Advanced Testbuilder - Test 1 Woman : You thought I was the sceptical

type? Well I've never been a believer in

Part 1 most alternative therapies but I've always
Extract One been fairly open-minded when it comes to
Interviewer : Richard, can you give us an hypnotherapy... at least when it came to
example of what people in other countries dealing with psychological problems. I
are doing in terms of recycling? mean, before I experienced hypnotism for
Richard : Absolutely. Erm, well, 60 tonnes of myself, I didn't think it would work for actual
plastic packaging are dumped on the streets physical symptoms. I went along because I
of Accra, the capital city of Ghana, every wanted to quit smoking, but Dr Grey helped
day. But recently a businessman called me overcome my back pain, too.
Kwabena Osei Bonsu set up a company Man : Ah, I guess a lot of people see
called Trashy Bags to do something about celebrity hypnotists on TV embarrassing
it. He pays people to collect plastic bags people they've hypnotized - making them do
and these are stitched together to make ridiculous things. And I think the result of
new ones. This kind of venture should be that is that people are put off going to see
sponsored by governments, and there are genuine hypnotherapists - because they
plenty of similar projects occurring in other think anyone who practises hypnotism is not
countries if they need ideas. But Kwabena trustworthy.
had decided he wasn't going to wait around. Woman : I think you're right, but people
He says he wanted to come up with an idea should know that hypnotherapy is a serious
that would sort out this awful situation in his profession. And if the idea of being under
lifetime. someone else's control makes you nervous,
Interviewer : That's fantastic. What about I can tell you it's not like that. You're always
here, though? I suppose you'd like to stop aware of what's going on.
the use of plastic bags in supermarkets
completely? Extract Three
Richard : Well, yes - they are an absolute Interviewer : Erm, Fiona, how is it working
environmental disaster but I can't see our with visitors to the ZOO?
government going as far as banning them. I Fiona : The public? Generally they're
know that some supermarkets are charging fantastic. Maybe they're a little bit quiet to
customers 5 or 10 pence per bag, but such start with because they're not sure what
a small charge doesn't put most people off. they're going to do but soon after we've met
Actually, you can get bags made of bamboo the rhinos or we've started doing the
or other fabrics but only a minority of people monkeys they normally open up and they're
are using them, so I'd say it's up to the all 'Oh, this is fantastic. They start asking
supermarkets to start promoting them a bit questions and they know a lot about the
more actively- so that customers know animals anyway because they've been
they're available to buy instead. going to the zoo for years. But the hardest
thing for me is being constantly alert to the
Extract Two risks because even though you do warn
Man : You've just had a few sessions of people about them, they just don't realize
hypnotherapy, haven't you? I have to say, I what could happen. I mean even the
didn't think you were into that kind of thing. cheetahs look so docile and so cuddly.
Interviewer : Have you ever had an incident to be able to fill in the missing pieces for
yourself? Fiona No, not exactly, but I did get yourself- and that's what this exhibition
a bit too close to the bars of the chimpanzee encourages. It's something that often gets
enclosure once, and the chimps had neglected in mainstream education - there's
branches with them to try and get food from just a focus on reading skills and
beyond the bars, and one of the male understanding what's in print in front of you -
chimps basically just reached through the which isn't much of a challenge, is it?
bars with his branch and poked me in the The challenge for scientists - and this is
ribs and it was basically a 'Get back! That's something I often have to explain to visitors
my food!' and from that moment on I've - is that they simply don't have all the
always been doubly aware of how close I information they need yet. In general, if a
am to an animal and what tools it has to get research team is lucky enough to find some
to me as well. He could have been a lot fossilized bones of a dinosaur- they won't
nastier, though, than he was. It was just a find a whole skeleton- just part of it. So
warning. sometimes there's not much to go on.
There's a lot of speculation involved when
Test 1 - Part 2 they're figuring out what it looked like... how
I've been working in the museum for, er, well it moved. You see, the fossilization process
it's almost twenty years now, and I can tell requires particular conditions - the creature
you that people come along for many needs to be buried quickly - then gradual
different reasons. For some visitors, it's the sedimentation needs to occur and the body
desire for knowledge, for others, they just has to lie undisturbed. That's why the
want to be amused on a rainy day. But with environments in which fossils are generally
the dinosaurs, it's less about being discovered tend to be marine ones, rather
entertained, and more to do with plain old than geographical areas that have remained
fear - they like to feel scared, and there's comparatively dry, like deserts.
