اختبار مهارة الاستماع لدبلوم التعليم العام – اللغة الإنجليزية – 2023-2024 – الفصل الدراسي الثاني
اختبار مهارة الاستماع لدبلوم التعليم العام – اللغة الإنجليزية – 2023-2024 – الفصل الدراسي الثاني لمنهج سلطنة عمان للصف الثاني عشر
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General Education Diploma English Language Listening 2023-2024 Semester 2 First Session While I’m reading your instructions, the teacher will check from the back of the class to make sure that everybody can hear. The teacher will not stop the CD. You will hear each text two times.
The first time listen and complete the tasks, and the second time listen and check your work. The examination will start now. Question 1 Look at question 1 on your exam paper.
You are going to hear a conversation between an interviewer and Tom Jones. But first you have 30 seconds to study the task. Now listen and complete the task.
Welcome back to the show. Today we have a very special guest here in the studio. His name is Tom Jones.
He’s a famous fitness trainer. Thanks for having me. Now, Tom, did you always want to become a fitness trainer? No, I didn’t.
When I was a teenager, I was a very talented football player, and my dream was to go professional. But when I was 18, I broke my ankle and had to stay in hospital for a few months. It was then I realised that I couldn’t become a professional footballer.
Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that. Then what did you do? Well, I tried different jobs. For a while, I was a football coach, but I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life.
When I was 20, I decided to become a fitness trainer. What courses did you have to take to become a qualified fitness trainer? Well, I did a three-year course in sports science. Since then, I’ve taken some short courses in nutrition and weight training.
Great. And how did you become a fitness trainer for the rich and famous? Well, ten years ago, I was working in a gym in London and did some training sessions for a film producer. I guess she liked the sessions because that evening, I got a call asking me to come and train a film director.
After that, she recommended me to a very famous actor. I see. What’s it like to train celebrities? Well, they’re self-motivated.
They want to look good in front of the cameras, so they treat it like it’s part of their job. Most of my clients train for about 90 minutes, while those who aren’t very fit don’t want to work out for more than 50 minutes. However, with celebrities, I usually do a 150-minute session.
Wow. And what are the advantages of being a fitness trainer for celebrities? Well, since many of my clients are actors, I get to meet interesting people all the time, and I earn a lot of money. But the best part is I get invited to wonderful shows and parties.
Lucky you. Do you travel to other countries to do training sessions? Actually, most of my clients are here in London. But that doesn’t mean I don’t travel around the world to attend courses or fitness competitions.
Last year, in 2023, I was invited to the heavyweight championship in Madrid, which I didn’t attend for personal reasons. However, I’m planning to attend this year’s competition in Cairo. Thanks for speaking to us, Tom, and we would like to wish you all the best.
My pleasure. Thank you for having me on the show. Now listen again and check your work.
Welcome back to the show. Today, we have a very special guest here in the studio. His name is Tom Jones.
He’s a famous fitness trainer. Thanks for having me. Now, Tom, did you always want to become a fitness trainer? No, I didn’t.
When I was a teenager, I was a very talented football player, and my dream was to go professional. But when I was 18, I broke my ankle and had to stay in hospital for a few months. It was then I realised that I couldn’t become a professional footballer.
Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that. Then what did you do? Well, I tried different jobs. For a while, I was a football coach, but I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life.
When I was 20, I decided to become a fitness trainer. What courses did you have to take to become a qualified fitness trainer? Well, I did a three-year course in sports science. Since then, I’ve taken some short courses in nutrition and weight training.
Great. And how did you become a fitness trainer for the rich and famous? Well, ten years ago, I was working in a gym in London and did some training sessions for a film producer. I guess she liked the sessions because that evening, I got a call asking me to come and train a film director.
After that, she recommended me to a very famous actor. I see. What’s it like to train celebrities? Well, they’re self-motivated.
They want to look good in front of the cameras, so they treat it like it’s part of their job. Most of my clients train for about 90 minutes, while those who aren’t very fit don’t want to work out for more than 50 minutes. However, with celebrities, I usually do a 150-minute session.
Wow. And what are the advantages of being a fitness trainer for celebrities? Well, since many of my clients are actors, I get to meet interesting people all the time, and I earn a lot of money. But the best part is I get invited to wonderful shows and parties.
Lucky you. Do you travel to other countries to do training sessions? Actually, most of my clients are here in London. But that doesn’t mean I don’t travel around the world to attend courses or fitness competitions.
Last year, in 2023, I was invited to the heavyweight championship in Madrid, which I didn’t attend for personal reasons. However, I’m planning to attend this year’s competition in Cairo. Thanks for speaking to us, Tom, and we would like to wish you all the best.
