1.42 Hello. mm Rob. m from London. mm 3 |ournalist. Today Im in Poland. '"m not on holiday. m here for work. 1.45 Hi. m Jenny Zielinski. 'm from New York. “Tomorrow's my birthday, and my favourite restaurantin New York is Locanda Verde, i's healian 146 Waiter Locanda Verde. Good morning How can I help you? Jenny Hello, A table for tomorrow, please. Waiter Tomorrow..er, Tuesday? Jenny Yes, that's ight. Walter How mary people? Jenny Three. Waiter What time? Jenny Seven o'clock, Waiter What's your name, please? Jenny Jenny Zielinski. That's ZI-E-L-EN-S-K:L Waiter Thank you, Ms, er, Zielinski. OK. So, ‘a table for three on Tuesday at seven. Jenny Groat. Thanks. Bye Waiter Goodbye, see you tomorrow. O22 1A Groat. OK, see you on Tuesday Yes. Oh, wha’ yourphone number? Its er 020 7946 0415, Thank you. Whats your address, please? It's57 King Steet. Very near here. Come in, sitdown. Youre Martin Blunt ght? 8 Yes. Jk And how old are you, Mr Blunt? 8 A prer >o vn 39 Thank you very much. Er, one more thing, What's your email? B ’sjames85@[Link], 32 What are the top things people look for every day? At number, i's wallets and purses. As qumber7, umbrellas. At number bank cards ~ credit ards or debit cards ‘At number, phone chargers. ‘And now forthe top four [Ac umber 4 glasses and sunglasses. [As oumber3, pens and penci. And at number 2, mobile phones And at number 1,~ yes, that's right keys. House keys and car hoy. So, try to finda safe pace... O38 1 Please take out your laptops... Alllaptops ‘out of cases, please. 2. Please switch ofall mobile phones and ‘’lectronic devices. 3. A Excuse me, is this your bag? B Ohyes! Thanks very much! 4 A Hi My name's Sam Smith. [have reservation B Can! see your passport, please? A Sure, here you ar. A. OK, Ms Jones. You're in room 315. Here's your key BB Thank you very much. Er, where's the i? 3.13 Man Excuse me, Miss s this your phone? ‘Woman Ohi Yes, its. Thankyou very much, ‘Man You'te welcome. I's a very nice phone! “The new Phone. Woman Sorry? Oh yes. Man A souvenir for your family? A football shirt is only £25! Woman OK. An Arsenal football shirt, please. Man And a T-shirt? Woman Yes, and 2 T-shirt! 3.20 1 Man The Now York Times, please. Woman Here you are. Man How much isit? Woman Is two dollars fifty, 2 Man An umbrella, please. Woman For how much? Man Fifteen euros, please. Woman Here you are. ‘Man Thanis. 3. Man 1 Amemory card, plea Man 2 Two gigsor four? Man 1 Two, please, How much is it? Man 2 Nine dollars forty-nine Man 1 Isa credit card OK? ‘Man2 Sure. “4 Woman Acne-way ticket to Oxford, please Man Thirty pounds twenty p, please. Woman Here you ar. Man Thank you 03.25 Assistant Hi How can |help you? Jenny Hi, How much is this tuna salad? Assistant Its sovon twenty. Jenny OK, fine. And this mineral water, peace. Assistant That's nine dollars seventy c Jenny Here you are. ‘Assistant Thank you. Have a nice day. Amy Jenny! Jenny Amy! Hi, how are you? ‘Amy I'm fine. How are you? Jenny I'm fine, oo. ‘Amy What's that? Jenny Oh, just salad and some water. ‘Amy You are good! Look, wait for me. ‘can have lunch together in the park. Jenny Sure! Great ides. ‘Amy Can have a cheese sandwich, ' cappuccino, and a brownia, please’es D411 Marina What a lovely card! Jane Yes, it's from my family M Can see? J Sure, IM Who's Paul? Is he your brother? 4. Yes, he's my brother and Hayley’s his girliend, 1M How old is Paul? J_ He's twenty-nine, No, he's thirty, IM What about Susan? Is she your sister? 4. No, Susan's my brother Jerry's wife, And Sally's their daughter. IM .Oh yes, | remember. The baby in the photo en your phone. J. Yes. She's so beautiful M Sowho's Nicole? J. She's my sister. IM Is John her husband? J_ No, he's her boyfriend ~ they aren't ‘married. Perhaps one day. M And how old's Nicole? J. She's twenty-six M And who's Max? J. He'smy dog! M Ah, What kind of dog is he? D413 1 W’sa Jaguar. t's English 2 I’sa Chevrolet. k's American, 3 It’s a Mercedes. I's German, 4 tsa Peugeot. I's French, 5 Isa Ferrari tsitalian, 6 I's Honda. It's Japanese. D5.6 Anna My favourite meal ofthe day is dinner | usually have dinner at home, but sometimes ata restaurant. | usually have ‘meat o fish and vegetables, and if'm ata restaurant, Ihave a glass of wine, 57 ill My favourite meal ofthe day is lunch, I'm always hungry then, {have lunch at ‘work we have a canteen there. | have 2 >or> o> 07.28 Rob Dadi Henry Rob, hi! Rob Hi Thisis for you Henry For me? I's my favourite wine. “Thanks Rob! But why? Rob For your birtday of course! Happy birthday! Henry Rob, itisn't my birthday today! My birthday’s on the 2nd of July. Today's the 2nd of June. Rob Oh not Henry Don't worry. Come in! Have a glass of wine 07.30 Jenny Hello? Rob Hello. 