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Part 2.

You'll hear a guide taking a group of visitors around a museum.

For questions 7 to 14, complete the sentences.

You now have 45 seconds to look at Part 2.

Thank you.

Welcome to the City Museum and Art Gallery.

Before we start our tour, I'd like to give you a bit of background information about the place itself.

The museum was founded in 1849 as a home for the collections built up over the years by the local cultural society,

and is one of seven museums owned by the City Council.

Its collections of dinosaurs and mummies are well known, and it also has one of Britain's top five exhibitions of natural science science.

Unfortunately, not all areas are open to the public at the moment.

In the cellar storerooms, for example, there are, amongst other things, display cases full of butterflies and many others full of birds.

Upstairs, there's a section designed especially for children, for those of you who are interested, where young people can dress up,

draw pictures, and find out about the museum at their own pace.

It's called Let's Interact.

And there's more noise there than silence, as you might imagine.

But we find this to be a successful way of attracting children to museums.

Let's face it, museums in the past have been boring, rather stuffy places for children and indeed adults to visit.

The picture galleries, which we'll be visiting later, boast a fine collection of drawings, prints and woodcuts by German artists,

and the art collection is arranged thematically rather than chronologically.

The themes we shall see are colour, light, movement, signs and symbols.

It's a bit cold here, I'm afraid.

I do apologise for this, but I'm sorry to say the central heating needs a million pound refit, which the city can't afford to undertake at the moment.

So, if any of you are millionaires and feeling generous today, please see me after the tour.

Now, if you will just follow me to the end of the Grand Colonnade,

we'll turn right into the first exhibit room on the ground floor.

Now, this room houses the Rutland dinosaur.

As you can see, it's three and a half meters high and 14 meters long.

Quite an intimidating sight.

This Cytiosaurus, as it's called, was found in England's smallest county in 1968.

The creature loped across the countryside 175 million years ago and is the most complete example of the breed discovered to date.

Most of the neck, some of the spine, and a bit of the tail were found in Rutland.

The rest of the tail is polystyrene.

For those of you who prefer your dinosaurs on a much more human scale, there is a much smaller 200 million year old pelosaur over there.

Now if you'd like to follow me up the stairs, we'll make our way to the Arctic.

Now you'll hear the recording again.

Welcome to the City Museum and Art Gallery.

Before we start our tour, I'd like to give you a bit of background information about the place itself.

The museum was founded in 1849 as a home for the

collections built up over the years by the local cultural society and is one of seven museums owned by the city council.

Its collections of dinosaurs and mummies are well known, and it also has one of Britain's top five exhibitions of natural science.

Unfortunately, not all areas are open to the public at the moment.

In the cellar storerooms, for example, there are, amongst other things, display cases full of butterflies, and many others full of birds.

Upstairs, there's a section designed especially for children, for those of you who are interested, where young people can dress up,

draw pictures, and find out about the museum at their own pace.

It's called Let's Interact.

And there's more noise there than silence, as you might imagine.

But we find this to be a successful way of attracting children to museums.

Let's face it, museums in the past have been boring, rather stuffy places for children and indeed adults to visit.

The picture galleries, which we'll be visiting later, boast a fine collection of drawings, prints and woodcuts by German artists,

and the art collection is arranged thematically rather than chronologically.

The themes we shall see are colour, light, movement, signs and symbols.

It's a bit cold here, I'm afraid.

I do apologise for this, but I'm sorry to say the central heating needs a million pound refit, which the city can't afford to undertake at the moment.

So, if any of you are millionaires and feeling generous today, please see me after the tour.

Now, if you will just follow me to the end of the Grand Colonnade, we'll turn right into the first exhibit room on the ground floor.

Now this room houses the Rutland dinosaur.

As you can see, it's three and a half metres high and 14 metres long, quite an intimidating sight.

This Scytiosaurus, as it's called, was found in England's smallest county in 1968.

The creature loped across the countryside 175 million years ago and is the most complete example of the breed discovered to date.

Most of the neck, some of the spine and a bit of the tail were found in Rutland.

The rest of the tail is polystyrene.

For those of you who prefer your dinosaurs on a much more human scale, there is a much smaller 200 million year old pelosaur over there.

Now, if you'd like to follow me up the stairs, we'll make our way to the Arctic.

That's the end of part two.

Now turn to part three.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “CAE TEST2 PART2”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: museum, collection, dinosaur, Rutland, tail. This video has 66 sentences and 931 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:52. The speaker talks at a steady 135 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
dinosaur noun	/ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/	Those animals of the clade Dinosauria that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.
chronologically adverb	/ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkli/	In a chronological manner; with reference to time.
intimidate verb	/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/	To make timid or afraid; to cause to feel fear or nervousness; to deter, especially by threats of violence.
lope verb	/loʊp/	To travel an easy pace with long strides.
polystyrene noun	/pɒliˈstaɪriːn/	A vinylic polymer of styrene, CH₂CHphenyl.
refit verb	/ˈɹiːfɪt/	To fit again; to put back into its place.
storeroom noun		A room used for storage.
stuffy adjective	/ˈstʌfi/	Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
thematically adverb		In a thematic manner.
woodcut noun	/ˈwʊdˌkʌt/	An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form.
boast verb	/boʊst/	To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
mummy noun	/ˈmʌm.i/	An embalmed human or non-human animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American…
cellar noun	/ˈsɛləɹ/	An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
undertake verb	/ˌʌndəˈteɪk/	To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on.
millionaire noun	/ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/	Somebody whose wealth is at least one million (10⁶) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies).

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
dress up verb	To put on special or fancy clothes.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 18 contractions and reduced forms, such as we'll, I'm, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

Long words — get the stress right: chronologically /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkli/, intimidate /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/, polystyrene /pɒliˈstaɪriːn/, millionaire /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like dinosaur, chronologically, intimidate.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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