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M:
No, I’m not actually. My mum’s British, but I was
born in Montreal, so I have a Canadian passport.
F: OK
– and you’ve played tennis before?
M:
Well, I’m not much good, but I’m not a beginner.
F: So shall we say intermediate level?
M:
Isn’t there anything between beginner and
intermediate?
F:
I’m afraid not.
M:
That’ll have to do then.
F: Any disabilities?
M: None.
F: And finally. Have you signed up for any other
sports clubs?
M: I went along to a taster session for the
badminton club, but I’ve decided to do tennis
instead, so I never actually joined that one. I did join
the squash club last year, but I didn’t go to many
sessions, and I’m not renewing my membership.
F:
Well, I’ll put that down for the record – but I’ll
leave the badminton off for the moment.
M: OK.
F:
That’s it then. I’ll get this processed and you’ll
get a text telling you when the first session is and all
the details. You can pick up your
membership card
then.
M: OK
– you’ve been very helpful. Thanks.
F: No problem. Enjoy your tennis.
M: Thanks. Bye.
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M: Hi, Jill. I wanted to ask you about the conference
– whether we’ve got the draft programme finalised
yet, because I need to put something on the
website.
F:
Yes, I’ve emailed you a draft, but there’ve been
some changes.
M:
That’s OK – I’ve got the draft here – let’s run
through it. I’ll make a note of any amendments.
F: Great. Well, a
s you know, we’re starting at 10.30
with three parallel sessions. In the first session,
three students from different faculties will be
presenting their research findings.
M:
So we’ve got three rooms operating at the same
time.
F:
Correct. We’ve got one speaker in the main
auditorium. He’s called Pedro Novak, and he’s from
the faculty of engineering.
M:
Yes, I’ve got that here – but not his subject area.
Is it mechanical engineering or electrical
engineering?
F:
Neither, actually. He’s a structural engineer –
and that’s what his presentation’s going to be about.
M: OK. Then there are two more rooms with
speakers at 10.30.
F:
That’s right. We’ve got the Green Room, and
that’s the law faculty, but there we’ve got a change
of speaker. The topic is still copyright law, but
instead of Tom Wilson, we’ve now got
Grace
Ndjuma.
M: Right. How do you spell that?
F: Grace
– G-R-A-C-E – then Ndjuma – that’s N-D-
J-U-M-A.
M:
Thanks. I’ve got that now.
F: And the third speaker at 10.30 will be Maria
Bruni, who’s talking about international banking.
M: Yeah
– that’s unchanged. But I don’t have a
note of the room for that. Are we still using the
library?
F:
No, we thought it wouldn’t be big enough in the
end. We were offered either the Red Room or the
Yellow Room. The red one’s slightly bigger, so
we’ve gone for that one – even if the yellow one
would’ve been closer to the main auditorium.
M: I see. Then after lunch?
F: We start again at two, ith three more parallel
sessions. We’ve got Alex Lorusso in the main
auditorium. He’s from the Life Sciences faculty. I
wasn’t sure whether he was doing marine biology or
not so I left that blank
– but he is apparently.
M:
OK. I’ll put that in then.
F:
And we’ve got Kathy Lin in the Green Room.
That’s LIN, L-I-N.
M:
Yes, I’ve got that, but no subject.
F:
Well, she’s from the Linguistics Faculty, and
she’s going to be talking about pronunciation.
M: Interesting.
F:
Yes, should be. Then we’re in yet another room
for
the third afternoon session, I’m afraid. It’s called
the Quiet Room
– not ideal, but apart from the
canteen, it was all they had available. And that’s
where Declan Boyd from the Physics Faculty is
going to be talking about astronomy.
M: OK. Was that Boyle, B-O-Y-L-E?
F: No, Boyd. B-O-Y-D.
M:
Ah, OK. Then we’re all together in the main
auditorium for the last two sessions.
F:
That’s right. After the break at 3.45, we’ll hear
Professor Makin’s lecture. I didn’t have a title from
him when I did the draft. He’s going to be talking
about online courses after all. He had considered
doing something on work placements and links with
industry, but changed his mind.
M: OK
– so that just leaves the Vice Chancellor at
four. Is that the closing ceremony?
F: Well
– it’s actually the medal ceremony. The
student who gives the best presentation is going to
get a medal, remember?
M:
Oh, yes, of course. Thanks, Jill. So there isn’t a
formal closing ceremony?
F: Not really.
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M:
OK, thanks. I’ll get all that keyed in and
uploaded straightaway.
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Good evening. My presentation tonight is about the
work of Dr David Gray. Dr
Gray is a biologist and
writer whose love of the Arctic led him to study birds
and mammals in Canada’s far north over many
decades.
Dr Gray’s work mainly focused on the behaviour of
the Arctic hare, a member of the rabbit family, as
well as on Arctic wolves and other species found in
the far north of Canada. David planned and carried
out a research project on the behaviour of Arctic
hares, making seven research trips to the Nunavut
area of northern Canada over a period of twenty
ye
ars. Dr Gray’s research was what’s termed an
observational study, and the photographs and video
footage that document the research are stored in
the archives of the Canadian Museum of Nature.
The study area chosen for
the project was a seven-
kilometre stretch of the Sverdrup Pass, which is an
80-kilometre-long pass that runs across northern
Ellesmere Island in Nunavut. The study area is
about 600 metres above sea level, and is bounded
on the north side by mountains rising to 1,500
metres above sea level, and to the south by
mountains and a valley glacier leading up to a major
icecap rising to more than 2,000 metres. Within the
study area of the pass, the sandy flats in mid-valley
are scattered with clumps of Arctic willow trees and
other types of vegetation.
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