nothing like a 30-foot monster towering over One of the challenges of showing a
your head to do that, regardless of your dinosaur exhibition is that you need to keep
age. Obviously we get a lot of children up with new theories and decide which ones
coming - with their families. or school are credible. Some interesting findings have
groups. There's a life-size model of a T-rex come out of China in the last decade -
that the museum got a few years ago - that which I'll explain in a moment. It's still
certainly holds their attention when it starts generally accepted in the scientific
moving, but the priority for the kids when community that dinosaurs disappeared
they arrive at the exhibition are the following the event of a giant meteor
interactive displays - they seek those out crashing into Earth - which led to significant
first, which is maybe not surprising because climate change. But not all dinosaurs
that's the sort of way they learn nowadays. succumbed to the cold. It was an enormous
Anyway, I do think that the exhibition can volcanic eruption that wiped out many of
help with certain aspects of a child's these creatures in China. They were
development, even if dinosaurs aren't really instantly buried alive - and thus preserved -
their favourite subject at school. It's my because there was no oxygen to help in the
opinion that you require imagination to process of decay. And what interests
appreciate an exhibition like this - you have scientists the most about the Chinese
dinosaurs is that they appear to have been Interviewer : Was the transition easy- I
covered in feathers. It is possible that these mean from the army to the navy?
were used for display or defence, but the Peter : Oh yeah. Once I was in, well the
general opinion is - and I'd have to go along difference between the army and the navy is
with it - is that they were used for insulation. the discipline - it's er, how shall I say it's that
Bird feathers have all these functions, too, the training in the army's intensive. I did the
of course, but whether birds have directly basic training in the navy - I found it a
descended from dinosaurs is still a matter of breeze, I could do that with my eyes closed.
great debate. However, I did have a hard mother and
I have to admit that I am rather proud of the discipline was what she was all about. If
exhibition, and the feedback we receive is you're raising six boys, and they're all
always positive. But - there's even more we competing for your attention, that's how it
could do to make it a better experience for has to be. But it wasn't just about obeying
visitors - and for this reason, their donations orders - it was about leadership. What I
are always welcome. In fact, the recent mean by that is that my mother led from the
discoveries in China mean that some of our front, always showed us by example how to
displays will need adapting so that the behave. And that's how you do it in the
appearance... navy. So, yeah, my mother set us on the
right track in that respect, and so the
Test 1 Part 3 transition to the navy was easy. You know,
Interviewer : As you may have observed at one stage I was managing 110 people,
from its recent television campaign, the when I was, er, a petty officer, and I
navy is keen to recruit young men and managed that amazingly well. I thought I'd
women. With us today we have Chief Petty get myself into trouble but no, it went well.
Officer Peter Martin, who has kindly agreed Interviewer : So you adapted, but what
to share some of his experiences with us. about the new recruits, how do they find it?
Peter, what was behind your decision to join Peter : Well, some of these new recruits
the navy? plan on coming for a good time not a long
Peter : Well it goes back to where I came time. When I joined I walked in and said 'this
from - I knew there were better opportunities is me for twenty years.' These guys, they
out there compared to what was in my can't handle leaving home, that security,
hometown. There was nothing there for me er... adjusting to a structured military
except a lifetime of unemployment and organization where rules and regulations
messing about. I joined the army and whilst are put on them. And taking care of
in the army I bumped into a navy guy and I themselves a big thing when you're coming
asked him, you know, 'How long have you from school. Mum used to do your washing
been in the navy?' He said 'Just two years, and your ironing... all that stuff so a lot of
and I said 'Where have you been?' He said these kids come and don't even have these
'All over the world' and yeah, I liked the skills. So I think it's important for, um, kids
sound of that. The navy was for me. In the leaving school and thinking seriously about
army the only option I had ahead of me was the military-they need to be aware that life in
a few months in Singapore - so it was an the navy is about self- discipline and that
easy decision to transfer - and I've never they're going to have to adjust to that. If you
regretted it. can achieve that, you'll do well. The other
big factor they should remember is that you - stopping drugs getting into the country.
get friends for life, whether you like it or not, That kind of stuff should be in the public
basically... it's the camaraderie that keeps eye... so they know we're doing a good job.
you going at times. Interviewer : And what about life after the
Interviewer : And when you go back to your navy? Can the navy prepare you for
hometown? What kind of a reaction do you returning to civilian life?