's that, uh, Jennifer Zielinski? Jenny Yes. Who's that? Rob This is Rob Walker. Jenny tm sorry, who? Rob Rob Walker. | work for London 2aseven, Weneed to tak about your trip ‘2 London in March. Er, you arive on the ‘2th of March and you leave on the 19th Is that ight? Jenny really sorry Mr. Walkor..0F, Rob, ‘but m not at work. Today isa holiday here. Rob Aholiday? Jenny Yes, you know it's Thanksgiving Im ‘at my parent's house, with my family Rob Thanksgiving, Of course. Sory. We ‘don't have Thanksgiving in England. Jenny No problem. Listen, call me on Monday at work, No, net Monday, Tuesday, Rob Tuesday the third of December? Jenny Yes. Jenny's mom Jenny! Hurry up Jenny Talk to you on Tuesday. Thanks for calling Rob Bye. Jenny Bye @a.10 1A Excuse me, can | sithere? B Er, yes, Ithinkit’s free. A Thanks. 2 A Cant help you? B Do you have this Tshirt in large? A. Just a moment. Sorry, we only have small and medium at the moment. | ‘can phone and see if they have a large in another store? B No, that's OK, thanks. 3A Areyou ready to order? B Yos, can | have the burger, but with salad, not chips? A Yes, madam, that’s fine. And for you, B The pasta, please. A And to drink? 4A Hey! You can't sing hero. B Why not? A Because you need a permit. B Where can | got a permit? {A You need to go online and look fer. 7e <2 £5 Oh look! An inter Milan football shi Its perfect for Johnny! Yes, good idea. Oh...t's very expensive Football shirts are always expensi ‘OK. What we can get for Jessica? ‘She likes football, too, ‘Yes, but she never wears football shirts, What about this bag? | don't know. Does she like bags? She loves bags. “Tor, do we need swimming thin I can look at their website. Can you see my camera? ‘Yes, here it is. Do you want me to} ‘the camera in the suitcase or in bag? Inthe suitcase, please. OK, here's page. Yes, ithas a swimming pool Great. ‘Good morning. How can |help I need a car forthvee days. Whet kindof ear aro you looking ‘A small car.’ just for me. ‘Automatic or manual? Manual, plea Can see your driving licence? Yes, here you are. lethat a number 137 ‘Yes. | think itis. No, i's a 23. Another 237 I don’t believe it! Th the thie one, And no 13. Another one's coming now. Let's Yes. That's 13, M Atlost! < £52 £2 € ssrzseseszee = 09.17 Interviewer Hi, Sandra. Tell us bit a your experience. Where are you wor Sandra I'm working ina clothes shop FatFace. Interviewer What kind of clothes does FatFace have? Sandra Er, well, clothes for men and ‘women, informal clothes, trousers, ‘Tshirts, sweaters, things lke that. Interviewer What do you do every day! Sandra Well er, |help the customers 1 the clothes that they're looking for. I's big shop and ithas alot of things. sometimes can't soe the things that Interviewer Do you like working there? Sandra Yes, |love it. The people are nice to me, 'm making a lot of new friends. Interviewer Is there anything you don't Tike? ‘Sandra Well, wo cant sit down, we're standing up all the time. So thats hard,Interviewer But, in general, youre happy? Sandra Oh, yes. And when my two weeks finish they say I can work here on Saturdays! That's great forme. |really lke working in a clothes shop, Interviewer What do you wear at work? Sandra We wear clothes from the shop. Interviewer Are the clothes that you're wearing today from FatFace? Sandra Yes, they are! Steve Hi, Jenny. What a surprise! Jenny Hi Steve! Steve How are you? You'te locking great. Jenny Thanks. Im well. How about you? Steve im OK. Hey, it's starting to rain, ‘Would you ike a coffee? Jenny Oh, thanks, Steve, but have 2 ‘meeting in an hour, Steve Oh, come on Jenny. Ike to talk to you. Jenny OK. A quick coffee. Steve