Proficiency_Masterclass_2012_Audio.Script_19p.pdf

Audio script

Stéphane Stéphane.

Examiner Could I have your mark sheets, please? Thank

you. First of all, we’d like to know something about you.

Where are you from, Maria?

Maria Switzerland.

Examiner And you, Stéphane?

Stéphane France.

Examiner

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Man They’re all right in their own way, I suppose. If they’re

on, I’ll watch them – particularly if there’s nothing else on

I fancy watching. I know some people get totally hooked

on them, but I can take them or leave them. I quite like the

gritty realism in some soaps but the majority are too far-

fetched and I think they can all be blamed to some extent

for reinforcing negative stereotypes in our society. They

can set up expectations of people that live and work in the

settings depicted in the soaps that are way off the mark.

Stéphane, are you working or studying at the

moment?

Stéphane I’m actually working in a restaurant and studying

English at the moment.

Examiner

And you, Maria?

Maria

I’m still at university doing a Masters.

Woman If you say you don’t like soaps, people look at you

as if there’s something wrong with you. But, well, let’s

face it, soaps are so corny – so sentimental. The acting’s

usually atrocious and the story-lines are either hackneyed

or downright unbelievable. How so many awful things can

happen in one place, is simply absurd. They’re a right load

of rubbish if you ask me. I’ve certainly got better things

to do with my time than watch soaps. If only people put

as much time and passion into their real-life communities

as they do into their involvement with these fictional

characters.

1.04

Examiner Maria, you said you’re from Switzerland, what do

you like about living there?

Maria

Well, … um ... it’s very beautiful and there’s a lot to do

there.

Examiner

Stéphane, how do you like to spend your leisure

time?

Stéphane Well, I must admit that I lead a very busy life

and I don’t actually have very much leisure time at the

moment. But I like to make the most of my free time. I’m

very keen on walking and cycling and I’m very interested

in the theatre. So I make a real effort do all these things

whenever I have the opportunity.

Man Look, don’t get me wrong, I’m the first to admit that

they’re a complete waste of time but I watch them anyway

if I’m around and they’re on. Who knows why? I have a

feeling that women enjoy them more than men but quite a

few of my male friends watch them, too. Maybe it’s an easy

way to switch off and relax for a while and forget your own

problems – or just an excuse to have a good moan about

how appalling they are with their unconvincing, two-

dimensional characters and contrived settings.

Examiner

Maria, if you could do any job, what would you

choose?

Maria I’m not a very ambitious person so I don’t really mind

what I do. Actually, I’m quite happy as a student. I like

being at university and maybe I’ll do another course when

I’ve finished my Masters.

1.02

a When Susie first saw the house, she knew that one day

she’d live there.

b She’d happily get up at the crack of dawn to make the kids

their breakfast.

c I wanted Tim to start looking for another job but he

wouldn’t hear of it.

d I’d say that this would be a difficult place to settle down in.

e Would you pop this in the post on your way to work?

1.05

a How important are friendships to you?

b Would you say you were an organized person?

c How useful do you find the internet?

d What kind of job do you see yourself doing in the future?

1.06

Examiner You will hear three different extracts. For

questions 1–6, choose the answer (A, B, or C) which fits

best according to what you hear. There are two questions

for each extract.

Typical! You would tell him about the party!

1.03

Examiner Good morning. My name is Susie Green and this

is my colleague, Tom Jackson. And your names are …?

Maria Maria.

Extract 1

Woman

So how did the trip go?

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Man Honestly, it was the most amazing experience. I

wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

Woman I just can’t believe you actually succeeded in

getting enough sponsorship for the trip.

Man Well, we really did push the boat out trying to drum

up support in our spare time.

Woman Even so, it’s amazing that you managed to fill two

lorries with food and clothing, isn’t it?

Man Oh, yeah – and blankets, too – all sorts of things. But

remember that we had to drive them ourselves – one

thousand, five hundred miles! The ‘Save the Children’

charity gave us a lot of practical help, too, though.

Woman And you must have been really proud of

yourselves when you got there.

Man Pride didn’t really come into it. Just seeing the faces of

those children when we gave them some of the toys – the

compassion you feel – you really want to load up the lorry

with all the kids and bring them back here! But at least

they were being cared for at that stage. So we left feeling

that we’d done a really worthwhile job and that we could

always retrace our steps – once we’d financed another

venture, of course.

Woman

Woman So you know where your donation ends up and

who’s getting the benefits.

Man Absolutely! But what I found most extraordinary about

Opportunity International was the way in which it works

with the locals: you see, the people themselves decide how

the money can best be spent in the community where the

children live.

