--- pag 1 --- B1+ test audioscripts NAVIGATE Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 2015 Page 1 of 6 Unit 1 Exercise 1 1 I really like shopping for clothes on the internet. 2 Fabio buys all his music online. 3 The first thing to do is create an account. 4 I only check emails once a day. 5 Sarah designs websites and she loves her job. Unit 1 Exercise 2 F Is that your new smartphone? M Yes, it is. Do you like it? F Yes, I do. It looks great. Are you pleased with it? M Yes, I am. I absolutely love it! F Why do you like it so much? M Mainly because I can listen to music on it on my way to work. F I think I might get one soon. I still have an old- fashioned mobile. Unit 2 Exercise 1 I had a great thirtieth birthday earlier this month. My friends organized a party for me in a restaurant and it was great fun. They bought me some lovely presents and so did my parents. There was a band playing songs from the old days which was great. They reminded me of the music I listened to as a teenager. At the end of the night, everyone was really tired so we all took taxis home, but we had to wait for ages for the last one to arrive. Tomorrow I’m going to email all the guests. They made it so special and I want to thank them personally. Unit 4 Exercise 1 1 I usually get up early. 2 Sofia likes being outside. 3 Let’s ask everyone. 4 Fresh air is good for you. 5 I don’t know anything about it. Unit 4 Exercise 2 1 Look at that! 2 The girl ate a cake. 3 I’ll take it back. 4 I sleep in until 10 a.m. 5 We met in 2011. 6 I’ll sell it on the internet. 7 Do you teach in the college? 8 He says it’s great. 9 What did you wear at the wedding? 10 We link up sounds in English. Unit 6 Exercise 1 1 I didn’t really connect with that book. To put it another way, I found it quite boring. 2 You should visit the museum. In fact, why don’t we go together next week? 3 I had a wonderful time in Thailand. The weather was great and the food as well. Oh, hang on a minute, I’ve just got a text message. Anyway, I was telling you about my holiday, wasn’t I? 4 I like watching films, reading and playing computer games. In other words, I’m not very active. 5 Sorry for the interruption – that was my daughter on the phone. So, as I was saying, the traffic was worse than usual yesterday. --- pag 2 --- B1+ test audioscripts NAVIGATE Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 2015 Page 2 of 6 Unit 6 Exercise 2 1 F How were your exam results, Hugo? M Well, I was expecting bad grades, but actually I passed them all! 2 M How are your children Marsha? F Oh, they’re fine. Anyway, tell me more about your new job. 3 M I’m not sure if my son has chosen the right subject at university. F Don’t you think he’ll enjoy it? M No, what I mean is it might be too difficult for him. 4 F The train goes through the mountains on the way. In fact, the views from the window are amazing. M Oh, great! I love spectacular scenery. 5 M I went to see a flat but it’s not what I’m looking for. F So to put it another way, it was too small and not near the station? M Exactly, so I guess I’ll just have to keep looking. Unit 8 Exercise 1 1 Could I have some hot milk in that, please? 2 I prefer white coffee to black in the mornings. 3 We probably should go home now. 4 That could be Nigel at the door. 5 Only use one hot pepper in this recipe. Unit 8 Exercise 2 1 cat basket 2 could get 3 smart card 4 good morning 5 red coat Unit 10 Exercise 1 1 There's a park near the bank. 2 Give me a ring later. 3 Take a map of the city when you go. 4 It looked better by the window. 5 Did you speak to him or leave a message? Unit 11 Exercise 1 1 He should be more careful. 2 You could try to be more positive. 3 I had to visit my friend in hospital. 4 Roger couldn’t go to see the film. 5 She must apologize. 6 We might take the train. 7 Boris shouldn’t tell anyone what happened. 8 You may start the test now. 9 They have to leave immediately. 10 Pat can take the test on Tuesday. --- pag 3 --- B1+ test audioscripts NAVIGATE Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 2015 Page 3 of 6 Unit 11 Exercise 2 1 I haven’t been abroad for work yet but I have to go away next week. 2 Rachel could be late as she was stuck in traffic twenty minutes ago. 3 Leo and Mari shouldn’t go on holiday because they don’t have any money. 4 Do you think you might make a good manager? 5 You really must think about what you’re going to do. Progress test 1 Units 1–3 Exercises 1 and 2 I Today I’m joined in the studio by Katia Davis, who’s going to tell us about key life skills. Welcome Katia, and thanks for coming in. K It’s my pleasure! I Let me start by asking you to define what exactly life skills are. K Well, basically the term ‘life skills’ refers to the skills you need and use to manage your life and to have a better quality of life. They help us to achieve our ambitions and make the most of our abilities. I’d also like to say that the list of life skills isn’t the same for everyone … certain skills are more relevant to some people than others. It all depends on your age, your location, your beliefs and culture, and so on. I OK. So if you had to choose just one, is there a particular skill which is more important than the others? K Hmm … good question. Communication skills are important, obviously. I mean, without them you can’t make yourself understood. But I’d say the ability to learn matters more, because if you can’t learn, then you won’t be able to improve any of your other skills, if that makes sense. I Oh, absolutely. Could you say a bit more about communication skills? We hear a lot about these, don’t we? K People often think that communication skills are just about being able to clearly explain what you mean, so that there’s no doubt about the message you want to get across. There’s a lot more to it than