SECTION 3
JOHN BROWN:
Good morning, Mrs Collins. I just wondered if you could help me with
this entry form for the Young Electronic Engineer competition.
MARY COLLINS:
Hello, John. Oh you’ve made the jigsaw for blind children, with the
bleeper.
JOHN BROWN:
When they put a piece in correctly, that’s right.
MARY COLLINS:
OK, let’s have a look at the form.
JOHN BROWN:
Right, thanks. I’ve never filled in one of these before, so ...
MARY COLLINS:
Well, let’s just do it in pencil first. So, name of designers .. .
IOHN BROWN
:
Well, Ann helped me with some of the electronics work.
MARY COLLINS:
Then you must put her name in as well. Right.. . Ann Ray.
JOHN BROWN:
Sorry. It’s ANNE and her surname is spelt R-E-A.
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MARY COLLINS:
Good start! OK . .. REA. And age is easy. You’re both 16. What have you
called the design? Keep it short.
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JOHN BROWN:
What about jigsaw puzzle design for visually handicapped?
MARY COLLINS:
Too long. Just say blind puzzle, that’ll do.
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JOHN
BROWN:
OK.
MARY
COLLINS:
Right now, size of equipment?
JOHN
BROWN:
I’ve got it noted down here .. . urn, yes, length, sorry, width is 20 cm.
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MARY
COLLINS:
OK.
JOHN
BROWN:
Length is 50 cm, and then the depth is ... well, it’s very little.
MARY
COLLINS:
What would you say? I think you can be approximate.
JOHN
BROWN:
I’d say 2.5 cm.
MARY
COLLINS:
And the electricity supply? Is it mains operated?
JOHN
BROWN:
No it isn’t, it’s actually battery.
MARY
COLLINS:
OK, write battery.
JOHN
BROWN:
Fine, OK. It’s the next bit that I’m really not sure what to put.
MARY
COLLINS:
Well, special features means, what is really new about this, you know,
suitable for the group you made it for.
JOHN
BROWN:
Well, it’s safe for children.
Q25
MARY
COLLINS:
That’s fine. Put that in.
JOHN
BROWN:
OK, and of course we think it’s educational.
Q26
MARY
COLLINS:
There you are, you’ve done it. Anything else?
JOHN
BROWN:
Well, I think the price is good.
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MARY
COLLINS:
That’s probably the most important factor.
JOHN
BROWN:
OK ... cheap price.
MARY
COLLINS:
Which brings us on to the next bit. What’s the cost?
JOHN
BROWN:
Well, the pieces we made out of old wood .. . they cost, ooh, $5.
MARY
COLLINS:
And the electrics?
JOHN
BROWN:
They were more expensive . .. say, $9.50. Brilliant. Now what do they
mean by other comments?
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MARY
COLLINS:
It’s just a chance for you to say anything about the equipment, and
problems you envisage.
JOHN
BROWN:
Well, we would really like help with making plastic instead of wooden
pieces.
MARY
COLLINS:
Well, put something like, need help to make plastic pieces.
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JOHN
BROWN:
OK. And the other thing is, we’d like to develop a range of sizes.
MARY
COLLINS:
That’s fine, then, just put that. And the last bit is, when will you send the
equipment?
JOHN
BROWN:
Well, we’ve got a lot of work on at the moment and we want to get it as
good as we can.
MARY
COLLINS:
Well, say 25 June?
JOHN
BROWN:
Can’t we make it later?
MARY
COLLINS:
Well, the last date is 1 July. Why not say that?
Q30
JOHN
BROWN:
OK, that’s what I’ll put.
MARY
COLLINS:
So that’s the lot!
JOHN
BROWN:
That’s brilliant. Thanks very much, Mrs Collins. I’ll send it off
straightaway.
MARY
COLLINS:
Glad to be of help. Very best of luck to you both.
JOHN
BROWN:
Thanks, bye.
MARY
COLLINS:
Bye.