Woman And how much do you know about Ana?

Man Quite a bit, actually. They’ve sent regular reports on

the community’s progress since we started paying, and

we’ve found out quite a lot about the charity’s activities

elsewhere, too. We donate monthly, and it’s not such a lot

to find, in all honesty. And it’s not as if we can’t manage

without it, or anything like that, but it’s great to see that so

much good can be done with the little that we give!

1.07

Student 1 We’re assuming that global warming actually

does exist but there are people who dispute the claim that

humanity’s played a major role in bringing this about.

Student 2 Hmmm… I agree that public opinion on this

issue is somewhat divided. And people argue that there is

some evidence to suggest that this could simply be caused

by natural changes in the earth’s climate. But to suggest

that it doesn’t exist seems a rather defeatist attitude to

take when what we should be doing is taking action now

to prevent even worse things happening.

Student 1 But if you accept the fact that the human

contribution to global warming is relatively minor, then

any policies we may put in place, for example, reducing

carbon omissions by cutting down on travelling by air and

changing the way we power our factories so we consume

fewer sources of energy, or trying to reduce the amount of

greenhouse gases, et cetera, et cetera, are misplaced and

we could be more profitably occupied with other matters.

Student 2 But you seem to be suggesting that all the

pollution caused by road traffic and the burning of fossil

fuels, and suchlike is having no effect on what’s happening

to the world’s climate. This seems to be a rather counter-

productive viewpoint given the fact that most of the

evidence indicates otherwise. Look, the reality is that the

earth is getting warmer, so we need to start taking action

now to try and find out what’s causing it. And if we don’t

make this action a priority, then the future of our planet

hangs in the balance.

Student 1 This all sounds rather over-dramatic and I’m

not sure if there is as much concrete evidence of this

happening because of human interference as you imagine.

The earth’s climate’s been subject to many changes both

recently and in the distant past, and temperature records

show no significant trend towards global warming. In fact

the earth actually cooled between 1940 and 1975, which

rather contradicts what you’re saying.

Student 2 What?

Student 1 Well, we’ve had extreme climate conditions

where the very existence of the planet and life on it was

threatened and there’s no guarantee that this won’t

Hmm … I might even come with you next time …

Man

Now, there’s a thought!

Extract 2

Good evening and welcome. Tonight, I’m appealing to

everyone out there watching this! This live Helpline Round-

the-clock Special is in aid of the famine-stricken province

we’ve been hearing so much about recently – and seeing on

our TV screens night after night. And, believe me: however

little you pledge – and we will make sure that it reaches its

destination – will make a tremendous difference.

Last year, in between giving concerts to raise money, I

myself went out to supervise the deliveries of aid to stricken

areas, and I know from my own first-hand experience that

whatever we do is a mere drop in the ocean – we can never,

ever send enough to help these people. But what we do

send will be greatly appreciated, so it all depends on you.

Pick up the phone. The number to call will be appearing

on your TV screens shortly, and will be announced on radio

programmes throughout the evening. You can ring and

quote your credit card number or, if you can’t get through,

just send us a cheque or make an online donation, and you

can sleep easily in your bed knowing that you’ve done your

bit for Helpline!

Extract 3

Woman So, I understand that you and your wife sponsor

six-year-old Ana from Africa. Why did you decide to take on

a sponsorship like this?

Man Basically, we’d been wanting to do something to help

people in the poorer regions of the world for some time.

When we saw an advertisement in a magazine, we made

up our minds to do something positive. ‘Opportunity

International’ seemed like a good scheme, not least

because our donation is sent straight to Ana, her family

and the village where she lives.

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happen again. But these things can’t be attributed simply

to human intervention.

what part of an animal – and one of the wolves leapt on

me in seconds because of my mistake. He took my entire

face in his mouth and started to squeeze hard. I could

feel the bones in my jaw begin to bend, and in that split-

second I realized how vulnerable I was and how restrained

they were most of the time.

The other time, I wanted to get a drink from the stream

and one of the wolves stopped me dead in my tracks,

growling, snarling and nipping me. I thought, ‘This is the

end, he’s going to finish me off.’ An hour or so later, he

started to lick my face and we both went to the stream

for a drink. There I saw evidence of recent bear tracks

and droppings, and I realized this was why he guarded

me. I would almost certainly have been killed but, more

importantly, my tracks would have led back to their young,

so it was for their protection.

