ae KETSZINTO ERETTSEGI SOROZAT BARTA EVA yrs ¥ , _- i iy e a.) Aa Bl ar >) érettségi D. oF feladatla : beszédértés vizs' AKADEMIAI KIADO.CONTENTS KOZEPSZINT a a BCS Caeser Titles of tests Poo) a) Test 1 Anush considers what kind | Various jobs — likes and 305" What will I do when I grow {of jobs she would and dislikes Family members : up? wouldn't like to do in the future Test 2 Peter describes three houses. |Looking for a house was House hunting he saw when house hunting | Quality and location of in Italy houses. Village life Test 3 Eileen, a teacher, comments | School report , School: 3°30" Peter's Progress Report on Peter’ schocl progress Jsubjects Strengths and : weaknesses £5 Test 4 Richaré introduces himself, | Familytlife ” Bamily © s, 255 Richard's family tree his family and his relatives relations Various jobs ~ 7 : ta Test 5 Eight short pieces of radio Minis 220" You ate listening tothe. {news accident, So pre news + market, weat | Test'6 Radio programme on a visit | Animal a 210" | Wild camel country to the Great Gobi National | weather a Park Tndatgeaed gs | Test 7, Extract from a guided tour |The his yo Salespeare's Shakespeare didn’t have of the New Globe Theatre, |Globe The New Clot electric lights the 20" century replica of | Project... Comparison of 17" i. Shakespeare's theatre century’ id mre [Test 8. Radio interview with a 200" Masters Games competitor at the Masters : + Games, a worldwide sports festival Test Marina talks about the z00" | Beautifull painting, paintings hanging on a wall init ite ee in their living room i Test 10° “ee Richard comments on Travel: Nidic “Retiaice What'Son the'fube? °° | various TV channels Sports Music’ Cooking News “Ads 5 jegoldasok 10 2 SzBvegkényy 1-10 5EMELT SZINT cesta rome stay ttt eo acai Radio interview with a man. who collects soil _ | Three pieces of radio news presented by correspondents Radio programme on the popularity and image of forenames The Mayor of Lambeth 240 gives examples of the types f petitions put in to him Radio interview with an 320° expert on how 19" century Britain reacted to Darwin's ideas Radio report about Algerian children who spent a few weeks in Wales one summer f+ Radio report about a gym specially built for children Mr Kertesz explains what it means to treat wild animals’ teeth and how it started Five people give their | opinions about animals’ feelings and how they express them Peter tells the story of uavelling to Hungary to watch the bull eclipse Megoldisok 11-20 57 Szévegkényy 11-20 63ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author is very grateful to those people who allowed themselves to be interviewed for recordings. Marina Adams, architect Stephen Bourne, the Mayor of Lambeth Peter Kertesz, dental surgeon Eileen Leatt, teacher Peter Lennard, my argumentative friend Richard Newey, whose family tree has grown since then ‘Anush Oganesyan, student Richard Rubin, my colleague William Wollen, guide in The Globe ‘The author would like to thank Outlook, You and Yours, Home Truths and other BBC Radio programmes for permission to reproduce copyright material. Every effort has been made to trace or contact the copyright holders before the printing deadline. We apologise for any omissions. A sszerz6 eziiton mond kész6netet mindazoknak, akik segitették munkéjét Készénetet mondok kizépiskolai és fdiskolai Kollegaimnak az anyagok kiprobélaséért és a tandcsokért, didkjaimnak kritikus észrevételeikért és dtleteikért, valamint csalddomnak a tiirelmilkért és kitartdsukért.TEST 1 What will I do when I grow up: Anush Oganesyan is an Armenian girl who lives in the United States. She will talk about her career plans. While listening circle the TWO CORRECT answers from a), b) and c) in each item (1-6). There is one example (0) at the beginning. Anush talks about herself that Q has fived in the US for 9 years, {Example 0) she Qs 14 vears old Jas never heen serious, Anush doesn’t want to be. a) although she bad thought of it. 1. a doctor b) because she can’t stand blood. c) although her mother wants her to be. a) because of the pay. b) because she is Armenian, c) because of her father’s expectations 2. a McDonald's worker a) but her brother sees his career in it. 3, in computing ') because of her eyes ©) although she enjoys hardware. a) although her parents encourage her to be one. 4.a casino card-dealer _b) because her parents work hard as dealers ©) because you can’t do anything if a guest is rude. a) because of school violence. 5a teacher b) although her teachers encourage her to be ¢) because they aren't respected. Anush wants to be. ~ a) because she knows a lot about it already. b) because she likes to defend people. c) because her parents think it would suit her 6 points it TEST 1TEST 2 House hunting Peter Lennard will describe three houses that he saw when he wanted to buy a house in Italy. He describes various characteristics about each house. While listening, tick (v7) 5 boxes in each column according to the characteristics that match Peter's description of that particular house. An example has been given for the first house. Characteristics of the houses 1st house | 2nd house | 3rd house 1. Isin ruins v Not in bad condition Attached to another building Nice architecture Beautiful location No garden Big garden Too close to a road : 8. 9. Wild, romantic atmosphere 10, Rural atmosphere 11. Foreign owner 15 points TEST 2 12TEST 3 Peter’s Progress Report Eileen Leatt, a head teacher will comment on Peter's progress in each subject. While ening, find the box she is talking about and fill in each gap of the school report with a number or a maximum of 3 words according to her comments. There is one example at the beginning. GENERAL PROGRESS REPORT : General | ogress ' a Homework : Subject E=Excellent | completed General remark : (in %) i English tExamiple) Tends to be very in class. 12 Attendance report: There's some i Ww 10% i | ad {Scien Lack of Art Area he should 8-10 Cowen Needs to do more on certain eogray iad topics, Tht3 w Only interested in 1-16 i School team member in cricket, swimming and hockey. (Physical | E | Well-organizee, Education) | | responsible, pupil. | 17-19 Likes taking part in { | Music Dislikes theory. i i Has good 13 TEST 3TEST 4 Richard’s family tree ard Newey will talk about himself and his family. While listening, complete each gap with a maximum of 3 words. As he doesn’t speak about the members of the family one after the other, you will have to find who he is talking about in the family tree. The names will help you quickly find who he is referring to. There is one example at the start. Richard's father Mum & he live in of England Two weeks ago he Worked for a 3 examples of his work aie Peter © Works with Peter * Job: to look after * Works for # Finds jobs for accountants © Lexample of her © Works in work: of England # Job is perfect because she Tom Jack © Age ‘Age: 7 years TEST 4 14Richard's mum * Worked as a Richard (He talks) ral * At 18 went to uativersity.. (Example) * Job © Lives in of England Helen © Age: * Job: # Likes about her job: 18 points | 15 TEST 4TEST 5 You are listening to the news You will hear a news programme. While listening, write the appropriate letter (A-I) in the boxes according to the order the pieces of news are reported. There are more titles than necessary, so you will not use one title. There is one example (0) at the beginning. ale A) Natural catastrophe 1 B) Crime research 2 & An accident (Example) 3 D) New jobs 7 E) Job losses 5. F) Delayed experiment 6 ©) Acrime i | H) More police staff 1) Extreme weather [ 7 points TEST 5 16TEST 6 Wild camel country A wildlife film-maker will talk about the Gobi desert where he travelled to film the wild Bactrian camels. While listening, circle the correct statement(s): a), 6) or both a) and b). There is one example (0) at the beginning. In order to sce wild camels they QO have mavelled 6 days till now. Qywill ravel t more day 1, He is standing on a dune in a) sand b) snow, He can see 2) open plains 5) mountains 3. There was a big snow fall in a) November ) January. 4, During their journey there was a) some snow melting, b) very cold weather 5. The Bactrian camel has a) one big hump. b) big head 6, Riding on a domesticated Bactrian camel a) was an opportunity he didn’t try. b) is very comfortable The domesticated Bactrian camel runs a) very slowly, b)_up to 70 kilometres without a break. 8 The Great Gobi National Park is 2) inhabited only by researchers. b) as big as Holland, 9. Wild camels are a) more rare than pandas b) as difficult to see as pandas. 