Shadowing Practice: CAE 1 - TEST 3 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You'll hear three different extracts.
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For questions 1 to 6, choose the answer A, B, or C, which fits best according to what you hear.
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There are two questions for each extract.
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Extract 1.
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You hear two colleagues, Eva and Colin, talking about a problem at work.
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Now look at questions 1 and 2.
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So the thing is, you aren't getting on with her new boss then, Colin.
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She's just so different from her predecessor.
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I mean, John used to get us all involved in the decision -making process.
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No chance of that with Sandra, you think?
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No way!
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Okay, I grant you, she's got some good ideas.
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She moved pretty fast to get us all to agree to individual job descriptions and a proper timetable, none of which we've had before, and we should have had.
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And she's done her homework on the staff profile, our qualifications and past experience and so on.
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As you'd expect.
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Yes, but she doesn't seem aware of the atmosphere here.
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It's the way we've always done things.
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I just don't feel I can work with her.
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I'd say she's just finding her feet in a new job, and she'll soon get the hang of what we're all about.
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Let's focus on how much she's already achieved.
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I wouldn't let anybody tell you it's a trivial issue, though.
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So, if she doesn't settle in soon, and you still have issues with her, I think you should approach her direct.
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Okay.
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Thanks, Eva.
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Now you'll hear the recording again.
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So the thing is, you aren't getting on with her new boss then, Colin.
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She's just so different from her predecessor.
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I mean, John used to get us all involved in the decision -making process.
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No chance of that with Sandra, you think?
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No way!
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OK, I grant you, she's got some good ideas.
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She moved pretty fast to get us all to agree to individual job descriptions and a proper timetable, none of which we've had before and we should have had.
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And she's done her homework on the staff profile, our qualifications and past experience and so on.
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As you'd expect.
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Yes, but she doesn't seem aware of the atmosphere here it's the way we've always done things
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I just don't feel I can work with her
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I'd say she's just finding her feet in a new job
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and she'll soon get the hang of what we're all about
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let's focus on how much she's already achieved I wouldn't let anybody tell you it's a trivial issue though
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if she doesn't settle in soon and you still have issues with her I think you should approach her direct okay,
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thanks Eva Extract 2.
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You hear an interview with an expert who repairs antique vases.
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Now look at questions 3 and 4.
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Show me how you do it.
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I see you've got trays and trays of pieces here.
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Yes.
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You have to find the bits that match.
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So I've put all these tiny pieces into colour groups red here, blue over there.
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It's a bit like doing a jigsaw, really, but at least there are no stains to remove.
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All we have to be aware of is the enamel on the surface, that we have to lift all the dirt and grease off.
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If you don't, the pieces won't go back together again.
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It'll fall apart.
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If the cracks are going to show, they've got to be really clean, otherwise they'll look messy.
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You want the cracks to show?
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Some people would say that's terrible for such a valuable vase.
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Well, yes, they probably would.
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But something that's broken so extensively as this, if you cover all the cracks up, you're really making a fake.
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Being broken is something that's happened to it in its lifetime, which should be recorded.
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And as long as you can restore it so that aesthetically it still works, it shouldn't matter that the cracks show.
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Now you'll hear the recording again.
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Show me how you do it.
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I see you've got trays and trays of pieces here.
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Yes, you have to find the bits that match, so I've put all these tiny pieces into colour groups, red here, blue over there.
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It's a bit like doing a jigsaw, really, but at least there are no stains to remove.
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All we have to be aware of is the enamel on the surface, that we have to lift all the dirt and grease off.
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If you don't, the pieces won't go back together again.
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It'll fall apart.
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If the cracks are going to show, they've got to be really clean, otherwise they'll look messy.
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You want the cracks to show?
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Some people would say that's terrible for such a valuable vase.
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Well, yes, they probably would.
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But something that's broken so extensively as this, if you cover all the cracks up, you're really making a fake.
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Being broken is something that's happened to it in its lifetime, which should be recorded.
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And as long as you can restore it so that, aesthetically, it still works, it shouldn't matter that the cracks show.
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Extract 3 On the radio, you hear a visitor talking to a man about the remote island where he lives.
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Now look at questions 5 and 6.
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This is such an unusual place, because there's no public transport to the island.
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I came here in your fishing boat.