Eventually I had to leave; I had lost so much weight and

looked gaunt and worn after a year. Life expectancy in

that sort of environment was short and I felt it was time

to come back to society. Returning to the world was a

tremendous culture shock, but I knew I could do a lot with

the knowledge I’d acquired. I now run a centre in Devon

that helps wild and captive wolves, and offers educational

courses. I want to show people that wolves aren’t savage

and ruthless – they’re balanced and trustworthy creatures

that place their family above all else.

1.08

Exam narrator You will hear wolf expert Shaun Ellis talking

about his experience of living with wolves. For questions

1–9, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.

Shaun Ellis Like most young children, I grew up with an

innate fear of wolves. It wasn’t until I was a bit older and

saw a wolf in a zoo that I realized how far away this animal

was from the mythological creature I’d learned about in

books and films.

I grew up in a small village in Norfolk and was always

interested in the natural world and wild animals. I knew I

wanted to work with them in some way when I was older.

In my 20s, I read about an American naturalist, Levi Holt,

who ran a wolf research centre in Idaho and I thought,

‘That’s where I want to go.’ I sold everything I had and

raised enough money for my plane fare. When I met up

with biologists working on the reservation, they took me

on as a basic field biologist, teaching me how to track

wolves and collect data for them.

But I couldn’t help wondering, ‘Could a human become

part of their family?’ If I could, I thought – imagine what

information I could share. I found myself wanting to get

closer to the wolves to really understand their behaviour,

even though the other biologists and scientists thought it

would be dangerous.

After a year or two of working for the centre and getting

to know the area – a rugged, mountainous landscape

covered in forest – I moved to the wild. The first time I got

up close to a wolf, within about thirty metres, any fear

I had quickly turned to respect. I stayed in a den area, a

remote spot where wolves look after their young, and very

soon one pack began to trust me. I lived with them day

and night, and from the start they accepted me into their

group. I ate what they ate, mostly raw deer and elk, which

they would often bring back for me, or fruit and berries. I

never fell ill and my body adapted quickly to its new diet.

It’s easy to look back and think, ‘What horrible food, but

when you haven’t eaten for a week, it looks appetizing.

I couldn’t hunt, but I soon became useful looking after

the younger ones. I would spend days sitting outside the

den, observing their behaviour and trying to make sure

they kept out of danger.

I stayed with the same pack for over a year, watching

pups grow to adulthood. I never missed human contact

during that time.

I felt a tremendous sense of belonging with the wolves.

Whenever I began to think about my old life, I would

quickly switch my thoughts back; in terms of survival, I had

constantly to focus on my new habitat. Although I didn’t

see anyone, there were people back at the reservation and

I had a rendezvous point where I could leave messages if

I felt I was in danger. I was only ever truly scared on two

occasions: once, when all the wolves were feeding, I ate the

wrong piece of meat – there’s a strict hierarchy of who eats

1.09

Examiner Now in this part of the test you’re going to do

something together. Here are some pictures showing

people in different situations. First, I’d like you to look at

pictures A and B and talk together about how common

these situations are in your country. You have about a

minute for this, so don’t worry if I interrupt you.

Student 1 Well, broadly speaking, this sort of pedestrian

zone isn’t really that common where I live. They’re probably

more typical in bigger cities – it’s not exactly something

you’d find in average-sized towns like mine.

Student 2 Yes. I’d say that’s very similar to the situation in

my country. You don’t often come across zones like these

which don’t allow traffic.

Student 1 Yeah, but I think that cars and vans are pretty

much always allowed into these areas to unload,

particularly if there’s lots of shops and restaurants. But on

the whole, I suppose it’s more pleasant than shopping on a

busy road.

Student 2 Maybe but, generally speaking, I think people

in my country would prefer to go shopping in a proper

shopping mall where they won’t get wet! Except of course,

somewhere like this is quite nice in the summer where you

can sit outside in cafés and enjoy the sun and the fresh air!

Actually, the trees make it look quite pleasant, don’t you

think?

Student 1 Yes, trees can make such a difference. It’s great to

see more trees being planted like in this picture. I think this

is becoming quite a popular thing to do now in my country

– especially in schools.

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Student 2 Yes, yes, tree-planting events seem to be

happening more and more in my country as well. I think

people are becoming more aware of the environment

– and children usually enjoy taking part in activities like

these. Actually, I quite like the idea, myself, although most

trees are probably still planted in our gardens rather than

in public spaces.

maybe in western society it’s, it can be quite often that we

don’t have similar cultures and the people you know don’t

have such family values, people don’t eat together…

1.12

Exam narrator You will hear a group of art history students

going round an art gallery with their teacher. For questions

1–5, choose the answer (A, B, C, or D) which best fits

according to what you hear.