17 TEST 6TEST 7 Shakespeare didn’t have electric lights You will listen to a guided tour of the New Globe Theatre, the replica of Shakespeare's 17" century theatre. The New Globe was built as a result of a worldwide project run by Sam Wanamaker. While listening, decide whether each line is correct or if there is one mistake in it, according to what the guide says. Tick (Y) the notes that are correct and underline the mistake in each false note. Write your ticks and corrections in the spaces next to each line as in the examples below. Use 1 word or a number for each correction. [Notes on the New Globe |New Globe: 1° thatched roof allowed in Britain since the Great Fire of 1666 | Lomdow (Example) | Building the New Globe: started in 1987 | (Example Old Globe: Operated for 14 years from 1590 Loa. | 1613: They were performing Henry IV | In the play: Arrival of the quecn on stage greeted by canon shot | 5. | Thatch caught fire >» whole gallery burnt down in about 2hours | 4. Full house (4000 people): All escaped through 2 doors ‘One man’s coat on fire but friend put it out with beer 6 | New Globe: more than 2 doors but narrower + stair access to upper galleries, 7 | Maximum number of people: 1500 in yard + 900 in galleries 8. Old Globe: | performance a day: in the afternoons 9 New Globe: in summer season from June to September: 2 performances a day | 10 | Lights designed to give effects of various kind i Yo ake photos in the theatre! ya (You c: pi in ) i Lees [12 points i TEST 7 18TEST 8 Masters Games You will hear an interview with a competitor in the triathlon at the Masters Games. The Masters Games is a worldwide sports festival held annually. The interview questions have been replaced by numbers 1-6 in the recording. While listening, write letters A-H in the boxes in the order that the questions should appear in the interview. There are more questions than necessary, so you will not use one question. There is one example (0) at the beginning. anaph Questions of the interview: A Were there any extraordinary achievements? B How were the games organized* C Are you going to the next games D Who were your fellow competitors? (Example) & What result did vou achieve? E Was any part of your experience unpleasant? G How did you prepare for the competition? H How popular are these game: 6 points | TEST 8TEST 9 Beautiful painting, isn’t itt Marina and John Adams are architects and the whole family like arts very much. Marina will talk about the pictures which are on a wall in their living room. While listening, find the pictures she is talking about and fill in the gaps according to the questions below. Write a maximum of 4 words in a gap. Some of the gaps are filled in as examples. What/Who¢ = What/Who is in the p ictures Painted by: = Who painted it? (Do nat write names.) Techniqui By what technique is it made? Acquired: = How/Where did they acquire it? Start here | What/Who? Little Londen hense Painted by: TEST 9 Ar au exhibition What/Who? What/Wh (This picture is surrounded by wall paper) lowers snd her father Painted by Painted by What/Who? Technique: Oil painting Painted by. Painted by: An artist friend Acquired What/Whot 20Technique Drawing Acquired What/Who? Painted by: An artist friend Technique: What/Who? Entrance Acquired What/Who* Man mending telegraph pote Acquired: Technique: Erching 2TEST 10 What's on the tube? You will hear Richard commenting on various TV channels while looking at one after the other. According to what he says, decide what he can see ON THE SCREEN by circling a) or b). There is one example (0) at the beginning. 0) Channel 4: The Travel channel (Example) ne) SH CBF | | 2) Channel 3: The News 3) Channel 4: The Romance Channel we sa J Mast | TEST 10 2223 % a) a) ae B 4) Channel 5: The Sports Channel = Bul 5) Chai ~] nnel 6: The Music ChannelTEST 1 What will I do when I grow up? Lab, 2.bc,3.ab,4.b¢,5.a¢,6.be TEST 2 House hunting 1* house: 3, 4,5.6.8. 2” house: 2,4,7,9, 11. 3" house: 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 TEST 3 Peter’s Progress Report GENERAL PROGRESS REPORT ' General ogress a Homework | Subject Excellent | completed General remark | V=Very good | “Gn y.) i + English | (Example) G 50% (1) | Tends to be very lazy (2) in class i | Mathematics j : Attendance report: there's some (evidence of) ; w 10% truancy/cutting (of) classes (4) j Science | we 15% (6) _| Lack of (mathematical) skill(s) (7) —— i : = Ast B®) 80% (9) | Area he should concentrate on (10) Geography V1} | 90% (12) | Needs to do more research (18) on certain topics. + eS | History (14) w 25% (15) | Only interestedin the present (16) School ream member in football (17), P.E, (Physical cricket, swimming and hockey. ducation) E Well-organized, well-prepared (12) i responsible, reliable (19) pupil Likes taking past in practical lessons (22) Music G20) 50% (21) | Dislikes theory. | Has gocd ear (for music) (23) 27 MEGOLDASOKTEST 4 Richard's family tree Richard's father + Mum & he live in (1) of England + Two weeks ago he (2) * Worked for a (3) + 3 examples of his work (4) (6) (6) Julia Peter * Works with Peter * Job: to look after « Works for (ay (8) * Finds jobs for accountants + Lexample of her work * Works in (a2) ) of England * Job is perfect because she (10) Tom Jack + Age (18) Age: 7 years MEGOLDASOK 28(7) Richard (He talks)“ Helen # At 18 went to # Age 45) tuniversin.. (Esample) id a * Job: (13) «Likes about her job: «Lives in (14) a7) of England 1. the middie 2. retired 3. (big) building company 4-5-6. (Am 3 of): school / hospital / prison / shopping centre 7. secretary 8. s 9. paying the wages / paying taxes 10. doesn’t travel much / stays at home / works at home / has two children 11. himself 12. the South 13, computing 14. the North 15. twenty-nine / 29 16, teacher 17. school (environment) / kids 18. nine / 9 TEST 5 You are listening to the news Nu ee SS pome Not used: H 29 MEGOLDASOKTEST 6 Wild camel country Lab Lab 3a 4b, Sb 6b, 7a, Bb, 9.9 TEST 7 Shakespeare didn’t have electric lights Notes on the New Globe ] New Globe: 1° thatched roof allowed in Britain since the Great Fire of 1666 | Lowslow (Example) Building the New Globe: started in 1987 ¥ (Eampley Old Globe: Oper: od for 14 years from 1590 1.1599 1615: ‘They were performing Henry IV 2.VUIL In the play: Atrival of the queen on stage greeted by canon shot | 3. king/Henry VIII i Thatch caught fire > whole gallery burnt down in about 2 hours | 4. building Full house (4000 people): All escaped through 2 doors 5.5000 One man’s coat on fire but friend put it out with beer ") 6. trousers New Globe: more than 2 doors but narrower + stair access to upper galleries | 7. wider Maximum number of people: 1500 in yard + 900 in galleries J 8.600 Old Globe: | performance a day: in the afternoons | ov | New Globe: in summer season from June to September: 2 performances a day 110. May Lights de: ed to give effects of various kind 11. daylight (You can take photos in the theatre!) li Ae take photos inthe theatre!) TEST 8 Masters Games Om> roe : 6 Not used: G MEGOLDASOK 30TEST 9 Beautiful painting, isn’t it¢ Technique Drawing Acquired: (8) Start here i we ® 1 | wWhat/whoz at/Who? What/Whoe 7 Man mending | Flowers and (This et is o a telegraph pole her father surrounded by Acquired: (12) What/Who? wall paper.) Painted by: ae) Painted by: @) | | pea Technique Little Londen ‘ainted by Aut artist (5) 7 Etching house What/Whot frien Technique 6) Technique Painted by: Oil painting (10) a Waat/Who? Painted by: (8) Sead Acquired ia an Acquited: (11 esitinon Paced by eed An artist What/Whot friend a What/Whot ” 1, (My/Her) uncle 2. (Qur/Their) daughter 3. A friend 4. Anemones (in a vase) / (Little) (jug of) flowers 5. (My/Her) (old) (art teacher) / Wall paper designer 6. Westminster bridge / (and) Big Ben 7. (Little) side street (with a tree) (in Venice) / Venice 8. In a junk shop 9, Woman sitting, reading 10. Oil painting 11. At an exhibition 12. John/Husband) bought it TEST 10 What’s on the tube¢ 1, Channel 2: a) 2. Channel 3: b) 3. Channel 4: b) 4. Channel 5: b) 5. Channel 6: a) 6. Channel 7: a) 7. Channel 8: a) 31 MEGOLDASOKTEST 1 What will I do when I grow up? OK. I'm tell youa little about myself. My name is Anush Oganesyan, I'm Armenian. I've lived in America for nine yeats, I'm fourteen years old but I think I act more than fourteen. I'm more serious The careers that I'm thinking about for my future are definitely not going to be a doctor because I'm very bad with touching blood. And my mum also told... I was thinking of being a doctor but then my mum told me that | shouldn't because I have... I’m very sensitive and if one of my patients would die I would take it very bad and I would probably quit being a doctor. Being a minimum wage worker at McDonald's or TacoBell wouldn't be very good for me because as an Armenian I'm expected to be more than a MeDonald’s worker serving fries at the window. Because my Dad thinks of me highly and I want to make him proud of what 1 am and J want to fulfil his standards of me. Being in computers would not work out for me very well even though my brother has... wants to have a career in computers. I'm not that way. I'm totally the opposite because my eyes would hurt watching a screen for eight hours. Even if | go on the computer it can only last for an hour ‘cause my eyes start to hurt. And with all those things in the hardware of a computer I would be too confused to figure out any of the parts of a computer. Since I live in Las Vegas there are many jobs in casinos, for example. being a maid or a casino card- dealer are things I would not like to be because my mom and my dad have been maids and... and are now casino card-dealers. And seeing the trouble they go through is something... that's very difficult. And... [would not like to be a casino card-dealer because you meet all these types of people who can say anything to you and you can’t sue them or talk back to them because you'll get fired ‘What I wanted to be was a teacher when | was really small because I thought of them as my role model. But now since there are many school shootings here and you see children killing their own teachers, my teachers told me that if you want to be a teacher that's not a very good idea because you don’t get paid very much for what you do, you don’t get much respect and you don’t get acknow- ledged at all What | want to be... what | think about being is a lawyer. I don’t know much knowledge about it bur I really... I'm interested in it because I... my parents always tell me I have @ really big mouth and I'm really good at defending people. And I like... I want to defend people's rights and their freedom. Time: 505) TEST 2 House hunting About ten years ago when I was in Italy | looked around in part of Tuscany, that’s a bit remote over the mountains, was looking round for houses there. And | found a large ruin that was attached to a church. [ never followed it up because although it was... it looked beautiful with quite nice architecture, I think it would have been extremely expensive even in its state. So it would have a bit of a pipe dream. It would have been a lovely house in a beautiful area but it had no garden at all. And it was next to... right next to a road. Which was only a small road but it was still next to a road with no garden. 