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The result is a paradise.
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Rich marine life, unspoilt countryside.
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Yet you want to let the world in.
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You've campaigned to start up a ferry service from the mainland.
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Why?
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Well, there isn't enough work to support our population.
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If visitors come to the island and we have a lot to offer them, catering for them would create employment.
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Also, our young people would be able to commute to jobs on the mainland.
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Don't you think it's risky?
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These beaches could be covered with holiday houses and hotels.
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Your visitors will complain because there are only a few shops, and a ferry service won't be enough.
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People will want to fly here, and you'll have to build an airport.
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No more paradise.
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We can build a small airport without impacting on our quality of life here, and it makes economic sense.
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Our shops can cope with more people on the island.
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It'll be seasonal anyway.
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And why would we build on the beaches?
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It'd be crazy.
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I hope you're right.
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Now you'll hear the recording again
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This is such an unusual place
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Because there's no public transport to the island I came here
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in your fishing boat The result is a paradise Rich marine life,
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unspoilt countryside Yet you want to let the world in You've campaigned to start up a ferry service from the mainland.
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Why?
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Well, there isn't enough work to support our population.
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If visitors come to the island and we have a lot to offer them, catering for them would create employment.
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Also, our young people would be able to commute to jobs on the mainland.
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Don't you think it's risky?
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These beaches could be covered with holiday houses and hotels.
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Your visitors will complain because there are only a few shops, and a ferry service won't be enough.
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People will want to fly here, and you'll have to build an airport.
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No more paradise.
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We can build a small airport without impacting on our quality of life here, and it makes economic sense.
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Our shops can cope with more people on the island.
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It'll be seasonal anyway.
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And why would we build on the beaches?
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It'd be crazy.
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I hope you're right.
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That's the end of part one.
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Part two.
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You'll hear a short radio report about how technology is helping
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archaeologists who want to learn more about some texts written over 2 ,000 years ago known as Roman tablets.
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For questions 7 to 14, complete the sentences.
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You now have 45 seconds to look at part 2.
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You Transcription
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by CastingWords information to be written not on paper, but on things called tablets.
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These were pieces of wood about the size and thickness of a typical modern envelope.
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Hundreds of such tablets have been unearthed from archaeological sites throughout Europe and the Mediterranean world.
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Nearly 200 were found in one Roman fort alone.
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And like most of these discoveries, they have been placed in public collections, mainly in museums in northern Europe,
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to be viewed, but not, unfortunately, to be read.
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This is because, although in some cases traces of writing can still be seen, most are now illegible to the naked eye.
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But that's all soon to change, because archaeologists hope that, with the help of new technology, their secrets may soon be revealed.
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Many of the tablets took the form of legal documents and letters written by Roman soldiers.
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An example, now at the British Museum, bears the name of the person who wrote it and the name of the person who received it,
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plus the word transportation, which you can just make out.
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But the rest remains a mystery.
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Now, with the help of computer techniques, experts hope eventually to be able to read the whole letter.
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Professor Mike Brady, a leading figure in what's known as computer vision for many years, admits that this is the hardest project he's ever worked on.
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But the excitement of seeing the latest ideas in computing applied to such a very ancient problem has the archaeological community buzzing.
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So, in simple terms, why has the writing been preserved, and how will it be possible to undo the aging process?
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Well, the tablets were made with thin, hollow panels cut across them.
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Wax was poured into these, and the text was then written into this soft surface using an instrument with a fine metal point.
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In virtually all cases, the wax has perished, and all that can be detected on the surface of the tablet underneath are scratches.
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These are too faint to be read because they are distorted.
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For some time, scientists have attempted to study them with laser photography, but this has proved fruitless.
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However, it is now hoped that by enhancing images of the tablets on computer, their original messages will become legible again.
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If this is the case, a whole new source of historical information will be opened up, and this promises advances and new knowledge for many decades to come.
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The new technology has already been used on texts in ink as well, and in the future it will be applied to damaged surfaces of many kinds.
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Now you'll hear the recording again.
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At the time of the Roman Empire in Europe, around 2 ,000 years ago, it was common for information to be written not on paper, but on things called tablets.
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These were pieces of wood about the size and thickness of a typical modern envelope.
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Hundreds of such tablets have been unearthed from archaeological sites throughout Europe and the Mediterranean world.
