English Test for Tourism and Catering Advanced Level Listening Comprehension SAMPLE

Text 1 You will hear Bill Richards, a tourism expert forecasting the future of tourism. Questions 1- 4 Choose the appropriate letter a)-c) and write the letter onto the answer sheet. 1. The World Travel and Tourism council make excessive prognoses for a) personal reasons b) political reasons c) analytical reasons 2. The WTO forecasts are a) consequent b) untrustworthy c) conventional 3. The WTO have been keeping and maintaining statistics for a) about forty years b) a decade c) twenty-thirty years 4. 4. The WTO claim that tourism in Europe a) shows slower growth b) has always been slow c) shows considerable growth Questions 5 - 10 Complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN 4 WORDS according to the text Growth is happening in what were underdeveloped countries, now developing countries, the ..(5) is travelling more. We are travelling more..(6). Providing the world economy(7), there is no reason to believe that it will not.(8) People .(9) to Nepal and .(10) of Africa. Questions 11 14 Decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to what you hear. 11. Several of the media will pressure people to set themselves aims of travel destinations. 12. Most of the relatively new natural and man-made attractions have been offered to potential customers through the Internet. 13. There are exact forecasts in what ways tourism will expand. 14. Transport, media and education provide plenty of new travel opportunities.

Text 2 You will hear a radio programme including interviews with farmers on farm tourism Questions 15 19 Look at the list of phrases of Farm Tourism and write the five appropriate letters from a) i) which are mentioned in the text in boxes 15 -19 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) tourists working on the farm an authentic rural experience learning to handle horse drawn carriages finding a niche selling the crop to town people offering farmyard aromatherapy farmers supplement their income by farm tourism farmers in Devon and Cornwall have big agricultural businesses Farm Tourism 2000 is a marketing co-operative

Questions 20 24 The reporter and the project director take turns in describing what happens in farm tourism. Which are Simons and which are Jeans statements? Write the names on your answer sheet. Jean Woodcraft 20. Need for various facilities. 21. Cooperation instead of competition. 22.A new organization facilitating quality assurance. 23. Combining old and new functions of farms. 24. Locally produced ingredients in dishes. Simon Tellison

Questions 25 30 Answer the questions in NO MORE THAN 4 WORDS 25. Helen Westwaters guests are easing down gradually. What does this fit in well with? 26. What is the niche of John and Allison Werrens Waterloo Farm? 27. What is important for farmers if theyre going to specialize, according to Simon, the reporter? 28. How does John Werren describe the roads around his farm? 29. At what speed do vehicles take farm visitors around, according to Werren? 30. How was life different for visitors on Werrens farm?

English Test for Catering and Tourism Advanced Level Listening Comprehension SAMPLE

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English Test for Tourism and Catering Advanced Level Listening Comprehension SAMPLE

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1. 2. 3 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29 30. B C A a The Asian market To Asia Sustains itself Continue to expand Will want to go Strange parts of Africa T F F T B D F Any order is correct G I Jean Simon Simon Jean Jean Doing aromatherapy and reflexology British motorbikes Try something they enjoy (are all) quiet Forty or fifty miles Gentler and more passive

English Test for Tourism and Catering Advanced Level Listening Comprehension SAMPLE

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Text 1 2minutes 15 seconds. Break between the two recordings:10 seconds Break on the spot: 2 minutes

You will hear Bill Richards, a tourism expert forecasting the future of tourism The World Tourism Organization are making forecasts all the time and something called the World Travel and Tourism Council make very exaggerated forecasts but they do that much more for political reasons. The World Tourism Organizations forecasts are a little more conservative and certainly believable on the track record /statisztika, eddigi eredmny) of the thirty forty years theyve been keeping them and maintaining them. And they are believable in the sense that they are saying that growth of tourism in Europe is slowing down whereas its growing in what were underdeveloped countries, now developing countries, the Asian market is travelling more. We are travelling more to Asia. But growth is there and providing the world economy sustains itself, there are too many blips (tmeneti hibk) here and there, there is no reason to believe that it will not continue to expand. The ways in which it will expand are a little difficult to forecast. People will want to go to Nepal and strange parts of Africa. There will be pressure from the media, particularly television which will set objectives to people to go and achieve. Look at that wonderful desert, look at that mountain, look at that wonderful museum. These are things that are put in front of you through the medium of television which is comparatively new all the time. And the ability to achieve that, to go to St.Petersburg to see the Hermitage is not difficult. And you wont think of it today but tomorrow you see this programme and its Ah, I must go! And you can. So its a combination of the wealth of the ability in terms of there are transport, forms of transport to enable you to do it, and the media and education that goes along with it.