35 “SZOVEGKONYVThen I found a beautiful, completely overgrown house but it was in fact not in bad condition at all ‘That was a lovely house with some archways and... quite nice architecture. In a very large garden, But it was like something out of almost a story or a film because it was so overgrown. There was bushes and brambles and... | think I saw an owl... Hmm... Wildlife had sort of moved in and settled there And it hadn't been lived in perhaps for ten-twenty years at least. Because the plants were beginning to move into the house. And yet its basic structure was quite sound. I went toa neighbour and knocked on the door and a German woman came to the door. There's quite a lot of Germans who have bought houses in Tuscany. And I asked her about the house and who owned it. And she said it belonged to a professor in Oxford, Which was very strange. Because perhaps he died or something had happened Buc it... it was a bit of a mystery ‘Then there was one more house that { found. And... but the house that I found was another ruin, And it was between two other houses attached to them, So as well as being expensive to do up, it would have been quite complicated perhaps legally. And it was a nice location and it didn’t seem to have a garden and it was right in the middle of the village which wasn’t a bad thing in one way, but it could have been a bit claustrophobic not having a garden and a bit of space and a bit of open air or no view. And | liked the village because it was really unspoilt. It didn’t have people like me in it, you know. No tourists, no foreigners and it was... it was a little farming community and it was just as it was for many years with horses and carts and pigs and things. Just a little Italian village with its regular life. Time: 2 TEST 3 Peter’s Progress Report Well, | have Peter Smith’s General Progress Report in front of me and I’m going to go through it a little bit by bit so that you can actually see just where the problems are lying, His general progress in English is... is good but there seems to be a bit of concern with the home- work. He actually is only completing fifty per cent, The English teacher says that he does tend to be very lazy in class. His level of mathematics is rather weak, Peter is obviously not a scientist. Homework is a serious cause for concern, only ten per cent has been submitted. And we seem to have some evidence of truancy, When I examine the attendance report from his math teacher [ think there's some cutting of classe: Similarly with science. Science is a very weak area for Peter and only fifteen per cent of homework has been submitted. There seems to be a general lack of skill and I would assume that probably relates to the mathematics. He simply doesn’t have the mathematical skills needed to deal with science The one lesson that Peter really does enjoy and shows a great interest in is azt. He is very keen on the works of Picasso... and his general achievement is excellent. And it certainly is an area that Peter should concentrate on and certainly will excel in. However there is just one slight concern and he seems to have actually... there is a reduction of about twenty per cent in his homework, it’s not quite what it should be, so it's twenty per cent down on actually the total amount In geography he actually is a very good student. However | do know and I can see from the report here that the teacher would have given him excellent if only he had handed in the full homework There is a deficit of ten per cent. He does need to do a little bit more research on certain topics in order to develop his depth of knowledge and understanding History. Very weak. Peter has made it quite clear that he actually has no interest in this subject at all, and he’s quoted as actually telling his history teacher he is only interested in the present. He has only managed to submit one quarter of the homework required PE, He is an outstanding student, Evident from him playing and representing the school in his football team, the cricket team, the swimming team and the hackey team. He is an excellent student, he is well-organized, well-prepared, he's there on time, and he’s a thoroughly responsible, reliable pupil in this area ‘SZOVEGKONYV 36Finally his music grades. Yet again Peter has made it quite clear that he has likes and dishkes. He does like to take part in practical lessons, he enjoys keyboards. He does not enjoy theory but the teacher does recognize that he does have a very good ear for music. He has only submitted haif of the homework required and his general... general progress would seem to be good, but I would assume with a little bit more effort that should actually be very good Time: 3°30" TEST 4 Richard’s family tree So when I was sixteen-seventeen-eighteen I thought, well I don’t know what I wannabe so I'm gonna go to university, which I did do, I went to Liverpool and there | did computing which is why I'm in the job I'm in now, I've always been in a job related to computer studies or computing of some description And I've got one brother, who is married, His name is Peter and his wife is called Julia. And they have two children, two boys, one is called Tom, one is called Jack, and they are nine and seven years old, And my brother Peter works for himself, He finds jobs for accountants and tax people. He works in the South of England in a place... in an area called Kent, which is about hour, two hours’ drive from London. ‘And I live up in the North of England, which is about five hours’ drive north, so it’s about seven hours drive between us so we don’t get to see each other very often. And my mother and father live in the middle of the country so they are in the middle, quite often I meet my brother at my parents house ‘cause it’s in the middle and it’s easier to drive Julia, my brother's wife also works for the same company that my brother... they... they do the job together. She is a... more of a finance person looking after the... the finances of the business. She doesn't speak with the customers on a day to day basis. She looks after paying the wages to the people who work for the company and paying the tax to the government and things like that. So she doesn’t really do much travelin’, she stays at home and she does her job from home. Which is quite handy for her because of the two children, When they get home from school or school holidays it's perfect for her Mother, father. Both retired now. Father retired only this month, two weeks ago. He used to work for a big building company and he worked as the... the manager for the building company on whichever site he was working on at the time. ‘Cause they built a big whatever... school, hospital. | remember once he built a prison and he’s done shopping centres. Two or three of them, And then before that I just can't... I can’t remember. That's just from memory. Mum used to work as a secretary for a company. She worked for a long time for one company before she retired. So that is my related family. But my not related family is my girlfriend, Helen. Helen's twenty 5558... -nine, oh dear, yes, Helen's twenty-nine. Thirty next year, that's right, I remember. And Helen is. a teacher, she teaches six and seven year olds. She likes her job, she likes school, she likes the school environmen’, she likes kids. We are not married yet, but I have a feeling Helen wants to get married at some point. But I'm the sort of person that lets things happen rather than makes things happen. Time: 2'55” 37 SZOVEGKONYVTEST 5 You are listening to the news You are listening to the news from the BBC Health and safety experts investigating the deaths of four railway workers on the West Coast mainline last weekend say that brakes fitted to the trailer which killed them weren't working, Tolice are hoping to interview every serial killer in Britain as part of project to identify murder patterns and save lives in future. BBC news has learnt that detectives plan to ask the Home Office for permission to approach some of the UK's most notorious murderers. A car components factory in Belfast is to shut with the loss of almost five hundred and fifty jobs. he Japanese-owned business TKECC Limited, which make seat belts, will close in four weeks’ time. A West Yorkshire policeman was seriously injured when he was hit on the head with a slab of con: erete last night. The officer was attacked as he tried to arrest a burglar he was chasing across Waste land in Bradford, He's been treated for a fractured skull in hospital where his condition is said to be improving, Two people are being questioned. Virgin Atlantic has announced its creating eleven hundred jobs to staff new services to the United States. The airline says that the additional flights which start in the summer will require over seven hundred extra cabin crew as well as support staff at Gatwick and Heathrow. Surgeon rescue teams in Morocco are still trying to reach isolated hamlets in the Rif mountains to help any survivors of yesterday's earthquake. Officials say more than five hundred and sixty people died. Most of the victims were sleeping when the tremor struck. Some survivors have mounted sit down protest complaining the government hasn't done enough to provide tents, blankets and building equipment Heavy snow across Wales has caused hundreds of schools to close. Many roads have been blocked and police forces have been advising people not to drive unless their journey is important Adverse weather conditions have forced the postponement of a European rocket which was hoped will land on a comet. The launch of the Rosetta craft was due to have taken place in French Guyana about half an hour ago, The European Space Agency hopes the probe will collect valuable data about comets which will determine whether they were responsible for bringing life to earth You are listening to the six o'clock news on BBC radio four Time: 2°20 TEST 6 Wild camel country It's taken us six days of fairly continuous travel to reach this point. And from here on it's probably another day before we get into wild camel country. In front of me is a most incongruous sight: sand and snow. And most specifically snow on sand