Reading time: 50 seconds
Campus Dining Club Announced
Starting this year, the university dining hall will be transformed into The Campus Dining Club for one week at the end of each semester. During the last week of each semester, the dining hall will feature special meals prepared by the university’s culinary arts students. The school feels that this will give students who are studying cooking and food preparation valuable experience that will help them later, when they pursue their careers. This will also allow university students to try gourmet food at a very reasonable rate. The university has announced that it will charge a small additional fee for these dinners in order to pay for the special gourmet food ingredients that will be required.
Main idea of the reading passage:
- Main: a notice about the university dining hall.
- Change: the dining hall will become a gourmet restaurant for one week every semester.
Major points in the reading passage:
- Reason 1: this will give culinary arts students some practical experience.
- Reason 2: students can try nice food at a lower cost.
- Detail: students who want to try this nice food will have to pay a small additional fee to help cover the costs of the more expensive ingredients.
Now listen to the passage. On a piece of paper, take notes on the main points of the listening passage.
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(Narrator)
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Now listen to two students discussing the article.
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(Female student)
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Did you see that article?
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(Male student)
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Yeah – and it sounds like a great idea. It’s really good for the students in that program.
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(Female student)
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Don’t they cook in class anyway?
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(Male student)
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Well, yeah, they do … but my cousin was in the program a few years ago, and she said that it’s very different to cook for a lot of people in that kind of atmosphere than to cook for classmates.
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(Female student)
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Why is that?
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(Male student)
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Well, in class you can take your time. But, cooking for more people, there’s more pressure – I mean, you’re in a rush, people are waiting … and it might be easy to make a mistake with all that stress …
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(Female student)
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Then they’ll think you’re a bad chef, right?
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(Male student)
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Absolutely!
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(Female student)
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So, OK, it’s good practice. But what about the extra cost?
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(Male student)
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Well, look at it this way. You’ve eaten at some of the fancier restaurants in town, right?
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(Female student)
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Yeah, there are some great places to eat around here.
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(Male student)
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Well, these students … they’ll be making fantastic meals. And it’s gonna be cheaper than going out to one of those restaurants.
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(Female student)
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Much cheaper actually …
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(Male student)
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So, you know. It’ll be worth it. The meals will be as good as the ones in those expensive restaurants.
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(Narrator)
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The man expresses his opinion about the plan described in the article. Briefly summarize the plan. Then state his opinion about the plan and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.
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Main idea of the listening passage:
Major points in the listening passage:
The man expresses his opinion about the plan described in the article. Briefly summarize the plan. Then state his opinion about the plan and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.
Preparation time: 30 seconds
Speaking time: 1 minute