Central City university student Support Services IELTS Listening answers

C = Counsellor

K = Kate

L = Luki

C: Hi there, Kate. Come on in. How are you today?

K: Fine thanks.

C: Hi, Luki. How’s things?

L: OK.

C: Well, as I explained on the phone, I’m a Counsellor here at the StudentServices section of the university and I’m interviewing overseas students to help me draw up a guide for new students so I’d be grateful if you could tellme a little about your time since you’ve been here in Cambridge.

K: Right.

L: Good idea.

C: Now, Kate let’s start with you. OK, um ... this is your second semester isn’tIt? Could you tell us something about your first impressions of the town when you arrived?

K: Yeah well first of all I was struck by how quiet it is here in the evening

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C: Yes, I suppose Cambridge is a quiet place. Where did you live when you firstarrived?

K: Well, I went straight into student accommodation; it was a kind of studenthostel.

C: Ah right,so you didn’t have to worry about doing your own cooking oranything like that?

K: No, but sometimes I wished I had! The food at the hostel was awful.

C: Oh dear. But how were the other students?

K: To be honest I haven’t managed to make many friends even though the placeis full. People seem to keep to themselves; they’re not really very friendly.

C: Oh I’m sorry to hear that. Well, what about the actual course? You’restudying ... uh?

K: I’m doing a Masters by coursework in Environmental Studies.

C: Ah, right, and how are you finding that?

K: Yeah, well, it’s been pretty good really. I’ve enjoyed the course, but I feelthere hasn’t been enough contact with the lecturers. They all seem to beincredibly busy. The only chance I’ve really had to talk to them was on the field trip.

C: Well that’s no good. Could anything be done to improve the course in youropinion?

K: Well ... I think it would be helpful to have meetings with lecturers on thecourse. Say once a fortnight — something like that.

C: Regular meetings. Yes that could certainly help. Now Kate, we’ll come backto you in a minute, but I’d just like to ask Luki some questions.

C: Luki, Where are you from?

L: I am from Indonesia.

C: And how did you find Cambridge when you first arrived?

L: Well, I like it here. I think the city is very beautiful.

C: What about your accommodation? Was that OK?

L: Yes, OK. At first I stayed with a family for three months. They were verykind to me but they had three young children and I found it difficult tostudy

C: Right, I see.

L: So after three months I moved out and now I live with two other students ina student house. It’s much cheaper and we like it there.

C: Good, and what about your studies? What are you studying?

L: I’m doing a Bachelor of Computing.

C: Computing. I see. Um, apart from the language difficulties, if you canseparate them, how have you found the course?

L: OK, but .

C: Yes, go on.

L: Well, the main difficulty for me is getting time on the computers in thecomputer room. It’s always busy and this makes it very hard to do my practical work.

C: Yes, I’m sure it would. Can you reserve time in the computer room?

L: No, you can’t ... but it would certainly help if we could reserve computertime.

C: Yes. I’ll look into that and see if something can’t be done to improve thingsover there. Now let’s go back to Kate...