dunes, I'm standing on the ridge of a hundred metre dune and one of my fect is in sand, the side facing the sun, and the other in snow, the side in the shadow. And it's just a most stunning sight, The sand dunes stretch in front of me for... they go on for about a hundred miles and then to my left and right open plains with mountains in the background Iv's minus twenty-two at the moment and we've been told that the snow here fell at the end of November, Well now it’s the beginning of January and there's still a lot of snow around, It’s basically just too cold to melt. In fact throughout our journey down here we've seen a Jot of snow and no snow melt whatsoever. Basically the snow goes from snow to evaporation missing out the melt bit in between, Jt’s just too cold to melt SZOVEGKONYV 38Standing in front of me is a fully grown domesticated Bactrian camel, It’s a most unlikely-looking beast with its two big humps, its long neck and big, shaggy head. It also has a prehistoric look about it. This one’s all saddied up ready to go. In fact a couple of hours ago | had the opportunity of riding this thing, It was rather like being on a sofa with legs. And when you are nestled between the two shaggy humps, it’s so cosy, it feels like... well, it hardly feels like you're on an animal at all. These domesticated Bactrian camels certainly aren’t built for speed and they also don’t have the stamina of the wild ones. The wild ones are quite... capable of running for seventy kilometres without stopping The camels I was hoping to see in the Great Gobi National Park, an uninhabited area the size of Holland, would be truly wild Bactrian camels, quite different from the domesticated Bactrians we'd been seeing on our journey. The last remnant population of wild Bactrian camels which are as rare as, wild pandas and just as difficult to see Time: 2°10" TEST 7 Shakespeare didn’t have electric lights I will start at the top of the building. You'll see we've got a thatched roof. This is the only thatched roof in London, It’s the first thatched roof that’s been allowed to be built in London since the Great Fire of sixteen sixty-six. So you can imagine if Sam had his dream in nineteen forty-nine and building only started here in nineteen eighty-seven, nearly forty years later, the sort of struggle he had to have this project completed Shakespeare's original Globe however only lasted fourteen years. It was built in fifteen ninety-nine and in sixteen thirteen they were doing a production of Henry the eighth. And the actor playing Henry the eighth came onto the stage and his arrival was greeted with a loud canon shot which was fired from the gable above the canopy over the stage. A piece of wadding came out of the canon still alight and landed on the thatch, The thatch caught fire and the whole building burned down in about two hours. They were playing to a capacity crowd: three thousand people who all escaped through two doors about this wide. It was a minor miracle. One man's trousers caught on fire but his friend put them out with a bottle of beer. That was the only casualty of the entire incident. You'll see that nowadays we have more than two doors. They are wider than that. We have stair towers on the outside of the building to access the upper galleries. And we are not allowed three thousand people in here any more. We are only allowed one thousand five hundred. That's six hundred in the yard and nine hundred in the galleries round above. I say only one thousand five hundred, If you can just picture six hundred people standing in this yard you'll see that we've still got quite a crowd Undemeath the thatch though you'll see we've got electric lights. Now obviously Shakespeare didn’t have electric lights in his theatre. He was only able to do performances in the afternoons. And we too throughout our summer season which runs from May through to September do performances every day in the afternoons in daylight. But in order for us to function... in order for us to survive as a theatre we found that we need to do two performances a day. And that means doing that evening performance, So we need the lights. Times have changed, Our twentieth century audience is used to coming to the theatre in the evening. That's also now when we are free to come to the theatre. So we need that evening performance Al these lights are designed to do is simply to give the effect of daylight, Nothing more. There are no special effects, no flashing disco lights. They simply flood the theatre with the same light all over just as daylight would, It can be quite a surprise actually to go out during an interval in an evening performance and find that itis still dark outside. One very quickly forgets. This is a good time to take your photographs. If you've got cameras OK if I can take my group we'll go out this way now please Time: 2'55” 39 SZOVEGKONYVTEST 8 Masters Games Example Well, Fred, I'm sitting here in Melbourne and I’m... I'm thumbing a round metal disc which is, actually a bronze medal, Would you believe { came third which was a really wonderful experience. One ‘The qualification to enter the games is you have to be aged over thirty for the majority of sports though for swimming and diving you have to be over twenty-five. And then once you are part of the games you then compete with people who are of the same age as you. So you have 30 to 34 year olds competing against each other all the way up to having 90 to 95 year olds competing against each other up against a couple of pretty hot looking athletes from Canada, a girl from Japan and rather a lot of Australians ‘cause they’re into their triathlons over here, as you know Fred. Three Master Sports, It’s underestimated in its... in its participation, It's massive on a world scale. | mean the fact that you can have 25 thousand athletes turn up in Melbourne for a week to take part in... in twenty nine different sports, It is... It's an enormous feet of organisation. Four You are talking about some people who have had triple heart bypass operations who was still weight-lifting. People like Charlie Booth, who I know, that we heard from last week who is ninety- nine and he's still sprinting, These people are inspirational. They really are incredible and there're a huge numbers of them worldwide. Five The water was freezing cold, it was extremely cold, We all had to wear wetsuits and two swimming caps to try and to protect our heads from the cold. Six Absolutely. I've got to go there to defend my medal. Wouldn't Iz Sharon, thank you very much indeed and indeed congratulations. Time: 2°00" Beautiful painting, isn’t ite Well, they're all things we've acquired. The one on the left there, the little tiny one, not very well framed, that's... one there... a little London Victorian house was done by my uncle when he was staying in our old house The next one, the one on top, the painting over there with the flowers and my father pruning, which is his great joy, was his great joy, before he became rather elderly and ill, to do the garden. And our daughter did that painting of him, which is a beautiful painting, isn’t it’ SZOVEGKONYV 40The oil painting below is by a friend. We went to her exhibition and we really liked her paintings, which is of anemones in a vase, a little jug of flowers, And she did a whole exhibition of wonderful flowers and paintings so we really liked this one and the colours of it Hmmm. The one above that... the picture that’s surrounded by the wall paper is by Peggy, my old art teacher. Peggy was a wall paper designer so therefore when she had an exhibition she put bits of her wall paper around the painting, The picture is actually a sketch out of Peggy's sketch book when she was an art student... of Lon... of Westminster Bridge and... and Big Ben. Not very well proportioned but very charming The one below that, in the centre, is by William Packer who is an artist friend who is also the art critic for the Financial Times. And he loves Venice and this is just a little side street in Venice with a tree. Not very typical really because there is no water there but it’s... it's a very sentimental one of Venice. ‘And to the right of that, on top, there is an extraordinary drawing which we got in a junk shop and we're not quire sure what it is, This is an Edwardian woman sitting, reading. And it’s a very beautiful drawing, very beautiful drawing ‘And below that again is an artist friend, Sue Pie, which we... a little oil painting entitled Entrance. Lovely colours and we bought that again at one of her exhibitions. She is a modern... She's very good. She does wonderful drawings, too. Though we don’t have any of her drawings. We have a few of her paintings and that other etching And then the one to the right of that at the end, a man up a telegraph pole, obviously mending the telegraph pole and I can’t remember the name of the artist. John bought it. I think it's probably the first one he bought when he was still a school boy. And it's an etching. A rather beautiful etching. And it’s got a very kind of thieties’ ook about it. I'm not sure whet period it is but it's the first painting ever that he bought Time: 3°00" TEST 10 What’s on the tube? Ah, let’s see what's on the tube What we have on channel one. The travel channel, What I really like best about it is they show you some really way out of the.. way places. I just saw one, a little town next to Venice. Canals, incredible architecture... just made reservations for this summer. What's...2 What am I looking at®... Some kind of Russian lettering... a palace... | guess it must be St Petersburg. Let’s see what we have on channel two. The nature channel. Good mix. Pets versus animals in the wild. Ob, look this one is about cats, Well, that one looks just like mine. Only its ears are a little rounder, Still most of the shows are about wildlife, lions, tigers, hunting pray, raising their young. Can be really fascinating, taking to very exotic places but, I don’t know, something about Tiza Mitza sleeping in a sink I can relate to All right. Let's see what else we have. Let's see. Channel three. Ah, the news. I particularly like two news women, Both have long hair but my favourite is the one who wears glasses. Ah, | see they've changed the set background. They've gone from flowers to a geometric design in the background now. ‘Ah, let's see what else is on. Hmmm... channel four. Ah, the romance channel. My wife enjoys these emotional tearjerkers. Beautiful guy meets beautiful girl, fall in love, live happily ever after. So cliché. Typically can’t tell one from the other. Ah, this one has a twist to it. An elderly couple finding Jove. Why not? Love is timeless Right. What we have on channel five? Ah, the sports channel. | love a good game of football, basketball, baseball... Ah, heaven, heaven..., What¢ Chess! Chess... chess isn’t a sport, it’s a board game. Don't get me wrong, [enjoy playing chess but I want action! This guy is taking forever to move! Abhi, the music channel. Hooo, who are these guys? This is terrible. terrible... oh, my God They can’t sing, they can’t dance... Only thing better than boy bands — girl bands. Who was it I saw the other day? The ‘Atomic Pussycats’¢ Terrible... awful...! 