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Nearly 200 were found in one Roman fort alone.
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And like most of these discoveries, they have been placed in public collections, mainly in museums in northern Europe, to be viewed, but not, unfortunately, to be read.
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This is because, although in some cases traces of writing can still be seen, most are now illegible to the naked eye.
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But that's all soon to change, because archaeologists hope that, with the help of new technology, their secrets may soon be revealed.
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Many of the tablets took the form of legal documents and letters written by Roman soldiers.
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An example, now at the British Museum, bears the name of the person who wrote it and the name of the person who received it,
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plus the word transportation, which you can just make out, but the rest remains a mystery.
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Now, with the help of computer techniques, experts hope eventually to be able to read the whole letter.
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Professor Mike Brady, a leading figure in what's known as computer vision for many years, admits that this is the hardest project he's ever worked on.
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But the excitement of seeing the latest ideas in computing applied to such a very ancient problem has the archaeological community buzzing.
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So, in simple terms, why has the writing been preserved?
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And how will it be possible to undo the ageing process?
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Well, the tablets were made with thin, hollow panels cut across them.
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Wax was poured into these, and the text was then written into this soft surface using an instrument with a fine metal point.
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In virtually all cases, the wax has perished, and all that can be detected on the surface of the tablet underneath are scratches.
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These are too faint to be read because they are distorted.
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For some time, scientists have attempted to study them with laser photography, but this has proved fruitless.
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However, it is now hoped that by enhancing images of the tablets on computer, their original messages will become legible again.
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If this is the case, a whole new source of historical information will be opened up, and this promises advances and new knowledge for many decades to come.
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The new technology has already been used on texts in ink as well, and in the future, it will be applied to damaged surfaces of many kinds.
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That's the end of Part 2.
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Now turn...
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Part 3.
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You'll hear an interview with an architect called Lucy Collett, who designs small buildings.
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For questions 15 to 20, choose the answer A, B, C or D, which fits best according to what you hear.
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You now have one minute to look at Part 3.
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Thank you.
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I'm sitting here, rather uncomfortably, with designer Lucy Collett.
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Lucy, you're an architect, really, but an architect with a difference.
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Yes, I specialise in small buildings.
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And we're in one of your buildings now.
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It's a treehouse, and we're perched on child -sized seats two or three metres above the ground.
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In fact, I was commissioned to design this house by my neighbours for their children.
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I don't like heights, but I loved the challenge of weaving the house in amongst the branches.
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You can see there are several storeys with stairways between them.
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I'd have given anything for a house like this when I was a child.
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Yeah.
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What started you off on this type of design?
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I've always had a passion for small buildings.
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Playhouses, of course, when I was a little girl.
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Then I found a book about historical telephone boxes, which fascinated me.
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When the telephone was an amazing new invention, money was poured into the designs of public phone boxes.
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They were all sizes and styles.
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There were some that looked like rustic cottages with thatched roofs.
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others like Chinese pagodas, one like a sort of Greek temple.
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Some were quite luxurious with chairs, and people used to go in there to play cards.
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But it didn't last long.
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They had to be standardised and made more practical.
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You went to architecture school.
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Did you know you were going to work on this small scale?
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Yes, my final year project was on small buildings in an industrial context.
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If you look at major building sites, they're dotted around with huts and temporary buildings.
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You think they put up these tin boxes for the workers to drink their tea and read their newspapers in.
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What is there to that?
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Well, they've all got to conform to safety standards.
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And why shouldn't they have some style as well?
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I designed them to look better and also to be put up and dismantled more quickly.
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I worked on durability of materials, comfort and so on.
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Where did you get your inventiveness from?
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I don't know.
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I think I'm more practical than inventive.
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My parents were market stall holders.
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They had a really cumbersome stall which took them forever to put up.
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All the market people started setting up about four o 'clock in the morning.
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It was freezing, back -breaking work, and it drove me mad when I had to help them.
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I was visiting some clients abroad a few years ago and saw some brilliant stalls in their local market.
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They were little metal folding houses, completely waterproof and enclosed with plenty of display room.
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At the end of the day, you could lock them up with the goods safe inside, or you could fold them flat and cart them off to the next town.
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I did drawings of them and made one when I got home, but I haven't sold it.
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What have you done that you're most proud of?
