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Section 2.
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You will hear a programme on a student radio station.
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It describes the findings of a survey on vacation jobs taken by students the previous year.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 16 on page 4.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 16.
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Welcome to Student Life.
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It's spring and many of you may be thinking about arranging work for the long vacation.
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So on today's program, Roger Anwell reports on a survey we conducted into the pleasures and problems of vacation jobs.
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Roger.
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Thank you, Sarah.
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Well, the first thing to say is that by far the majority of students we surveyed did just three types of jobs.
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All of these obviously had their advantages and disadvantages.
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Starting with stock taking in supermarkets, The thing that students said they enjoyed most about this job was the travelling,
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They were often required to go to branches to do their stock takes, And this was regarded as an interesting plus.
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The main negative, however, was that they tended to find the job tiring, with long hours spent on their feet and climbing high shelves.
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Now, one thing we did ask the students in our survey
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was whether they had any recommendations for other people taking on their job.
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And they said, perhaps not surprisingly, get good shoes.
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That's the only way you can keep going.
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Another job which lots of students did was office work.
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And the positive feature of this actually rather surprised me.
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Until I remembered what a hot summer it was last year.
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Lots of students named air conditioning as the best thing about office work.
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The downside which many talked about was wearing formal clothes.
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Obviously, this didn't go down too well with students.
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The advice most people gave was to select a large office.
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That way you have more variety of social contacts.
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Otherwise, the work can get very boring.
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The third job which had attracted large numbers of students was as a theme park attendant.
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And again, I got a surprise here.
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Because the big plus people talked about was good pay.
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"'It must have improved since my day, I must say.' Anyway, the downside I did recognize, having to deal with difficult customers,
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especially in the heat when tempers get frayed.
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Not easy.
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And people said that it was a good idea to live nearby, because there's a lot of shift work, and you don't have to worry about transport at difficult times of the day.
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Before you hear the rest of the programme, you have some time to look at questions 17 to 20 on page 5.
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Now listen and answer questions 17 to 20.
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so those were the findings from the survey on the most common student jobs
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But not all student jobs have to be mundane and boring.
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One of the students who responded in our survey spoke at length about his amazing job as a zoo attendant.
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Peter Marshall had read about work opportunities on the zoo website, and just went along with a friend to talk to someone in personnel.
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He was offered a job there and then.
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As easy as that.
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In previous years, he'd done singularly unexciting shop work.
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So he was very pleased to be doing such original work.
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He ended up working for just under three months.
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which was actually slightly more than he had anticipated.
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and meant that he had to miss part of university term time.
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But he said it was well worth it
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because he thinks he's found his future career path as a result of this experience.
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He loved working on the educational side, in particular helping young kids understand about the animals in their natural environment
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He said it was the most intriguing thing he'd ever done.
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He tells us, though, that with final exams coming up, He won't be able to do any paid work this coming vacation...
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So, Why don't you apply?
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If you're interested in getting further information about the findings of the survey...
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That is the end of section two.
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You now have half a minute to check your answers.
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Now turn to section 3 on page 6.
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Welcome to student life.
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It's spring and many of you may be thinking about arranging work for the long vacation.
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So on today's program, Roger Anwell reports on a survey we conducted into the pleasures and problems of vacation jobs.
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Roger.
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Thank you, Sarah.
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Well, the first thing to say is that by far the majority of students we surveyed did just three types of jobs.
65
All of these obviously had their advantages and disadvantages.
66
Starting with stock -taking in supermarkets, The thing that students said they enjoyed most about this job was the travelling.
67
They were often required to go to branches to do their stop takes, And this was regarded as an interesting plus.
68
The main negative, however, was that they tended to find the job tiring, with long hours spent on their feet and climbing high shelves.
69
Now, one thing we did ask the students in our survey
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was whether they had any recommendations for other people taking on their job.
71
And they said, perhaps not surprisingly, get good shoes.
72
That's the only way you can keep going.
73
Another job which lots of students did was office work.
74
And the positive feature of this actually rather surprised me.
75
Until I remembered what a hot summer it was last year.
76
Lots of students named air conditioning as the best thing about office work.
77
The downside which many talked about was wearing formal clothes.
78
Obviously, this didn't go down too well with students.
79
The advice most people gave was to select a large office.
80
That way you have more variety of social contacts.
81
Otherwise, the work can get very boring.
82
The third job which had attracted large numbers of students was as a theme park attendant.
83
And again, I got a surprise here.
84
Because the big plus people talked about was good pay.
85
"'It must have improved since my day, I must say.' Anyway, the downside I did recognize, having to deal with difficult customers,
86
especially in the heat when tempers get frayed.
87
Not easy.
88
And people said that it was a good idea to live nearby, because there's a lot of shift work, and you don't have to worry about transport at difficult times of the day.
89
So those were the findings from the survey on the most common student jobs.
90
But not all student jobs have to be mundane and boring.
91
One of the students who responded in our survey spoke at length about his amazing job as a zoo attendant.
92
Peter Marshall had read about work opportunities on the zoo website, And just went along with a friend to talk to someone in personnel.
93
He was offered a job there and then.
94
As easy as that.
95
In previous years, he'd done singularly unexciting shop work.
96
So he was very pleased to be doing such original work.
97
He ended up working for just under three months.
98
which was actually slightly more than he had anticipated.
99
and meant that he had to miss part of university term time, But he said it was well worth it
100
because he thinks he's found his future career path as a result of this experience.
101
He loved working on the educational side, in particular helping young kids understand about the animals in their natural environment
102
He said it was the most intriguing thing he'd ever done.
103
He tells us though that with final exams coming up, He won't be able to do any paid work this coming vacation...
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So, Why don't you apply?
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If you're interested in getting further information about the findings of the survey...

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “IELTS listening actual test Part 2: vacation jobs”. Las palabras que más se repiten: student, survey, vacation, findings. Este vídeo tiene 105 frases y 1282 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:40. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 133 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 89 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
downside sustantivo/ˈdaʊnˌsaɪd/inconveniente
attendant sustantivo/əˈtɛndənt/guarda, atendiente
bore verbo/boɹ/aburrir
fray verbo/fɹeɪ/deshilachar, desflecar
intrigue sustantivo/ˈɪntɹiːɡ/intriga
disadvantage sustantivo/ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/desventaja
anticipate verbo/ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/anticiparse
supermarket sustantivo/ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/supermercado
temper sustantivo/ˈtɛmpɚ/temperamento, carácter
arrange verbo/əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/arreglar, acotejar
tire verbo/ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/cansar, cansarse
shelf sustantivo/ʃɛlf/estante, balda
cloth sustantivo/klɒθ/tela
surprisingly adverbio/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/sorprendentemente, sorpresivamente
recommendation sustantivo/ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/recomendación

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
come up verbosalir a relucir
end up verboterminar, ir a parar
go along with verboir junto con

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewere often required · was offered
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosastudents who responded
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupothe best · the most common · the most intriguing
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasadowas wearing

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 14 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, he'd, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shelf /ʃɛlf/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: singularly /ˈsɪŋɡjəlɚli/, disadvantage /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/, anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, exam /ɪɡˈzæm/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: disadvantage /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/, arrange /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como downside, attendant, bore.

¿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.

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