That is the end of Section 1. You now have half a minute to check your answers. Now turn to Section 2. Section 2
Questions 11–20 You will hear a talk given by a man to a group of volunteers who are going to help at an arts festival. First you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15. Now listen carefully and answer the questions 11 to 15. Thank you everyone for agreeing to help us out at the
upcoming Greenfield City Arts Festival where we’ll have lots of
wonderful performances and talks from artists, dancers, writers
and musicians. The purpose of today’s meeting is to give you
some information you’ll need before the festival starts next
week.
I’d like to start with some background to the festival. As you
may already know, it has a very long history – it’s not quite
as old as the Blacktown Arts Festival – but still, after twenty
years we have a very good reputation both here and overseas.
In fact, we were the first festival to invite artists from other
countries to speak to our audiences. This is common practice
now at festivals, but it started here. We are also based in one of
the most beautiful parts of the city with sweeping views to the
bay area and the old university buildings.
Our aim for the festival this year is a little different from other
years. Previously we’ve always donated the profits from the
festival to a local project, such as building a new playground or
renovating the City Hall, and we’ve always been lucky enough
to have lots of visitors who are here on their holidays and
have plenty of money to spend in our city. Next week’s festival
however is more about the people who actually live here – we
want to give them an enjoyable few days in their own city.
We need more volunteers than usual this year to help us out
with the increased numbers of visitors we’re hoping to get
especially at the information points – this is where we’ll be
placing more of you this year. Last year some sections of the
festival were very quiet. The children’s art and craft areas for
example didn’t attract the numbers we were expecting which
was disappointing, although the children’s concerts all seemed
to be well-attended.
Now what is it you’ll be doing exactly? Well, for most of you,
you’ll come into the Volunteer Office at the start of each
day to find out where we need you to work that day. The
administration staff will have a list of names and duties and will
show you on the festival map where you need to go. Often it
will be to the place where a show is about to start and you’ll
assist with the flow of people in and out of the venue, checking
that all tickets are valid.
It’s important today that we get your volunteer card processed
as you will need that for identification throughout the festival.
We have the cards already printed with the photograph that
you gave us with your application form, but they do need a
signature, so don’t forget to do that before you leave today. If
you show your volunteer card at any café within the festival
zone then it’ll entitle you to a twenty percent discount on the
cost of your lunch, so they’re well worth having.
Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 16 to 20. Can all of you see a copy of the map of the festival site? I want
to point out several places that visitors often ask about so you
can help them.
We often get asked where the toilets are of course! Well if we
look at the map of the old part of our city where the festival is
held, most people will be coming in on foot through the city
arch which is at the bottom of the map on Mountain Road.
From here you will need to tell them to walk past the children’s
play area and on towards the cinema. The public toilets are
behind the cinema on the side of the police station, not the
library.
We’re expecting hot weather next week, so people will want to
know where the water fountains are. Again, from the archway
on Mountain Road tell people to go towards the tennis courts.
The water fountain is shown by that circular shape and it’s well
shaded from the big trees in that area.
We expect the information tent to be busy so we’ve tried to put
it in a very visible spot. If you look to the east of the children’s
play area you’ll see an unusual ‘C’ shaped building and the
information tent is just in front of that. In previous years we’ve
put it closer to the tennis courts, but it can get a little crowded
there.
Not everyone will have pre-booked their tickets so they’ll need
to buy them on the day from the ticket office. In this case, from
the archway, point them in the direction of the theatre. It’s a
beautiful octagon-shaped building and the ticket office is on
the east side of it, not the west.
Hopefully everyone will be hungry and ready to buy lunch and
snacks from the food stalls. If visitors can’t find them tell them
to head towards the tennis courts and they’ll find them just to
the north. They’ll have a nice view of the lake as they eat.
