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Practice Pack, Unit 01, exercise 02 (À 34)Announcer: Listen to a conversation about Mark’s

sister, who has a new Facebook friend.Greg: What’s up, mate? You look upset.Mark: Hmm, actually, I am, you know. I’m worried

about my little sister.Greg: Why, is she being a pest?Mark: No, far from it. She’s my favourite sister and all

that. She always puts some lucky charms into my sports bag when I go off to competitions.

Greg: She’s fallen in love with somebody totally unsuitable?

Mark: Oh, come on, she’s twelve! No, she’s met this other girl on Facebook and they’ve been, you know, exchanging likes and messages and chatting for a while, and she’s so excited because she says they share, like, everything – you name it, they share it, or rather, she names it, and the other girl says, “Yes, yes, I’m interested in that band too,” and so on.

Greg: Yeah, I think I get you.Mark: Yeah, it’s really weird. Could be coincidence,

though, couldn’t it? I mean, Oliver met his mate Farid through the internet, so why not Kim? She’s been a bit lonely ever since her best friend from primary school moved away, so it would be great for her to make new friends. Only, there’s a lot of perverts on the net too, and it might be somebody who’s interested in something other than being her friend.

Greg: Don’t you have that friend at school who’s a computer wiz? Maybe he can try to track this person’s profile?

Mark: Dan? Yeah, that’s an idea. I could ask if he can do something. But still, I think they’ve already arranged to meet!

Greg: Well, then why don’t you play the responsible brother and come along? She could even tell the other person that you’re going to come with her, and if there’s no answer after that, then it’s clear it wasn’t somebody who was going to be her next best friend.

Mark: Yeah, that’s what I was thinking as well. I guess it’s going to be a real disappointment if we’re right in thinking that this person is a fake. … Oh, by the way, I really like that highlining video you posted last week. What a big thrill!

Practice Pack, Unit 02, exercise 05 (À 35)Announcer: Listen to part of the conversation on the

art homework again.Mark: I think I’m going to disagree. I mean, art can be

anything. What about music? Isn’t that also a kind of art? You know, Mozart and stuff like that.

Hannah: Well, I see what you mean, but just think of what we are doing in art in school. Do we listen to music? No, we don’t. Come on, we’re only talking about these paintings or drawings from the Tate and so on.

Mark: OK, I see your point. But still, I think music is art too. Anyway, if you go and listen to a concert or a recording, or download an album, what would that be for you? What would you call that?

Lizzie: Well, for me it would be music, as simple as that. But like Hannah said, it’s not art. Art is something you can see, I mean, really see. I think we’re only supposed to discuss visual art.

Dan: Sure. What you see. Fine. So what do you think of street art, then? This is something you can actually see, street art, I mean. What about that? Is it art? Would you allow it? You know what I mean? Help me out with some arguments, please.

Practice Pack, Unit 03, exercise 02 (À 36)Announcer: Listen to Mark talking about what

happened when he picked up his wushu kit.Mark: So the next morning, at 9 a.m. sharp, I was

there to pick up my kit, and yes, they had managed to mend the tear! But when I wanted to pay, I discovered that I’d left my wallet in my hostel right across town – and there was no time to go and get it because the event was starting at ten.

Hannah: Oh dear, what did you do then? That must have been really stressy just before the competition.

Mark: Well, I tried to explain the situation as best as I could, you know, that the competition was starting in an hour, and that I had forgotten my wallet in a hostel a 35-minutes’ bus ride away … Could I come in the evening when everything was over and pay? Or could I maybe send them the money or pay with bank transfer? And I started to give them my personal details and offered my watch and stuff, when the manager just waved me off and told me to come back in the evening.

Lizzie: Big relief, I guess.Mark: Big relief, off I go, do the competition and

everything in my lucky kit … and when I get to where my stuff is, there’s a little basket with shower gel, my bill with “amount paid” stamped across it, a 10-pound voucher and a card saying, “Congratulations, Mr Wu, we wish you all the best for your sports career.” Now isn’t that great?

Hannah: Gosh! Maybe you can get them to become your regular sponsors ...

Practice Pack, Unit 05, exercise 09 (À 37)Announcer: Listen to a podcast about plastic and

pollution.Richard: So for this week’s podcastsinenglish.com

we’re looking at the pros and cons of plastic and wonder where its future lies.

Jackie: Well, plastic. It’s pretty amazing, isn’t it, Richard? I think it would be safe to say that it would be impossible to live in a plastic-free life?

Richard: It certainly is at the moment because if we look around us now, almost everything is made of plastic, isn’t it?

