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Now, turn to part one. Part one. You will hear the manager of an electronic goods store
giving instructions to her new assistant.

First, you have some time to look at questions one to three on page two. Hello. Come in and
take a seat.

Oh, thanks. Good. And how can I help you? Well, I'd quite like to join this international social
club, and I was hoping you could help me.

Yes, no problem. Let me just get the form up on my screen, and I'll fill in your details. Let's
see.

Yes, here we are. Okay, the first thing we need is your name. Jenny Fu.

That's F-double-O. Okay, great. And can you tell me how old you are, Jenny? I'm 21.

Great. And how long have you been here in Australia, by the way? I arrived just last month,
two weeks before the start of the academic year, just to sort things out and settle in a bit.
Good idea.

Where are you from originally? I'm from Kuala Lumpur. That's where I was born and brought
up. So, you're Malaysian, are you? That's right, though I lived in the United States for a
couple of years when I was a teenager.

We went there for my father's job. Right. And can you tell me your current address, please?
Sure.

Just at the moment, I'm lodging with a family at 13 Anglesey Road in Bondi. Okay, let me
just type that in. How do you spell Anglesey, by the way? It's spelled A-N-G-L-E-S-E-A.

Thanks. That's quite a long way from the city centre, isn't it? Is it a problem getting into the
city centre? Not really, because the buses are good, and it's a nice, quiet area to live in.
That's true.

So, I guess you must have a cell phone number you can give me so we can keep you
informed of events and so on? Yes. Let me just have a look. It's a new one, so I haven't
learned the number yet.

Ah, here it is. It's 040 422 9160. Zero.

Okay, good. And you like the family you're living with? Sure. They've got a little boy who is
quite noisy, but he's really no trouble.

Fine. Now, let's see. What's next? Yep.

Can you tell me what you do? I mean, are you working or studying? Well, at the moment,
I'm doing a temporary job with a company here in Sydney. I'm an economist, in fact. Okay.
And how long do you think you'll be here in Sydney? At least a year. I may look for work
here afterwards. Great.

Now, you want to join the International Social Club, and it would be good to know a bit
about your free time interests as well. What do you like doing? Well, I'm quite musical, and I
really enjoy singing. Back home, I sang with a band, just, you know, for fun.

But for me, what I like best is dancing. You know, the modern sort? I really love it. Before
you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at questions 4 to 10 on
page 3. So, how are you getting on here? I mean, your level of English is better than most
people who come from overseas to work.

And you've got a really nice American accent, so I don't suppose you have any
communication problems in the office. Though, you might find some of our Australian slang
more difficult to understand.
Well, a bit.

But I haven't met that many Australians yet, outside of work, I mean. Right.
But could you tell me a bit about the International Club, now I've joined? Sure.

We've got, let's see, currently about 50 members, but people join all the time, so I should
think that figure will go up. Last year, we had 30 members, and the year before, just 18. So,
we're growing and getting better known.

I reckon that at this rate, next year, we'll have about 80. And does the club hold regular
meetings? Yes, every second Thursday evening, in fact. So, a couple of times a month.

Though, of course, when you start making friends, you'll be getting together with them
more often than that, I guess. The next meeting will be next Thursday, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, that's right.

And what happens when the club meets? I mean, what sort of things are organised? The
usual thing is for one of the members to give a little presentation about where they're from,
their customs, and so on. But from time to time, they do other things, outings to places
around Sydney, or meeting up to eat together in a restaurant, or go to a concert together,
or something like that. OK, that sounds fun.

And the members aren't just people from other countries? Non-Australians, are they? No,
not at all. The main point of the club is to give people like you the chance to mix in more
with people from this country, people of all ages. You'll find us very friendly.

I think the contact has a positive effect on visitors to this country. And in fact, it affects us
locals positively as well. You know, it's a sort of intercultural experience for everybody.

And of course, you should get the chance to do all sorts of activities with other members of
the club if you want to. It's not just for talking. And hopefully, you'll make friends with
people who have similar interests.

It sounds great. I'm really looking forward to the first meeting. That is the end of part one.
You now have one minute to check your answers to part one. Part two. You will hear the
leader of a college camping club talking to members about a cycling holiday that they are
going to have together.

First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 16 on page four. Now listen carefully
and answer questions 11 to 16. Right.