4t SZOVEGKONYVLet's see what else is on. Ah, channel seven. The cooking channel. Some interesting recipes but so much of it now is low carb or vegetarian dishes... No bread, no potatoes, just chicken, lettuce, spinach, carrots... Mind you, I don’t have anything against salad but... how about some sausage on bed of pasta smothered in a cheese and cream sauce. Maybe it'll kill me but a way to go. All right, what else do we have here’... Channel eight. I don’t know what it is. A car ad@ Look at this guy ripping down some deserted highway at a hundred miles per hour. Beautiful, sleek, powerful... You know it’s great for FJ. Only problem you know | live in Budapest. There's always traffic and never get that car out of second gear. If you wanna sell me a car make it small and ugly. That way I can patk it and not worry about it being stolen. Time: 3°10" SZOVEGKONYV 42TEST 11 A strange hobby You will hear an interview with Tony Brown who has a strange hobby: he collects soils. While listening, answer the questions with a maximum of 3 words. There is one example (0) at the beginning. 0. What did Tow’ fo in Britsany? (Example) Shopping 1. What was he waiting for when he picked up some soil? What did the soil that he picked up smell of¢ 3. Who sent him some soil from Arizona’ 4, How many different soils does he have? 5. What does Moroccan soil smell like? 6. What does Portuguese soil smell like? (Give 1 example) 7. What made the Sahara soil smell like mustard? 8, What colour is Sahara soil? (Give F example} 9, What colour is the soil from Greece? (Give 1 example) 10. How has the old Moroccan soil changed? 11. Who refuses to go into the room where the soils are kept? 12, What's his stepdaughter's attitude to his hobby L 12 points 45 TEST 11TEST 12 Our correspondent reports You will hear 3 news reports. Circle a), b) or c) according to the text. There is one example (0) at the beginning. 0. Wsthe news ay at 18 pam &) on 3 Apri. @ on BBC 4. 1. The grant will be given to children talented in a) music or dance. b) any art up to 3000 grants a year. ©) music, dance or file art. 2. Those children can apply for the grant who a) are 7-16 years old b} go to state schools. ©) have artistic career plan. 3. The grant holders will get special training a) within normal schoo! hours b) away from their home towns, ©) in local training centres 4. ...... are protesting in the Galapagos islands. a) Scientists b) Fishermen ©) Environmentalists 5. The protesters refuse to ....., the research station a) work in the surroundings of &) eat any food in ©) let any food into 6. The protest is related to a) tortoise hunting. b) shark fishing, ©) building docks 7. The police caught James Green a) after looking for him for a week. b) during a traffic control operation. ©) when they recognised his father’s car 8. He was caught driving a) at 116 mph b) over the limit for the 3rd time. ©) at 40 mph over the limit 9. Asa result of James’ speeding, a) pedestrians were seriously injured b) he was put in an institution. ©) there was a traffic catastrophe TEST 12TEST 13 What’s in a name? You will hear an interview with a name expert and a novelist about the popularity of names. While listening, write letters a)-k) in the boxes according to what they say about the names. There is one more item than you need in each box, so you will not use two items from a)-k). There is one example (0) at the beginning. Choose from What they say about the names af 0. Jack, Chloe (Example) |e) 1. AIE, Sid, Bert, Stan a) Used to be popular due to historic people. | ) Association: old people in old-fashioned clothes a ©) Brought back by young parents after jong unpopularity. 12. Alfred, Albert 4d) Continuously popular since the 19** century. e& The most popular at present. (Example) 3. Alf £) Came into use thanks to sports and writers, 4, Chardonnay Choose from a-k 5. Roger 6. Nick, Nicholas 7. Imogen, Harriet 8. Kat g) Suitable for a romantic main character. hh) Not suitable for a romantic main character. 1) Character embodying modern city life j) Too popular to be a main character in a novel k) Gave title to romantic novels in the 60s. To 8 points 47 TEST 13TEST 14 Getting heard Lambeth is one of the biggest boroughs of London. Stephen Bourne, the Mayor of Lambeth will talk about the petitions that various communities put in to him after collecting the necessary number of signatures. While listening, fill in the boxes of the following tables according to what he says. Write a maximum of 3 words in a gap. There is one example (0) at the beginning. The contents of petitions ; T Problem area Complaint | Request A road Lats of accidents (Example. (0) | ( Distress {@) _Incoaventence caused by people driving from “) | outside London a) Not having certain a) Library b). (5) (6) | Vandalism 2) Neglected Things should be made : ® a). 9 | | » ®) b) io | | The acceptance of petitions Hours: (11) Days - (12) (Except for public holidays) Place (13) Document given [to petitioners (14) 14 points TEST 14 48TEST 15 Depicted as an ape You will hear a radio programme on Charles Darwin and how 19" century Victo in Britain reacted to his revolutionary ideas. While listening, circle a), b) or c) according to the text. There is one example (0) at the beginning. 0. The title of the a} “Paradoxes b) "Riddles of the Past @ “Making Histor’ rogranmne on Darwin is 1. He made his theory public a) right after his 5-year expedition. b) 12 13 years after returning to London. ©) at the age of 50. The title of Janet Browne's biography of Darwin is a) “Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’ b) ‘Darwin: The Later Part of his Life’ ¢) ‘In the Public Arena’ 3, The local community a) didn’t trust him any more b) criticized but accepted him. c) closed him out. 4. His reaction to cartoons depicting him as an ape or monkey. a) attacked them in the magazine Punch. &) gave them as presents to friend ©) decorated his house with them, He enjoyed a) a reserved life b) being in the centre of public life ©) the public side of his work, too. 6. In his work ‘The Origin of Species’ he ..... aspects of faith a) criticizes some b) refers to some ©) doesn’t mention any 7. His wife, Emma ..... his views a) totally shared b) wanted to change ©} was worried because of 7 points 49 TEST 15TEST 16 Adventures in Wales You will hear a report about Algerian children who spent a few weeks in Wales this summer. While listening, compile a list of the things they saw or experienced in Wales for the first time in their lives, according to the text. Use a maximum of 3 words in one box. You can list the 8 items in any order. There is one example (0) at the beginning. Things that the Algerian children have seen or experienced for the first time (0. | Modern British town (Example —= [_ 8 points TEST 16 50TEST 17 Kids’ Gym You will hear an interview about a kids' gym, which was opened in Dukeries Leisure Centre in Newark, According to what you hear, fill in the article of a local student magazine about the new gym. Write a maximum of 2 words in a gap. There is one example (0) at the be- ginning. |NEW FUN! IN DUKERIES LEISURE CENTRE ! Kids’ Gym! It looks like any other gym - but if you take a closer look you can see that the sural! room....{0) in the leisure centre wasn't created for adults This gym in every aspect ~ in terms of 1), lighting, visual effects and (2) — appeals to teenagers. It creates the environment temptingly similar to an Ir gym, but ina (3). ! ' |The district council spent about & (4) on refurbishment, equipment, taining and | marketing. According to the council spokesperson, a couple of (S) children have already attended the gym so far | |Eleven-year-old Alex was using the (6) when we talked to him. ‘His mum, Sally used to leave Alex (7), now they go together. | She finds the kids’ gym great. It even offers Alex a special programme for his 8). Let's have a look at the price list! Price list 7 Youth Gym Socsal visit (9 Unlimited access + entry to the (10) £15 / month | | Annual membership Eanceoof month (11) | [_ The price and facilities are extremely (12) 12 points 51 TEST 17TEST 18 Wild dentist Peter Kertesz is not only a practising dental surgeon in London but he is also involved in treating the teeth and dental diseases of wild animals in zoos and safari parks. In this extract he explains how all this started many years ago when he was working as an ordinary dentist. According to what he says fill in each gap with a maximum of 3 words in the following summary. There is one example (0) at the beginning. A vet .....pptoned up.....