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Part 2.

You will hear the manager of a childcare service at a

primary school talking to parents at an open day about the school's childcare service offered before and after school.

First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15.

Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 15.

Good afternoon.

My name's Mrs Carter and I run the Before and After School Extended Hours Child Care Service.

I hope you've had a chance to have a good look around the school and talk to staff and pupils.

I know that many of you are interested in using our child care service

when your child joins the school and perhaps you already know something about it.

But for those that don't, I'll go through the main details now.

We offer child care for children from the ages of 4 to 11, both before and after school.

I know that many parents who work find this service invaluable.

You can leave your child with us, safe in the knowledge that they will be extremely well cared for.

We are ensured to provide care for up to 70 children, although we rarely have this many attending at any one session.

I think we generally expect around 50 to 60 children for the afternoon sessions

and about half that number for the breakfast sessions.

Although we currently do have 70 children registered with us, not all of these attend every day.

It's 10 years since we began offering an extended hours service and we've come a long way during that time.

When we first opened, we only had about 20 children attending regularly.

We try to keep our costs as low as we can and we think we provide very good value for money.

For the afternoon sessions, which run from 3.30 until 6pm, it's £7.20.

But if you prefer, you can pay for one hour only, which costs £3.50, or two hours, which costs £5.70.

The cost of the childcare includes food and snacks.

They'll be given breakfast in the morning and in the afternoon a healthy snack as soon as they finish school.

At 5pm children are given something more substantial such as pasta or a casserole.

Please inform us of any allergies that your child might have and we'll make sure they're offered a suitable alternative.

As you may know, the childcare service runs through the school holidays from 8am to 6pm.

We offer a really varied and exciting programme to keep the children entertained.

We don't want them to feel as if they are still at school.

It will also feel different because they'll get the chance to make new friends with children from other schools.

Spaces are available for them because a lot of our term time children don't always attend during the holiday.

In the past, parents have asked

if children over the age of 11 are allowed to come with their younger brothers and sisters, but I'm afraid we're unable to do this

because of the type of insurance we have before you hear

the rest of the talk you have some time to look at questions 16 to 20 now listen

and answer questions 16 to 20.

so now let me tell you about some of the activities that your child can do during the after-school sessions.

As well as being able to use the playground equipment,

computers, and the library, there is usually at least one special activity that children can do each day.

For example, Spanish.

We have a specialist teacher coming in every Thursday to give a basic introduction to the language through games and songs.

She does two sessions, one for the over rates and one for the younger children.

This is the only activity which we have to make an extra charge for but it's well worth it.

Once a week the children have the opportunity to do some music.

We're very lucky that one of our staff is a member of a folk band.

On Mondays she teaches singing and percussion to groups of children.

We do rely on parental support for this so

if any of you sing or play an instrument and would be prepared to help out at these sessions we'd be delighted.

Painting continues to be one of the most popular activities.

To begin with we weren't keen on offering this

because of the extra mess involved but children kept asking if they could do some art and so we finally gave in.

Art is great for helping the children to relax after working hard at school all day.

Yoga is something that we've been meaning to introduce for some time

but haven't been able to find anyone available to teach it, until now that is.

So we'll see how this goes.

Hopefully, children will benefit in all sorts of ways from this.

Cooking is another popular activity.

They make a different sort of cake or pizza or bread each week.

Although the younger children love doing it, we found that the mess was just too much.

so we've decided to restrict this to the over-8s as they are better able to clean up after themselves.

That is the end of part two.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 62 sentences and 852 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:58. The speaker talks at a steady 143 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 91% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
extend verb	/ɛkˈstɛnd/	To increase in extent.
snack noun	/snæk/	A light meal.
carefully adverb	/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/	With care; attentively, circumspectly.
pizza noun	/ˈpi.tsə/	A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
rarely adverb	/ˈɹɛəɹli/	Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often.
suitable adjective	[ˈsjuː.tə.bɫ̩]	Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
introduce verb	/ˌɪntɹəˈdus/	To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
substantial adjective	/səbˈstænʃəl/	Having a substance; actually existing.
relax verb	/ɹɪˈlæks/	To make something loose.
rely verb	/ɹɪˈlaɪ/	To trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
specialist noun	/ˈspɛʃəlɪst/	Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
instrument noun	/ˈɪnstɹəmənt/	A device used to produce music.
vary verb	/ˈvɛəɹi/	To change with time or a similar parameter.
folk noun	/foʊk/	People, persons.
yoga noun	/ˈjoʊ.ɡə/	Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
clean up verb	To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.
look around verb	To inspect a building or area.
run through verb	To summarise briefly.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	you've had · we've come · have asked
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are ensured · be given · are given

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 19 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, we've, they'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: substantial /səbˈstænʃəl/, specialist /ˈspɛʃəlɪst/, percussion /pɚˈkʌʃən/

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 extend, snack, carefully.

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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