Test 2 - Section 3

Section three.

You will hear a discussion between a college tutor and two students Christina and Ibrahim.

First you have some time to look at questions 21 to 26.

Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 26.

First of all I’d just like to say Christina and Ibrahim that I really enjoyed watching your video about student life last week, and I could see that the rest of the group did too.

You did really well and I hope that you got a lot out of it.

I’d like to use this tutorial as a feedback session, where you reflect on the experience of doing the project.

So Christina I was wondering what did you enjoy most about making the video?

I liked using the camera.

Is it the first time you’ve operated one like that?

Yes it is.

Well the results were very good. anything else?

I also enjoyed visiting one of the British students we filmed.

I’d never been inside a British home before.

Okay Christina thanks.

What about you Ibrahim?

What did you enjoy?

Well, for me it was a very good chance to get to know students who are on other courses, because everyone in our group is studying English and we don’t usually have much to do with the rest of the college.

Yes, good.

Do you think you’ll maintain the contact now?

I hope, so I’ve invited three of them to have dinner with me next week.

Great, if you haven’t decided what to make yet I can tell you they’ll love trying Arab dishes.

And of course it’s good for your English too.

Christina what did you find?

What was the most useful aspect of the project from the point of view of the English practice?

I think when we were being shown how to edit the film, we had to follow the instructions and that was very good practice for me, and I also learned some technical words that I hadn’t heard before.

Hmm, what about you Ibrahim?

What was the most useful for your English?

It was listening to the British students, because they don’t speak as slowly as most of the tutors on our course I think they speak at natural speed so it forces me to get used to it.

And they use a lot of slang.

So you’ll learn some new words which will be useful?

Yes.

Good I’m glad it helped.

Well, we’ve talked a little bit about enjoyment and about language practice.

Were there any other benefits?

What else did you feel you’d learn from the project?

Was it useful in other ways?

Yes, well firstly I learned how to use a video camera and also i think I really learned a lot about working together with other people, I’ve never done anything with a group before and we had to find ways of cooperating, um and compromising and sometimes persuading people, when they don’t agree with you.

Yes, that is a very useful experience I know.

Before you hear the rest of the discussion you have some time to look at questions 27 to 30.

Now listen and answer questions 27 to 30.

What about you ibrahim?

Well, I think I learned a lot about how important editing is, when you’re filming you think that everything’s going to be interesting, but in fact we cut around half of it in the end and then it was much better.

Good, well one last thing I’d like to ask.

What mistakes do you think you as a group that is made?

I mean to put it another way if you had to do it all over again, is there anything you do differently?

We didn’t plan very well, for example, we didn’t decide on dates when we’d complete each separate step of the project, and we should have agreed about that in the beginning because we were always late with everything.

Right, anything else?

I think we should have tried to experiment more with the camera I mean with angles and the focus and that kind of thing.

So you should have been more ambitious, do you agree Ibrhim?

Not really in fact I think we were too ambitious we were inexperienced, and we didn’t have a lot of time and we tried to do too much to make a long film.

Next time I would make a shorter one and try to get the quality better.

Well, that’s very interesting.

Next semester we will be doing another video project, with a different content of course, but you’ll have an opportunity to put into practice what you’ve learned this time.

Do you have any ideas about..

That is the end of section three you now have half a minute to check your answers

Now turn to section four.