(0) Mer Kertesz in 1978, The vet asked to help him out with treating the tooth of a (1). Mr Kertesz sorted the problem out but found it to be very hard work. It's easy to treat teeth in his own office as you just turn on what you need Q) or 3). But when you go to other premises you have to plan what to (4). [twas such hard work that he said: “That's it * 6) A few months later Mr Kertesz's treated his own cat's broken tooth and decided either not to do it again or to equip properly to be (6) just for animals He decided that there was a real (7) so he equipped. Now it’s nice to be better equipped than anybody else (®). It is not only comfortable but gives him a lot of (9) when he has to work in the middle of nowhere. ‘An average dentist can be trained for this work but has to have (10) with the animals. You have to be obsessive to work towards perfection in instrumentation, equipment and (11) before travel. Mr Kertesz has treated lots of various wild animals (12), (13) and (14) are just three examples of the several he mentions. 14 points ee! TEST 18 52TEST 19 When a dog is happy Five people will talk one after the other. They each will describe a given animal’s feeling(s). While listening, tick (Y) the appropriate box(es) and fill in the gaps in a maximum of 3 words according to the example. You can tick more than one feeling for an animal. Look at the example for the dog below. Give t example 5 in each bow Tick (9 the feeting(s) inn masinnn 3 % sg Ele] & - ; ge] 3] = is A low does the animal i|2| 3 What causes the feeling(s)?| Sr ets feelingtey? 3 | ¢ a a a = = Dog Master comes home Kisses (Exannpte, v Big Elephant Fish Gorilla (Coco) 11 points TEST 19 53TEST 20 Eclipse fever Peter travelled from London to Hungary when Fani and Rita, his Hungarian friends invited him to watch the full eclipse in Szegvar. You can find the story in pictures below. Each of pictures 1-10 has got one mistake. Correct them in a maximum of 6 words according to what Peter says. There is one example (0) at the beginning. 0. He wats reading books... (Example) You must cone to Hungary and see the eclipse! t's ance in 2 lifetime emperience. In tamgary ve alwys have beatiful eather at this tine Hungarian T TEST 20 549. The morning of the eclipse, 8 o'clock, in Szegvar An hour before the eclipse . 7 Bi | Ie Five minutes before the full eclipse During the eclipse | | TEST 20TEST 11 A strange hobby 1. (The) ferry 2. Beetroot 3, His /A friend 4,24 5. Lemony) 6. Mint ‘Cinnamon 7. (Old) (mustard) jar 8. Pale / Orange 9. Grey / Rusty 10. (ir) (has) deteriorated / went/became/tumned green 11, His wife 12. Sympathetic TEST 12 Our correspondent reports Labscdb sc 6b 7.b,.82,9.b TEST 13 What's in a name? 1b2asd.c4£ 5b.6g, 7k, Bi Not used: d and j. TEST 14 Getting heard 1. (Proper) crossing 2. Housing benefits 3. Parking problems 4. Books 5, Closed / Closing 6. School 7. Open space /Park (area} 8, Not kept clean 59 MEGOLDASOK9. More trees (planted) 10. Better (children’s) playground 12, 10-12 12. Mondays 13. Town Hall / Mayor's parlour 14, (Official) (Mayor's) receipt TEST 15 Depicted as an ape TEST 16 Adventures in Wales 1. Fridge 2. Freezer 3. (Touching) Ice 4. Tap/ Sink 5. Upstairs / Upstairs and downstairs / Climbing upstairs 6 Car(s) 7. Road(s) &. (Swimming in / Bathing in / Seeing) (the) Sea / Beach 1-8. in any order TEST 17 Kids’ Gym music colour safe way 75,000 hundred {seated} bike at home hockey 2 swimming pool 12 2. good value DE SCeNaANeRON MEGOLDASOK 60TEST 18 Wild dentist (domest: (Au tvo in any order) electricity / compressed air / air-conditioning / stereo music take with you / prepare Never again! (totally) mobile need (for it) in the world confidence empathy (general) planning (Any three in any order) chimps, gorillas, (S erian) leopards, (Siberian) tigers, elephants TEST 19 When a dog is happy Alene Give Fexaneple 7 Fock (9 the feelingts) ing suarsinnunt 3 words in each box 2) eis 7 .vje| How does the animal Z| | | What causes the feeling(s)*] express its feeling(s)* &|/ 3 | 2s Zia | es] Dow Master cones home Kisses (Example) ¥ Pig y (A) smile / (A belly) rub / ay Pat on back Q) Elephant v Still born baby / She was silent Her baby died Being silent / Head hung down / Ears flopped forward Eyes cast down / Gaunt @) a) | face 6) Fish v Tickling © a Gorilla (Coco) |v |v |v With (her) toys / With (her) @) @) ao dolls (11) 61 MEGOLDASOKEclipse fever (The answers may vary but they should include the underlined parts.) Fani invites Peter via the e-mail, (Not via the phone) The message is in capital letters, /Not in lowercase nan answers Peter's call. (Not a woman) Peter travelled by airplane, (Not by coach) I's raining, / No sunshine. / Terrible weather Peter is lying in hed, (He didn’t get up.) Peter got up. (He isn’t sleeping.) One big cloud only. / No rain or lightning Wonderful weather. / The cloud went away. / The sky was blue Peter was struggling with the camera, (Not the mobile phone) Soe MEGOLDASOK 62TEST 11 A strange hobby ‘Tony Brown e-mailed Home Truths to tell of his strange and possibly environmentally reckless hobby. In a way though Tony's hobby found him rather than vice versa. So how did it all begin? ~ Well, me wife and I took a trip from Plymouth to Roscoff in Brittany and you know they... they put you over there for a couple of hours to do some shopping and just waiting for the ferry to come back | was looking at the soil and I thought: ‘Blimey, all the battles that have been fought over soil’ and then I picked some up and it smelt of beetroot, And I thought that’s nice and I just... I don’t know why I just put it in a plastic bag and put it in me pocket. And when I came back I was €-mailing a friend in Arizona... and he works for the Hopi Indians and he said I'll send you some soil, And that was just like the beginning of it. It just steamrolled ~ How many different soils do you havet ~ There's about twenty-four, I think, - Hmmm. ~ From various parts of the globe. - You mentioned the fact that the... the one from France smelt beetroot. ~ Yeah Do they all have different smells? - Yeah, Yeah, they do. It's weird. Morocco's leniony. Believe it or not. Portugal's is sort of mint and cinnamon. This is nice, = Don’t you think that it’s the case that if you'd taken a sample of soil from a couple of feet away, it would have been different? ~ Completely. I was amazed at the Sahara one. | thought, God, it smells just like mustard, Until | realized it was in an old mustard jar ~ Aah, that could be an explanation for it ~ And... and colourwise? Do they vary a great deal? ~ Oh, yeah, The hotter the climate that the soil comes from the paler... hmmm... like the Sahara is very... very powdery, pale, orange, Going to Greece which is really grey, rusty. And Portugal's is very terracotta ~ And the... the older onest Have they deteriorated at all? — Only the one from Morocco. It just went sort of green. -OK.... OK... And whereabouts do you keep all of the soil? — Just in jars. We've got a really long windowsill ~ And your wife? Does she take interest in your soil? ~ She wouldn't even go in the room. ~ And you have two stepchildren I understand ~ Yeah, John and Kathryn, — What do John and Kathryn think about your soil collection? ~ Kathryn.., she was the one who brought me stuff back from Portugal and Grand Canary. She's sort of sympathetic. | think it's a bit like giving sugar to the dog, Whereas John says things like ‘Get a life!’ Time: 2'30" 65 SZOVEGKONYVTEST 12 Our correspondent reports It’s eight o'clock on Friday, the twenty-third of April. BBC radio four news — The schools minister, David Milliband, is to announce a new scheme to help children who are exceptionally talented in music or dance. He'll say they could receive grants of up to three thousand pounds a year ~ intended to help youngsters similar to those portrayed in the film, Billy Elliot. Here's our education correspondent, Mike Baker. The new grants will pay for exceptionally talented musicians and dancers aged between eight and sixteen to attend specialist-training centres in England. To qualify, children must be attending a state school, must past auditions and have an approved learning plan. The grants will fund dance and music classes outside normal school hours. The schools’ minister, David Milliband, said the grants would help youngsters who currently have to leave their hometown to attend specialist training centres, In future, he said, they could benefit from excellent training but still go to their local schoo! — More than thirty scientists and several giant tortoises are being held hostage by a group of wer men in the Galapagos Islands. Here's our environment correspondent Tim Hirsh — Around a hundred fishermen have surrounded the Charles Darwin Research Station on the island of Santa Cruz and they’te refusing to allow any food or supplies into the compound. Inside are thirty- three people, mainly scientists, and a colony of rare Galapagos giant tortoises. The local fishermen are demanding to be allowed to fish for sharks using long lines, which conservation groups say would damage the unique eco-system of the Pacific Islands. They also want large cruise ships to be allowed to dock on the islands fis James Green, who is eighteen, was stopped by police in a forty mile an hour zone near Dudley in the West-Midlands last July. John Braine reports from Halesowen Magistrates Court. —James Green was just one of several dozen motorists caught speeding on the same road near Dudley during a week-long operation by West-Midiands police. Green, who'd borrowed his father's high-powered Volkswagen Golf was recorded doing a hundred and sixteen miles an hour, speeding at nearly three times the road’s forty miles an hour limit. Passing sentence, the chairman of the magistrates, Brian Slade told Green he put other road users and pedestrians at serious risk. And the only way to deal with him was to send him to a young offenders’ institution. West-Midlands police welcomed the sentence saying the teenager's behaviour could have had catastrophic results Time: 2°30) TEST 13 What’s in a name? — Of the first of the list of the most popular names came out this week. Jack and Chloe were the top choices and Jack has been up there for the past eight years and Chloe