Jackie: Well, obviously the computer and the printer …

Richard: The microphone we’re using um …Jackie: Or, er, the box that the microphone comes in is

a polystyrene box.Richard: Yes. Mobile phones, pens loads of things.Jackie: Yes. Now those in favour of plastic cite the fact

that because it’s so much lighter, products using plastic use less energy in transportation.

Richard: That makes sense.

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CCTV cameras, and there’s a $100 fine for anyone who tries to get any closer.

Announcer: Situation three.Tourist: It was absolutely awesome. You go on this

train that takes you all round the studios. The one where they do the special effects was amazing. First it was like we were in a burning factory and then there was the earthquake – I nearly fell out of the train – and then there was this tank of sharks – we were all screaming even though we knew they weren’t real. It would have been nice to see some scenes from a movie actually being filmed, but I guess that wasn’t possible. Anyway, everything else was so fantastic, I didn’t mind.

Announcer: Situation four.Tourist: Could you tell me about the Hollywood Bowl?

Didn’t the Beatles once play there?Info officer: That’s right, ma’am, back in the 1960s.

It’s an open-air auditorium. Now the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra give concerts there through the summer. It’s a great setting.

Tourist: Classical music’s not really my scene.Info officer: The concerts are fun and you can take a

picnic to eat in the grounds beforehand. Or if you’d just like to have a look at the venue, just show up any time before noon Monday through Thursday when they’re practising and you can get in for free.

Tourist: I guess I’ll do that, thanks for the information!Info officer: You’re welcome, ma’am!

Announcer: Situation five.Tourist: I wasn’t looking forward to driving on the

right in the States. I was expecting it to be really difficult, but it’s not – you just follow everyone else – I didn’t have to tie a ribbon on my right wrist to remind myself or anything like that. One thing that did seem strange at first was being able to turn right when the traffic lights are red if there isn’t anything coming the other way. I couldn’t understand why the cars behind were getting so impatient. But I think it’s a great idea and it keeps the traffic moving!

Practice Pack, Unit 06, exercise 06 (À 39)Announcer: Listen to a podcast about the film Jaws.Richard: For this week’s podcastsinenglish.com we’re

talking about one of Hollywood’s most frightening films.

Jackie: Yeah, the summer of 1975 saw the release of Jaws, the terrifying motion picture.

Richard: Yes, goodness, 40 years ago this month and still scary to watch.

Jackie: Yeah, interesting, Richard, it was directed by Steven Spielberg, and he’s always said he’s been afraid of the water.

Richard: Mmm, based on the book by Peter Benchley. Good book.

Jackie: Have you read it?Richard: Yes, yes, and The Deep, another one of his

books.Jackie: OK, and it stars Roy Schneider, Richard

Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw. What’s it about Richard?

Jackie: Yes. So, take Coca-Cola for an example, it is estimated that their production of single-use bottles for their drink is more than 110 billion bottles each year.

Richard: Wow. I suppose it’s better than tin cans. Jackie: But of course if they were glass, then obviously

they would use a lot more fuel to transport them.Richard: And then energy to make them, yes, and

they’d last a lot longer. But it’s also argued that of course plastic keeps food fresher for longer, so that can be said to prevent waste, you know, all supermarkets, they want to extend the shelf life of their fresh, fresh produce.

Jackie: So what’s the problem, Richard?Richard: Well, in a word, pollution. There’s waste

plastic everywhere and it’s a growing concern especially about marine pollution. And increasing evidence that plastic is finding its way into the food chain, especially fish and therefore also humans.

Jackie: In the US over 94% of tap water sampled, now listen to this, contained plastic fibres. And microplastics are found in a third of fish caught in the UK.

Richard: Mmm, yeah, that’s not to mention those heart-breaking images of turtles strangled by plastic ropes or sea birds choking on plastic bags. It’s just awful.

Jackie: So, what’s the solution? I mean, it’s not to ban plastic, Richard, that’s not going to happen.

Richard: No, it isn’t. I think we need to educate people more. Well Coca-Cola, for instance, say that in the UK, all of their bottles and cans are 100% recyclable and have been since 2012. But the problem is people don’t recycle them, do they?

Jackie: Yeah … that’s, that’s the thing. Most of them are simply thrown away and then end up in land fill or in the sea.

Practice Pack, Unit 06, exercise 05 (À 38)Announcer: Listen to some people talking about

Hollywood in five different situations. … Situation one.

Man: What was Hollywood like? Did you see Brad Pitt while you were walking along the boulevard?

Woman: Afraid not – I don’t think many stars would want to be seen walking around there nowadays. It’s rather run down – homeless people sleeping rough, cheap souvenir shops, graffiti, that sort of thing. But there’s still a sort of atmosphere of faded glamour. I think it might feel a bit threatening at night, but during the day it was fine. You can imagine what it must have been like in its heyday last century.

