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Now, I’d like to tell you a bit more about an excellent service offered in the I.L.C. here 
that we call the 'Special Sessions'. What can you do in them? For a start, many of you 
need practice in speaking English. and for that we hold a special Discussion Session, led 
by a teacher. That can be noisy, in fact, we hope that it is noisy, since that would mean 
many people are talking. It's in the Central Seating area, and it used to be from 10.30 to 
1.30. but we found that the noise was disturbing the regular I.L.C patrons, so we 
shortened and moved this discussion to the morning, 9.00 am time slot, when fewer 
people tire in the centre. It goes for one and a half hours. 
Alright, what about Writing Skills? Well, we can help you there with another teacher. 
Now, writing is a fairly quiet activity, so that teacher stations him or herself in the Quiet 
Reading area from 1.30 until three. The 10.30-to-midday time slot cannot have a teacher 
for such writing skills, as they are all teaching in the morning. For this reason, of course, 
there cannot be an on-call teacher in the morning either, although many people would 
like one, particularly the 10.30-to-noon crowd, having just finished their early morning 
class. These students all have to wait until midday onwards, when, for three hours, a 
teacher will be stationed in the Audio Section, ready to deal with all those questions. 
Until recently, we had another teacher doing the 3-pm-to-6-pm time slot, in the Central 
Settling, but all the noise interfered with the late users of the I.L.C., so we had to cancel 
that. Also noisy can be the Language Exchange, where local students who want to learn 
your language will help you practise English. This is generally done in pairs, so the noise 
level is low enough not to need this exchange lo run at 9 am, but at a more congenial time 
of 10.30, among the Central Seating. That must finish by 1.30 though, tiller which quieter 
and more individual activities take place.