English Test for Tourism and Catering Advanced Level Listening Comprehension SAMPLE

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Text 2 4 minutes Break between the two recordings:10 seconds Break on the spot: 2 minutes

WARNING! THIS TEXT IS MUCH LOUDER THAN TEXT 1 You will hear a radio programme on Farm Tourism including interviews with farmers Now after years of low prices driving a horse and cart through their profits, farmers in the West Country now have the option of turning to Cartwheel. Thats the marketing name that has been created to promote farm tourism in the south-west. To succeed though the Cartwheel members are being told its no longer enough to provide an authentic rural experience for pellet townees ( a vrosokbl kilvellt, a vidk dolgaiban tudatlan vroslakk), as there are already too much of that. No, the latest crop is niche. Find something no one else is doing and then promote it. Simon Tellison reports now on how bracing (frisst) farmyard aromas are losing ground these days to aromatherapy. Simon Afflicted farms in Devon and Cornwall depend on tourism to survive. Half as many again use it to supplement their income. These arent the huge agri-businesses found in other flatter parts of the country but tend to be less than 200 acres, mainly dairy but some arable. Jean Woodcraft is project director of the local marketing co-operative Farm Tourism 2000. Jean So many farmers now have to diversify (tbb lbon llni) and see the need that they do have to take this route. And in many cases its a new knee-jerk (automatikus, reflex-szer)reaction to the same kind of thing. Maybe just looking at self-catering, accommodation, to the extent that we now have an oversupply in certain locations. Simon When theres comparatively little money going around with somewhat uncooperative , if farmers compete head to head with their neighbours, so Farm Tourism 2000 is trying to

help co-ordinate the marketing efforts promoting diversity under the one new logo Cartwheel. That they hope will become a guarantee of quality. Jean They would have to ,still, be working farms, to still be gaining incomes from primary agriculture. Were saying that if they do have animals then there is an accessibility to the animals for their guests or visitors to interact within some way. Were saying that if they provide food wed like them to source it locally to provide local menus, wholesome food with a vegetarian option. Simon So the farmers have the challenge of preserving their way of life while offering something different from their neighbours. Helen Westwater lives in Butterlet(?) Farm near Lithguard She is enhancing the rural idol by offering guests aromatherapy and reflexology. Helen Were completely in the middle of nowhere and theyre generally racing around with their mobile phones tapping them anxiously because were slightly in a different valley. And then gradually you see them easing down and thats what fits in well with doing aromatherapy and reflexology. Its a perfect place to relax. Therere open fields, they can walk over the farm lands, theres 258 acres, theres a neolithic hill built on top a farm.(???) Simon Further north, near Loanstone, John and Allison Werren run Waterloo Farm. They've been offering Bed and Breakfast for ten years. Now its become Cornish Classic Holidays. Their niche is British motorbikes some of which are available for rides. This is a 500 AJS 1954. And does work, does it? It will start, yes, eventually. If they are going to specialize, its important that farmers try something they enjoy as if it takes off. They may find themselves devoting a lot of time to their new project that shouldnt cause John Werren too many problems. John The roads around us are all quiet. You rarely meet a car or lorry, occasionally a tractor and we potter along( lassan piszmogva haladunk) with one of these machines with sort of 40 to 50 miles an hour theres time to look at the view, to appreciate the countryside. Its like going back in time to when people werent in such a hurry to get somewhere where life was gentler and more passive.