Egzamin maturalny z języka angielskiego – poziom podstawowy maj 2020
TRANSKRYPCJA NAGRAŃ Zadanie 1.
Rebecca: Hello. It’s 8.30 a.m. and you’re listening to Manchester radio. I’m Rebecca Sullivan
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Kevin: … and I’m Kevin Taylor.
Rebecca: You can continue voting for your favourite local artists on our website for the next three hours. We’ll play the winning songs this afternoon. But to wake you up we have some of the greatest hits from other countries around the world. We will be playing them until lunch time. And now – the weather forecast. Kevin, what have you got for us?
Kevin: Well, the rainy weather is going to stay with us for a couple of days. This afternoon will be cloudy with heavy showers. If you feel dizzy, blame the low pressure. It has been dropping since yesterday.
Rebecca: Pity! I was hoping for some sunshine for a change…
Kevin: No chance. We’ll have to wait a few more days for that.
Rebecca: Kevin, could you update us on a Manchester basketball team’s results?
Kevin: Well, it wasn’t a perfect finish to the season. When the visiting team scored the winning points in the last minutes, most of our fans had tears in their eyes.
Fortunately, our boys still came first in the league table and they are the champions.
Rebecca: Good for them!
Kevin: Now, it’s time for our question of the day. Today it’s “What’s the longest someone has kept you waiting?” You can text us or post your answers on our website.
We would like to hear the most interesting stories on air so don’t be surprised if we call you later in the day.
Rebecca: What about you, Kevin? Do you often have to wait for your girlfriend?
Kevin: Well, actually, I’d say it’s quite the opposite. She’s always on time but I’m often a couple of minutes late so it’s me who keeps her waiting.
adapted from www.slideshare.net
Zadanie 2.
Speaker 1
If you didn’t get enough chocolate at Christmas time, Bittersweet Chocolate Day on January 10th is another chance to enjoy it. Bittersweet chocolate is my favourite. What makes it different from other kinds of chocolate is the fact that it’s a sweeter form of dark chocolate. And unlike milk chocolate, it has no milk in it, so it’s perfect for a person like me, who has a milk allergy.
It’s also full of healthy minerals.
Speaker 2
Chocolate chips were created in 1937. They are popular in baking, and are used in a variety of breads, cakes and cookies. There is an almost endless number of recipes. Have you ever had chocolate chip pancakes? If not, you’re leading a tasteless life. But eating too much chocolate, whether it’s dark, milk or white, may not be good for your health. So don’t exaggerate.
Egzamin maturalny z języka angielskiego – poziom podstawowy maj 2020
Speaker 3
Last month, on December 16th, I attended the National Chocolate Day in Houston. How did I celebrate that day? Well, by visiting an open-air market where I paid $20 for cookbooks with creative recipes. I also tasted different types of cakes, cupcakes, pancakes, pies, nuts and even salted cookies – all of them with chocolate. Although I ate much too much chocolate, this was a great day for me.
Speaker 4
Every year, on National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day we celebrate the name of Ruth Graves.
She came up with the idea of making cookies with pieces of chocolate inside. So be inspired by Ruth, go to the kitchen, turn on the oven and bake dozens and dozens of chocolate chip cookies. Then bring some to work for your fellow workers and let them experience the pleasure of a chocolate chip cookie melting on the tongue.
adapted from:http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays
Speaker 5
Chocolate lovers are lucky – there are around 30 different occasions to celebrate chocolate throughout the year. However, the longest celebration comes in February which is National Chocolate Lovers Month and lasts for 28 (or 29) days. At this time there’s a bigger demand for cocoa which is used for making chocolate. It means higher prices of chocolate bars, which is not good news for those buying chocolate on St. Valentine’s Day.
adapted from www.rebootwithjoe.com
Zadanie 3.
My name is Jack. I’m 35 years old and 11 years ago, just 4 days before my 24th birthday, I won
$2.5 million in a lottery. Before that I was a mechanic. I used to get up early every morning, trying not to wake my parents and get home to their flat late at night completely exhausted.
At that time I drove my old rusty pickup truck because I earned so little that I couldn’t save enough money for a new one. When I won, I gave up work, moved into my own place and started travelling around the USA with friends. On one of those trips I got to know the person who now matters most to me – my wife. It was just a few days after I turned 26. While visiting New York, I saw her in the street and started talking to her. It was love at first sight. I went from holidaying with friends to holidaying with her. Luckily, we both shared a passion for travelling.
Today I’m a family man, with three children under six, living in a four-bedroom detached house. Most parents have to go out to work, and they miss out on their kids growing up.
So I guess I’m extremely lucky because my wife and I can spend all the time with our kids at home.
My dad worked very long shifts as a bus driver when I was young. My mum worked hard as a nurse. There were days when I didn’t see them much. As an only child I often sat alone in front of the TV. So the fact I can enjoy my time with the kids is a blessing.
I’ve invested some of the money I won and the rest I try to spend carefully, but once my children start attending the local elementary school, I will go back to being a mechanic. I love the job.
If you want to find out what else happened to me after winning the lottery, visit my blog.
adapted from www.theguardian.com