Announcer: Situation two.Tour guide: Now, up on your right, folks, you’ll see

the famous Hollywood sign. It was put up in 1923 to advertise real estate at the foot of the hills here and it read ‘Hollywoodland’. The ‘land’ part was removed in 1949, and that’s how it became the world-wide symbol of the entertainment industry we know today. We’ll stop here for five minutes to let you take photos – I’m afraid we can’t take you any nearer to it – the whole area is protected by

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money?Lizzie: I do? Dan: Yes, you do, I’ve noticed as well. He’ll only buy

something to drink and get wasted. Lizzie: It was only 50p, he can’t do much with that. Emily: But still? Lizzie: All right, but I don’t want this story to be

spread, OK? I don’t mind telling you, but you won’t make it go viral, promise?

Emily, Dan: OK, promise … Won’t say a word … Lizzie: Right, so, a while ago, I was in town with Pam,

my stepmother, you know her …Emily, Dan: Yeah … Sort of … Uhu …Lizzie: … and she gave the tramp in front of

Waterstones two pounds. So I asked, like you did just now, why? And she wouldn’t answer, just kind of closed up, and kept on walking. And then later, we had some coffee, and she told me that she has a kid brother, just two years younger than her, who’s got borderline syndrome and kind of dropped out of – I don’t know – life and work and everything about 10 years ago and is living on the streets somewhere.

Emily: Gosh, wow, that must be hard …Lizzie: You bet. They don’t really know where he is,

but he sends postcards occasionally, you know, freebies from shops or restaurants, so they know he’s still alive and roughing it. He was her favourite brother, and she said he was a really sweet kid, but somehow couldn’t cope with adult life. She had tears in her eyes when she told me.

Emily: Oh dear, poor Pam.Dan: So that’s the reason why she gave that tramp the

money? Lizzie: Yeah, she said it was like giving it to her

brother, I mean, giving it to somebody and hoping that somebody else would be doing the same for her brother. So I, I mean, I’m earning quite a bit now with my Saturday job at the pet shop, and I really like Pam, so I’m doing the same. Sounds stupid, I know.

Emily: Oh, Lizzie, you’re so sweet.

Practice Pack, Unit 09, exercise 04 (À 41)Announcer: Listen to part of the FM4 interview with

Benjamin BarberBarber: Right now, the problem is, a lot of people in

the city they vote in ways that have nothing to do with their residence and citizenship in the cities. But of course, we can have national governments that are progressive or liberal. All we have to do is have the majority of citizens who vote and live in cities vote for them. It’s not like it’s a tiny minority, the question is the opposite. How does 20% of the American population, old, white, rural Republican men, control a country which is a majority people of color and young people and so on. That’s not because democracy is working, it’s because democracy is not working. So, I don’t think it’s unrealistic, I think what’s unrealistic is how we live in a world controlled by the countryside when the city is in the majority. How we live in a world controlled by monoculture when the world is

Richard: Yes. It’s about a killer shark that started to attack people just as the holiday season was starting. I think it was along the coast of California.

Jackie: And the film had this tagline, “See it before you go swimming.”

Richard: And I think actually it stopped a lot of people from going into the water.

Jackie: So, Richard, you’ve read the book and you’ve seen the film. What … what is it about the film Jaws that makes it work?

Richard: There are two major things with the film.Jackie: Right.Richard: The first thing is the haunting music, “Dum,

dum, dum, dum …” Very, very famous, and of course the second thing is you don’t actually see the shark. A lot of the … the scenes are from the eyes of the shark. You don’t see the shark.

Jackie: So what you don’t see is more frightening than what you do because your imagination is stronger, isn’t it?

Richard: It is. Definitely.Jackie: Now both of those things, Richard, are down

to Bruce.Richard: Bruce?! I’ve never heard of a Bruce with

Jaws.Jackie: When they were making the film, the idea

was they would have a full-sized shark in the scenes. So they made three sharks, full size, right? Pneumatically animated models.

Richard: So three model sharks.Jackie: And each of them was called Bruce. And they

had to make three because every single time they always failed to work in the water.

Richard: Oh God, so they couldn’t use them then?Jackie: So at the end they had to film it without a

shark …Richard: Ah, right, and to fill in the moments where

you don’t actually see anything, they needed the music to create the atmosphere.

Jackie: Exactly. So comp-, the composer, John Williams, came up with that wonderful two-note beat which just sends, I don’t know, shivers down my spine.

Richard: Yes.Jackie: Now interestingly, Spielberg has said that if

the shark, if the model shark, if Bruce had been working, he doesn’t think the film would have made nearly so much money or have been nearly so frightening.

Richard: Yes, I definitely agree with that. And in fact the only time you see the shark I think is when it attacks the boat, and it doesn’t look very real, to be honest.

