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now turn to section one you will hear a phone conversation between two people kathy and john john is hoping to volunteer at a

retirement

home

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

lodge

retirement

home

kathy speaking hello my

name

's john shepherd could i ask if you're the

manager

of the

home

that's right oh good hello

cathy

a friend of mine is a volunteer at hillary

lodge

and i'd like to help out too if you need more people i work part-time so i

have quite a lot of free time we're always glad of more help john shall i tell you about some of the activities that volunteers get involved in please well on monday evenings we organize computer training we've got six laptops and five or six residents come to the sessions regularly they're all now fine at writing and sending emails but our trainer has just moved away and we need two or three volunteers who can help the residents create documents just simple things really i'd

certainly be interested in doing that great then on tuesday afternoons we have an informal singing class which most of the residents attend we've got a keyboard and someone who plays but if you'd like to join in the singing you'd be very welcome i work on tuesdays at the moment though that might change i'll have to give it a miss for now i'm afraid okay then on thursday mornings we generally have a session in our garden several of our residents enjoy learning about flowers

where they grow best how to look after them and so on is that something you're keen on i'm no expert but i enjoy gardening so yes i'd like to get involved do you have your own tools at the

home

we've got a few but not very many i could bring some in

with

me when i come thank you very much one very important thing for volunteers is that we hold a monthly meeting where they all get together

with

the staff it's a chance to make sure we're working well together and that

everyone knows how the residents are and what's going on in the

home

now obviously we'd need to get to know you before you become one of our volunteers of course could you come in for an informal interview later this week maybe i'm busy the next couple of days but would saturday be possible certainly just drop in any time during the day i won't be working then so you'll see my assistant maraed sorry how do you spell that it's m a i r e a d marade okay got that it's

not a

name

i'm familiar

with

oh it's an irish

name

she comes from dublin right and the road that hillary

lodge

is in is called bridge road isn't it that's right number 73. fine oh one other thing you might be interested in we're holding a couple of open house days and still need a few volunteers if you're available what are the dates there's one on april the 9th and another on the 14th of may they're both saturdays and all day events i can certainly manage may the

14th i've got another commitment on april the 9th so that would be a great help we're having several guest entertainers singers a brass band and so on and we're expecting a lot of visitors so one possibility is to help look after the entertainers or you could spend an hour or so organizing people as they arrive and then just be part of the team making sure everything's going smoothly well shall i show people where they can park lovely thank you one reason for holding the open

house days is to get publicity for hillary

lodge

locally so you may find you have someone from a newspaper wanting to interview you they'll want to find out from two or three people why they volunteer 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 mind being interviewed good well if you come in for a chat as we arranged well take it from there thank you very much for calling my pleasure goodbye bye that is the end of

section one you now have half a minute to check your

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now turn to section two you will hear the head of a center which offers evening classes for adults she is explaining some recent changes which have been made to the center first you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15. hello as some of you know i'm elaine marriott the head of the college's learning resource center we've invited all of you taking evening classes and leisure activities to come and see the changes

we've made to the center in the last month one major change we've made here on the ground floor is to the layout as you can see from looking around you i'm sure you'll recognize the desk that's still in the same place as it has to be just inside the door but you'll see that there are now periodicals on the shelves in the corner behind the desk we've brought them nearer the entrance because so many people like to come in just to read magazines we now stock a far wider

range of periodicals than we used to so we've decided to separate them from newspapers this means the newspapers are now just the other side of the stairs near the study area now another thing is that we've brought the computers downstairs people used to complain about having to go upstairs to use them so they're now at the far side of the building on the right in the corner overlooking the car park we've now got an extra photocopier so as well as the one upstairs there's one

down here you can see it right opposite the entrance by the wall on the far side the biggest change though and one i'm sure many of you will welcome is that we now have a cafe at last we've been asking for one for years if you turn right as soon as you get past the desk you'll see the door ahead of you it became possible to have a cafe because the building has been extended and we've now got a new office and storeroom area what else should i tell you about before we walk round oh

