Key – „Lifestyle Intermediate”
I 1.b 2. c 3. d 4. d 5. b II
1.T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. F
III.
1. doing 2. honeymoon 3. sparkling 4. queen-size 5. literate 6. conscientious 7. check-in 8. disposable 9. delay 10. practical IV.
1. meet 2. forward 3. done 4. to 5. tell
V.
1. D 2. A 3. D 4. D 5.B 6.B 7. A 8. C 9. C 10.A VI.
1. Where does she live?
2. How long has he studied in Paris?
3. What were they playing when we arrived?
4. When is Mark going to cook dinner?
5. Who should give up smoking?
VII.
1. great 2. what about 3. that’s very kind 4. what a pity 5. why don’t we VIII.
1. C 2. E 3. D 4. B 5. F
IX Reading
1. F 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. T 6. T 7. F 8. T 9.T 10. F
Listening 1 script:
Luca
Well, I’ve always loved sport and swimming. As a kid I used to spend all my free time in the summer on the beach with my friends. We would swim or surf, or just play about in the water. And there was always a lifeguard there on the beach, and I used to think, “What a brilliant job!” So, when I lef school, I trained to be a lifeguard. I really enjoyed the job for a few years. In the summer I would work on the beach and then in the winter I would go skiing. It was my dream job. I loved it. But afer a while, I started to get bored. I was just on this boiling beach all day, watching all the beautiful people, but I couldn’t really enjoy myself, you know. I just had to stand there and watch. So I knew it was time to find something else to do.
Nicola
I used to be an ice-cream taster and for a while it was definitely my dream job. I mean can you imagine anything better than sitting at work eating delicious ice cream all day? I was in heaven. I was working for a big company, with a team of food scientists, and our job was to come up with new ideas for ice cream flavours. So, I suppose that was the problem, because a lot of the time, we had to try new flavours, like curry and lime ice cream, or cheese and sausage, and we would have to taste it, and usually it was terrible, really disgusting. Now most people would just say: ”Yuck, I’m not eating that again.” But unfortunately, when it’s your job, you have to keep tasting it to see if they have made it any better. Sometimes we would taste thirty different ice cream flavours before lunch. So, it wasn’t all good.
Amy
I was a professional shopper for a while. It was good fun at first. The lady I worked for was a television presenter, and she needed outfits to wear on television, but she didn’t have time to go shopping. So I would go out and buy clothes for her, and then she would try them on at home, and I would take back anything that was not good. It was a fascinating insight into how some people live. But as time went on I realized she was impossible to please. One time I had to buy her an outfit for a special event she was going to, and I bought her a few different things to try on, but she didn’t like any of them, and she was really furious that I hadn’t found her something different. It wasn’t really my fault, but I lost my job soon afer that.
Listening 2 script
Interviewer: Kevin, why did you decide to open a restaurant in Chile?
Kevin: I’d always wanted to have my own restaurant and it would have been very expensive to do that in England. I’d visited chile as a tourist and loved it, and I thought it would be a good place because Chileans are very pro-European, and are quite open to new things, new ideas. So I opened Frederick’s.
Interviewer: Right. Why did you call the restaurant Frederick’s?
Kevin: Because Frederick’s my father’s name . It’s my second name too.
Interviewer: What kind of food do you serve?
Kevin: Mainly international dishes like pasta, steak and fries, risotto – but we also do several English dishes as well.
Interviewer: Were Chilean people surprised when they heard that an English chef was going to open a restaurant here?
Kevin : Yes, they were – very! I think people don’t usually expect the English to be good cooks.
Interviwer: Is your chef English?
Kevin: No, he’s Chilean – but I’ve taught him to make some English dishes.
Interviwer: What kind of English dishes do you have on the menu?
Kevin: Well, we’re open in the morning, and we serve traditional English breakfasts, and then we have a lot of English desserts at lunchtime, for example trifle – that’s a typical English dessert made with fruit and cake and cream. And we do proper English teas in the afernoon – tea with cakes or sandwiches.
Interviewer: Are the English dishes popular?
Kevin: Yes, especially the desserts and cakes. I think people here in Chile have a very sweet tooth.
Interviewer: People who visit England always say that the food isn’t very good, or that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well. Do you agree?
Kevin: I think eating good food’s never cheap. But I think that today, the best place for a tourist to eat in England is in a pub, especially the ones called gastropubs – pubs which are also restaurants. These pubs are beginning to serve really good food that’s not too expensive.
Interviewer: I see. You said earlier that your chef was a man. Do you have any women working in your kitchen?
Kevin: Yes, one, but the rest are men. In fact, I think that’s typical all over the world – there are far more men than women in restaurant kitchens.
Interviewer: Why do you think that is?
Kevin: I think there are a lot of reasons. The most important reason is probably the unsocial hours.
Most women don’t want a job where you have to work until late at night. Then there’s the atmosphere. Women don’t like being shouted at, and there’s a lot of shouting in restaurant kitchens.
It’s also usually incredibly hot and I think women don’t like that either.
Interviewer: And finally is there any English food that you really miss here?
Kevin: The thing I miss most living in Chile is English cheese. I really miss Stilton – which is a wonderful English blue cheese. It’s not as famous as some of the French cheeses like Roquefort but I think it should be. You should try it!
Interviewer: I will! Kevin, thank you very much.
Kevin: Thank you.
Reading script & answers:
1. F 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. T 6. T 7. F 8. T 9.T 10. F
The Warner family has been in the insurance business for more than one hundred years. The company, Warner Insurance, was founded by Robert Warner in 1908, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Robert began working from his table in the kitchen and would invite his future and current clients. In less than two years, Robert had established a clientele of over 100 satisfied customers and had moved to an office that he purchased with the gains from his insurance business.
As the company continued to grow, Robert Warner hired his three sons as employees. The eldest son, James, was the Vice President of operations. His responsibilities included the day to day business operations, accounting, legal and human resources. As the company expanded, James was in charge of opening and overseeing offices throughout the entire United States. James had four children: three sons and one daughter. Each of his children became Regional Managers and moved to different parts of the States. It was sad for James and Mrs. Warner to see their children move away from home, but they were very proud of their children and their dedication to the family business . James was eighty-five years old when he died. He worked for Warner insurance his entire adult life.
The middle son, Henry, was Vice President of Sales. Henry was in charge of a team of ten salesmen. Their sales territory grew to the entire northeast sector of the United States within ten years. Henry worked for Warner insurance for over thirty years in which the sales territory went national and the sales force grew to over seven hundred and fify salespeople. By this time, Warner Insurance became a household name and a multimillion – dollar company. The Warner family was committed to maintaining the company a privately owned business and to this day it continues to be so.
Robert Junior was the youngest of the founder’s sons and studied Marketing and Business Administration in Vasser College in New York. Afer graduating he returned to Boston and became the Marketing force behind Warner Insurance and was a major factor in the company’s branding and promotional efforts. Many people say that it was because of Robert Junior’s brilliant marketing skills that the company was able to grow so big and so quickly. Robert Senior was very fond of his three sons, but he had a special affection for his youngest son and namesake, Robert Junior.
Today Warner Insurance stands as an example of a family enterprise that has withstood the test of time and fierce competition in a very competitive market. Many larger, investor - owned companies have tried to purchase Warner insurance but the family has stood firm in its decision to continue the family legacy and establish an Insurance for its future generations