My pleasure. Thank you for having me on the show. That is the end of question one.
Now go on to question two. Look at question two on your exam paper. You’re going to hear a talk about the Tour de France.
The text will be in two parts, each with a different task. But first, you have 30 seconds to study the two tasks. Now listen to part one and complete the task.
The Tour de France is a famous multi-stage bicycle race that is watched by huge crowds who stand along its various routes, cheering on all the cyclists. It is watched by millions of people all over the world. It was first organised in 1903 by Henry, the editor of a famous French sports newspaper.
And it has been held every year since then. Nowadays, the Tour de France consists of 21 stages held over a 23-day period and covers approximately 3,500 kilometres. During the race, cyclists mainly ride through different parts of France and nearby countries like Belgium, Italy, Germany, and Spain.
Although the race may sometimes start outside France, as was the case in 2007 when England hosted the opening stage for the first time, it always finishes in Paris, the capital city of France. There are usually about 20 to 22 teams, each with eight cyclists. They race in different stages and their times are added up.
The one with the fastest time for each stage gets to wear a yellow sports shirt or jumper. The main difficulty cyclists face is riding their bicycles in different areas. For example, some days they ride on smooth flat roads, but other days they have to go up high mountain slopes.
The race is usually held in July and the overall winner is the cyclist who completes all of the stages in the fastest time. Now listen again and check your work. The Tour de France is a famous multi-stage bicycle race that is watched by huge crowds who stand along its various routes cheering on all the cyclists.
It is watched by millions of people all over the world. It was first organised in 1903 by Henry, the editor of a famous French sports newspaper, and it has been held every year since then. Nowadays the Tour de France consists of 21 stages held over a 23-day period and covers approximately 3,500 kilometres.
During the race, cyclists mainly ride through different parts of France and nearby countries like Belgium, Italy, Germany and Spain. Although the race may sometimes start outside France, as was the case in 2007 when England hosted the opening stage for the first time, it always finishes in Paris, the capital city of France. There are usually about 20 to 22 teams, each with eight cyclists.
They race in different stages and their times are added up. The one with the fastest time for each stage gets to wear a yellow sports shirt or jumper. The main difficulty cyclists face is riding their bicycles in different areas.
For example, some days they ride on smooth flat roads, but other days they have to go up high mountain slopes. The race is usually held in July and the overall winner is the cyclist who completes all of the stages in the fastest time. Now listen to part two and complete the task.
The 2024 Tour de France race will start in Florence, Italy on June 29th and end in Nice, a city in the south of France, on July 21st. This year the race will not finish in Paris for the first time in its history because the Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place there from the 26th of July to the 11th of August. The route of the world’s biggest cycling race will pass through four nations, Italy, San Marino, France and Monaco.
The race will include eight flat stages, four mountaintop finishes and two individual time trials. The final test against the clock is a hilly time trial to Nice that could create a lot of suspense as the route is quite dangerous. Cyclists who cross the finish line get €1,000 each and the top 10 finishers get €70,000 each.
The overall winner will receive €500,000 of prize money. The 2024 Tour de France will be broadcast by France 24, NBC and Peacock. If you would like to watch the Tour de France for free you can watch it on either France 24 or the local NBC station.
Unfortunately, neither of them covers the entire race. They only show recordings of some of the stages. So if you have the time and would like to watch it live then the best option is a streaming app called Peacock.
You will have to pay between 6 and 7 US dollars but at least you can watch the race from start to finish wherever you are in the world. Now listen again and check your work. The 2024 Tour de France race will start in Florence, Italy on June 29th and end in Nice, a city in the south of France on July 21st.
This year the race will not finish in Paris for the first time in its history. Because the Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place there from the 26th of July to the 11th of August. The route of the world’s biggest cycling race will pass through four nations.
Italy, San Marino, France and Monaco. The race will include eight flat stages, four mountaintop finishes and two individual time trials. The final test against the clock is a hilly time trial to Nice that could create a lot of suspense as the route is quite dangerous.
Cyclists who cross the finish line get €1,000 each and the top 10 finishers get €70,000 each. The overall winner will receive €500,000 of prize money. The 2024 Tour de France will be broadcast by France 24, NBC and Peacock.
If you would like to watch the Tour de France for free, you can watch it on either France 24 or the local NBC station. Unfortunately, neither of them covers the entire race. They only show recordings of some of the stages.
So, if you have the time and would like to watch it live, then the best option is a streaming app called Peacock. You will have to pay between US$6 and US$7 but at least you can watch the race from start to finish wherever you are in the world. Thank you.
That is the end of the listening examination. Now go on to the next question.
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