TEST 5 – TRANSCRIPT

Direction: This is the listening test for levels from 3 to 5 of the Vietnam 6 Level Language
Proficiency Test. There are 3 parts to the test. You will hear each part once.

For each part of the test there will be time for you to look through the questions and time for you to
check your answers. Write your answers on the question paper. You will have 5 minutes at the end of
the test to transfer your answers onto the answer sheet.

The recording will now be start. Please ask any question now, because you must not speak during the
test.
Now open your question paper and look at part 1. There are 8 questions in this part.

For each question there are 4 options and a short recording. For each question, choose the correct
answer A, B, C or D. You now have 45 seconds to look through the questions and the options in each
question. Now we are ready to start. Listen carefully.

Part 1

Question 1: What time is this?

A: Have you got the right time? I think my watch is wrong.
B: Ah, it’s half past two.
A: My watch says twenty past.
B: Well, it’s 10 minutes slow then.

Question 2: What’s Michelle going to read?

A: Can I read your newspaper, Michelle?
B: Didn't you bring a book with you?
A: Yes, but it's not very interesting.
B: Oh, here you are. I'll read this letter from John.

Question 3: How much did the tickets costs?

A: Oh, hi. Did you have a good time at the theatre last night
B: Well, the play was excellent, but the tickets cost $90 each.
A: That's not too bad if the play was good.
B: No, perhaps you're right.

Question 4: What is the man going to buy?

A: Is everything ready for the holiday?

B: I'm just going shopping. I must get those pills I take when I feel travel sick. Do we need
anything else at the chemist's? We forgot the toothpaste last time.
A: I've got that. I haven't got any sunglasses, but I can borrow yours, can't I? And I'll get
something to read at the airport.

B: Right.

Question 5 Which dress is Kate talking about?

A: Oh, Mum, this dress is still dirty.
B: It can't be, Kate. I've only just washed it.
A: Well, it is.
The mark on the collar has gone, but there's still a small one here. Look, it's at the front just
below the button. It's where I spilled some coke last week.

Question 6: When will Jane meet them?

Hi, it's Pete here. Jane left a message to say she can't meet us at 8 o'clock, as planned,
because her bus doesn't get in till 8.15, and it'll take her 30 minutes to get from the centre
of town. I told her the table's actually booked for 8.45, so that will be fine, and we'll see her
then.

Question 7: Which morning activity is for beginners?

At 10am tomorrow morning, there will be swimming lessons, at both intermediate and
beginner level. Then there will be volleyball practice at 11.30, for all those of you who are
already in one of the teams. Also in the morning, for those of you who already know how
to sail, there's a chance to do some practice on your own. There will be lessons in both
sailing and windsurfing for beginners after lunch.

Question 8: Which painting does the woman decide to buy?

They're all nice, but you see a lot of flowers everywhere these days, don't you? So that
wouldn't be my choice.The same goes for animals, actually, although I do quite like the one
of the horses. So it looks like it'll have to be the one with the boat. It will be a change from
that bowl of fruit I've had on the wall all these years, anyway.

That is the end of part one. Now turn to part two. In part 2, you will hear three different
conversations.
In each conversation there are four questions. For each question, choose the correct answer A, B, C or
D. You will hear the conversations only once.

Now open your question paper and look at the conversation one.
You now have 25 seconds to look through the questions and the options in each question.

Now we are ready to start. Listen carefully.

Part 2:
Conversation 1:

A: Bye, Mum. See you later.

B: How are you getting to college? It's already five to nine. You've missed the bus. Are you
going to walk?
A: No, I'm borrowing your car, remember?
B: Oh, Matthew, I need it today. If you want to borrow the car, you need to ask me several
days before. Sorry, you're going to have to walk. It just isn't convenient today.
A: But I did ask you. We talked about it last week, don't you remember? I've promised to
help Alan move all his books and things after my lecture today. He's moving to a new flat
and his car's broken down. I've got to help him move his things. He can't stay in the old flat
after today. I promised him.
B: All right. All right.Of course you must keep your promise. I remember now you did tell
me, but I thought you said next Wednesday. You said the 9th and that's next week when
I'm in Birmingham for a meeting. So I shan't need the car.
A: I didn't ask for it next Wednesday. I've got an exam next Wednesday. I can't help Alan
when I'm doing an exam, can I?
B: No, I suppose not. Well, I expect you're right. I didn't write it down, so it's my fault.
Next time we must both write it down and make sure we write down the same date.
A: OK. So, can I have it today? I need to go or I'll miss my lecture.
B: Well, what am I supposed to do? I need to be at work in half an hour.
A: I'll give you a lift there on my way to college. How about that?
B: I suppose I haven't got much choice. Come on then.

