your answers skip to section 3 recording 69 you will hear a tutor and a student discussing a project the student is working on first you have some time to look at questions 21-27 right Stuart well , I read your preliminary report on Your job at the central museum association, it seems like you had a great time, so you ended up making a film for them. Yes, it was a film to train employees of different museums on the techniques they should use to label ancient objects without damaging them. some of them are

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ly fragile okay so in your report you go over the main stages of making the film let's look in a little more detail you had to find a location somewhere to shoot the film which took quite a few days because I had to I looked at different museums around the country, but I gave myself time for it and, although it was the middle of winter, there was no snow, so I didn't have any transportation problems, right?

Did you have to decide what equipment to use? I needed to film, yeah, I think they were quite surprised at how well I managed it. It was just a matter of luck. I actually did that project with you last year. Oh, about recording technology, so you already knew a little about that. right, yeah, what I found really difficult was writing the script. I had a deadline for that, but the association had to extend it. I couldn't have done it otherwise it would have helped if you had had some training there. I think you're right, I probably needed that, yeah, right now, based on your draft report, it sounds like you had one or two problems deciding who was actually going to be in the video, the casting, yeah, I was hoping that the people who worked for The association were really interested in participating, but they weren't, the problem was that they were all very busy and that meant that some of them had to travel, but Janice King, who I was reporting to for the project, oh, she was great, she organized for people to have free time. and having her cover her work was a big help to me and it seems like the filming itself went well.

I assume you found a company that provided an online introduction to the techniques. Yes, it was very informative and very easy to use. I learned a lot from it and then during editing the association put me in touch with someone who works for one of the big film companies and I went down to the studio and sat with him in front of his computer for a day learning how to cut and paste and take care of the soundtrack and so on, that's how it was. No, I didn't include this in my draft report, but I had to design the DVD cover as well as the lyrics and everything, have you done anything like that?

I didn't work in design before, but I made a draft and then I talked about it with a couple of colleagues and they gave me some more ideas and when I finished it I showed it to the people who worked at the association and they liked it a lot. Excellent, now listen and answer questions 28 to 30. Now, in addition to your own draft report, I also received a written evaluation from the association about the work you did during your placement and how it was beneficial to them. I realized that I haven't included anything about that yet in your report about how my project benefited the association, so do I have to include it?

Yeah, well, let's think, I guess if I hadn't made the movie for them, they would have had to do it. get an outside company to do it, but because I was actually working for the association, I had a much clearer idea of ​​what their goals are, things like their responsibility for the preservation of the exhibits, I don't think an outside company would have done it. If they had understood that, they would have been more indifferent and the association also said that because of your background, you had a good idea of ​​where to go to get the best deal for the equipment you needed.

They said the cost savings made it even worth it. Although getting it took a long time, yes, that's true, the association also said that making the film had a very positive effect in getting staff to work more closely. Oh, I hadn't heard that was good and people certainly weren't afraid to say it. They gave me their thoughts as I made it, so I was able to get a lot of feedback at each stage which was helpful to me, but also meant the final product worked better for them. Can you think of any other benefits? Well I do not know.

I don't think they really thought about what they would do with the movie once it was made. I made some suggestions for the layout. Other people we could send it to, as well as museum staff. Yes, they mentioned that it's okay. Well, it sounds. like them, certainly, that's the end of section three, now you have half a minute to check your answers, now move on to section four, recording seventy, you will hear a lecture about a species of bird called the New Caledonian crow, first you will have some of time to look. Questions 31 to 40. Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.

Today I am going to talk about research on a particular species of bird, the New Caledonian crow, whose natural habitat issmall islands in the Pacific Ocean and it seems that these crows are exceptionally resourceful using sticks or other tools to find food is not unknown among birds and animals, some chimpanzees, for

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ple, are known for hitting nuts against stones to crack the shell. and reach the edible grain inside a New Caledonian crow named Betty Bent. some straight wire on a hook and used it to lift a small bucket of his favorite food from a vertical tube.

This experiment was the first time he was introduced to wire, which makes it very impressive. Another crow named Barney has demonstrated his ability to use sticks to forage for food. In a research project, scientists from New Zealand and Oxford posed a three-stage problem to captive New Caledonian crows. If they wanted to extract food from a hole, the crows first had to pull a rope to obtain a short stick and then use it. That short stick to get a long stick out of a toolbox and finally use the long stick to reach the food. Surprisingly, they figured out how to do this.

Other experiments carried out successfully at Oxford suggest that crows can also use sticks as tools to inspect all kinds of objects, possibly to assess whether they present danger or not. The idea for the experiment came from observing birds using tools to pick random objects, such as an image of a spider that was printed on a web. In this research, five pairs of crows, including Barney, were tested to see how they would react to a variety of objects that were carefully chosen so that the birds would not be tempted to view them as a possible food source as an additional precaution all the crows had been fed beforehand on eight occasions the first contact of a bird was through the use of a tool In all three tests Barney started out using a stick for inspection one involved a rubber snake first he approached it but didn't touch it, then he retreated to grab a stick, then he poked it with the stick, after investigating a little more, Discarding the stick and continuing to peck at the snake with more confidence, apparently convinced that it wouldn't move in further experiments, two different birds called.

Pierre and Corbeau also made a first approach with tools on three separate occasions, Pierre used a short piece of wood splinter to touch a flashing light and Corbeau was seen poking a metal toad with a stick, signifying that the crows They tended to use the sticks only to later make their first contact with the object, ignore the object or drop the tool and peck at the object, which is very different from using the tool to access food, so the conclusions we can be drawn from the research evidence they are accumulating from experiments. Like these, birds can plan their actions in advance, which is very interesting for understanding their cognition.

They do not seem to respond in a pre-programmed way. They may even be able to see. a problem and figuring out what the answer is, however, a major difficulty is assessing whether this tool-using behavior is a sign of intelligence, to some extent this is related to the ecological circumstances the animal is in, so that scientists want to know much more. about how crows behave in their native habitat and a team from the universities of Exeter and Oxford is carrying out research in New Caledonia. They are investigating whether the way birds forage for food gives them any possible evolutionary advantage.

Birds are difficult to observe. They live in a mountainous forest region, so researchers have placed small cameras on the tails of some birds as a method of investigating their behavior. The birds are experts at using sticks to find their food, particularly tree beetle larvae. It is possible that the birds can get so much energy from these worms that they only need to eat a few each day. This would mean that they would not have to spend most of their waking time searching for food, as most animals do. Beetle larvae have a different chemical composition. which can be traced through the feathers and blood of the birds that eat them.

Scientists have collected samples from crows to estimate the proportion of larvae in their diet. They should then be able to measure the extent to which individual birds rely on using sticks for feeding. We ourselves have learned a lot about the ability of New Caledonian crows to use tools and very interesting research is being carried out on them.