Task 10
This school, founded in 1953, is a non-profit making Charitable Trust.
Situated in residential North Oxford, 3 km from the city centre, the College occupies a complex of purpose-built blocks and 14 large Victorian houses providing academic and residential accommodation. Facilities include an excellent library, video-room, language laboratories, computer room, science laboratories, assembly hall and coffee bar.
A particular benefit for the EFL student is the opportunity to live and study with native English speakers taking the two-year International Baccalaureate course, or courses at university level.
All students are encouraged to participate in social and extracurricular
activities including sports, horse riding, drama, art, crafts, photography, films, concerts and excursions.
Academic Year Courses (21 hours per week) leading to all principal
EFL examinations, concentrate on language with selected studies in Literature, Politics, History, Art History, and Computing. Most students live in college houses each supervised by a resident warden, but some prefer family accommodation.
(Length: 2 min.)
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Key
A. Answer the following questions. 1) What kind of school is it?
Key: This school, founded in 1953, is a non-profit making Charitable Trust. 2) Where is the school?
Key: It is situated in residential North Oxford, 3 km from the city centre. 3) What is the benefit for the EFL student?
Key: A particular benefit for the EFL student is the opportunity to live and
study with native English speakers taking the two-year International Baccalaureate course, or courses at university level. 4) What extracurricular activities do they have?
Key: Their extracurricular activities include sports, horse riding, drama, art, crafts, photography, films, concerts and excursions.
B. Complete the following sentences with what you hear on the tape. 1) Facilities include an excellent library, video room, language laboratories, computer room, science laboratories, assembly hall and coffee bar. 2) Most students live in college houses each supervised by a resident warden, but some prefer family accommodation.
Task 11
Cindy Farrow is Andy and Kate Morgan's American cousin. She is
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18 years old. She comes from California, on the west coast of the USA. She lives with her parents in San Francisco. She is a student at Berkeley College where she is studying modern languages. She wants to be an interpreter when she leaves university.
She has many interests and hobbies. She loves reading, swimming
and surfing but her favorite hobby is white-water rafting on the Colorado River. She thinks it's very exciting.
At the moment Cindy is on her way to England to stay with the
Morgans in Dover.
(Length: 1 min. 10 sec.)
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