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LearnEnglish Elementary Podcast Magazine No. 06
Section 6 - Carolina
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Section 6 follows Carolina – a girl who has come to the United Kingdom (UK) to live, study, and to have fun exploring a different country and culture. Listening to this can help you if you find yourself in a similar situation. You will see that there is often more than one way of saying the same thing in English.
Suggestion: listen to Carolina's conversations at the 'Societies Bazaar', on the podcast, and then do exercises 1 and 2.
Practice materials - Exercise 1
Put the phrases in the correct places in the conversation
Practice materials - Exercise 2
Choosing phrases that are NOT correct
Practice materials - Exercise 3
Now complete this conversation with your own answers. Imagine that you’re at a university Societies Bazaar – and you want to join the International Student Society. You can practise the conversation with a friend.
Student: International Student Society – just five pounds membership! Come and join us now!
You: ............................................................................................
Student: We organise evenings out, lots of social activities. It’s a great way to meet a lot of people. Are you going to join?
You: ............................................................................................
Student: You just fill in a form – I can do it for you. What’s your first name?
You: ............................................................................................
Student: And your surname?
You: ............................................................................................
Student: How do you spell that?
You: ............................................................................................
Student: Thanks. And where are you from?
You: ............................................................................................
Student: OK. And can you tell me your email address?
You: ............................................................................................
Student: Can you spell it for me?
You: ............................................................................................
Student: Have you got a mobile number?
You: ............................................................................................
Student: And I’ll send you some more information – what department are you in?
You: ............................................................................................
Student: OK, great. We’re going to the pub together on Saturday, if you’d like to come.
You: ............................................................................................
Student: OK, well, nice to meet you. See you soon I hope.
You: ............................................................................................
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Carolina goes to the university 'Societies Bazaar', where all the first year students come and choose the different clubs and interest groups they want to join.
Carolina: ... and it starts on Friday afternoon. Anyway, thank you Emily – that would have been really difficult without you.
Emily: No problem. Are you coming to the Societies Bazaar?
Carolina: The what?
Emily: Oh, sorry, the Societies Bazaar. The meeting for all the different student clubs at the university.
Carolina: Oh, yes, I know. I read about it. It’s a bit different from universities at home but I think I understand. All the different clubs come to this – ‘bazaar’ – is that right? – and all the first year students join the clubs they want to.
Emily: But remember that the first year students are called ‘freshers’ – all of this is important Carolina!
Carolina: Freshers! That’s right. Because we’re fresh, I suppose. Can you join as many clubs as you like?
Emily: Yeah, as many as you want. But you have to pay, remember. It’s in there – over there. It looks quite crowded. Shall we go in?
Emily: ... I don’t know really – it’s a bit too crowded for me. Listen, I’m going to go and join the queue for the basketball club. Do you want to meet back here in about 20 minutes?
Carolina: OK. I want to join the International Students Society but the queue is too big. I’m going to have a look round and wait for the queue to get smaller.
Emily: OK. I’ll see you back here, yeah? In about 20 minutes?
Carolina: OK. See you later.
Student: ... Conservation Society – just five pounds membership. Come and join us.
Carolina: Erm, hi. Erm. I’m not quite sure what the Conservation Society is. Can you tell me a bit about it?
Student: Definitely. We go out into the countryside and we do things to help the environment – sort of countryside management – you know, erm … looking after forests erm .. making the countryside better for animals and birds and things … erm.. it’s quite hard to explain really. Ah, look, here comes the society president. I’m sure he can tell you about it better than me.
Carolina: Jamie. Hi. We met on the train, remember?
Jamie: Carolina! Hi. How are you? Did you find your room OK and everything?
Carolina: Yes. Thank you. And you’re the president of the Conservation Society? Your friend was telling me about it.
Jamie: Yes. Are you going to join? Remember I was telling you about the countryside in Northumbria? North of Newcastle. It’s really beautiful. You should join and come and see it with us. I’m sure it’s a bit different from Venezuela.
Carolina: OK. You’ve persuaded me. What do I have to do to join?
Jamie: Excellent. You just have to fill in this form. I’ll fill it in for you. Carolina. What’s your surname?
Carolina: Del Barco Do you want me to spell it?
Jamie: Yeah, please. Is it one word or two words?
Carolina: Two words. d-e-l .. small ‘d’ , then capital B, a-r-c-o
Jamie: And have you got your email address yet?
Carolina: My university email? No, not yet. But you can use another address. It’s caro del b eighty eight @ ready net .V-Z.
Jamie: Can you spell that for me?
Carolina: OK. It’s Caro del B – c-a-r-o-d-e-l-b – all one word. Eighty eight. At. Ready Net – r-e-a-d-y-n-e-t dot v-z.
Jamie: ... net dot v z. OK, great. And have you got a mobile number yet?
Carolina: Yes. Oh, just a moment, I’ll have to look at my phone. I haven’t learnt it yet. Here it is. Oh double three four seven four six one oh three seven.
Jamie: Oh double three...
Carolina: Oh double three four seven four six one oh three seven.
Jamie: ...four seven four six one oh three seven. Right. Thanks. What department are you in Carolina? I can send you our booklet. I haven’t finished writing it yet.
Carolina: Environmental Science. In the Daish building. Can you send it there?
Jamie: Yeah. No problem. The booklet’s got all the information in it. We usually meet on Sundays and talk about what we’re going to do and things. We’re all going out to the pub this Thursday, if you want to come. I’ll give you a ring and let you know where we’re going, if that’s OK?
Carolina: Yeah. Great.
Jamie: Right. That’s everything. Actually, there’s one more thing. I seem to remember that you said you’d take me to lunch. Do you want to go and get a sandwich somewhere?
Carolina: Yes, I did, didn’t I? OK. Erm … I just need to talk to my friend...
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