CAMBRIDGE 8
Test 1
Section 2
Hello, and thank you for asking me (1) .....to teach the meeting............ to talk
about the Dinosaur Museum and to tell you a bit about what you can do with your
students there.
Well, let me give you some of (2) ………the basic information
first……………… In regard to opening hours, we're open every day of the week
from 9.00 am to
(3)…8 p.m expect on Monday……… when we close at 1.30 pm. And, in fact the
only day in the year when we're closed is on the 25th of December. You can
(4) ……………………..……. for your school group any time that we're open. If
you bring a school group to the museum, when you arrive we ask you to remain
with your group (5) ……………………………………………One or more of the
tour guides will welcome you there and brief you about what the tour will be
about.
We do this there because our entrance is quite small and we really haven't got
much
(6) …………………………………………… in the exhibition area.
As far as the amount of time you'll need goes, if you bring a school group you
should
plan on allowing (7) …………………………………………… for the visit. This
allows 15 minutes to get on and off the coach, 45 minutes for the guided tour and
(8) ……………………………………………
If you're going to have lunch at the museum you will, of course, have to allow
more time. There are (9) ……………………………………………, with seating
for 80 people. If you want to eat there, you'll (10)……………………………
………………, as they can get quite crowded at lunch time. Then outside the
museum at the back there are tables, and students can bring their own lunch and
eat it there in the open air.
When the students come (11) …………………………………………… we ask
them to check in their backpacks with their books, lunch boxes, etc, at the
cloakroom before they enter the museum proper. I'm afraid in the past we have
had a few things gone missing after school visits so this is a strict rule. Also,
some of
(12)…………………………………………… and we don't want them to be
accidentally knocked.
But we do provide school students with handouts (13)
…………………………………………… on them. There's so much that students
can learn in the museum and it's fun for them to have something to do. Of course,
they'll need to bring something to write with for these. We do allow students to
take photographs. For students who are doing projects it's useful to make some
(14)………………………………………… of what they see that they can add to
their reports. And finally, they should not bring anything to eat into the museum,
or drinks of any kind.
There are also a few things the students can do after the tour. In the theatrette on
the ground floor there are continuous (15) ……………………………………
……… about dinosaurs which they can see at any time. We used to have an
activity room
with more interactive things like (16) ……………… ……………………………
and drawing and painting pictures, even hunting for dinosaur eggs, but
unfortunately the room was damaged in a bad storm recently when water came in
the roof, so that's closed at the moment. But we do have an IT center where
students have access to
CD ROMS with a (17)…………… ……………………………… These games
are a lot of fun, but they also teach the students about the lives of dinosaurs, how
they
(18) ……………………… ……………………, survived threats, that kind of
thing.
And… I think that's all I have to tell you. Please feel free to ask any questions if
you would like to know anything else …
