PART 3: MID-TERM LISTENING TEST

Interviewer: Hello, Miss Brownlow, come and sit down. Now,

I’d like you to tell me more about the two years you spent
abroad after leaving school.
Woman: Oh, right. Well, I decided to go abroad to see the world.
I only intended staying for six months but in the end, I stayed
two years. First of all, I worked for a family. I looked after their
three children - all under the age of ten so I was kept very busy!
I really liked the family, but after six months I was ready for a
change although I didn’t want to come home. Then I applied for
a job in a hotel as a receptionist. That way I could still practise
my languages. And it was really good because I had my own
room in the hotel and I had all my meals there as well. And then
the hotel closed down! But the manager offered me a job - in a
bakery- it belonged to his brother - and I worked there for
almost a year. At the beginning it was really hard because I had
to get up so early in the morning - around four o’clock every
day. But once I got used to that, it was great, because I’d
finished work by two o’clock in the afternoon and the rest of the
time was my own. But my parents thought I ought to come
home and get a ‘proper job’. I suppose they were right. So that’s
when I applied for the job with the Bank International in their
foreign department and so I continued to use my languages.
Interviewer: You’ve had quite a lot of experience, haven’t you!
Now, if I could ask you ...