Wal se, Sorry tobe eificut e's just that m really busy ths week and can't make i up t0 the choo fr the level test, IM: That's going to bea problem. I'm not sure what we ean do about that, Wid realy appreciate your help. IM: Hmm ... You couldn't come in on Thursday evening, could you? WN, I'm afraid not. But tll you what. could come in on Saturday to do the level M: The problem is that's leaving it very late and we might have other applicants Wit be realy grateful if you could hold a place for me til Saturday morning M:Can you hold on a minute? Ilust see (OK, we can do that. Well provisionally transfor the course fee over a8 a deposi. W:That’s great. Oh ve got one more question if 'm not keeping you M: No, go ahead Wal | don't get into this group, dol lose my course fee? IM: I'm afraid we can't refund the depose, but you could apply it to another course W:That’sa rif. Would you mind putting that in an email for me? M: Certainly. WGAnd could you tell me when the schoo} ‘opens on Saturday? W.We're open from nine. I won't be here myself, but toll my colleague to expect you. >M: Thank you very much for your help You're welcome, Thank you forcing. TON Recording 11 W=Woman M= Man M: Wall, ve had some very embarrassing experiences in my life but one of the worst was my very first day at work. Iwas a trainee Solicitor in a fem and thare were fourteen of us trainees there, and everyone was on their best behaviour Everyone was dressed nicely andthe guys had polished their shoes and done ther hair you know wanting 0 make a good frst impression and W-Yeah, {know what you mean, How old were you! IM: Only ewentythre,s0 | was one of the youngest inthe group. Anyway. it started as 2 typical rst day you know abi ke the fst ay at school — everyone's not quite being themselves but. you know trying their hardest and you go and get your eup of tea or coffee and you ty not to split or drop your bscit on the floor. wiveah IM: And | remember | was feeling kind of kind of nervous, maybe a tiny bit shy and then having to pretend to be confident as if to Say, you ko," very professional’ I spent the whole ime looking st the others and wondering how experienced they were and ‘Wil know the feeling. MM: and then I had to go to my desk and walt for some work tobe glen to me and it was a quiet deparement so I was waiting and ‘waiting and my shoes were new and were hurting sa | kicked them off under the table and then another hour went by, and by this tie I as feeling abi panicky because | didn'thave anything to do. hoped someane would give ‘me some proper work to do. Then the head partner rang me up and told me to come to his office because he'd got some work for me s0 grabbed my pen and pad and | went racing round there, And 2 walked into his ofce, he looked me up and down and saw that | wasn't wearing any shoes. must have seemed Fidiculousy casual, It was so embarrassing! Thankfully there were no holes in my socks because they were new, t00. So lust spent the whole eme in his office thinking ‘are you gonna say anything are you gonna tll off” W:Did he say anything? M: Jus before he sent me away he stopped ime and he wanted to know why | éidnt have ny shoes on, and I didn't have a good answer for that |just said | wanted to feel more comfortable. | thought -'m never going to fit in at this lw firm, W:And how did he react? IM: He sled so I think he choughe it was prety funny, but ever since then I've always made sure | keep my shoes on! INEM Recording | Conversation 1 ‘A:How long have you been working here? B:I've been here for over ten months now. Conversation 2 ‘AcHow many chocolates have you eaten? Bil've only had three! Conversation 3 ‘A:What have you been doing? Youre filthy! Bil've been running. UNTEA Recording 3 S1= Speaker | S2 = Speaker 253 = S4 = Speaker 455 = Speaker 5 Sl realy ean’ se the problem, The fisting Tid when all began was ied to fd my house on the website but they hadn't brourhe the camera van down our road yt. 20 was quite appointed. For me, W's great because itmean can go and look a hing like hotels cor even cites before |g0 on holiday. and Snyay# someone wanted 0 look at my house they could se dive ast or walk past 150 I can't see the problem. Stilt’ obvious, st mean, they're nothing to do with safety, They're jst wed by the government to make money | mean, lok at the statics. nthe ast yer, my area four Cameras have ben laced along one stretch of road, and you know what, the number of Sceidents has doubled, So they obviously dont ‘work a deterrent nd now your car number plate canbe logge so that they can keop track Of you wherever you go. |hate =I hate beng watched he that's st another example of bursurvllance society Speaker 3 AS $3: The way seit it's an invasion of privacy. Iemeans whenever | go tothe supermarket, i's recorded on a chip somewhere and they an find out exactly what I've Bought. Why should people have the right t know what kind of food | eat! Or get my details and then send ‘me junk mal I certainly don’t want ro be sent Adverts from companies | don't know. And this just the star. | expect next thing you lenow. the technology will be ured to tell ue what we can and can't eat. ‘A: Me, Im gad they're there. A few months ago | was robbed by two men ata bus stop ‘ot far from where | live but thanks to CCTY, the people who dit were all arrested, It was bad experience but at least they didn't get away with t And yu see tin the news all the time - that more crimes are being solved because of CCTV cameras | thin we should have more of them, Most people are la abiding anyway so they've got no need to worry. 5:1 actualy think t's an importane development. There was a case recently, where there was this big demonstration and lots of people took photos ane these ‘were sent tothe media, So it means that demonstrators andthe police — everyone —has t0.be more careful because ther photos might be sent to the newspapers or posted onine. So in general, yeah, fee! t's a good thing UNE Recording 5 Conversation 1 ‘A:Do you thnk you would ever have cosmetic surgery? B:Me! Nol don't think so 'm relly against t actually, | thin AcReally why? Ble can be quite dangerous ~ some of the implants you can have, um ~ [A:Yeah, | know what you mean B: Take the caze of Mike's grtriend — she sctully had some Botox injections in har forehead, AxDid she? B: Yeah, and she couldn’. you know she couldn't — ‘A:Coulda't move her face? B: Yeah, she couldn’ sie or frown — her face was ust frozen solid ‘Although if someone’ really, really ‘overweight and it becomes a health problem, {do you think maybe then they should have some kind of surgery, you know, such as lpotuction to get rid of at? B:Oh I see, for health reasons maybe, yes suppose so, I mean you've got point there, but sil don ike the sound of it. | wouldn't do tmysel. {cl might, fe was to do with my heath Conversation 2 ‘A:Do you ever download music fr free? 8B: You mean illegally? No, | think '™m probably ‘one of the few people that don't doit. I've sway paid whether it's the track price or the album price.