IELTS Listening · Cam 8

Test 1 Part 2

Hello, and thank you for asking me to your teacher's meeting to talk About the dinosaur museum and to tell you a bit

Level: B2 · 69 sentences

Transcript

  1. Hello, and thank you for asking me to your teacher's meeting to talk
  2. About the dinosaur museum and to tell you a bit
  3. About what you can do with your students there.
  4. Well, let me give you some of the basic information first.
  5. In regard to opening hours...
  6. We're open every day of the week from 9am to 8pm,
  7. Except on Mondays when we close at 1.30pm.
  8. 1.30pm.
  9. And in fact the only day in the year
  10. When we're closed is on the 25th of December.
  11. You can book a guided tour for your school group any time that we're open.
  12. If you bring a school group to the museum,
  13. When you arrive we ask you to remain
  14. With your group in the car park.
  15. One or more of the tour guides will welcome you there and brief you
  16. About what the tour will be about.
  17. We do this there because our entrance is quite small
  18. And we really haven't got much room for briefing groups in the exhibition area.
  19. As far as the amount of time you'll need goes,
  20. If you bring a school group, you should plan
  21. On allowing a minimum of 90 minutes for the visit.
  22. This allows 15 minutes to get on and off the coach.
  23. 45 minutes for the guided tour and 30 minutes for after-tour activities.
  24. If you're going to have lunch at the museum,
  25. You will of course have to allow more time.
  26. There are two cafes in the museum with seating for 80 people.
  27. If you want to eat there, you'll need to reserve some seating
  28. As they can get quite crowded at lunchtime.
  29. Then outside the museum at the back there are tables
  30. And students can bring their own lunch and eat it there in the open air.
  31. When the students come into the museum foyer,
  32. We ask them to check in their backpacks
  33. With their books, lunch boxes, etc.
  34. At the cloakroom before they enter the museum proper.
  35. I'm afraid in the past we have had a few things gone missing after school visits,
  36. So this is a strict rule.
  37. Also, some of the exhibits are fragile.
  38. And we don't want them to be accidentally knocked.
  39. But we do provide school students with handouts
  40. With questions and quizzes on them.
  41. There's so much that students can learn in the museum,
  42. And it's fun for them to have something to do.
  43. Of course, they'll need to bring something to write with for these.
  44. We do allow students to take photographs.
  45. For students who are doing projects,
  46. It's useful to make some kind of visual record of what they see
  47. That they can add to their reports.
  48. And finally, they should not bring anything to eat
  49. Into the museum or drinks of any kind.
  50. There are also a few things
  51. That students can do after the tour.
  52. In the theatrette on the ground floor,
  53. There are continuous screenings of short documentaries about dinosaurs
  54. Which they can see at any time.
  55. We used to have an activity room
  56. With more interactive things like making models of dinosaurs and drawing and painting pictures,
  57. Even hunting for dinosaur eggs.
  58. But unfortunately the room was damaged in a bad storm recently
  59. When water came in the roof,
  60. So that's closed at the moment.
  61. But we do have an IT centre
  62. Where students have access to CD-ROMs with a range of dinosaur games.
  63. These games are a lot of fun.
  64. But they also teach the students about the lives of dinosaurs,
  65. How they found food, protected their habitat, survived threats,
  66. That kind of thing.
  67. And I think that's all I have to tell you.
  68. Please feel free to ask any questions
  69. If you would like to know anything else.