LISTENING 5 C1

Scouting and Guiding 2 Listen to the five speakers. What reason does
each person give for enjoying Scouting or Guiding?
Monologues Choose from the list (A–H).
You are going to listen to five people talking about their experiences of
Scouting and Guiding. A They could try things without their families.
B They could have fun playing with their friends.
C They became aware of how to enjoy different
aspects of life.
D They made very good friends from around the
world.
E They have been able to find out about
traditions in other countries first-hand.
F They like seeing how it affects other people.
G They enjoyed solving problems with other
people.
H They can spend time with a group of
enthusiastic people.

Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3

Speaker 4 Speaker 5

3 Listen again. Are these sentences true or false?

1 Complete the text about the history of Scouting and Guiding with the
phrases (A–H). There are two phrases you don’t need. Speaker 1
A principally for girls and women 1 She’s been to all of the World Centres.
TRUE / FALSE
B leading to the creation of the Scout movement
2 She’s taken activities she’s learnt during her
C a meeting of international Scouts
visits and introduced them to the group she
D necessary to give them leadership skills leads. TRUE / FALSE
E had a lot of untapped potential Speaker 2
F a programme for younger girls 3 Harry has trouble communicating with the other
G an annual day of celebration children. TRUE / FALSE
H able to learn about other cultures 4 To start off their meetings, the Beavers perform
a chant, then do a dance. TRUE / FALSE
The history of Scouting and Guiding Speaker 3
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) was an artist and former soldier, who 5 The speaker is still involved in Guiding now.
believed that young people 1 . In 1908, he published Scouting for TRUE / FALSE
Boys as a training manual for organisations to help young people, 6 The Sunbeams sewed a badge onto their
mostly boys, 2 . uniforms to prove they had joined.
The Girl Guide Association was originally founded two years later, with TRUE / FALSE
3
, or ‘Brownie Guides’, added in 1914. Olave, Baden-Powell’s wife, Speaker 4
ran the Girl Guides from 1917.
7 The Scouts were travelling with everything they
From the very beginning, Scouting and Guiding have been international. needed for their camp. TRUE / FALSE
The first ‘World Scout Jamboree’, meaning 4 , happened in 1920.
8 Despite their problems, the whole group arrived
Olave and Robert Baden-Powell’s birthday, 22nd February, was
at the station in time for their train to Norfolk.
chosen as ‘World Thinking Day’ in 1926. It’s become 5 for Scouts
TRUE / FALSE
and Guides, when they consider what it means to be part of a
worldwide movement. Speaker 5
In the early 1990s, girls were invited to join the Scouts. In contrast, 9 The camp took place in the UK in 1996.
Guiding remains 6 , although men are allowed to volunteer. TRUE / FALSE
Today there are over 40 million Scouts in 200 countries and over 10 Hope passed away recently. TRUE / FALSE
10 million Guides in 145 countries.

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