Now open your questions paper and look at conversation 2. You now have 25 seconds to look through
the questions and the options in each question.

Now we are ready to start. Listen carefully.

Conversation 2:

A: OK. Now we come to our regular spot on Extreme Sports. And this week our fearless
reporter Tom Walker has been trying out something called indoor skydiving. And he's with
me now. Tom, what's this all about?

B: Well, it's the same as skydiving. Jumping from an aeroplane and free-falling through the
air without opening your parachute for some time. Except that you do it in an indoor wind
tunnel. And there's no plane and no parachute and, so I was told, no danger. So it gives you
a taste of doing an extreme sport, but it isn't quite so extreme.

A: Right. Now, where did you do it?

B: I did it in a vertical wind tunnel at an adventure sports centre called Runway.

A: What exactly is a vertical wind tunnel?

B: Well, it's a tunnel that gets filled with air. The air is provided by four enormous
industrial fans of a kind that usually provide air for underground systems. These fans
produce a column of air that rushes through the tunnel from below at more than 160
kilometres per hour. When you're in the tunnel, you float on this air. The machine has been
described as being like an enormous hairdryer. It allows you to fly as if you had fallen from
a plane, but you are only two metres off the ground.

A: And it's completely safe, is it?

B: Yes. There are bars across the top of the tunnel to stop you flying off up and out of the
tunnel. The tunnel is four metres wide and has glass walls. The only small problem you
might have is that you keep bashing into these walls. But you're not really going to hurt
yourself a lot by doing this. The only injuries you are likely to get are sore elbows and knees.
In fact, it's so safe that the centre is open to anyone over the age of four. In America, where
the idea was invented by the military in 1994, pensioners in their 80s regularly have a go.

Now open your questions paper and look at conversation 3. You now have 25 seconds to look through
the questions and the options in each question.

Now we are ready to start. Listen carefully.

Conversation 3:

A: Hi, Euan. As you know, I've asked you here today to discuss the future of our self-access
centre. We have to decide what we want to do about this very important resource for our
English language students. So, can you tell me what the students think about this?

B: Well, from the students' point of view, we would like to keep it. The majority of
students say that they enjoy using it because it provides a variation on the classroom routine
and they see it as a pretty major component of their course. But we would like to see some
improvements to the equipment, particularly the computers. There aren't enough for one
each at the moment and we always have to share.

A: Well, yes, the teachers agree that it is a very valuable resource. But one thing we have
noticed is that a lot of the students are using it to check their personal emails. We don't
want to stop you students using it, but we think the computers should be used as a learning
resource, not for emails. Some of us also think that we could benefit a lot more by
relocating the self-access centre to the main university library building. How do you think
the students would feel about that, Euan?
B: Well, the library is big enough to incorporate the self-access centre, but it wouldn't be
like a class activity anymore. Our main worry would be not being able to go to a teacher for
advice. I'm sure there would be plenty of things to do, but we really need teachers to help
us choose the best activities.

A: Well, there would still be a teacher present and he or she would guide the activities of the
students. We wouldn't just leave them to get on with it.

B: Yes, but I think the students would be much happier keeping the existing set up. They
really like going to the self-access centre with their teacher and staying together as a group
to do activities. If we could just improve the resources and facilities, I think it would be
fine.

That is the end of part two. Now turn to part three. You will hear three different talks or lectures.

In each talk or lecture there are five questions. For each question, choose the correct answer A, B, C or
D. You will hear the talks or lectures only once. Now open your questions paper and look at talk or
lecture one.
You now have 35 seconds to look through the questions and the options in each question.

Now we are ready to start. Listen carefully.

Part 3

Talk 1:

Dolls have always fascinated me and that's why, five years ago, I was delighted to be offered
the job of running a doll museum. Dolls have existed for thousands of years and the earliest
dolls we know about were found in graves in ancient Egypt.

I only wish we could get one or two for our museum, but we haven't unfortunately got
anything as old as that in the museum. All the same, we have got examples from Europe
from the 12th century, but my favourite early dolls are actually from the 17th century.
They interest me not just because they are early, or fairly early, but also because of the
clothes they are wearing.