that, though. Communication’s a two-way thing after all, so the ability to listen is just as important as being able to speak – and that doesn’t come so easily to everyone. And, of course, there’s also what we call non-verbal communication … you know, body language, eye contact, how you speak rather than the actual words you use, and so on. You can tell a lot from this kind of communication, too. I That all makes sense. What other skills would you say are important? K Well, then there’s what we call ‘personal skills’ and those are things like knowing how to look after yourself – keeping fit and healthy, for example – and knowing how to manage your emotions. People need to know how to deal with anger and stress because these things can really damage our health. And linked to that, I’d say knowing how to manage your time properly is a useful skill. It helps you to have more control of your life. Nowadays, much more than ever before, these personal skills have become very important because we’re so busy all the time. I I know what you mean. I need to manage my time better actually, or so my wife says anyway! (laughs) --- pag 4 --- B1+ test audioscripts NAVIGATE Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 2015 Page 4 of 6 Progress test 2 Units 4–6 Exercises 1 and 2 As part of our series on famous film directors, today I’ll be taking a look at the life of Francis Ford Coppola, widely considered to be one of the most important people from the world of film. Coppola was born in Detroit in the US in April 1939. As a child he was very ill and had to stay in bed for long periods of time. Quite early on in his life, though, Coppola developed an interest in film and eventually went on to study theatre at Hofstra University in New York. After leaving Hofstra in 1960, Coppola moved to another university in California, where he learned from the best people in the world of film, including the famous director Dorothy Arzner. While he was studying for his Master’s degree, Coppola worked with the great Roger Corman, who has been not only a director, but a producer and actor too. In fact it was Corman who gave Coppola his first chance to direct a full-length film, 1963’s Dementia 13, which Coppola also wrote. Unfortunately, it wasn’t very popular, but not long afterwards Coppola had great success with the 1968 musical Finian’s Rainbow. Coppola first achieved real fame when he won an Oscar for the 1970 Second World War film called Patton. Two years later, he released what’s considered to be one of his best works and one of the most famous films of all time, The Godfather. Following that, Coppola continued to make extremely successful films, including another war film, Apocalypse Now, the crime-drama The Cotton Club and the horror film Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Despite such success, after his 1997 drama The Rainmaker, Coppola stopped directing for some time to focus on other interests. This included making wine at his home in California. However, in a change from his usual job as director, in 1999 he was the producer of a film for his daughter Sofia. It was almost another ten years before Coppola returned to making his own films. In 2007 he directed Youth Without Youth, a love story about the mysteries of life, based on a short book by a Romanian author. More recently, in 2011 he made a horror-thriller called Twixt. Coppola continues to have a business making and selling wine in California. In addition to his daughter Sofia, Coppola has many other relatives working in the film industry. His sister is the actress Talia Shire, and the actor Nicolas Cage is his nephew. Coppola and his wife Eleanor have a son named Roman, who also directs and acts, and a granddaughter, Gia Coppola, who made her first film in 2013. There’s a lot more to say about Coppola obviously, but I’ll have to … (fade) Progress test 3 Units 7–9 Exercises 1 and 2 What is it that makes some people incredibly good at a particular thing? Is it because they spend hours upon hours practising a skill until they’re perfect? Or is it because of a gift they are born with, like a natural ability or talent? Scientists have been studying and discussing whether experts are ‘born’ or ‘made’ for nearly two centuries. In the nineteenth century, it was suggested by one scientist that experts are born to be experts. He believed that the abilities we are born with limit how good we can ever be at something, and that however much we practice, we won’t be able to improve further. Later, around 100 years ago, a psychologist called John Watson claimed that practising something more than other people is --- pag 5 --- B1+ test audioscripts NAVIGATE Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 2015 Page 5 of 6 probably the only reasonable explanation for success. More recently, in 2008 the Canadian writer and journalist Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book in which he suggested that the more you practise, the better you become. He came up with the ‘10,000 hour rule’ – in other words, practising any skill for 10,000 hours is enough to make you an expert. Now, the results of new research at an American university have found the exact opposite to Gladwell’s idea. According to the scientists working on this research, the amount of practice we do over time makes little difference to how much better or worse we perform in a particular skill. While practice is still important, it doesn’t seem to be anywhere near as important as Malcolm Gladwell believes. These scientists looked at eighty-eight other pieces of research which had already been carried out. These had all looked at the relationship between practice and performance, and covered many different areas such as music, games, sports and professional skills. Nearly all of them had shown a positive