yes we've had so many requests for books on sport that we've bought a lot more and they're all together immediately to the right of the entrance before you hear the rest of the conversation you will have some time to look at the questions 16 to 20. now listen and answer questions 16 to 20. okay that's enough on the new layout we'll walk around in a moment but before we do something about the people who are here to help you of course all the staff will do their best to answer

your questions but now we're each going to specialize in certain areas so if you ask a staff member about something and they don't think they can help you enough they'll direct you to our specialist jenny reed is the person to see if there are any films you'd like us to stock as she's taken over responsibility for purchasing those i'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

to improve your writing if you need to produce reports for your course you can book a half hour session

with

phil to start

with

then if you want more help he'll arrange follow-up sessions

with

you i must mention tom salisbury many people are interested in doing research or just reading about this region the people occupations changes over the years and so on tom is a specialist in this particular field so if you want any help he can point you in the right direction we've got a large

collection of relevant documents from old maps to studies of the wildlife we have a new member of staff syed actor i'm sure you'll meet him soon and will find him very helpful if you're unemployed and want some advice on the practical aspects of looking for a job saeed is the person to talk to he's also written a very useful book on the subject which of course we've got on our shelves many of you will know shilpa desai who's been working here for about five years shilpa

now has the additional responsibility of giving information and advice on anything to do

with

housing such as finding out what's available or whether you're eligible for financial help right well that's quite enough from me so let's walk round the library that is the end of section two you now have half a minute to check your

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now turn to section three 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've read your draft report on your work placement at the central museum association sounds as if you had an interesting time so you ended up making a film for them yeah it was a film to train the employees in different museums in the techniques they should use for labeling ancient objects

with

out damaging them some of them are really fragile okay so in your report you go through the main stages in making the film let's discuss that in a little more

detail you had to find a location somewhere to shoot the film that took quite a few days because i had to look at different museums all over the country but i'd allowed time for it and even though it was the middle of winter there wasn't any snow so i didn't have any transport problems right did you have to decide what equipment you'd need for the filming yes i think they were quite surprised at how well i managed that it was just the luck of the draw actually i'd done that

project

with

you last year oh on recording technology so you knew a bit about it from that right yeah what i found really hard was actually writing the script i had a deadline for that but the association had to extend it i couldn't have done it otherwise would it have helped if you'd had some training there i think you're right i probably needed that yeah right now from your draft report it sounds as if you had one or two problems deciding who was going to actually appear in the

video the casting yeah i'd expected that the people who worked for the association would be really keen on taking part but they weren't the thing was they were all so busy and it did mean some of them had to travel but janice king who i was reporting to for the project oh she was great she arranged for people to have time off and for their work to be covered so that was a big help for me right and it sounds like the filming itself went well i gather you found a company who provided an

online introduction to the techniques yeah it was really informative and very user-friendly i learned a lot from it and then the editing for that the association put me in touch

with

someone who works for one of the big movie 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 deal

with

the soundtrack and so on so was that all no i didn't include this in my draft report but i had to design the cover for the dvd as well

the lettering and everything have you done any of that sort of design work before no but i did a rough draft and then talked it through

with

a couple of my mates and they gave me some more ideas and when i'd finished it i showed it to the people who worked at the association and they really liked it excellent now listen and answer questions 28 to 30. now as well as your own draft report i've also received some written evaluation from the association on the work you did during your

placement and how it was of benefit to them i noticed that you haven't included anything on that in your report yet how my project benefited the association you mean so do i have to include that yes well let's think um i suppose if i hadn't made the film for them they'd have had to get an outside company to do it but because i was actually working for the association i'd got much more of a feeling for what their aims are things like their responsibility for the conservation

of the exhibits i don't think an outside company would have had that understanding they'd have been more detached right 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 saving in expense made it worthwhile even though sourcing it took quite a bit of time yes that's true the association also said making the film had a very positive effect in getting staff to work together

more closely oh i hadn't heard that that's good and certainly people weren't afraid to tell me what they thought about it as i was making it so i was able to get lots of feedback at every stage that was useful for me but it also meant the final product worked better for them can you think of any other benefits well i don't think they'd really thought out what they'd do

with

the film once it was made i made quite a few suggestions for the distribution other people we could

send it to as well as museum staff yes they mentioned that okay good well it sounds like they certainly that is the end of section three you now have half a minute to check your