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SECTION 4
PAULA
:
Today I’d like to introduce Ted Hunter, who used to rear sheep and poultry but
who is here to tell us about a rather unusual type of livestock that he’s been
concentrating on in the last few years. Ted Hunter is a member of the
Domesticated Ostrich Farming Association, and is here to tell us about the
possibilities of breeding and rearing these birds here in this country.
TED
:
Thank you, Paula. When you look at international restaurant menus and
supermarkets they all tend to feature the same range of meats - beef, lamb,
chicken, pork, that sort of thing. But people are always interested in something
different and we’re now finding that farming can bring new types of meat to our
tables. The kangaroo is one animal that’s now being farmed for its meat and eaten
outside Australia, where it comes from. It looks and tastes rather like rabbit,
though it’s slightly darker in colour, but it is rather tough, so that’s a problem for
some people. Crocodiles are also being farmed for their meat. This is rather like
chicken, pale and tender, and it’s getting quite fashionable. Some people also find
it’s rather fatty, but I think it makes a really tasty sandwich. Now a third type of
meat becoming increasingly available, and the one that I think is by far the nicest
of the three, is ostrich, which most people say has a similar taste and texture to
beef. However, it’s much better for you than beef, as we’ll see later. Most people
think of ostriches as wild animals, but in fact ostriches have been farmed in South
Africa since around 1860. At first they were produced for their feathers. In Africa
they were used for tribal ceremonial dress and they were also exported to Europe
and America where they were made into ladies’ fans and used for decorating hats.
Later, feather fans and big. decorated hats went out of fashion but ostriches were
still bred, this time for their hide. This can be treated to produce about half a
square metre of leather - very delicate, fine stuff of very good quality. At the
same time, some of the meat was used for biltong - the air-dried strips of meat
popular in South Africa as a sort of fast food. However, recently there’s been
more and more interest in the development of ostrich farming in other parts of the
world, and more people are recognising its value as a food source. Ostrich meat is
slightly higher in protein than beef- and much lower in fats and cholesterol. It
tastes good too. A series of European taste tests found that 82% of people prefer
ostrich to beef. And one ostrich produces a lot of meat - from around 30 to 50 kg,
mostly from the hindquarters of the bird. Farmed ostriches don’t need African
climates, and in fact ostrich farming is now becoming well established in other
parts of the world. However, setting up an ostrich farm isn’t something to embark
on lightly. Mature breeding birds are very expensive - even a fertilised ostrich egg
isn’t cheap so you need quite a bit of capital to begin with. Then the farmer needs
special equipment such as incubators for the eggs. The young chicks are very
dependent on human minders, and need a lot of attention from the people looking
after them. In addition, ostriches can’t be intensively farmed - they need space
and exercise.
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But in spite of this they make good farming sense. A cow produces only one calf a
year whereas a female ostrich can lay an egg every other day. And because the
farmers can use incubators and hatched chicks are nourished well and protected
from danger, the failure rate on farms is very low indeed and almost all the
fertilised eggs will hatch out into chicks which will in turn reach maturity. This is
very different from the situation in the wild, where the vast majority of chicks will
die or be killed before they grow up into mature ostriches. So it’s possible, once
the initial outlay has been made, for the farmer to be looking at very good profit
margins indeed. Ostrich farming is still in its early days outside Africa but we
hope that ostrich meat will be freely available soon and before long will be as
cheap as beef.
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TEST 4
SECTION 1
SARAH:
John, I’ve just had some good news. Susan has had her baby.
JOHN:
Do you know when she had it?
SARAH:
Yesterday. The tenth of August.
Example
JOHN:
Oh, my father was born on August the tenth. Give me the details and I’ll make a
note for everyone at work.
SARAH:
OK.
JOHN:
Well, was it a boy or a girl?
SARAH:
It’s a boy.
JOHN:
And what are they going to call him?
SARAH:
Tom. Tom Lightfoot. It sounds quite good, don’t you think?
JOHN:
Yes, that has quite a good ring to it.
SARAH:
JOHN:
You know he’s quite a big baby. He weighed four and a quarter kilos when he
was born. That does sound big, four and a quarter kilos.
Q1
SARAH:
And he’s long too, forty-six centimetres.
Q2
JOHN:
Mmmm. Tall parents. He’ll grow up to be over two metres, I’d say.
SARAH:
With masses of black hair, curly black hair. You know, we should go and visit
them in hospital. What about tomorrow afternoon at around 1 pm?
J
OHN
:
Yes, OK.
SARAH:
Where should we meet? ... Ah, I could come and pick you up at your house, if
you like.
J
OHN
:
Yes, that would be wonderful. My car is still off the road.
SARAH:
Just refresh my memory. What’s the address again?
J
OHN
:
It’s 15 Chesterfield Road, Paddington.
SARAH
:
It’s next to the library, isn’t it?
J
OHN
:
Not exactly. It’s next to a bank. The State Bank actually. The library is opposite
us, on the corner.
Q3/Q4
SARAH:
That’s right, and there’s a garage on the other street corner. I remember now.
Q5
JOHN:
So, you’ll pick me up at a quarter to one and we’ll be there at one easily.
SARAH:
Now what should we take? We must take them something.
JOHN:
I always think flowers are good to take to someone in hospital, don’t you?
SARAH:
Well, not really. Everyone always brings flowers and they don’t last. I think it’s
much better to take a pot plant, so she can take it home with her.
JOHN:
Yes, but then she has to remember to water it. What about a big box of
chocolates?
SARAH:
OK, chocolates sound fine. We should get something for the baby too. What do
you think?
Q6
J
OHN
:
Yes, you’re right. What do you think of something like baby shampoo or talcum
powder?
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SARAH:
Or we could get a little hat, or something like that.
JOHN:
We don’t know the size, or the right colour, do we?
SARAH:
I think we should get something they wouldn’t normally buy. What about a soft
toy of some sort?
JOHN:
Yes, a soft toy.
Q7
SARAH:
What about a teddy bear?
JOHN:
I could get one early tomorrow at the market and I could probably get the
chocolates there too.
Q8/Q9
SARAH:
Good.
J
OHN
:
So you’ll pick me up at a quarter to one at my place and I’ll make sure that I’ve
got the presents.
SARAH:
You must remember how much you paid for the gifts, so I can pay you back for
half. If they’re going to be from both of us, I would like to go shares.
JOHN:
OK. I’d say the chocolates would be about $15 for something nice and not too
small and the toy would be around $35 or so, I’d think.
Q10
SARAH:
Good, that’ll be fine. About $25 each then. Good, I’ll pick you up then on
Sunday at twelve forty-five.
JOHN:
OK.
SARAH:
See you then. Bye.
SECTION 2
PRESENTER
:
Good evening. Tonight s show comes to you from the Good Home
Exhibition in Duke’s Court, where we’ve been trying out some of the latest
gadgets on show here and getting our resident expert - Liz Shearer - to tell
us which ones are worth buying and which will die a death.
LIZ SHEARER
:
Well, hello. Yes, John, I’ve been investigating four new household gadgets
and sorting out the advantages and disadvantages and then really deciding
what are ‘Must buys’, what are ‘Maybe buys’ and what are ‘Never buys’.
Let’s start with this vacuum flask for keeping drinks hot. Well... I felt this
had quite a lot going for it, most of all is the fact that it contains no glass
and is therefore unbreakable to all intents and purposes. It’s made of
stainless steel which is guaranteed for 20 years .. . hope that’s long enough .