relationship between practice and performance – in other words, the more people said they had practised, the higher their level of performance. However, practice seemed to be more effective in some areas than others. For example, for music and sport, practice could make around 20% difference to someone’s performance, and as much as 26% difference for games. But for professional skills, practice made less than 1% difference to how well someone did. So these scientists are now looking at what else may be involved. For example, they think that how old someone is when they take up a new skill may be important. They also think that having a good working memory may make a difference. It’ll certainly be interesting to see what the results of further research are. Progress test 4 Units 10–12 Exercises 1 and 2 Interviewer So, Jack, could you tell me first, what made you go into business – how did it all start? Jack I’m what you might call an ‘accidental’ businessmen – by that I mean I didn’t start out with a clear aim of going into business. I’m not someone like Richard Branson who always knew they were going to work for themselves. I used to have a business ‘guide’ who taught me so much and it’s because of her that I knew what I wanted to do. I I see. So what’s your biggest tip to someone starting their own business? J Well, I’d say the most important thing is to do something that you already know about or can learn very quickly. As for everyone else you work with, they have to believe in you and be able to take you seriously. So my advice is to build a business around something you know and love. I I imagine that digital marketing is very important in your business, is it? J Definitely. For us, it’s not just important … it’s essential! Most of our customers communicate with us using the internet, so the older traditional ways of selling products and services to huge groups of people are slowly dying out. Digital marketing, using websites and apps and so on, is taking over. It’s the future and if businesses don’t keep up with that, then they will lose out. It’s that simple. I What’s been your proudest moment in business so far, Jack? J There have been several, actually. I still remember when I won the award for businessman --- pag 6 --- B1+ test audioscripts NAVIGATE Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 2015 Page 6 of 6 of the year. It was a few years ago now, but walking on to the stage to receive the prize was a great feeling, especially when you know how many business people were at that ceremony! Being able to provide for my family and buy them anything they want also makes me feel good. But if I had to choose just one thing, it’d probably be the day I employed my first member of staff. I remember thinking ‘Wow! This person’s going to work for me … I’m the boss!’ (laughs) I (laughs) And how important is it to have a guide when you start out? J Oh, the greatest thing you can have is someone who’s willing to share their experience and knowledge with you as you’re building your business. A good guide is like having a driving instructor who can help you perfect a skill, with you driving the car while they give feedback and advice when you need it. It can help you avoid making some of the worst mistakes. For me, that’s what having a guide’s all about. And I think that a guide has to own, or have owned, a business themselves. I Jack, thank you so much for your time today. It’s been really interesting… End-of-course test Exercises 1 and 2 1 When I started writing, one of the most difficult things was managing my time. I’d get loads of ideas and think to myself, ‘Wow – this is an awesome storyline. Nobody’s written anything like this before.’ And that was the problem – I had no control over my thoughts. I used to sit in my little home office which looked out over the river, and I’d watch everything going on outside. So, my tip would be to write in a place without a view! 2 Well, often someone who’s been reading for a long time decides to have a go at writing stories themselves. They think, ‘How hard can this be? I’m sure I could do just as well.’ But people starting out often believe they’ve got to make their writing complicated and they use lots of big words and long sentences. That’s actually not very original. The main thing is to get your message across in a way that people will understand. 3 It’s hard to give advice to people because everyone’s different. But I’d say that knowing what you’re going to focus on is one thing. And also you need to know your subject inside out. Otherwise, how can you write about it? Take my latest book … I knew it had to feature a parrot, but I knew nothing about these birds, so I spent time at my friend’s house learning all about her pet parrot. If you’ve done that sort of hard work, the writing itself will just flow. 4 I wasn’t much of a reader as a kid. There was always lots of pressure in our house for us to read, so I went the other way. But I took it up in my late teens and couldn’t get enough of it. Half of the time I didn’t have a clue about the meaning behind what I was reading. I used to look up the words I didn’t know. And I liked stories that were a bit different. I think new writers should try to produce stories which are their own ... told through their own eyes and not someone else’s. 5 Oh, I know exactly what I’d say to new writers. We all had to start somewhere, and many of us went down the route of copying our favourite authors. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Developing your own style will come in time. To begin with, it’s good practice to keep a record of your thoughts and ideas each day. Write them down because it’ll help your writing. They may seem unimportant at the time, but the best stories are often made up of apparently simple details.