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Part 1

Questions 1-5Listen from here

Complete the Travel agent’s notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER for each answer.

SUN TOURS TRAVEL AGENTS

Example    Answer
Number of people4
Customer’s Name  Mr. George Collins
Other travellers (+ ages of children)

Mrs. Jane Collins

  7 years old

Jennifer  years old

Require4 star quality hotel + breakfast; safe, warm, quietish, beach; pref. pool; lots of restaurants near hotel no creche needed
Dates of Holiday    Friday July 8th to , Sunday
Pref. Flight TimeLess than

Questions 6-10Listen from here

Complete George’s notes below

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer

Possible Holiday Ideas

Top End Prices                                          Italy and France

Bottom End Prices                                    , Greece and Turkey (Turkey + Cyprus too far)

Crete                                         Hotel Tropicana

  • 1 mile safe walk on to beach.
  • Nice pool; only a few beach bars and restaurants.
  • Really quiet; not near other tourist destinations.

Palm Hotel

  • 2 miles from beach but has service.
  • Hotel in quite a busy tourist town: lots of bars, restaurants and discos.

Rhodes                                               Ocean Hotel

  • Right on beach; less than from the rooms.
  • 4 star hotel quite far from main town; eat in hotel; good meals.

Hotel Spiros

  • hotel quite dose to beach (5/10 mins walk) in small village with small swimming pool.
  • A few restaurants in small, quiet village; not much to do.

    Part 2

    Questions 11-15Listen from here

    Complete the food options information sheet below.

    Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

    Solaris Hotel and Holiday Village – Food Options

    Meal Times

    • Breakfast: 6.30am and 9.30am every day (Only in Harvest restaurant; English, American an breakfasts on offer
    • Lunch: 12.00 noon to 2.30pm
    • Dinner:7.00pm to 10.30pm
    • Menus same for lunch + dinner: see for specials

    Food Styles

    • The Harvest Restaurant: Traditional English + popular UK foreign dishes (eg: curry and spaghetti)
    • The Dene Restaurant :
    • The Mekong Restaurant : Far Eastern Cuisine

    Payment

    • All restaurants free; needed for some specials
    • All soft drinks free; pay for alcoholic drinks
      • Pay any bill at end of meals or put on main bill – pay at end of holiday

    Extras

    • Bar menu available in for pub food
    • Fast Food available until 2.30am at take away

    Questions 16-20Listen from here

    Complete the activities information sheet below.

    Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

    Solaris Hotel and Holiday Village – Activities

    Beaches:                                                                    main beach

                                                                                        adult beach (17s or over)

    on duty from 9.00am to 6.00pm on main beach (none on adult beach)

    * Decked area with sun loungers in front of Harvest Restaurant with our 25 metre swimming pool

    * Steps from pool area to beach – wash feet in foot pool to remove sand

    * on beach + in pool area.

    Sports

    8 tennis courts + 3 squash courts

    Fully equipped gym (No under 18s)

    6 full sized snooker tables + 5 pool tables in games room adjoining the bar.

    (only charge for hiring any equipment)

    Water Sports

    water skiing + jet skis available (extra charge)

    snorkelling, infiatables and pedallos (free)

    (details from )

    Library & Cinemas

    Library contains books, magazines + newspapers. See for terms + conditions

    2 cinemas show 3 different films each every day.

    Shows at 2.00pm, 5.30pm + 8.30pm (First 2 shows always have a film for kids)

    Children under 16 years are not allowed to attend 8.30

    Part 3

    Questions 21-26Listen from here

    Complete the three tables below.

    Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

    World’s Most Spoken Languages  By Number of Individual Speakers

    RankNo. of SpeakersLanguage   
    1836 millionMandarin Chinese   
    2333 million
    3332 millionSpanish
    4English

    World’s Most Spoken Languages

      By Number of User Countries

    RankNo. of CountriesLanguage 
    1115English 
    235French 
    324
    4Spanish

    World’s Most Influential Languages – 6 weighing factors

    1 Number of primary speakers

    2 Number of

    3 Number and population of countries where languages are used

    4 Number of major fields using the language internationally

    5 of countries using the language

    6 Socio-literary prestige of the language

    Questions 27-30Listen from here

    Complete the notes below of the second half of Jamie and Rebecca’s presentation.

    Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

    Jamie and Rebecca’s Presentation

    Large countries currently shifting wortd economic balance of power:

    China

    Russia

    India

    Reasons for shift size of the populations
    cheap labour
    prices of

    • Big growing demand for people knowing languages of above countries + for teachers and English language training
    • China could be less important than possibly India or due to their population increase. English will probably remain important though
    • Number of spoken languages between approx. 2500 and 7000. Hardly any of these studied by
    • English taught in most countries with structured education program. This trend is getting stronger.

      Part 4

      Questions 31-35Listen from here

      Complete the sentences below.

      Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

      Mad cow disease attacks the of the affected cows’ brains.

      BSE is thought to be caused by infectious forms of known as prions.

      Abnormal prions in BSE infected cattle are found in the small intestines, and the central nervous tissues.

      Humans can take in the abnormal prions when they eat infected beef as the prions are resistant to the usual such as heat.

      The one American case of CJD was a woman who caught it in before going to the US.

      Questions 36-40Listen from here

      Complete the summary below of the second half of the humanities lecture on BSE.

      Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

      SUMMARY

      CJD causes gradual loss of mental function and movement due to brain damage from abnormal prions or it can be possibly CJD usually affects younger people (between ages 20 to 70) usually showing symptoms in patients’ Symptoms include personality changes and problems with Once symptoms appear, the disorderprogresses quickly to disability and death.

      The exact causes of 8SE are unknown but the first UK cases have indicated that it could come from a prion disease in called scrapie that was fed to cattle. Dead cattle with scrapie were then fed to making them cannibals. So, we are in turn infected by the disease that we created when we eat infected beef.

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