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TAPESCRIPTS 1.1 -1.8 (pages 5-7)

(SIDE 1)

1.1 Narrator: 202 Useful Exercises for IELTS. Part One. Listening Exercise 1.1. Listen to the

following

sentences, pausing your machine after each sentence to write down the essential details of what you have heard:

a. Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland.

b. The city is often regarded as the most cultured and cosmopolitan city north of London.

c. The annual Edinburgh International Festival attracts over a million visitors from all around the world.

d. The centre of the city is in two parts: the New Town and the Old Town.

e. The New Town was designed to improve upon the cramped and crowded city conditions.

f. The Old Town, medieval in style, is a maze of narrow alleyways down which sewage once ran freely.

g. The Festival is actually a concurrent series of separate arts festivals lasting for three weeks.

h. Now the largest Arts festival on Earth, it was once dominated by opera.

i. Today, festival performances range in taste from the exotic and controversial to the highly sophisticated.

j. This most romantic of cities boasts a spectacular castle, set high on top of an extinct volcanic rock.

1.2 Narrator: Exercise 1.2. A. Write down the numbers you hear in the following sentences:

A i. The earliest known inhabitants established settlements in Scotland in 6000 B.C.

ii. Scotland is 275 miles long and, at its broadest point, only 150 miles wide.

iii. Edinburgh averages 140 days of rain a year, with an average of 1.89 and 2.72 inches in January and July respectively.

iv. Its average temperature in summer is 65 degrees Fahrenheit or 18 degrees centigrade.

v. Its average temperature in winter is 43 degrees Fahrenheit or 6 degrees centigrade.

vi. The original Celtic language, Gaelic, is understood by less than 2% of the Scottish population.

vii. In 1992, polls showed that 1 out of 2 Scots favoured independence from England.

viii. Edinburgh Zoo, with Scotland's largest animal collection, is set amidst 197.6 hectares of parkland.

ix. Robbie Burns, Scotland's most revered poet, was born on January 25, 1759 in a cottage in Alloway.

x. There are more than 440 golf courses in Scotland; the game being played as long ago as the 1400s.

B Narrator: B. Spell correctly the names of the Scottish cities and towns you hear:

i. INVERARAY iv. KIRKCALDY vii. ABERDEEN x. BANNOCKBURN

ii. HELENSBURGH v. DUNFERMLINE viii. GLASGOW

iii. FALKLAND vi. SKYE ix. LOCHINVER

C Narrator: C. Spell correctly the names of the following persons associated with Scotland:

i. John Knox - (religious leader who helped shape the democratic Scottish government)

ii. Robert Louis Stevenson - (one of the best-loved authors of classics'Treasure Island' and 'Kidnapped')

iii. James Maxwell - (scientist who discovered the laws of electrodynamics)

iv. Andrew Carnegie - (philanthropist who gave his name to New York's Carnegie Hall)

v. David Livingstone - (missionary and explorer who worked to end the slave trade in Africa)

vi. Flora MacDonald - (assisted Bonnie Prince Charlie to regain the British crown for Catholicism)

vii. Mary Stuart - (Catholic Queen of Scots; executed by Elizabeth I of England)

viii. Dorothy Maclean - (New Age environmentalist and spiritual founder of the Findhorn cult)

ix. Robert Bruce - (inspired by a tenacious spider, he drove the English from Scotland)

x. Sir James Barrie - (author best known for having written the classic children's story 'Peter Pan')

D Narrator: D. Write down the telephone numbers of the tourist offices in the following Scottish towns:

i. Jedburgh (01835/863435) v. Loch Tay (01567/820397) ix. Stonehaven (01569/762806)

ii. Stirling (01786/475019) vi. Dunoon (01369/703785) x. Braemar (013397/41600)

iii. Callander (01877/330342) vii. Armadale (01471/844260)

iv. Aberdour (01383/860325) viii. Stornaway (01851/703088)

1.3 Narrator: Exercise 1.3. Radio Item 1:

RADIO This week's controversial 'violent video games'. Are they responsible for a rise in the number of attacks

ITEM by children in the schoolyard?' Some social commentators say yes. Worse, it has been suggested that two recent

1 killings by teenagers were prompted by the playing of video games with extreme content. But is it proven?

The jury is out on this issue. Not nearly enough research has been done to either prove or disprove that violent

gaming leads to violence in children in real life. What is known is that a child who is already disturbed might

certainly react violently after playing a violent computer game; but a psychotic child might just as easily react

inappropriately to having seen a family video or after reading the newspaper.

Unfortunately, it is too early to say yet whether the immense amount of violence on TV and in video games has

a deleterious effect on children, but one thing is certain - violence sells. And, interestingly, violence appeals far

more to young male video gamers than to young female players; the latter preferring games which rely more on

discovery and the development of the relationships between the characters onscreen. Does this prove that boys

are somehow instinctively more violent than girls? Not necessarily. It could merely be that the way in which non-violent

'so-called girl's' games are packaged, with their pink and fluffy characters and backgrounds, does not

appeal to boys. Software companies may be guilty of stereotyping when it comes to how they package their

products for the two sexes.

Are violent video games merely a form of degrading entertainment? Or do they have some socially redeeming

value after all? It has been argued that because computer games are interactive - gaming is not a passive activity

like watching TV - they might, in fact, allow a child to indulge his or her violent fantasies and relieve pent-up

frustrations in a socially acceptable and less harmful way. On the other hand, violent games may be heightening

the release of tension children experience upon destroying an onscreen character; violence, instead of being

punished as in the real world, is rewarded with higher scores and faster music.

So, what do you think? Let us know if you believe that violent video games lead to child violence by ringing this

number now: 01256-381574. That number again ... 01256-381574.

RADIO Narrator: Radio Item 2:

ITEM Newsman: The latest publishing craze which has taken off all over the world, is the publication of what have

2 come to be known as 'zines, short, of course, for 'magazines'. However, unlike magazines, whose fortunes ebb and flow,

these thinner and less glossy 'zines can be desk-top published at a greatly reduced cost. Of course, 'zines are also available to

be read on-line, that is, on the Internet. 'Zines are rather like comics, except that they also contain intelligent and often

controversial articles on topics that interest today's highly educated youth. I spoke earlier today to Jean Cramp, the publisher

of yet another desk-top magazine clone called 'Fill Me In'. Jean, can you tell us why you called your 'zine 'Fill Me In'?

Jean: Well, it's a joke really. You know, most newspapers and magazines don't tell the whole story, or at any rate, they don't

talk about issues that me and my friends want to know about. So that's why we started this

'zine, you see - to 'fill the reader in' on the real news.

Newsman: So how well is your 'zine selling?

Jean: Oh, great - in fact it's only the fourth week of publication of the first issue and we've had to reprint

another 2000. We've sold about 2300. Mostly in alternative bookshops that cater for people who are er ... different.

Newsman: How, in fact, do you publish them?

Jean: On a computer - all the graphic work and, of course, the word-processing, too. It's pretty simple

and there's only three of us in the publishing team. We work from our office which is actually in the front room

at home - we were all students together at Design College you see. We've quit now to spend more time on it.

Newsman: Why do think your 'zine is such a success?