get from people when you go back home? Peter : Yeah, definitely, I'll give you an
Peter : Yeah, well, I think it's more jealousy. example. My mate Brendan, we joined
A lot of them can't see past the front gate, I together. He was in the navy for ten years
mean, they've got no desire to find out with the naval police, and then he left and
what's going on in the world beyond the went into a position with the customs
edge of town, and that's all my generation service - a border control detective. The
I'm talking about. However, the older people requirements for that position were that you
down there welcome you in for a cup of tea had a Master's degree, but he went in there
to talk about where you've been, what with just his basic skills from the navy and
you've done, what you've achieved and just he got selected against 500 people that
er... because they've never been anywhere applied, and they all had university
else either, but they're curious. I was the qualifications. You name it, they had it. But
unusual one - I was the only one from my the skills that he attained from the naval
year... I think I was the first one from my police were exactly in line with what they
actual town to join the military. If I'd stayed wanted. The guys from university had
there, it would just have been a matter of limited ability in communication and
time before I ended up the same way as my leadership but the customs people were
old mates - pretty aimless really. So when I confident he had everything they required,
go home, it, er, reminds me of how far I've and that's why the application was
come, everything I've accomplished - and I successful. I think this kind of thing is
get a lot of self-satisfaction out of that, to be something else that makes the navy a good
honest. prospect for young people who...
Interviewer : How do you think the public
perceive the navy?
Peter : It's generally naivety... all they hear Test 1 - Part 4
is how much money we're pumping into this Speaker 1
and that, when things have gone wrong, The thing I hate... and I always used to get
guys having accidents - they only see what myself into this situation - fortunately I've got
the media feeds them. And a lot of people a strategy now - but when I'm supposed to
see that it's not war time, so why do we be showing foreign clients round, I can
need a navy? I think more publicity's going never remember names. My mind just goes
to help. We've just done a documentary on blank. It's pretty poor, really. I mean, it
the officer training school - more stuff like doesn't exactly come across as
that would be beneficial to the navy, such as professional, does it? I'm supposed to be
boardings - it would be good to document a setting an example to the junior members of
boarding - when the navy goes aboard staff but I'd find myself saying things like
illegal fishing vessels in our own waters or 'Have you met...?' and hoped people would
deals with smugglers in international waters get on with it themselves. Then my assistant
actually suggested I rehearse the whole Speaker 4
thing with her beforehand so that's what I do I didn't spend a lot of time there, a couple of
now. We actually role-play the whole thing. terms I think. My father was working as a
I'd be lost without her. foreign correspondent so we
were always relocating. But I was in the
Speaker 2 same dormitory as Peter Hayward and we
Well, I'm not exactly the maternal type. got on from the absolute start. Really nice
Maybe that's got something to do with it. guy, Peter, and we've always kept in
They come along and I'm setting up the contact. It was his idea... in fact, I think he
equipment and they're beaming with pride organized the whole thing. I really didn't
and of course you're expected to make all want to go - I knew exactly what it'd be like -
the right noises and comments, but it's not but he went on and on and eventually I gave
really me. I often can't tell which are boys in. And when I turned up, it was worse than
and which are girls. And recently I've found I could possibly have imagined. Nobody had
myself in this situation a couple of times. much to say to anybody and the few
I've managed to come out with 'What's his conversations we had were utterly
name, then?' or 'Have you got a name yet contrived. What do you expect after a gap of
for...?' and then my voice just trails off and I 20-odd years? Nothing in common. except
just hide behind the lens. And they've most of us had ended up in banking and
noticed, of course. They feel offended and everybody remembered hating the physics
they're paying money to have their kid's teacher.
portrait taken. It's not exactly good for
business or personal recommendations. Speaker 5
My brother was working on the island as a
Speaker 3 diving instructor. It's a good lifestyle. My
I don't have much self-confidence in general grandmother was Greek and used to make
but I really feel exposed when we go out to us repeat certain phrases but I can hardly
eat after work. It's usually the others who remember a thing, so I flicked through this
decide because, you know, I've just started pocket dictionary on the way over just to
in our department and I haven't been in the have a few ideas. Anyway, my brother took
area long either, and it's always somewhere me to meet some people and I was
posh and foreign. I usually get one of them speaking to one restaurant owner in English
to order or I just say 'the same' so I don't but I thought it might make more of an
have to repeat it. I wish I'd studied foreign impact if I could show I knew a bit of the
languages at school. They all seem to know language. I came out with a couple of
exactly what they're ordering, or they phrases I'd memorized... or thought I had.
pretend they do. I think I'm going to get a Obviously not well enough judging by his
phrase book - one that shows you the face. He just collapsed laughing. I'm going
meaning and the pronunciation nice and out there again in a month's time and
clearly. I'm fed up with them all looking showing my CV around. At least my
down on me. It makes me feel really small catering skills are alright. They should be
at times. after eight years in the job. But first I'm
going to get myself some private tuition... I
mean, I want to be taken seriously. There
won't be many people prepared to take me
on unless I have some idea of the language.