They have their original clothes and from them we know what the owners wore, since dolls
in those days were always dressed like their owners. They were made of the only material
readily available for things like this at the time, solid wood, and they were painted in great
detail. In fact, on the best examples, like the ones in the museum, the detail includes the
17th century make-up.
Dolls like these were very expensive then and only the very rich could afford them. These
days they are popular with collectors and if you want one today, you have to pay anything
up to £10,000 for a doll in perfect condition from this time. By the way, what makes them
so valuable is that as far as a collector is concerned, a doll is only worth collecting if it is in
perfect condition, and that means having the original clothes.

Doll collecting has become very fashionable since the museum opened, with people
interested in dolls from every period, including later dolls. There's great interest in 19th
century examples, when dolls were no longer made of wood, but began to have soft bodies
and real hair. They were very delicate and few have survived, meaning such a doll would be
worth about £2,000, perhaps a bit more.

Later, in the 19th century, you could often take off the doll's hair. If you can, you can often
see the maker's name underneath, and of course, the right one increases a doll's value.
There was a really big change in dolls at the beginning of the 20th century.

In the museum, we have one of the earliest examples, from about 1909, of a doll that's a
model of a baby. Previously, all dolls, the earlier ones, were little adults.

Now open your question paper and look at Talker Lecture 2. You now have 35 seconds to look through
the questions and the options in each question.

Now we are ready to start. Listen carefully.

Talk 2:

Hello.

I'm Stephen Mills. I will travel with you on the Tiger Tour to India, but I'm not your tour
guide. I work as an artist, and I'm going to take some photographs of tigers so that I can use
them when I paint some pictures later. An expert guide will join the group when we arrive
in India, but I'm leading the group until then. We leave London on the 6th of November,
arriving in India the following day. It's a good time of year to visit the wildlife park where
the tigers live. The rainy season finishes in October, and later in the year, the park gets more
crowded and the tigers become shy. We'll spend 10 days in the wildlife park. There are 20
other types of animal and 300 types of bird to see, as well as tigers. There are 18 of us all
together, and everything is organised for our comfort by the tour company. For example,
although we're in the jungle, we won't have to sleep in tents. The hotels where we'll stay are
all very comfortable. To be sure of seeing tigers, we'll stay in two different parts of the
wildlife park. We'll spend three days in the north, where we'll travel around in an open
truck, and the rest of the time in the south, where we'll travel around on elephants. That
should be fun. On the way back to London, we have dinner and one night's bed and
breakfast in the Indian capital, Delhi. There you can either go sightseeing or go shopping,
whichever you prefer. But please note that lunch is not provided on our day of departure,
as the plane leaves at 2 in the afternoon.

Now open your question paper and look at Talker Lecture 3. You now have 35 seconds to look through
the questions and the options in each question.

Now we are ready to start. Listen carefully.

Talk 3:

For the second in our series about locally run businesses, we meet Simon Winridge, (20:33)
co-founder of the hugely successful Winridge Forest Railway Park. Welcome, Simon. Now,
perhaps you can begin by telling us a little bit about how it all started.

Well, during the 1970s, my wife Liz and I had just acquired 80 acres of sheep farming land
and we decided to settle down and have children. Pretty soon we had a daughter, Sarah,
and a son, Duncan. The place was wonderful for the kids.

They particularly loved trains and gradually built up an enormous network of miniature
railway track. I began to develop larger scale models of locomotives, but we didn't think
anything more of it until I went on a trip to a theme park near Birmingham and decided we
could do a much better job. So we set up a small one ourselves, based on the miniature
railway, and we opened to the public for just a month that year, 1984, in July, our driest
month, because our children said they didn't want our guests to have a miserable wet visit.

I dealt with park business and Liz carried on with the farm work. It soon became clear that
we were on to a winner. We began to extend the railway track and lay it among more
interesting landscape by planting trees, which in turn attracted more wildlife, and by
making cuttings through the rock.

Nowadays we're open all year round and we're pleased to say that Wimridge is one of the
most popular visitor attractions in the area, with 50,000 visitors a year. A million and a half
people have been through our door since we opened. That is the end of Part 3. Now you
have 5 minutes to check your answers and transfer your answers onto the answer sheet.

That is the end of Part 3. Now you have 5 minutes to check your answers and transfer your answers
onto the answer sheet.