Helen Edwards: Exactly! And the best way is to get children interested in museums at an early age. Ideally, I'd like to lose 2 in loc , $0 the children can feel that the museum belongs to them. We muse! be muc! endl shopping malls. We envisage museums with a central area ‘and wings ar corridors leading off that area. That would allow people to return to the central area after wandering around for as long as they want. In this way 2 trip to the Interviewer: Rebuilding museums sounds rather expensive, I must say! Helen Edwards: I'm afraid you're right. But musoums are really important: investing in museums is investing in the future of the country, just like investing in education, and the government has to realise that. Interviewer: It does sound as though you're aiming to do an awl lot. Do you feel optimistic? Helen Edwards: Oh yes, I do! And I'm sure we'll see more and more people visiting museums in the near future. Next ein ro orgarising 1um Festival, which is intended to attract people who wouldn't normally go to museums. I'm convinced it will be a huge success. Interviewer: | certainly hope so. And thank you for coming to talk to us, Ms Edwards Helen Edwards: Thank you, Pl >> PART 3 You will hear five different people talking about schoo! trips they went on when they were younger. For questions 19-23, choose from the list A-F what each speaker says about their trip. Use the lottors only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use. 1 Our History Society organised a trip to Kent, where we spent a fortnight digging up some Roman remains. | didn't know a thing about archaeology before, but that summer | really got interested in the subject, and the dig was fantastic. Lgot to know two girls who have been ceally close to me ever since, and | fell in love with Kent; that's what I call a great trip! 2 ‘One year our Geography teacher organised a ski trip to the French Alps. It was great! None of us had been skiing before, and | don't think any of us had seen such wonderful scenery befora, either. | thought later that if we'd learnt som skiing before wo ‘would have helped a lot, because the first week we were basically stuck in the ski school and couldn't go out on the slopes by ourselves. But it was a really good trip. 3 ‘Our school had a cottage in the Lake District, where some of us went for weekends during the summer. | was about +14 when | went for the first time. It was quite nice, really, but we were a bit disappointed because we didn't realise 192. FCE Tests Tapescripts ‘we'd have to go walking round the mountains all day. We wanted to have more time to aurselyes, just to go and look round the lakes, but of course looking back, | can see why the teachers had to supervise us closely and make sure there weren't any accidents. 4 (One summer our Spanish teacher organised a trip to Spain, ‘which was fascinating! She knew all about the history of the country, and she'd prepared a very good programme of sightseeing tours and cultural events, Unfortunately, we cor ka couple of a theduled ihe bus we were in was involved in a car cra: was badly damaged and two of the boys were injured and had to be admitted to hospital. If it hadn't been for thet, it would have been a brilliant trip. 5 (Our English teacher also taught drama, and he was really keen on us seeing as much live theatre as we could. One of my most memorable experiences was going to London to ‘see Macbeth at the National Theatre. We stayed overnight ina youth hostel. | was about 15, and I'd never beon to London before, so it was really exciting for me. We must wv ig is the an wth mbar ly cost was pretty cheap. fds >» PART 4 You will hear a radio interview with Julia Emerson, a young writer. Far questions 24-30, choose the best answer, A, B or c hich Interviewer: This evening on "Young and Gifted’ | am joined in the studio by Julia Emerson, the young Scottish writer who's recently had a screenplay accepted by a major Hollywood studio. Julia, 'm glad you could be with us today. Could | start by asking you to explain exactly why what you've done is so unusual? Julia Emerson: Well, Hollywood films these days don’t start off with @ screenplay. The screenplay only gets written after ducers have cot film. Then they contact agents to find at least one major star who will act in it. The next step is to get a team of anything up to twenty writers working on the screenplay. Now. Livas inexperienced enough to think that | could simply write a screenplay and send it to a number of studios. Which is Lia, idn't get an ans (ean ‘one. And this time. by some amazing chance, they accepted it! Interviewer: | think everyone has been stunned by the fact, that you've been successful with a screenplay at such an early age. But in fact, this isn't the first piece of writing you've had published, is it? Julia Emerson: No, it isn't. Lwon a short story competition it az nL wa 1 aN been writing in my spare time, I've had a number of articles published in teen magazines. I've always been fascinated by television and the cinema, and | even tried to develop an