Teacher Now, let’s move along to the next gallery … whose

turn is it to tell us about the next painting? Amanda, is it

you?

Amanda Yes, this is the one I’ve prepared.

Teacher Good … now I’ve got one or two questions for

Amanda to guide us through this painting, so if you could

all pay attention, we can get started … Brian … thank

you. Now, as you can see it’s a pre-Raphaelite painting, so

we’re talking 1880, 1890 … and what can you tell us about

this – and other pre-Raphaelite paintings for that matter –

compared to what came before?

Amanda Well, there was very definitely a reaction against

some of the earlier concerns – for example the pre-

Raphaelites didn’t believe in the idea that it was important

to be true to nature or realistic … This is a good example

– it’s by the painter Burne-Jones, completed in 1884, and it

shows a lot about his philosophy of painting …

Teacher OK. And what was it exactly?

Amanda Well in his own words, … is it OK if I use my notes?

Teacher Yes of course.

Amanda He said that a painting should be ‘a beautiful

romantic dream of something that never was, never will

be, in a land that no-one can define or remember, only

desire.’

Teacher So in other words the very opposite of realism

– no practical lessons for modern industrial societies or

whatever.

Amanda Yes, exactly, and this painting is in many ways very

typical of Burne-Jones – in fact his wife later said it was his

most distinctive work, the one that really summed up what

he thought.

Teacher OK, tell us about the story it tells.

Amanda It’s called King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid ,

and it’s based on an old legend from early medieval times

about a king who falls in love with a beggar girl, and

finds that his love for her is greater than all his wealth and

power.

Teacher Was it a well-known story?

Amanda Yes – most people knew it well, but only through

reading Tennyson’s poetry, in which he wrote about it,

rather than from the original story.

Teacher So it’s another example of what we were talking

about earlier – the link between the romantic movement

in literature and the movements in art … do go on.

Amanda In the painting, the artist imagines the King

sitting at the girl’s feet, gazing at her in adoration. Burne-

Jones said he was determined that the King should look

like a king and the beggar should look like a Queen, and

he had certain details such as the crown and the maid’s

1.10

Examiner Now look at all the pictures. I’d like you to

imagine that your local council is running a campaign to

improve the environment where you live. These pictures

will be used in a leaflet to promote their ideas. Talk

together talk about how effective the ideas in the pictures

would be in improving the environment. Then decide

which idea might be the most popular. You have about

three minutes to talk about this.

1.11

Speaker 1 Gosh … many moons ago – I’m not sure

where or when – I think I read somewhere that culture is

anything that you learn from other people. So that would

seem to be quite a ... quite a big definition. I come from

Northern Ireland and today, for example, there’s a there’s

a celebration known as the 12th of July where people

from my community are celebrating a victory in a battle

which happened hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

You know I learned that from I suppose people like my

parents, brothers, sisters, friends at school, you know from

the [from the] community that I grew up in in general. And

without that community – without those other people - I

wouldn’t have been celebrating the 12th of July – certainly

not as a child anyway – I don’t celebrate it these days

because I’m a pacifist.

Speaker 2 I think culture is a very difficult concept to define

but I think I see it as anything that unites a group of people

or a community of people ... em ... so I suppose, anything

that sets them apart from other people. So it might be

within a type of organization or within a country, or within

a continent. I think anything that is universal possibly

can’t be described as culture because it’s just, that’s just

human experience. I suppose the question is whether you

can have a global culture with modes of communication

coming together – whether, that is possible to have a

culture that everybody shares, or whether culture has to be

something that separates people.

Speaker 3 I think it can be many things. If you think about

culture, often people associate it with the arts, with

literature, with media, with television. Having lived in

many different countries and experienced many different

cultures, I think it’s really the behaviour of particular

people in different countries and how the general

behaviour in that country has influenced the way that

they live. For example, that could be habits such as family

traditions, maybe some cultures have a stronger family

orientation – maybe it’s ingrained within their culture to sit

down, have family meals, be very family oriented. Whereas

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dress specially made for him so that he could capture the

detail. The setting has echoes of 15th century Italian art,

particularly Mantegna and Crivelli, and it’s all elaborately

decorated with highly wrought textures and jewel-like

colours. If you look at the clothing you can see what I

mean. The two characters in the background have got

these rich flowing clothes, and there’s the same richness in

the King’s flowing cloak.

Teacher So what is he trying to tell us about here … what

about these anemones … do they have any particular

significance do you think?

