Listening

Exercise 1

You are going to hear a talk between Elizabeth and Hector Grant. Before you listen to the conversation look at these statements. After you have listened to the tape determine whether these statements are true (T) or false (F). Explain why.

1.	Mr. Macpherson recommended a Mr. George Duncan from Glasgow to come to see Elizabeth Corby.
2.	In Mr. Grant’s opinion it is doubtful that any friend of Mr. Duncan’s will make the company’s fortune.
3.	Mr. Duncan said he would like Mr. Grant to take him round the factory.
4.	H.G. thought that J. Macpherson would take up the whole day and then order one chair.
5.	Elizabeth suggested that she could take a new customer round the factory.
6.	H.G. said that he would see Mr. Duncan first and then Elizabeth would take him round the factory.
7.	H.G. asked his secretary to interrupt his interview with G. Duncan after fifty minutes.
8.	H.G. asked his secretary to remind him that he had another appointment.

Exercise 2

Listen to the following conversation between George Duncan and Mr. Fielding. Look at their remarks given below at random. Put them in the order they appear in the Unit. Supply the remarks with the name of their authors.

A...	I’ll take you to the assembly shop …
B...	This is one of our three workshops. This is the delivery bay here.
C...	Oh, really.
D...	The steel sheets and bars come in, as you see, in different sizes and are unloaded on to the delivery bank here. We buy them in from a steelworks in Wales. This machine here is a spot welder, and this is the new conveyor belt which we had installed last year. We doubled our output in this department as a result.
E...	Oh, yes.

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Exercise 3

Listen to the following extract from the conversation between Elizabeth Corby and George Duncan. Fill in the spaces in the sentences below with the words actually used.

Elizabeth:	Good afternoon, Mr. Duncan, I’m … …, … … ….Would you like … … … … … …?
Duncan:	Yes, I would ….
Elizabeth:	Now this is our … …. We have all the … departments here: …, …, Personnel, … … and so on.
Duncan:	What … … opposite us?
Elizabeth:	That’s the warehouse, where … … … … … are stored. We try and keep … … … … … so the urgent orders can be met … … … ….
Duncan:	If I ordered a desk today, how long would it be before … … … …?
Elizabeth:	I think perhaps … … … … … … … …, Mr. Fielding. You’ll meet him … … … over … … ….We’ll go there now.