.. and it’s true what the manufacturer claims - that it does maintain heat for
18 hours. So that’s pretty good. On the down side, it really works out to be
quite expensive and, much more surprisingly, it unfortunately leaves a
strange taste . . . you know when you’ve drunk from it... so all in all, my
recommendation would be it’s got plenty of advantages, but it is rather
expensive so I’d say you should maybe buy it. Moving on to a natty little
device .. . the Whistle Key Holder. Basically this is where you whistle and
the key holder gives off a high pitched noise and flashes light so you can
find it. One advantage of this model is that it also has a small light. You
press the button and this means you can find keyholes easily. I also felt the
small size was a real advantage. On the
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weaker side, I did find the noise unpleasant. Which I m sure the designers
could have done something about. And I found that it didn’t work through
metal, so it’s mainly useful for finding in coat pockets, cushions, etc. But
taken as a whole I thought it was a masterpiece of design and would
highly recommend it.
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The third gizmo is called the Army Flashlight because it was developed
initially for military use. It works by squeezing the handle to generate the
power. Its advantages are that it can be used for outside activities, and also
... and this is one of the surprising features... it does work underwater. My
main objection to it though was although it did work in these conditions,
this model gave off a weak light. So my recommendation I’m afraid would
have to be to avoid this one. The decoy camera was last on my list. This is
a fake video camera which you fix to your wall to scare off burglars. The
advantage of this model is something which makes it look very realistic ...
its flashing light. On the down side, it was quite difficult to fix to the wall.
However, burglary is such a major problem these days that it is worth the
effort, so this gets my strong recommendation.
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PRESENTER
:
OK. Thanks for that, Liz.
SECTION 3
BRYSON
:
Well, Amina, thanks for letting me have your draft in such good time.
AMINA
:
Oh, that’s alright. I was just very anxious to hear what you think of it. You can
see that I decided to change the topic - I had been interested in looking at
Barings Factory.
BRVSON
:
Oh, I think the hospital was a much better choice. In fact... well... I have to
say that I thought it was good.
Q21
AMINA
:
Oh?
BRYSON
:
There’s still lots of work to be done .. .
AMINA
:
Oh yes ... of course.
BRYSON
:
But there’s plenty of good ideas. It opens well and the first chapter is fine but
the middle section really stood out for me ... most interesting.
Q22
AMINA
:
That’s amazing because I really didn’t find it a bit easy to write .. .
Q23
BRYSON
:
How long did you work on the whole thing?
AMINA
:
Well, I spent about two or three weeks reading and doing general research and
then I dashed the writing off very quickly ... so about four weeks in all.
BRYSON
:
Well, that’s about par for the course. You’ve got a while yet to make the
changes.
AMINA
:
Oh right... no problem ...
BRYSON
:
Right. Let’s have a look at my notes here. OK. Starting with section headings
... the broad divisions are good but you’ll have to re-do the actual headings.
I’ve made some suggestions in the margins ...
Example
AMINA
:
OK. Thanks.
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BRYSON
:
Now, this information on local housing ... I can see why you put it there but it
really isn’t relevant to the approach you’ve taken.
Q24
AMINA
:
I think I see what you mean.
BRYSON
:
Now . . . what did I say about the interviews?
AMINA
:
I worked very hard on those. I really thought they were valuable.
BRYSON
:
They are, Amina, but they’re very complex and rather unclear at the moment.
You’re going to have to spend a bit of time making the data a lot clearer.
Q25
AMINA
:
OK ... as long as 1 don’t have to remove them altogether . . .
BRYSON
:
No, don’t worry.
AMINA
:
What about the chronology ... the list of dates? I wasn’t sure whether I should
rewrite those.
BRYSON
:
My advice on that is to take them out. I feel it makes the whole piece appear too
simplistic.
Q26
AMINA
:
OK, if it’ll help.
BRYSON
:
Now, there are a couple of other books I’d like you to look at. Have you got a
pen? Right. . . Approaches to Local History by John Mervis . . .
AMINA
:
Right.. .
BRYSON
:
And then I think you need to think about ways of representing interview data.
Have a look at Sight and Sound by Kate Oakwell.
Q27
AMINA
:
Sight and Sound.
BRYSON
:
Then you know I’m going away on holiday next week . . .
AMINA
:
Yes.