for six. Julia, there are certain names that have very strong associations with a certain age. Will they ever come back into fashion, do you think? ~ Well, I think they quite possibly will. Now, if like me you were born in the middle of the last century, names like Alf, Sid, Bert, Stan represent sort of elderly men in cloth caps and probably in ancient tweeds reeking of pipe smoke. And you'd never ever think of using them, But when they were given in the nineteenth century they were wildly romantic names. Alfted, after Alfred the Great Albert after queen Victoria's husband, Stanley after the great explorer. But people having children now, people in their late twenties, early thirties have grown up after people called Alf stopped being their embarrassing, elderly uncles. Um... This year one of the names that's risen is Alf. How much are we influenced by celebrity names? SZOVEGKONYV 66—I think there's some influence. For instance Chardonnay, which became quite well-used for a new name last year after it had exposure for Footballers’ Wives. But what happened there was the writers were tuned into the mood of the present age and then that can boost the name because it’s already a potential popular name = Sophie, how do you choose your names for your characters? What for instance works for a romantic hero? ~ Well. a romantic hero really has to sound pretty powerful. | think that single syllable names sound more powerful than dual ones. Rhett is a hero and Roger alas is not. The name for a romantic hero which [ think is fascinating is Nick, Nicholas, which... very popular. And my personal theory is that this is because of the connotations with the devil, So he has this strength of power and mystery. ~ And the romantic heroine? — A romantic heroine also needs to sound right but she is also known... she needs to sound familiar as well because you have to have the readership liking her. And that changes | think much more with fashion. If you think of the Jilly Cooper novels that she wrote in the sixties that... which were actually titled by the heroines’ names. They were called things like Imogen and Harriet, which were very much of their time and indeed of their class. But if I were writing a novel I would quite likely call avery urban, a really metropolitan hip git! would be Kat. She'd be cool, she'd be a died blond, a free spirit, But I don’t know how common that is to other people. That's how I would write about them, Time: 3°20" TEST 14 Getting heard Hmmm, | always hold an opportunity to be in town hall for people in the community to present petitions to me. Because the way the system works in the council, they don’t have necessarily very many opportunities to air a grievance by actually collecting signatures and saying we don't like this particular issue or we dont't like that particular thing that’s happening or there has been fots of accidents on this particular road and we need a crossing, a proper official crossing, please can you do something about it? Other petitions would be perhaps people are having a lot of problems with their housing benefit perhaps. And it’s causing so much distress in that particular location, at that particular community that they need... they feel that they have asked all the right questions but aren’t getting anywhere so they want to make their voice known, So they will collect signatures and the more signatures they collect obviously it gives more weight to their problem, It could be a parking problem. There might be a street that... the people who live in it can never ever park their cars because people who work in the city, driving from outside London, park their cars an their street and leave them there all day and they drive home in the evening. But during the day the people who live there can’t find a parking space so again they will collect signatures, It might be an issue to... with a library. That perhaps they don't have the sort of books that the library... or perhaps the library is being possibly closed. So therefore they want to make their voice known It could be perhaps a problem in a particular school. Hither a lot of vandalism is taking place by pupils from that school... and they want something done about it, So they will collect again signatures. Tt could be an open space, a park area, That's perhaps... they feel is ... been very much neglected isn’t being kept clean properly or they feel there should be things that are made better in the park More trees perhaps should be planted. Or there should be a better children’s playground. So to make their voice heard, they would write as many signatures or collect as many signatures as they can from the community and present those to me, now the mayor. So 1 always make myself available between ten and twelve on Mondays, every Monday except a public holiday, Monday, to be in the town hall, in the mayor's parlour. So if there are people who wish to bring such petitions to me can do so and meet me in person and | meet them in the mayor's parlour, 67 SZOVEGKONYVtalk to them about it, give them a receipt for it, so that they have an official mayor's receipt and promise that they will receive an answer within four weeks. So that’s the sort of thing that happens on Mondays. Time: 240) TEST 15 Depicted as an ape ~ In half an hour Martin Jarvis will be reading another of the paradoxes of Mr Pond written by G. K Chesterton after more riddles of the past have been untangled in Making History with Sue Cook —Hello again, But we'll start with the origins of life itself and Charles Darwin, the man who revolutionised our thinking about how we all began. After five years at sea as a young naturalist with a British scientific expedition, Darwin returned to London to work through all the research notes he'd gathered and from which over the next twenty or thirty years his theories of evolution gradually grew Theories which didn’t really see the light of day until he was fifty. I'm joined now by the Darwin scholar, professor Janet Browne. The second volume of her biography of Darwin: ‘Charles Darwin The Power of Place’ is just out and it deals with that later part of his life when his ideas were in the public arena, So Professor Browne, what was the general attitude to the man and his work? — Behind that great big Victorian beard there really was a very good, decent man. He was a pillar of the local community. And he wasn’t at all a fiery radical and so when he put forward these ideas the community responded to him as an expert, they responded to him as to somebody they trusted. Of course there were lots of rather vicious cartoons in the press, there were people who did criticise but in the end his social status and his evident wish to discover the truth helped that theory to become accepted. You mentioned cartoons. He was depicted as an ape or being accompanied by an ape or a monkey or an orang-utang on several occasions in magazines like ‘Punch’, Did he take that kind of thing personally himself —No, he loved it. That's one of the delightful things about being able to work on Darwin. He surprises us at every turn, He collected all those cartcons and he showed them to friends, he had several framed and hung on the walls of his house and found them amusing ~ And he didn’t seem to seek the limelight from what I’ve read about him, —He liked very much to be in his house surrounded by his family, pottering around his garden, doing some research in the grounds of his quite substantial estate. He wasn’t a public man in that way. He had lots of friends who did the public side of the work for him, = He seemed to be quite non-confrontational about it, He ducks really any conflict with the church, didn’t he? —He never wanted to directly attack Christianity. If you read “The Origin of Species’ there's nothing in there that directly attacks faith or believers or the idea of the existence of God or the accuracy of the Bible. He just doesn't speak about that. ~ Because his wife, Emma was a very devout Christian, wasn't she? — Yes, his wife was a... simply wonderful woman and like many Victorians, a very good and devout believer. And there’s some terribly tender letters written by her saying to him that the views that he was putting forward would mean that on the day of judgement he simply wouldn't go to heaven and that they wouldn’t meet in the afterlife and she was anxious about the state of his soul, But I don’t think ever tried to push her own views on him, as a good wife shouldn't — Professor Janet Browne, thanks very much indeed Time: 3°20 SZOVEGKONYV 68TEST 16 Adventures in Wales ~ It’s a very long way indeed from a tent in a refugee camp in the Sahara to a modern British town like Borth, Janet Davis who has the job of keeping these youngsters safe far from home and in a very alien environment says every day brings new hazards and adventures. ~ l remember their first contact with a fridge and their first contact with a freezer. And there was a 10-year old boy there and he was going up to the freezer and opening the door and touching the ice and jumping back you know. And then the little girl managed to switch the tap on the sink but she couldn't get it off again so she stuck a thumb up and it went everywhere. And I hadn't realized that they don’t have upstairs and downstairs and for some of them climbing up the stairs was a big thing. And I had to teach them about the cats and the road. That's been a real problem just stopping them from running out into the road - Janet Davis’ family in Borth is one of thousands all over Europe where they've thrown open their doors and their kitchens to accommodate the visitors ~ We're having lunch now. And they're having some chicken ‘cause they love chicken, And then we're having fruit. melon and bananas. They've eaten all the bananas in Borth already. = (Child tn background) Bananas ~ Yeah, bananas Every summer thousands of Saharaee refugee children ate brought to Europe to get a break from growing up in hot, dusty camps in Algeria, And as Carolyn Swinburn now