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You will hear a maintenance worker talking to a university officer about some recent 
storm damage to the main building. 
Worker: Hello there. I was asked to tell you about the extent of the damage to the main 
building, caused by the recent storm. 
Officer: Oh, that’s right. I take it that most of the damage is just to the main building? 
Worker: It is indeed, since the building is so old. However, luckily, the damage is minor, 
and all of it can be fixed in one day, given that we have five people in our team. 
Officer: What will you be doing first? I understand you start at 8 in the morning. 
Worker: That’s right, and we were going to remove the fallen tree, but we’ve been told 
there are exams that morning, and I’m sure the sound of those saws and other heavy 
equipment will disturb all the students, so instead we’ll fix that leaky roof. That’s a four-
hour job, since it involves substantial repair, not like fixing broken windows, which can 
be done quite quickly. 
Officer: So you’ll fix the broken window after that, from midday? 
Worker: We could do that, but since we’ll be working in the ceiling, it’s more logical to 
get rid of those birds’ nests there. It’s a small job but will require crawling inside the 
ceiling cavity, which is not an easy exercise, so that will take about an hour. But this is 
good, since by that time the exams should be over, and we can address that tree which 
has been blown over, after our one-hour lunch break of course. It will be quite noisy 
dealing with that, but it will be finished by three o’clock. Some of our staff will then 
leave to fix things on another site — an office nearby needs a new window — but two of 
us, including myself, will remain here to paint over that discoloured patch of wall in your 
office. 

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