Appendix C: Listening Tasks and Texts
Listening Task 1:
Listen to the following report of a sales manager and draw a sales line in the chart below.
Listening Text 1:
Good lemen! Now, I'd like to report on this year's sales of copany. At the start of the year I felt very optipany. I felt we had a good chance of having an excellent year. But sales were not quite as I expected.
Overall it wasn't a bad year for sales but our performance was very uneven. We had some good periods when sales were excellent and some bad periods when sales were much weaker. I am going to report on our overall sales. That is, I won't give sales separately for the doa and our international sales to overseas countries. I'll just report on total sales.
The first quarter was not very good. Sales actually dropped during the first three months of the year. There was a big decline. In January, we sold a total of 500 puters but in puters. Thus there was a big fall in sales during this period. The fall was abrupt—it took place over just three months. The problepetitor—the Johnson Copany's prices were very petitive in the first quarter of the year—they were able to sell their coheaper price than we could sell our own coernational market and at home in the domestic market. Another problem we faced was that the interest rates we were paying on our loans from the bank were very high.
However, by April our sales had stopped falling and sales were at the sad quarter as in the first quarter. Sales in June were the saputers. This was not a very good perfor at least we had stopped the decline in sales.
Then in the third quarter there was an abrupt improvement. Sales started to improve in July and by the end of September had reached the same level as January—we sold a total of 500 coember.
In the fourth quarter we were able to the September level. In fact there was a gradual increase over this period, reaching a total of 550 puters in Decehe end of the year we had becopetitive again. This is because we were able to lower the price of our puters whereas Johnson pany had actually increased theirs.
So you can see this was a difficult year. But we ended with stronger sales than we expected and I a year. I expect sales to go on increasing by and by.
(Total: 455 words)
Listening Task 2:
Listen to the following dialogue and fill in the registration forference Registration Form for Student
Listening Text 2:
Student: Good morning!
Wo I help you?
Student: Yes, please. Is this where we register for the 5th International Conference of Language Studies?
Woman: Yes! What's your name?
Student: Well... Actually, I haven't registered yet. My friends told me the registration form is available here. And I just arrived this morning, so I hope I could get registered here.
Woman: Well. We have advised everyone attending the conference that they should register beforehand. This is important so we know what aco know whether they want to stay at the conference centre or just attend daily. We also need to know whether they want lunch.
Student: Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know about this. Is it possible to register now? I won't need any acre.
Woudies student?
Student: Yes, I am. My major is Linguistics.
Woman: OK, then I guess we can register you alright.
Student: Ah, that's great! Thank you.
Woo take your details, so that I can fill in this for I have your full name?
Student: Yes, sure. It's David Li.
Woman: Yes, D-a-v--id, David, and L-e-e, Lee.
Student: No, it's L-i, Li.
Woman: OK, L-i, Li. And where do you live? What's your per address, David?
Student: I'm a student. I live in the university, so I don't have a long-term address. ge when I graduate. So I don't have a per the university.
Woman: OK, then. Give t dormitory address, please.
Student: Yes. My present address is Room 426, Dormitory Building , Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang.
Woman: Room 426, Dorm Building , Shenyang Jianzhu University. Why is the nay “Jianzhu”? What does it mean?
Student: Jianzhu in Chinese ”. y study architecture.
Woman: Really? So I guess there are a lot of beautiful buildings in your university.
Student: Yes, indeed! And many of the buildings were actually designed by the students froture Departy.
Woman: Wonderful! But you are not in that department. You said you were studying Linguistics.
Student: Yes, that's right. I am in the Departudies. I aed in language and y also specializes in this subject as well.
Woman: Right! Now, I need your student number to make sure that you're a student that is still at school.
Student: Yes, sure. Here it is. My student number is 24690685 LS.
Woman: 24690685 LS. Now, the Conference fee is$65, David.
Student: OK. Here you are!
Woman: Thank you, David. That's fine. Now, I'm sorry but we have just run out of conference bags, but one will be available later if you want to e by the registration desk.
Student: Okay.
Woure room is right down the hall there on your left. Enjoy your time here with us!
Student: I'm sure I will! Thank you very much. Bye!
Woman: Bye-bye!
(Total: 475 words)
Listening Task 3:
You will hear a man telephoning a sports center. Fill in the customer form with what you hear.
Listening Text 3: