Complete IELTS Band 5-6.5 - UNIT 1 – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.complete ielts bands 5 to 6.5 by guy brook hart and vanessa jakeman published by cambridge university press this recording is copyright trap one unit one listening exercise three hello come in and take a seat oh thanks good and uh how can i help you well i'd quite like to join this international social club and i was hoping you could help me yes no problem let me just get the form up on my screen and i'll fill in your details let's see yes here we are okay the first thing we need is your name jenny foo that's f double o okay great and can you tell me how old you are jenny i'm 21

2.great and how long have you been here in australia by the way i arrived just last month two weeks before the start of the academic year just to sort things out and settle in a bit good idea where are you from originally i'm from kuala lumpur that's where i was born and brought up so you're malaysian are you that's right though i lived in the united states for a couple of years when i was a teenager we went there for my father's job right and can you tell me your current address please sure just at the moment i'm lodging with a family at 13 anglesey road in bondi okay let me just type that in uh how do you spell angle c by the way it's spelled a n g l e s e a thanks that's quite a long way from the city center isn't it is it a problem getting into the city centre not really because the buses are good and it's a nice quiet area to live in that's true so i guess you must have a cell phone number you can give me so we can keep you informed of events and so on yes let me just have a look it's a new one so i haven't learned the number yet here it is it's zero four zero four double two nine one six zero five two nine one six zero okay good and you like the family you're living with sure they've got a little boy who is quite noisy but he's really no trouble fine now let's see what's next uh yep can you tell me what you do i mean are you working or studying well at the moment i'm doing a temporary job with a company here in sydney i'm an economist in fact okay and how long do you think you'll be here in sydney at least a year i may look for work here afterwards great now you want to join the international social club and it will be good to know a bit about your free time interests as well what do you like doing well i'm quite musical and i really enjoy singing back home i sang with a band just you know for fun but for me what i like best is dancing you know the modern sort i really love it track two unit one listening exercise five so how are you getting on here i mean your level of english is better than most people who come from overseas to work and you've got a really nice american accent so i don't suppose you have any communication problems in the office though you might find some of our australian slang more difficult to understand well a bit but i haven't met that many australians yet outside of work i mean right but could you tell me a bit about the international club now i've joined sure we've got uh let's see currently about 50 members but people join all the time so i should think that figure will go up last year we had 30 members and the year before just 18

3.so we're growing and getting better known i reckon that at this rate next year we'll have about 80

4.and does the club hold regular meetings yes every second thursday evening in fact so a couple of times a month though of course when you start making friends you'll be getting together with them more often than that i guess the next meeting will be next thursday if i'm not mistaken uh yes that's right and what happens when the club meets i mean what sort of things are organized the usual thing is for one of the members to give a little presentation about where they're from their customs and so on but from time to time they do other things outings to places around sydney or meeting up to eat together in a restaurant or go to a concert together or something like that okay that sounds fun and the members aren't just people from other countries non-australians are they no not at all the main point of the club is to give people like you the chance to mix in more with people from this country people of all ages you'll find us very friendly i think the contact has a positive effect on visitors to this country and in fact it affects us locals positively as well you know it's a sort of intercultural experience for everybody and of course you should get the chance to do all sorts of activities with other members of the club if you want to it's not just for talking and hopefully you'll make friends with people who have similar interests it sounds great i'm really looking forward to the first meeting you