Shadowing Practice: Listening to IELTS Bands 5-6.5 #1 | Luyện nghe IELTS - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Hello.
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Come in and take a seat.
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Oh, thanks.
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Good.
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And how can I help you?
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Well, I'd quite like to join this international social club, and I was hoping you could help me.
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Yes, no problem.
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Let me just get the form up on my screen, and I'll fill in your details.
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Let's see...
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Yes, here we are.
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OK, the first thing we need is your name.
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Jenny Fu.
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That's F-double-O.
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OK, great.
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And can you tell me how old you are, Jenny?
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I'm 21.
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Great.
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And how long have you been here in Australia, by the way?
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I arrived just last month, two weeks before the start of the academic year, just to sort things out and settle in a bit.
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Good idea.
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Where are you from originally?
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I'm from Kuala Lumpur.
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That's where I was born and brought up.
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So, you're Malaysian, are you?
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That's right.
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Though I lived in the United States for a couple of years when I was a teenager.
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We went there for my father's job.
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Right.
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And can you tell me your current address, please?
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Sure.
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Just at the moment I'm lodging with a family at 13 Anglesey Road in Bondi.
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Okay, let me just type that in.
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Uh, how do you spell Anglesey, by the way?
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It's spelled A-N-G-L-E-S-E-A.
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Thanks.
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That's quite a long way from the city centre, isn't it?
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Is it a problem getting into the city centre?
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Not really, because the buses are good and it's a nice, quiet area to live in.
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That's true.
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So I guess you must have a cell phone number you can give me
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so we can keep you informed of events and so on?
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Yes.
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Let me just have a look.
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It's a new one, so I haven't learned the number yet.
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Ah, here it is.
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It's 040-422-9160.
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040-422-9160.
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Okay, good.
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And you like the family you're living with?
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Sure.
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They've got a little boy who is quite noisy, but he's really no trouble.
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Fine.
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Now, let's see, what's next?
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Yep.
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Can you tell me what you do?
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I mean, are you working or studying?
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Well, at the moment I'm doing a temporary job with a company here in Sydney.
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I'm an economist, in fact.
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OK.
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And how long do you think you'll be here in Sydney?
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At least a year.
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I may look for work here afterwards.
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Great.
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Now, you want to join the International Social Club, and it will be good to know a bit about your free time interests as well.
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What do you like doing?
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Well, I'm quite musical, and I really enjoy singing.
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Back home I sang with a band, just, you know, for fun.
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But for me, what I like best is dancing.
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You know, the modern sort?
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I really love it.
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So, how are you getting on here?
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I mean, your level of English is better than most people who come from overseas to work, and you've got a really nice American accent,
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so I don't suppose you have any communication problems in the office, though you might find some of our Australian slang more difficult to understand.
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Well, a bit.
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But I haven't met that many Australians yet, outside of work, I mean.
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Right.
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But could you tell me a bit about the International Club, now I've joined?
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Sure.
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We've got, let's see, currently about 50 members, but people join all the time, so I should think that figure will go up.
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Last year we had 30 members, and the year before just eighteen, so we're growing and getting better known.
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I reckon that at this rate next year we'll have about eighty.
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And does the club hold regular meetings?
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Yes, every second Thursday evening, in fact, so a couple of times a month.
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Though, of course, when you start making friends, you'll be getting together with them more often than that, I guess.
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The next meeting will be next Thursday, if I'm not mistaken.
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Uh, yes, that's Right.
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And what happens when the club meets?
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I mean, what sort of things are organised?
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The usual thing is for one of the members to give a little presentation about where they're from, their customs and so on.
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But from time to time they do other things.
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Outings to places around Sydney, or meeting up to eat together in a restaurant, or go to a concert together, or something like that.
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OK, that sounds fun.
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And the members aren't just people from other countries?
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Non-Australians, are they?
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No, not at all.
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The main point of the club is to give people like
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you the chance to mix in more with people from this country, people of all ages.