Now, let me bring you up to date with arrangements for our cycling tour next month. First
of all, there's the question of tents. As you know, the original idea was that I'd arranged to
borrow some tents that belong to the college.

But it turns out that the mountaineering club will be using them at the same time. So I'm
afraid you'll have to bring your own. So could you let me know whether you'll be using a
single tent or sharing, please? I'll need to know how many tents there'll be for when I make
the reservation at the various campsites.

Last time, some of you said you'd like to hire bikes and pick them up when we arrive rather
than taking your own with you. Well, I've inquired about bike hire in Westbury, the town
where we'll be arriving. And unfortunately, there aren't any shops that hire them out.

So I'm afraid it means taking your own. I'll book them on the train when I book the train
tickets, which reminds me I'll need to know the final number of people going so I can get a
group discount on the train fare. Something else that'll need to be booked is tickets for the
football match we discussed last time.

I've inquired about availability and there are only a few seats left. So anyone who wants to
go will need to get tickets very soon, ideally today or tomorrow. At our next meeting, I'll be
able to give you all individual packs with the final programme and something about the area
we'll be cycling through and places we'll be visiting.

I'm afraid I haven't had time to do that yet. Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have
some time to look at questions 17 to 20 on page five. Now listen and answer questions 17 to
20.

Now I'll tell you briefly about some of the attractions in the places we'll be staying at as I
said we'll be taking the train to Westbury which has one or two very good restaurants. One
thing that's definitely worth visiting there is the site where the original town was
constructed nearly 1,000 years ago. There's not much of the original buildings left but
there's still plenty to see.

The site is being excavated and you'll be able to help out if you want to. Our next overnight
stop will be in the village of Clooney. There are several old barns here that have been
converted into a museum showing the importance of sheep in the area over the centuries.

The wool used to be sold for cloth and it made the district quite rich. There are plenty of
photographs showing how agricultural workers used to live too. From there we'll go on to
Pennerley.
Pennerley is famous for its museum of village life but that's being refurbished at the
moment and isn't likely to reopen by the time we go there but there's an open-air farmers
market every day selling fruits, vegetables, cheese and meat all grown or processed within a
few miles of the town and sold by the farmers themselves. It's definitely worth a visit. In
Farlow which is one of the oldest towns in the area there's a museum that shows how
horses used to be the most common way of travelling around and how they were gradually
replaced by steam trains and later of course diesel and electric trains, buses, cars and
bicycles.

Right now I'll pass around this sheet of paper. That is the end of part two. You now have 30
seconds to check your answers to part two.

Part three. You will hear a conversation between a female student called Karen and her
course tutor. First you have some time to look at questions 21 to 27 on page five.

Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 27. Oh Karen, hi, come in, sit down. I
wanted to talk to you about this assignment you've given me.

I'll give it back to you with my comments but there are several things I wanted to run over,
you know, pointers for next time. When you hand in your next assignment can you check
that you've dealt with these? Yeah, okay. Now the first thing is your literature discussion
was a bit thin so I would actually like to see your book reports to get your complete view so
can you submit those with the next assignment? Then I can see which bits you've chosen to
leave out.

Oh yes, sorry, I didn't realize you needed them. And I found some errors, just small ones,
where you had quoted people but not recorded the information properly at the end. Don't
forget to go through and make sure that your references are accurate.

Your actual quotes were very relevant but the references just need tidying up, okay? Yes, I'll
remember to check that. Now you make some good points but it might be helpful if you
could see if you can include a few extra examples just to really hammer the point home.
Don't start writing more paragraphs, just slot them in at the end of what you've already
written.

Now the thing you have to do if you really want to get better marks is to expand the ideas
you're presenting. Then your argument becomes more convincing. Okay, fine.

Can I talk to you about this presentation I've got to do? Yes, of course. Am I doing it next
term? I can't remember what we said. Well, the thing is Marco couldn't do it so you agreed
to do it at the next seminar, didn't you? So how can I help? Well, I was wondering what do
you consider to be the core part of the presentation? I mean what should I focus on? Good
question.

Well, you have very little time really so it's absolutely essential for you to explain the
experiment. Of course you'll have a summary in the handouts you give out but you need to
go through it carefully when you do the presentation. And do I have to give you the abstract
first or shall I just email it to all the students? No, I do need to see it first.
We'll get some printouts done. Now they'll need to be done by the 3rd of December so I'll
need to see it by the 26th of November if that's okay? Yes, fine. Oh, and I need to talk to you
about where it will be.

