Narrator: Part Four. Listening Exercise 4.1. Listen to the following sentences, pausing your machine aftereach sentence to write down the essential details of what you have heard: a. London is the capital city of Great Britain. b. The Romans establis...
Narrator: Exercise 3.9. Lecture 3: Electric cars? Solar-powered buses? When most people imagine solutions to the problems of city air pollution they probably think of electricity and solar power. But the problem with an electric car is that the elect...
Narrator: Exercise 3.8. Dictation 1: Air pollution / is probably the modern world's greatest threat. / Water can be filtered, / land can be cleared, / but filthy air can only be filtered / by the nose and lungs. / It is estimated / that living in a b...
Narrator: Radio Item 6: Welcome to 'Inventors' Corner'. This week we take a look at an invention that may well change the way in which you listen to your television set. Four years and twenty thousand pounds later, Susan Schofield of Cardiff, Wales,b...
Narrator: Exercise 3.3. Radio Item 5: Welcome to 'Software World' - bringing you the very latest information on what is currently available on CD-ROM. Are you a director or producer looking for an unusual actor to play a part in a new movie project,...
Narrator: D. Use abbreviations to quickly note down the distances and rail travel times of the followingcities in the north of England: i. Shrewsbury (1 hour from Manchester) vi. Lincoln (1 3/4 hours from London) ii. Chester (17 miles south of Liverp...
Narrator: C. Spell correctly the names of the following persons associated with Manchester and Liverpool: i. King John - (gave Liverpool a Royal Charter in 1207; chief port for trade with Ireland) ii. John Kay - (inventor of the flying shuttle in 173...
Narrator: B. Spell correctly the names of these towns and cities in the Northwest of England: i. BLACKPOOL iv. LANCASTER vii. BOLTON x. PRESTON ii. WARRINGTON v. KNUTSFORD viii. NORTHWICH iii. CREWE vi. HEYSHAM ix. CLITHEROE...
Narrator: Exercise 3.2. A. Write down the numbers you hear in the following sentences: A i. Manchester is 185 miles distance from London and 35 miles from Liverpool, ii. Over 10 million passengers passed through Manchester Airport in 1997. iii. The n...
Narrator: Part Three. Listening Exercise 3.1. Listen to the following sentences, pausing your machine after each sentence to write down the essential details of what you have heard: a. Manchester, one of the most important cities in England, is consi...
