Listening for ielts 7 Unit 1

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Listening for IELTS
Unit 6
: Listening Activity No. 2 
Good afternoon and welcome to the session on Britain. This afternoon I would like to provide some 
useful information to you about traveling to Britain. Britain has over 700 tourist information centers. 
You will find them at major ports, airports, stations, historic landmarks, and towns and holiday centers. 
So just look out for this sign that says tourist information. The staff would be able to answer your 
holiday queries as well as provide essential maps, guides and brochures. Tourist information centers at 
major ports, and airports in London and addresses of British authority European offices are all listed on 
the tourist information centers.
Now let's talk about the telephone in Britain, you know, Britain is well-supplied with public telephones. 
Street kiosks take ten-pence coins. In city centers, main land railway stations, airports and central 
London underground stations, payphones and card phones are in operation. For the latter, small plastic 
phone cards are used and these come in 10, 20, 40, 100 and 200 units, and can be bought at post 
offices, news kiosks, station bars and shops where the green and white card phone sign is displayed. 
When using the different public telephone systems, make sure you read the dialing instructions 
carefully.
Now, let's see the banks in Britain. There are 24-hour banks at London's two main airports. One is 
Heathrow, and the other is Gatwick. Otherwise, banks are normally open from 9:30 to 15:30 hours 
Monday to Friday. Barclay's bank and National West Minster Bank are for the Saturday morning services 
in some of the branches. National Jordan banks has 42 bureau de change located in post offices 
throughout the country in main tourist areas. Opening hours are 9 o'clock to 17:30, weekdays, 9 o'clock 
to 12:30 Saturday mornings. One exception to this, is to Trafalgar office. Its opening hours are 8 o'clock 
to 20 o'clock, weekdays and Saturdays and 10 o'clock to 17 o'clock on Sundays. The bureau de change 
services are available to overseas visitors. Visitors can change their money there. You can also change 
money at bureau de change, large hotels, department stores and travel agents. Be sure to check in 
advance their rate of exchange and the commission charge as these vary considerably. Wherever 
possible, you are advised to use a bank or bureau de change which conforms to BTA Code of Conduct. In 
most cases this is indicated by display of the code.