Practice Pack, Unit 07, exercise 04 (À 40)Announcer: You are going to listen to a conversation

between Lizzie, Emily and Dan.Lizzie: Here you are.Homeless man: Thank you, love.Emily: Lizzie? Lizzie: Hmmm? Emily: Why do you always give any tramp or beggar

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very good. I send money home to my family every month. I want to stay here two more years. Then I have money enough to buy a small farm in Brazil.

Practice Pack, Unit 12, exercise 04 (À 43)Announcer: Listen to six people from different

countries giving their opinion about globalisation. Dawn.

Dawn: I think if you’re made of money and have your own private jets and yachts, then yes, the world is a global village. Maybe a ‘global playground’ would be a better expression. For the rest of us who can afford to travel once a year if we’re lucky it’s still a pretty big place.

Announcer: Sally.Sally: It’s funny. I mean all this technology was

making the world so much smaller and then suddenly we get all the terrorism, and suddenly every country wants to close its borders and we’re back to all living in our private protected homes. There will come a day when you won’t be able to get into the US for love or money.

Announcer: David.David: I think for multinationals the world is tiny.

They don’t think twice about putting in loads of money to exploit natural resources, and it doesn’t matter where in the world these resources are. We’ve got foreign oil companies wanting to exploit some of our most remote areas. And they don’t care what they have to destroy to do this. If it makes money, then they’re interested.

Announcer: Lee.Lee: My country has done well from globalisation

and we have a high standard of living. But I don’t really feel the world is so small. For America, the UK, France and countries like this, then maybe it is – they have successfully exported their culture all over the world. But what about Singapore? Nobody outside of Singapore knows anything about us. For my money, we can only have a real global village when all countries dominate – not just a few.

Announcer: Ibrahim.Ibrahim: No, I don’t think the expression ‘global

village’ is a good way of describing the world. In villages in my country people look after each other. This is not true for our world. Every day we hear politicians from the first world promising money to help poor nations fight AIDS and fight poverty. Where is this money? It’s time these politicians put their money where their mouths are and really started helping Africa.

Announcer: Indira.Indira: Maybe it’s not quite a global village, but it

is getting smaller. I think the internet is mostly responsible for this. Each month, for a small amount of money I have news and information from all over the world and I can keep in touch with my friends in many different countries. I certainly get my money’s worth. I still remember the world before we had the internet and it did seem a lot smaller.

multicultural. And I see it just the opposite: realism means in time multiculturalism, mixed race, mixed religion will come to control the world, because they will be the majority, and what is democracy but the rule of the majority?

Practice Pack, Unit 11, exercise 05 (À 42)Announcer: Listen to four people from different

countries talking about what it is like to live in the UK. … Carolina.

Carolina: I came to the UK from Hong Kong about two years before the British handed the island to China. I work for a large international financial institution and they sent me here. However, when I heard the news about China I applied for British citizenship. I got it about six months later. I have a lot of family back in Hong Kong – they say life isn’t as bad as they thought it would be, but it has changed. I’m happy I live here now. British people are used to Chinese, so I don’t see any racism. The one thing that does make me angry, though, is that most people automatically think I work in a Chinese restaurant, and they’re really surprised when they hear me speaking perfect English.

Announcer: Tarek.Tarek: I have been in the UK for more than 15 years

now. I think when my family and I applied for political asylum, it was much easier to get it than it is today – it wasn’t such a controversial issue. These days it is much harder, and people here are more hostile to asylum seekers. I have been very lucky – my family and I were made to feel very welcome, although after September 11, there was a bit of anti-Arab feeling. My son had a few problems at school. Although we have enjoyed our time here, I think it’s time for us to go home now and help rebuild our country.

Announcer: Simon.Simon: I was a political journalist in Zimbabwe and

I left my country when I knew my life was in danger. I arrived in the UK, but it was difficult to get asylum here. Many of my countrymen were arriving at the same time and the officials were suspicious of us all. I had to wait for a year, and during that time I was not allowed to work. The British government gave me benefits, but I think this causes more problems. Many British people are against asylum seekers because they think we want to live in their country for free on their taxes. This is not true. I’m working now. I work in a restaurant. It’s not as good as being a journalist, but at least I can pay for my life here and have my self-respect.

Announcer: Carlos.Carlos: I live in the UK for two years. I’m not asylum

seeker because you can’t be asylum seeker from Brazil. I’m not illegal in the UK because I have a student visa. Every day I must have three hours of English lesson. But also I work here. My visa says I can’t work, but there are a lot of people with jobs for me. I have five jobs – washing-up in restaurants, cleaning offices and things like that. Every day I work 12 hours. It’s very difficult, but the money is

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