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I suppose everything I've done is a variation on a theme, so it's hard to pick anything out.
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But I did get an award.
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The Newspaper Sellers Association gave me a prize for a design I did for street corner kiosks.
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You know, those cute little buildings with display windows on three sides.
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Mine were in strong steel, painted, with domed roofs and lots of decorative detail.
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I must admit, I was particularly pleased with the fancy work, and the newspaper people loved it.
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Have you ever done any phone box designs, since that was what started you off?
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Funnily enough, that's what I've just been doing for an international hotel chain.
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They'd stopped putting public phone booths in their hotel lobbies because of mobile phones.
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But there were complaints from a few countries where mobiles hadn't really caught on yet.
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So the hotel decided to make a big feature of lobby phone boxes.
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I did these sort of glass birdcage designs with brass work and over -the -top telephones.
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Now the company's putting them in all their hotels, and people are going into them to make calls on their mobiles.
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It's sort of retro -style lobby furniture. And treehouses?
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No, this is a one -off.
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I've told you, I'm scared of heights.
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OK.
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Shall we let down the ladder and go home?
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Thank you, Lucy.
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Now you'll hear the recording again.
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I'm sitting here, rather uncomfortably, with designer Lucy Collett.
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Lucy, you're an architect really, but an architect with a difference.
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Yes, I specialize in small buildings.
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And we're in one of your buildings now.
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It's a treehouse, and we're perched on child -sized seats two or three meters above the ground.
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In fact, I was commissioned to design this house by my neighbors for their children.
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I don't like heights, but I loved the challenge of weaving the house in amongst the branches.
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You can see there are several stories with stairways between them.
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I'd have given anything for a house like this when I was a child.
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Yeah.
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What started you off on this type of design?
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I've always had a passion for small buildings, playhouses of course when I was a little girl.
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Then I found a book about historical telephone boxes which fascinated me.
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When the telephone was an amazing new invention, money was poured into the designs of public phone boxes.
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They were all sizes and styles.
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There were some that looked like rustic cottages with thatched roofs, others like Chinese pagodas sodas, one like a sort of Greek temple.
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Some were quite luxurious with chairs, and people used to go in there to play cards.
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But it didn't last long, they had to be standardised and made more practical.
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You went to architecture school.
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Did you know you were going to work on this small scale?
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Yes, my final year project was on small buildings in an industrial context.
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If you look at major building sites, they're dotted around with huts and temporary buildings.
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You think they They put up these tin boxes for the workers to drink their tea and read their newspapers in.
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What is there to that?
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Well, they've all got to conform to safety standards, and why shouldn't they have some style as well?
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I designed them to look better, and also to be put up and dismantled more quickly.
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I worked on durability of materials, comfort, and so on.
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Where did you get your inventiveness from?
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I don't know.
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I think I'm more practical than inventive.
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My parents were market stall holders.
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They had a really cumbersome stall which took them forever to put up.
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All the market people started setting up about four o 'clock in the morning.
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It was freezing, back -breaking work, and it drove me mad when I had to help them.
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I was visiting some clients abroad a few years ago and saw some brilliant stalls in their local market.
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They were little metal folding houses, completely waterproof and enclosed with plenty of display room.
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At the end of the day, you could lock them up with the goods safe inside, or you could fold them flat and cart them off to the next town.
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I did drawings of them and made one when I got home, but I haven't sold it.
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What have you done that you're most proud of?
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I suppose everything I've done is a variation on a theme, so it's hard to pick anything out.
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But I did get an award.
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The Newspaper Sellers Association gave me a prize for a design I did for street -corner kiosks.
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You know, those cute little buildings with display windows on three sides.
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Mine were in strong steel, painted, with domed roofs and lots of decorative detail.
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I must admit, I was particularly pleased with the fancy work, and the newspaper people loved it.
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Have you ever done any phone box designs, since that was what started you off?
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Funnily enough, that's what I've just been doing for an international hotel chain.
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They'd stopped putting public phone booths in their hotel lobbies because of mobile phones.
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But there were complaints from a few countries where mobiles hadn't really caught on yet.
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So the hotel decided to make a big feature of lobby phone boxes.
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I did these sort of glass birdcage designs with brass work and over -the -top telephones.
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Now the company's putting them in all their hotels.