We've had problems with the rooms because we'll need something bigger than usual. In our
faculty the only room free is the computer room which is far from suitable so we'll have to
go across the road and do it in the chemistry lab. They've got all the proper overhead
equipment in there as well.

Okay, right and I get a grade for this don't I? Yes, your first one is graded by your tutor but
this one will be assessed by the professor but don't be worried it'll be fine. Before you hear
the rest of the conversation you have some time to look at questions 28 to 30 on page 6.
Now listen and answer questions 28 to 30. Oh, and I've sorted out my modules for next
year.

You asked me to tell you my choices. Yes, what have you decided? Oh, it was really difficult
to decide. Um, I've already done the data collection one so that wasn't really a choice.

I couldn't make up my mind between language and society and communication skills. I read
the syllabuses but they sound more or less the same to me. Anyway, I went for
communication skills in the end because I know the lecturer.

Actually social interaction seems to cover much the same ground so I didn't bother with that
either. Um, I thought discourse analysis looked really interesting and in fact they cover a
little bit of research methodology in it so I thought I'd do that rather than the full
methodology course. Kill two birds with one stone as it were.

And then I fancied something completely different so I thought psycholinguistics would be

Okay, let's meet again in a couple of weeks to see how you're getting on. Okay, thank you.
See you then.

That is the end of part three. You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to part three.
Part four.

You will hear a talk given by a specialist at a zoo about the implications of the extinction of
species. First, you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40 on page 7. Now listen
carefully and answer questions 31 to 40. Good afternoon.

From my work as curator at the Brisbane Zoo, it is becoming increasingly obvious to me that
the animal world is a highly endangered one. It sometimes seems as though a new species is
added to the endangered list every day and a great deal of this is due to human activity. You
may have read about the orange-bellied parrot colonies in South Australia.

These are under threat from wind farms. So even our attempts to save energy can have a
negative impact. A further example is provided by the expansion of our cities.
Here in Australia, many species of frog are losing their habitat as a direct result of this urban
development. What's more, thanks to the increasing use of pesticides, fewer insects are
surviving. Many species depend upon these as a food source.

Birds in particular, and so their numbers are declining as well. So even in rural areas, we are
having a damaging effect on species. In fact, when our farmers choose to grow large
amounts of one staple crop each year, corn is a perfect example, this often results in the
greater need for chemicals and fertilisers, which has a devastating effect on local wildlife.

Clearly, something needs to be done about this. However, very little can be achieved
without full public support and our general attitude is not always a positive one. Of course,
it is easy to get people interested in animals such as the panda.

Thanks to the attention it is given in the media, people are very aware of its plight and so
are willing to give a great deal of support. However, it is not so easy to attract sympathy for
those essential smaller species such as insects. They may seem insignificant, but these tiny
creatures have an enormous effect on our ecosystem.

And it isn't only size that is a problem when it comes to our attitude towards animals. There
are certain animals that we would prefer to simply ignore for various reasons. Firstly, we
might do this because of fear, that is the normal reaction when people see a shark or a
snake for example.

Another reason might be that we believe that certain animals are rivals when it comes to
food. Locusts and even mice could come into this category. Then there are animals that we
view with disgust because of how they look or feel, the many different parasites for
example.

You may well ask, what does it matter if any of these species dies? Extinction is a fact of life
after all. I would argue that there are several reasons to be concerned about the extinction
of any species. Each species helps us to understand more about how our ecosystem works.

One species can be linked to many others in the food chain for example. And inevitably,
they all lead back to us in some way. We now know that the more complex the ecosystem
is, the more stable it is.

When this is the case, large numbers of one animal are quickly controlled by outbreaks of its
predators. We've also begun to realise that the presence or absence of certain plants can
alert us to changes in our environment. One type of plant might indicate the presence of
rich mineral deposits.

Another might alert us to toxic water. And so even seemingly insignificant species can be
helpful and beneficial to us. This is especially true in the area of medicine.

There are many well-documented cases of the health benefits of pet ownership, especially
with the ill or the handicapped. But not many people know that spiders are also being used
in medicine. The cobwebs they make can be used to assist with certain blood disorders.
It actually helps blood to clot. Imagine how much more there is for us still to discover from
plants and animals. But we can only do this if we can save these creatures from extinction.

Perhaps in the end, it is our self-interest that will save the animals.
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