BRYSON
:
So when you’ve made the changes I suggest you show the work to your Support
Tutor.
Q28
AMINA
:
Support Tutor . . . right. . .
BRYSON
:
Then you do the proof reading . . .
Q29
AMINA
:
Proof reading . . . uh-huh. When by, do you think?
BRYSON
:
I’d aim for 29 June and after that you should get it laser printed . . . but be
careful because the computer centre closes on 10 July.
Q30
AMINA
:
And then I hand it in to ... ?
BRYSON
:
Oh, the Faculty Office as usual.
AMINA
:
OK, that’s fine. I think I’m all set now! Thanks very much for all your help.
BRYSON
:
A pleasure. See you when I get back.
AMINA
:
Yep. Thanks, Dr Bryson. Bye.
BRYSON
:
Bye.
SECTION 4
Good afternoon. I’m Paula Bundell and I am giving you the lectures on Environmental Noise
this term. Today we are going to look into the effects of noise on a planned housing estate in a
particularly difficult part of the new Manchester Park area. This site is not as bad as some 1
have researched in the past. The Blacktown airport is closed from 6pm to 7am and this is a
great advantage to the site. The only noise after dark
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is from the highway and the traffic is somewhat reduced between 7.30pm and 5.30am. So,
the people most affected by the noise will be, I expect, housewives. By the time most of the
students and workers have arrived back home in the evening during the week the noise will
have abated to a fairly large extent. The weekends are still a problem of course, but the
traffic is certainly reduced on Saturdays to a large extent and even more so on Sundays. Of
course modifications to houses will be necessary at a site like this and they come at a
significant cost to the developer and home buyer. The modifications I am about to outline
will add about $25,000 to the price of a newly-built house. That will still mean a cheaper
house than in a less noisy and more desirable area. A bit of background would not go astray.
I understand that you are all familiar with the proposed development site at Manchester
Park. It’s a particularly difficult one in terms of noise with the highway along the eastern
perimeter and the Blacktown airport not 3 kilometres away to the north. Of course, those
nearest the highway will be the worst hit, with heavy traffic noise as well as the noise from
the light planes overhead. As you all know, the normal noise threshold for private housing is
55 decibels. At this site the levels have been recorded as high as 67 decibels.
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The construction of the houses has to be somewhat modified from houses in most areas. In
the houses on the highway and in the noisiest areas of this site there will be a need for
specialised double glazing and special acoustic seals will have to be fitted to the doors. All
exterior doors in this especially noisy pocket will have to be solid core wood doors with
hinges. Every house built on this site, not just those adjacent to the highway or nearest to the
airport, will require high density insulation materials in the roof. Not only will all the roofs
need insulating, the exterior walls will be required to be double brick. All ceilings will
require double thickness plaster board to be used in the construction. In the noisiest areas
mechanical ventilation will have to be installed in the exterior walls. In those areas with
sealed windows it will be necessary to fit fans with absorbers to cut out the noise in those
particular houses. Air conditioning units could also be fitted in the ceilings of such houses
but this is substantially more expensive than fans, and may not be needed on this site.
Coming back now to the double glazing I mentioned before. Specialised double glazing
requires a larger air gap between the inner and outer glass than normal double glazing. The
gap must be at least 7 centimetres. The thickness of the glass is also a factor, 8 millimetres
on the outside and 6 on the inside pane. It is essential that the glass be thicker on the outside
than on the inside and that the gap between the panes of glass be a minimum of 7
centimetres. Obviously, the noise factor will have to be taken into consideration with the
layout of the houses. Living areas will have to be designed at the back of the houses away
from the highway. Bedrooms and living rooms will have to be built towards the back, and
for those houses closest to the highway two layers of plasterboard will be needed for the
interior bedroom walls. Those rooms constructed at the front of the houses should be
garages, laundries, kitchens, bathrooms and dining rooms. I have come to the conclusion
that this development should go ahead, but with various acoustic modifications according to
the position of the block in relation to the highway and intersection.
Example
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