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You'll find us very friendly.
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I think the contact has a positive effect on visitors to this country.
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And, in fact, it affects us locals positively as well.
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You know, it's a sort of intercultural experience for everybody.
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And of course, you should get the chance to do all sorts of activities with other members of the club
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if you want to.
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It's not just for talking.
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And hopefully you'll make friends with people who have similar interests.
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It sounds great.
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I'm really looking forward to the first meeting.
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Good afternoon.
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My name's Debbie Green, and I'm going to give you a short but hopefully interesting introduction to working at this hospital.
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I'll start with some guidelines about nutrition and fitness
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because a hospital environment can be stressful and so we always encourage our staff to stay fit and have a healthy lifestyle.
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So just a few tips first.
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As you know, the key to good health is eating what we call a balanced diet.
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Many people don't do this, however.
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For one thing, they don't eat enough fruit and vegetables or home-prepared food.
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When you feel hungry, it's often too easy to grab something quick because you're tired or busy.
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Cooking a healthy meal takes longer, and this is often why people live on sandwiches
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and fast food instead please don't fall into this unhealthy trap of course you have to do a little exercise
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and keep fit as well i know you'll have a lot of work
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and may not have time to join a gym
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but consider how often you take the lift rather than the stairs
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or how often you drive rather than walk health-wise it may
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just be a question of doing things differently rather than starting
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a very active sport in fact being generally active is much
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healthier than doing lots of exercise just occasionally as you know
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this can be as risky for your heart as being inactive
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as long as you do at least an hour's exercise a day
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and some of you will do more than that at work you'll find
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that you don't lie awake at night worrying about the next day
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and that's the main advantage of exercise remember this is a hospital
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and you are supposed to be the healthiest people here moving on to health
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and safety I want to point out that it's quite okay to take a break any time that you're not busy.
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We know that when there's an emergency, you may have to miss that cup of tea or coffee in the canteen or wherever you go.
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But generally, you shouldn't work for more than three hours without a break.
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Otherwise, your attention levels will drop and you could then make a careless mistake.
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Another important issue is hygiene.
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You're all trained to clean your hands at work but remember
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that germs can live for a long time so please make sure
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that you don't leave even a small amount of rubbish around.
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There are brooms in the cupboards so use them.
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We do have cleaners but they aren't always here
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when you need them I'm afraid and a little dirt can soon build up.
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Now, as you're all new, I'm just going to show you a map of the hospital and point out a few key places.
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Let's start with the recreation centre.
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At the moment, we're in the main building that's here,
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and if you go out of the main entrance and just along the main road to the east, you'll find the staff recreation centre.
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It's this T-shaped building and there's a range of things that you can do here to help you relax.
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If you get ill, we do have a health centre for all registered employees, and this is directly behind the main hospital building.
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So if you go out of the back exit, it's just in front of you, and there's a small pharmacy next to it.
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I'm based here, and I have a few leaflets on things if you want to come and see me.
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Many of you will be doing shift work, so you might like to go to the 24-hour swimming pool and sauna.
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They're very close by, and it doesn't cost much money to get in.
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If you walk out of the front of the main building, there's a road straight ahead of you.
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Go down that and turn left into Thai Road.
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You'll see the pool entrance at the end of that road, just beyond the line of trees.
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We've talked about eating healthily and there's a very useful store nearby
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that sells a large range of organic products and health food supplements.
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This is also in front of the main building
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but this time you need to go beyond the turning for Thai Road
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and you'll see it on the right-hand corner directly opposite another building.
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Finally, if you want a healthy meal and you have very little time to get it.
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Of course there's always the canteen inside the main building but I would recommend a place called Jenny's Restaurant.
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Leave the front of the main building and head for the roundabout.
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When you're there, take the second turning on the left.
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It's just along that road before the trees.
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You can get a number of excellent dishes here at a reasonable price.
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Well, I think that's all that's really...
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Thank you.
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