Amanda Yes, the maid is holding a bunch of anemones,

and if you look closely you can see that some of them have

fallen on the steps by the King. The flowers are a symbol

of unrequited love, and there’s a lot of personal feeling in

this painting, as there is in much of his work. At the time

he was doing this, Burne-Jones had met and fallen in love

with a girl called Frances Graham, but she then married

someone else. So it’s likely that the King represents Burne-

Jones and the Queen represents Frances Graham, and the

painting shows his feelings about losing the woman he

loved.

Teacher Are there any other themes that the audience in

1884 would have recognized apart from on this personal

level?

Amanda Yes, to the general public it would have had a

completely different meaning, which they would have

recognized quite easily – they would interpret the painting

as being about the rejection of worldly wealth and the

elevation of love above everything else.

Teacher Yes, absolutely … and that was a message that was

very close to Burne-Jones’s heart and was very relevant for

late Victorian Britain … Well thank you Amanda, and now

we’ll move on to the next artist …

up in a British colony and I thought I was, you know, had

some kind of affinity with England. As soon as I opened

my mouth, once again people said to me: ‘Where are you

from?’ and I would say: ‘I’m Italian’ and they would say: ‘Oh!

So then why do you speak with a South African accent?’

and that really upsets me because my cultural identity,

and my upbringing, my heritage is Italian and I feel that

because I lived for protracted period of time in Southern

Africa that I have somehow got an accent that doesn’t fit

my personality or who I think I am.

Speaker 2 I didn’t really think about my accent until I

left Australia and came to England and it was strange, I

suppose, probably the reaction it got from people was

people assumed that I was very laid-back, a very sort

of easy-going-kind-of guy, which was great in terms of

meeting friends, you know, people want to sort of go

for a drink and thought I’d be a good laugh. In terms of

getting jobs and things, it could be a bit of a disadvantage,

I suppose, because um people thought that, you know,

maybe I wouldn’t take it seriously or that … yeah, maybe

a bit too laid-back for their work, I suppose. The honest

thing I think though was that the English seem to have an

assumption that because I have an Australian accent I must

be really good at sport and particularly cricket, which is a

very strange thing. There was one guy who actually literally

asked me to be in his team purely because of the way that

I spoke. Now I am absolutely terrible at cricket. So anyway,

I turned up, played the game, was a complete disaster, was

out for a duck and um yeah didn’t ask me back – so that

was that um but er yeah so but it’s been good overall, I

think. It comes across well, I think.

Speaker 3 I’ve moved so many times I sort of hardly know

what my accent is now. Before I was eighteen I’d moved

twelve times. I started out in New England and ended up

in the Rocky Mountains and I’ve spent over half my life

here in England. So I never really got a chance to settle

into any particular accent. I suppose I’d call my accent

now mid-Atlantic. But, what’s happened to me is that I’ve

ended up not really being from anywhere, so when I go to

the States, they think I’m Irish for some reason. When I’m

here obviously they know I’m from America but they sort

of don’t notice, so I can fit in or not fit in depending on the

circumstances. But, I’m somewhere in the middle of the

ocean, and I suppose I’m happy to be there, but I have to

I have to know who I am in myself because people don’t

really recognize me as being from anywhere.

Speaker 4 Well, I guess when I first arrived in this country

many many years ago, people couldn’t, simply couldn’t

understand a word I was saying. It was … I had a very

thick accent at the time and I think I’ve mellowed over

the years. But when I started out, people would look at

me very strange; they’d look at me to the side of their eye

and with a strange kind of, you know, screwed up mouth

and like look at me but they were too embarrassed to say:

‘What was that?’ They’d just look at you strange. And then

I’d have to repeat myself. But, now, these days, it’s got

much more … it’s fine now. I think people can understand.

1.13

Speaker 1 Hi I’m Paula. I am Italian but I grew up in

Southern Africa. I was born in Zimbabwe and then my

parents moved to South Africa and then subsequently

when I was twenty one I moved to Italy and have spent

most of my adult life living in Italy and now in the UK. I’ve

got a very strange relationship with my accent because

I think that I speak proper English and I sound like an

Englishman, but as soon as I open my mouth people

immediately ask me the question: ‘Where are you from?’

which always throws me a bit because I really don’t know

how to answer that question. Growing up in South Africa

I was always referred to as ‘the Italian stallion, probably

because my parents were Italian and because my name is

Italian. As soon as I moved to Italy, when I was twenty one,

and they heard me open my mouth and speak Italian with

an English accent, they used to call me ‘the English girl’

because Italians really don’t distinguish between English

or British English or American English, or English from any

other English-speaking world’s countries. So I was always

‘the English girl. And then about seven years ago I came

to the UK and I thought I’d fit in perfectly because I grew

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