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and people are going in to them to make calls on their mobiles.
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It's sort of retro -style lobby furniture. And treehouses?
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No, this is a one -off.
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I've told you, I'm scared of heights.
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OK, shall we let down the ladder and go home?
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Thank you, Lucy.
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That's the end of part three.
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Now turn to part four.
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Now turn to part four.
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Part four.
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Part four consists of two tasks.
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You'll hear five short extracts in which people are talking about problems related to their work.
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Look at task one.
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For questions twenty -one to twenty -five, choose from the list A to H the problem each person encounters.
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Now look at task two.
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For questions twenty -six to thirty, choose from the list A to H each person's current feeling.
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While you listen, you must complete both tasks.
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You now have forty -five seconds to look at part four.
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Thank you.
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Speaker 1 The weird thing is, it's up to quite recently.
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I used to really love being in the theatre business, so it never seemed much of a hardship earning next to nothing
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and holding meetings in an office the size of a shoebox.
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But somehow, over the past year, The gloss seems to have worn off a bit, and now I've realised I'm just being taken for granted.
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I feel as though my spirit's been broken.
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It's awful.
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I don't blame anyone for it.
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We've had no actual rows.
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But I won't put up with it.
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It won't be easy entering the job market all over again, though.
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Speaker 2 Normally I'd say I thrive on deadlines and pressure from clients, but it does all build up,
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and recently I've been prone to fairly severe headaches in the office.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm fine outside work, I can chill out with the best of them, but I do have a lot on my plate, as you'd expect at my level in the company, and it's probably too much to handle,
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if I'm honest, especially with my current project.
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I can't wait to see what happens when I implement my new time management plan at work.
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It's hardly rocket science, but I'll be devastated if it doesn't work.
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Speaker 3 The thing that finally made me flip was being told to move into a new office, which was patently unsuitable for the project I was working on.
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That was on top of a whole series of other ridiculous demands, so the trouble was it just all came to a head, and the people in charge simply refused to take responsibility for it.
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We had a number of bitter exchanges, and I ended up seething with rage.
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I still feel that way, but I'm determined not to just accept it, although I have no idea what I should do about it.
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It all happened so fast.
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You can bet I won't be leaving, though, because I love the work.
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I'm rapidly reaching the end of my tether.
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I haven't lost my cool with a customer yet, but it'll happen soon.
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It's just too much, being expected to run my department without a reliable flow of data.
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My line manager's been very supportive, I'll give her that, and she's been on at the technicians to sort it out, so I've done my bit, but nothing's happened yet.
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And the final straw is when I'm deluged with supposedly helpful emails from other departmental heads about how to cope.
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What do they know about it?
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They go on and on about how disastrous it is, as if it's my fault.
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Luckily, I've got a great team under me.
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Speaker 5 Well, I'm not sure what my options are.
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She's got such a bee in her bonnet about this internal promotion that you just can't reason with her, so I haven't tried to talk her out of it.
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I really don't want to get her into trouble by reporting her to management for
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that row yesterday it would ruin morale in the office I
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suppose in the end we might both get a small pay rise
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and a new job title if she isn't satisfied with that
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and I have a feeling she won't be I'll have to raise the whole issue with the boss
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and let him resolve it
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Now you'll hear the recording again.
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Speaker 1 The weird thing is, it's up to quite recently.
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I used to really love being in the theatre business, so it never seemed much of a hardship earning next to nothing
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and holding meetings in an office the size of a shoebox.
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But somehow, over the past year, the gloss seems to have worn off a bit.
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And now I've realised I'm just being taken for granted.
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I feel as though my spirit's been broken.
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It's awful.
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I don't blame anyone for it.
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We've had no actual rows.
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But I won't put up with it.
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It won't be easy entering the job market all over again, though.
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Speaker 2 Normally I'd say I thrive on deadlines and pressure from clients, but it does all build up,
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and recently I've been prone to fairly severe headaches in the office.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm fine outside work, I can chill out with the best of them, but I do have a lot on my plate, as you'd expect at my level in the company, and it's probably too much to handle,
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if I'm honest, especially with my current project.
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I can't wait to see what happens when I implement my new time management plan at work.
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It's hardly rocket science, but I'll be devastated if it doesn't work.