Jenny, Id like to ask you something, Jonny Yes? Steve There's an exhibition of Picasso at the MoMA next week. | know you love Picasso. Would you lke to come with me? Jenny Listen, Stove. m really busy at work ‘atthe moment, Next week isn't a good week forme. Steve Sure. No problem. Maybe we can meet one evening, when youhave more time and...have dinner or see a show? Jenny Listen, Steve. | don't think its a good ‘dea. But thanks. Oh, look atthe time! | ‘need to go. Let's ask for the check. Erie Louisa ime to get up. Louisa OK. What time isi? Erie It's half past seven. Breakfasts at eight. Louisa Is ita nice day? Erie Let's see. Louisa, quick! Come here! Look at that! Louisa What isi? Eric Look! Over there, Louisa Where? Erie There. Inthe loch. Theral Can't you ‘26? There's something in the loch. i's ‘moving. Can you see it ow? Louisa Yes. What iit? Etie 1 don't know. Quick, take a photo with your phone. Louisa | can't see itnow. Can you? Erie No, | can't. | can't see anything now. Let's see those photos, Louisa, Wo | Gort believe it. Look at that... @10.14 D Are you Kevin Smith? K Yes, lam, D What do you do, Kevin? K Vim ataxi driver, D And where do you live? K At 14 Markot Street. D Do you know the suspect, Jason Brown? K Yos,Iknowhim. He's my friend, We were at school together. Where wore you yesterday aftemioon at § otclock? IK Yestorday at § o'clock... was in my taxi. ‘was in my taxi all afternoon, ‘And at 7 o'clock? Where were you then? | wasin a pub. The Black Horse. Whereis it exactly? In South Street. Near the station, Were you alone? No, | was with Jason, Were you only with Jason? Er, no. My wife was there. And Jason's wife Jason's wife? She was with you? Er yes. ‘Are you sure? Yes...no...can't remember, You can’t remember who you were with yesterday? Very interesting. on Miriam really iked her job it was very interesting. I worked from home, so | was with the children a let and loved it. In {general fe was good. twas quite cheap = cheaper than in the UK. We joined 2 sports club, where the children learned to ‘swim, and I played a lot of tennis, one of my favourite sports ROXORXOXO ° oxoxo ‘The people in Durham were very friendly. They often invited us to theichomes. twas ‘easy to meet people at the sports club, or atthe university where Miriam worked. And there were so mary new places to see! At weekends, we visited some of the beautiful ‘national parks. They were very different from English parks! In one park there was 8 sign saying ‘don't disturb the snakes’ ~ Sacha loved it | also remember a trip toa country music festival ata blueberry farm, itwas fantastic First we listened to the music, and then we picked a lot of blueberries ~ they're Elena's favourite fruit. But after that trp she didn’t, want to eat a blueberry for at least two weeks! We stayed in Durham fora year. After that we returned to England, because my wife's {ob finished. But we loved our lf in the USA, and we're thinking of going beck there in maybe two or three years, © Go online to listen to the audio and see all the Listening scripts | 11.22 Rob Oh ****. | don't believe it. Excuse me, this cash machine isn’t working. Is there another one near hore? ‘Man Yeah, there's one in HSBC. Go straight ‘on, tur right. Go straight on fr abit and it’s on the left. Rob Thanks. 11.23 Jenny Hello? Rob Hi, Jennifer? Jenny Yes. Rob This is Rob Walker from London 24/7. fm phoning to check you got the email | sent you, Jenny Er, what was it bout? Rob It was the information about your hotel fornext week, Jenny .lusta second. Yes, here itis. Hotel Indigo, London Street. Whereis it exacty? Rob i's very near Paddington Station. You can get the Heathrow Express train fom the airport tothe station. It only takes about 15 minutes, Jenny OK, thet’s great Can | walk tothe hotel from the station? Rob Yes, it's very near. Can you see iton the map? Jonny Ah yes, |have itnow. Rob Turn left when you leave the station, Then go straight on for abit and turn right into London Street. The hotel's opposite Norfolk Square. Jenny Great. Rob I can come to the hotel in the morning ‘on your first day. We can walk tothe office together. Jenny OK. See you then, Rob Bye. Jenny Bye.