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Test's answers

Listening N. 6:

1. What is the listening about? It is about work transportation.

2. What are the main points made? They are the difficulties met during travelling to work.

3. What is the message sent by the speaker? It is that you must consider the advantages and disadvantages before choosing the most suitable means of transportation to go to work.

4. What are the key-words in the text? Car, bicycle,bus, train, plane.

Listening N. 7:

1. What is the listening about? It is about animal rights.

2. What are the main points made? Concern the meaning/possible meanings of being an animal's rights activist means.

3. What is the message sent by the speaker? The speaker wants to increase public awareness about animal's rights.

4. What are the key-words in the text? Nature, non-violent, protest, animal abuse, rights, laboratory experiments.

DICTATION:

You will hear an interview with an animal-right's activist called Rachel Brooks, who is answering questions about animal-rights.

Interviewer: Hello, and welcome back to our week-long special dedicated to Nature and the Environment.

We are here with our guest, animal rights activist Rachel Brooks.

So, Rachel, what does it mean to be an animal-right's activist?

Rachel: An animal rights activist is basically someone who is dedicated to protect animal rights. We feel that animals have rights too and in a lot of cases they , the animals, are being abused or used improperly.

Interviewer: What do you mean by used improperly?

Rachel: Most people's ideas of abused animals are those being hunted or killed in the wild, legally or illegally, but abused animals can me much closer to home. The most common a occurrences involve owners beating their pets , or animals being used in laboratories for experiments . I would describe abused animals as any animal that isn't leaving a normal, peaceful life.