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The thing that finally made me flip was being told to move into a new office, which was patently unsuitable for the project I was working on.
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That was on top of a whole series of other ridiculous demands, so the trouble was it just all came to a head, and the people in charge simply refused to take responsibility for it.
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We had a number of bitter exchanges, and I ended up seething with rage.
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I still feel that way, but I'm determined not to just accept it.
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Although I have no idea what I should do about it, it all happened so fast.
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You can bet I won't be leaving, though, because I love the work.
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Speaker 4 I'm rapidly reaching the end of my tether.
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I haven't lost my cool with a customer yet, but it'll happen soon.
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It's just too much, being expected to run my department without a reliable flow of data.
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My line manager's been very supportive, I'll give her that, and she's been on at the technicians to sort it out, so I've done my bit, but nothing's happened yet.
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And the final straw is when I'm deluged with supposedly helpful emails from other departmental heads about how to cope.
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What do they know about it?
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They go on and on about how disastrous it is, as if it's my fault.
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Luckily, I've got a great team under me.
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Speaker 5 Well, I'm not sure what my options are.
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She's got such a bee in her bonnet about this internal promotion that you just can't reason with her, so I haven't tried to talk her out of it.
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I really don't want to get her into trouble by reporting her to management for that row yesterday.
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It would ruin morale in the office.
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I suppose, in the end, we might both get a small pay rise and a new job title.
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If she isn't satisfied with that, and I have a feeling she won't be, I'll have to raise the whole issue with the boss and let him resolve it.
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That's the end of Part 4.
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There'll now be a pause of five minutes for you to copy your answers onto the separate answer sheet.
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Be sure to follow the numbering of all the questions.
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I'll remind you when there is one minute left so that you're sure to finish in time.
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That's the end of the test.
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Please stop now.
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Your supervisor will now collect all the question papers and answer sheets.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “CAE 1 - TEST 3”. Este vídeo tiene 398 frases y 5002 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 35:46. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 140 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| tablet sustantivo | /ˈtæblət/ | placa |
| crack sustantivo | /kɹæk/ | grieta |
| lobby sustantivo | /ˈlɑ.bi/ | vestíbulo, recibidor |
| extract sustantivo | /ˈɛkstɹækt/ | extracto |
| stall sustantivo | /stɔːl/ | compartimento, compartimiento |
| architect sustantivo | /ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛkt/ | artífice |
| practical adjetivo | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | práctico |
| telephone sustantivo | /ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/ | teléfono |
| paradise sustantivo | /ˈpæɹədaɪs/ | paraíso |
| pour verbo | /poɹ/ | escanciar, echar |
| fold verbo | /ˈfəʊld/ | plegar, doblar |
| ferry sustantivo | /ˈfɛɹi/ | ferri, transbordador |
| visitor sustantivo | /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/ | visita |
| mainland sustantivo | /ˈmeɪnlənd/ | continente |
| tray sustantivo | /tɹeɪ/ | bandeja, charola |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| put up verbo | colgar | |
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar | |
| fall apart verbo | despedazarse, desintegrarse | |
| get on with verbo | hacer, realizar | |
| let down verbo | alargar | |
| make out verbo | /meɪk aʊt/ | librar |
| put up with verbo | aguantar, soportar | |
| start up verbo | /stɑɹˈtʌp/ | encender, acender |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- You want the cracks to show?
- Don't you think it's risky?
- What started you off on this type of design?
- Where did you get your inventiveness from?
- What have you done that you're most proud of?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es cierto | used to get · used to go · used to really love |
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúa | I've just been doing |
| Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultado | If you don't, the pieces won't go |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | we've always done · I've put · You've campaigned |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 173 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, I've, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: thin /ˈθɪn/, booth /buθ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, thickness /ˈθɪknəs/, thrive /θɹajv/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, promotion /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/, collections /kəˈlɛkʃənz/, variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, photography /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stall /stɔːl/, straw /stɹɔ/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: visitor /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/, discovery /dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/, virtually /ˈvɚ.t͡ʃə.wə.li/, preserve /pɹəˈzɝv/, resolve /ɹɪˈzɑlv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: visitor /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/, designer /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/, collections /kəˈlɛkʃənz/, laser /ˈleɪzɚ/, preserve /pɹəˈzɝv/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como tablet, crack, lobby.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.