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now turn to section four you will hear a lecture about a species of bird called the new caledonian crow first you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40. now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40. i'm going to talk today about research into a particular species of bird the new caledonian crow

whose natural habitat is small islands in the pacific ocean and it seems that these crows are exceptionally resourceful using sticks or other tools to find food isn't unknown among birds and animals some chimpanzees for example are known to bang nuts on stones in order to break the shell and get at the edible kernel inside one new caledonian crow called betty bent some straight wire into a hook and used it to lift a small bucket of her favorite food from a vertical pipe this experiment was

the first time she'd been presented

with

wire which makes it very impressive another crow called barney has demonstrated his skill at using sticks to forage for food in one research project scientists from new zealand and oxford set captive new caledonian crows a three-stage problem if they wanted to extract food from a hole the crows first had to pull up a string to get a short stick then use that short stick to remove a long stick from a toolbox and finally use the long stick to reach the

food amazingly they worked out how to do this successfully further experiments carried out at oxford suggest that crows can also use sticks as tools to inspect all sorts of objects possibly to assess whether or not they presented danger the idea for the experiment came from observing the birds using tools to pick at random objects such as a picture of a spider that was printed on some cloth in this research five pairs of crows including barney underwent tests to see how they would react to a

variety of objects which were carefully chosen so the birds wouldn't be tempted to view them as a possible source of food as a further precaution all the crows had been fed beforehand on eight occasions a bird's first contact was by using a tool in all three trials barney began by using a stick for inspection one involved a rubber snake first he approached it but didn't touch it then retreated to pick up a stick he then prodded it

with

the stick after some more investigation he

discarded the stick and carried on pecking at the snake more confidently apparently convinced that it wouldn't move in other 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 chip to touch a light which was flashing and corbeau was seen prodding a metal toad

with

a stick significantly the crows tended to use the sticks only to make their first contact

with

the object subsequently they

either ignored the object or dropped the tool and pecked at the object which is very different from using the tool to get access to food so what conclusions can be drawn from the research evidence is building up from experiments such as these that the birds are able to plan their actions in advance which is very interesting for understanding their cognition they don't seem to be responding in a pre-programmed sort of way it may even be possible that they're able to view a problem and

work out what the answer is however a major difficulty is assessing whether this tool-using behaviour is a sign of intelligence to some extent this is related to the ecological circumstances in which the animal is found so scientists want to find out much more about how the crows behave in their native habitat and a team from exeter and oxford universities is carrying out research in new caledonia they're looking into whether the bird's way of searching for food gives them any possible

evolutionary advantage the birds are hard to observe as they live in a region of mountainous forest so the researchers have attached tiny cameras to the tails of some birds as one method of investigating their behaviour the birds are masters at using sticks to find their food in particular beta larvae from the trees it's possible that the birds can derive so much energy from these grubs that they only need to eat a few each day this would mean that they wouldn't have to spend most of

their waking time searching for food as most animals do the beetle larvae have a distinct chemical makeup which can be traced through the feathers and blood of birds that eat them scientists have collected samples from crows in order to estimate the proportion of larvae in their diet they should then be able to gauge the extent to which individual birds depend on using sticks to feed themselves we have learnt a great deal about the ability of new caledonian crows to use tools and some very

interesting research is being carried out into them that is the end of section four you now have half a minute to check your

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