reports, this year a few of them got their first ever glimpse of the sea in the small Welsh town of Borth ~Bashir's homeland, the disputed territory, Western Sahara, has over a thousand kilometres of coastline and many fine beaches. But like all the children here nine-year old Bashir has spent his whole life many miles in land in the refugee camps. Over the past twenty-six years camp residents have built up an impressive administrative structure with excellent education standards but living conditions are dite Time: 2°10" TEST 17 Kids’ Gym =It looks and sounds like any other gym but if you take a closer look in the small room in the Dukeries Leisure Centre, you realize it wasn’t built with adults in mind ~ What we are trying to create is something that will appeal to a teenager. ~ Kirin Musphy is from the company Shock ~ The gym has aspects to it in terms of music, in terms of lighting, in terms of visual effects and colours that appeal to what a teenager wants to do. They sense you want to aspire to be adults as we all remember we all wanted to be grown-up before our time but it does that. It creates that environment but in a safe way (Gear background noise) The leisure centre is owned and run by Newark and Sherwood District Council. It spent around seventy-five thousand pounds getting the room refurbished and employing Shock to help with the equipment, training and marketing. June Rollins is the council's spokesperson ~I understand there is something like a couple of hundred children who either started their inductions or waiting to start and I'm sure that as word spreads there will be more... more and more children coming to have a go ~My name is Alex Davies, I'm eleven years old and I'm siding the seated bike. My mum encouraged me to come and I came by myself ~ Alex's mum, Sally uses the leisure centre's adult gym. She used to leave her son at home, now she’s bringing him along for a workout of his own, 69 SZOVEGKONYV— Alex comes up here whenever he wants now and it really is... It’s great for them, He gets some out-of-the house, he gets some sort of join-in with other kids and there is a special programme for him, for his hockey. So it's really everything he needs at the moment - [t costs two pounds a time to use the youth gym in New Allerton, or you can pay a monthly fee of fifteen pounds for unlimited access which includes entry to the swimming pool. June Rollins believes it’s a bargain. Annual membership costs twelve pounds a month ~ was talking to somebody earlier who was telling me that his children had paid four pounds for a swimming session elsewhere in the county, So to be able to come along here for that kind of price and get that kind of facilities that we offer is extremely good value, I'm sure. (Gum backgroud noise) Time: 220 TEST 18 Wild dentist didn’t decide. They decided it for me. A vet phoned me up in nineteen seventy-eight I think, And he said... I didn't know him and he didn’t know me but he’s got a problem and he goes past my surgery every day and would | be so kind and help him out with a domestic cat. And so | went along on a Saturday morning, sorted the problem out, it was very hard work because here it’s very easy. You just come in, you turn oa the electricity on and the compressed air and you're awry. It's very comfortable, air conditioning, stereo music. But when you go outside the premises you have to plan ahead. You've got to know what you have to take with you and everything has to be prepared. You have to be prepared for all eventualities. So it was very very hard work physically and mentally and I said that's it, never again, So a few months later my cat broke a tooth. And I said to the vet: ‘Bruce, what're you going to do about it!’ He said: ‘Nothing. You gonna do it.’ So | went back again and | decided that either I'm not gonna do it again or I'm going to equip properly to be totally mobile just for the animals, And... Or I'm gonna stop doing this because it's really too ridiculous to do it like this Well, I decided that there was a real need for it, and I equipped, and if I do something that... well | usually used to do it to the very best of my abilities and it’s very nice to be able to sit back and say now that we're better equipped for doing this than anybody else in the world. And that's a great comf... comfort and gives a lot of confidence when you're in the middle of nowhere and you have to deal with problems which are enormous. It changed my life totally. Totally. And I think... I think an average dentist, there’s no reason why an average dentist can't be trained but he has to have empathy with the animals. | think that is the most important. Just being able to have the basic... Being a good dentist is not enough. They have to be an obsessive person to be able to work towards perfection, You never achieve perfection. Perfection is instrumentation, equipment, just the general planning. No, even when we travel we have pages of instruments. a list of it to double. check. And you have duplicates of instruments, if something breaks down when we're away from here, we can still cary on working. It’s very important. Well, we've been all... certainly all around Europe and we've treated chimps, gorillas, ... extractions, root fillings.... Siberian leopards, the rarest carnivores in the world. For example we worked on a couple of Siberian tigers, which had problems, one or two elephants with broken tusks... So that’s the sort of spread that we have Time: 2'55" ‘SZOVEGKONYV 70TEST 19 When a dog is happy When a dog is happy, you come home and the dog greets you with an immediacy of feeling that nobody can match .... Not even your most beloved friend is... gonna greet you five minutes after you've left with yeah you're back.... You're at home and I'm so happy... And kiss you ail over your face Pigs are the happiest animals that I have ever seen... 2 smile, a pat on the back or a belly sub will please a pig, They are very happy animals | found a young elephant mother standing over a... a still-born baby... She stood with that baby for three days... and during those three days she was very silent, Her head hung down... her ears flopped forward... her eyes were cast down... her face looked very gaunt... And these were very similar to the expression on a human face... OK, elephants have got very different sort of faces but it was quite easy for me to interpret what she was feeling as... some sort of grief The sea is not full of cold fish at all. They're out there... there... having a datn good time... They get tickling during the day... They have a lot of pleasure. Coco is able to tell us when she is unhappy with us.,. and she does that regularly... The other things that she can talk about is... being sad ... or being happy... how she feels... where it hurts. Coco has taken toys, most recently an alligator toy and a doll that looks a whole lot like me... She does think about her circumstance... about the behaviours of others... how she would like it to be and can actually work out those feelings with her toys and her dolls Time: 1°50” TEST 20 Eclipse fever This summer the whole country had eclipse Fever. And I was visiting Greenwich and reading very old books about astronomy. And the library had a little thing on the eclipse and it showed the path of the eclipse across Europe and to Hungary. And I was e-mailing Fani, who is my Hungarian friend, about you know going to see the eclipse But I wasn't sure because it was a long way away and I had all these other things to do. And Fani kept e-mailing me back saying: ‘Come and see the eclipse. Come and see the eclipse,’ And then one day } was thinking it’s too far to go. And one day I told her off for e-mailing me all in capital letters. | said this is very rude in e-mail, because it’s counted as... it's not netiquette, It’s counted as shouting if you send an e-mail in capital letters. And she sent me an e-mail back in capital letters saying: ‘You must come to Hungary and see the eclipse! It’s once in a lifetime experience! In Hungary we always have beautiful weather at this time of the year!” So this was like the Saturday before the eclipse on the Wednesday. So the next day I thought: ‘OK Fl go. This is it.’ So I thought I'll find out when the travel agents are open on Monday and I'll get their messages on their answering machines, So I phoned round all the travel agents and started to write down the times when they are open. And then I got — I think it was Hungarian Air Tours ~ a voice... a man answered and said: ‘Hello.’ And | told him I wanted to book a flight, And he said he was just in the office doing administrative work they had so much because of the eclipse. And | got the last ticket on the plane the next day to Hungary. The very next day. So off 1 went to Hungary And went down with Fani to watch the eclipse in Szegvar Unfortunately I went with a sore throat which developed into proper flu. So on the morning of the eclipse there I was, down in this little village, Szegvér, with Rita and Fani and the family and Rita's family and all the pigs and the chickens and the whole farmyard outside. But... there | was lying in a SZOVEGKONYVbed, eight o’clock in the morning, feeling terrible. With the flu. It was thundering, it was raining, it was like: ‘Why am I here?’ It was quite clearly going to be a complete washout ‘Anyway, suddenly about ten o'clock, the clouds went away, the thunder stopped and the sun came ut. So I got up. ‘Ahaa! The eclipse, the eclipse!” And then about an hour before the eclipse this huge cloud came over, so again no eclipse. Then five minutes before the full eclipse was going to occur, the cloud went away and it was wonderful. It suddenly got dark and we saw this... The sky which had been blue a few minutes earlier was completely black and there was the moon with this bnght crystals like diamonds around it Something which you couldn't possibly photograph at the same time because the brightness is so

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