Two friends talk about how one can help the other with an upcoming

charity show.
Listen to the mp3 file and choose true/false for each question. Then listen
again to check.
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1. Ben needs someone to help with the cooking.
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alse
!. The show is going to take place in the park.
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alse
3. "athy likes #raham$s %okes.
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alse
&. 'omebody from "athy$s family has already (olunteered to help.
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alse
). Ben doesn$t think "athy$s card tricks will work.
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*. "athy can$t dance (ery well.
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+. "athy can$t participate because she is helping 'usan.
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Ben: "athy, we need some help for the charity show on 'aturday. -o you think
you can help.
Kathy: 'ure, what do you want me to do. / can do some of the cooking if you
need.
Ben: 0o, the cooking is taken care of.
Kathy: 1", what about the clearing up. / can pick up the litter off the floor. There$s
going to be a lot of people around and the park will get pretty messy / think.
Ben: 2ohn and Lindsay ha(e (olunteered to do all of that.
Kathy: 'o what do you want my help for.
Ben: The talent contest.
Kathy: /$m sorry.
Ben: 3eah, you know. The talent contest we are doing. The problem is 4 we don$t
think many people will (olunteer to take part unless there are some people already
signed up, so / want you to put your name down now to do something.
Kathy: But / can$t do anything5
Ben: 'ure you can5
Kathy: 0o, seriously Ben. / am the last person you want for a talent show. / don$t
ha(e any.
Ben: 3ou don$t ha(e any what.
Kathy: Talent55
Ben: Look, / asked #raham and he said he would tell a few %okes to begin the
show.
Kathy: 6a(e you heard any of #raham$s %okes. 6e can$t tell %okes Ben5 7ho else
do you ha(e.
Ben: 3our mother agreed to play a piece of music on the clarinet. 'omething from
a film.
Kathy: 1h, that will be nice. 'he can play well.
Ben: 8lright5 'o now we need you to do something. 7hat can you do really well.
Kathy: / can cook5
Ben: / don$t think people are going to want to watch you cook, "athy5
Kathy: / can do some card tricks. That could be a nice idea.
Ben: -o they always work.
Kathy: / can practice5 They usually work5
Ben: 6mm5 /s there anything else you can do.
Kathy: 7ell, / can$t dance and / can$t %uggle....
Ben: 7hat about singing. 9an you sing.
Kathy: :y (oice isn$t too terrible5 / can sing the national anthem quite well.
Ben: 6ey that$s great. /t will only take a couple of minutes and with three
(olunteers already, / think other people will be less shy to sign up.
Kathy: 7hat time does the talent show start.
Ben: 8round 3 in the afternoon
Kathy: 1h no5 /$m on 'usan$s cookery stall until &5
Ben: 9an you escape for %ust ) minutes.
Kathy: 0ot really but if you want, / can sing my song at the end of the show
instead of the beginning.
Ben: 3eah, that sounds perfect. 7e will finish up at about )pm.
Kathy: 1", agreed. ;ut me down as the last act in the talent show.
Ben: Thanks a lot "athy, / really appreciate it.
Kathy: 'ure, no problem5
Listen to David and Carol talking about a modern art exhibition.
Choose the best answer for the questions below.
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1. hat is Carol!s reaction to David!s opinion that modern art looks like it has been done b"
children#
$he can understand wh" he thinks that.
$he disagrees totall".
$he accuses him of not understanding modern art.
%. hat did Carol like about the picture of the tree#
&hat is was so big.
't reminded her of winter.
&he wa" the artist represented the tree.
3. hat did Carol sa" about the second picture#
't was large.
't was her favourite painting.
't had a lot of strange colours.
(. hich of these statements is not true of the last painting that Carol describes#
$he saw it near the end of the art galler" visit.
$he also liked the frame on the picture.
't reminded her of her childhood.
$he spent a long time looking at it.
). hat suggestion does Carol make to David at the end of their conversation#
&o bu" a painting if he sees something he likes.
&o attend the exhibition with someone who couldn!t go with Carol toda".
&o go with their aunt* who is in town this week.
David: 6ello 9arol. 7hat did you do today.
Carol: 6i -a(id, /$(e %ust got back from the 8rt #allery. 3ou know, they had a
wonderful e<hibition of abstract art today. 3ou should ha(e come with me.
David: 0o, / really can$t stand modern art. /t %ust seems like children$s painting to
me.
Carol: 3es, if you don$t understand what the artist is trying to communicate, it can
seem a little like that.
David: 7ell, what did you see then. Tell me about some of your fa(orite pictures.
Carol: 1", /$ll try to remember. There was this one huge painting which was mainly
black and gray. / think it was supposed to be a tree although it could ha(e been
anything really 4 you know what these modern paintings are like.
David: 8nd what did you like about that one.
Carol: 2ust the way the tree looked. /t was like the tree was made of hard, metal
spikes and the mi< of white and gray made e(erything look like it was winter. =ery
cold.
David: 7hat else did you see.
Carol: There was this other huge painting which was mainly black and white. /t
looked (ery impressi(e. /t was a sort of spiral and each part of the spiral was a
white disc and they all met in the middle. /t$s really hard to e<plain. But my absolute
fa(orite was a painting we saw in the last room we (isited.
David: 7ho did you go with.
Carol: / went with :elanie and her sister. 8nyway, there was this beautiful painting
and it looked like a meadow and all the grass was purple and red and there was
this green sky in the background. / looked at it and thought of summer. /t also had
this ama>ing %et black frame and the whole effect was (ery impressi(e. / spent
about ten minutes %ust looking at that one.
David: 7ow, that really does sound impressi(e. :aybe / should go and (isit this
e<hibition.
Carol: 3ou really should. / think you would be inspired by some of the paintings. /
think you should look at modern art like food. 3ou need to taste things to see if you
like them. 8t that e<hibition today, some of them were e(en for sale. That last one,
the meadow one, was on sale for ?@,AAA.
David: 6ow much.5 That$s really e<pensi(e. / may go and (isit the e<hibition
tomorrow, but /$m not going to buy anything.
Carol: 1", let me know how it goes, won$t you. #i(e :ark a call. 6e wanted to
come with us today but his aunt was in town so he couldn$t. 6e$d be really keen on
going.
David: 1", / will.