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classes, I realised we’ve got a shared what they had to do, though, or tried to
responsibility to face up to things and get out of working hard, and I’m really
make our communities greener. grateful for that.
Woman: What did you organise for the day? Woman: How do you feel now about being
Liam: I was responsible for getting volunteers involved in the clean-up day?
together. I was confident I could get a Liam: What we did was just a tiny drop in the
sufficient number of people interested ocean – you’ve got to constantly work
in helping out if I spoke to people – I hard to get the message out there
had tons of convincing arguments! The to people that we need to keep our
problem was I couldn’t speak to everyone planet clean and green, not only for
face to face. In the end we got loads our generation but for those to follow.
of posters printed asking people to just I won’t stop here – I’ve come up with
turn up on the day and bring whatever loads of ideas I want to get on with. I
cleaning stuff they had – rubbish sacks, know one person can’t change the world
brushes and things like that. – but you have to keep shouting about
Woman: So, what happened on the day? what you believe in and hope other
Liam: We started early in the morning. Our people will back you up.
meeting point was outside the park Woman: How can people be more
gates. Everyone was there with buckets environmentally friendly?
and gloves, ready to get on with the Liam: Everyone’s got busy lives and you
work. I was just filled with pride. It can’t expect people to give up all their
was fantastic to see how much people free time to help out in local clean-up
cared about their community. There operations all the time. But everyone’s
were a couple of reporters there read articles about people’s impact
from local newspapers, too. It hadn’t on the Earth and what they can do to
crossed my mind to invite them – one minimise damage. There’s nothing to
of the other organisers had, though, stop you turning off the tap while you
and they published an article about clean your teeth instead of leaving it
what we’d done. running, or making sure you recycle
Woman: And you cleared the pond out first? things wherever you can. These things
Liam: Yeah – it’s not deep, so we got in there don’t really take any time or effort.
and cleared away tons of plastic bags, Narrator: Now listen again.
as well as weeds that were killing off
other green plants. There are ducks 3 1 with 2 up 3 in 4 with
and fish in the pond and it’s crucial for 5 on 6 with 7 up
them to have a healthy place to live.
When I was in there, I suddenly got
annoyed about how the pond had got Listening Part 4:3
in such a bad state – there are litter 1 1 referee 5 opponent
bins everywhere and it’s not hard to use 2 penalty 6 tackle
them. One thing I learned was that we’ll 3 defender 7 pitch
have to make an effort to keep the pond 4 division 8 save
in good condition. football, hockey, lacrosse, rugby (and Students’ own
Woman: What else did you do on the day? Were ideas)
there any disappointments or did 2 1 B 2 A 3 A 4 C 5 B 6 C 7 A
everything go well?
Liam: We picked up litter in the centre of town,
brushed paths and cleaned the windows Narrator: Track 12 Listening Part 4
of buildings which are currently empty. Worksheet 3
We got to chat to everyone who’d You will hear an interview with a
turned up, even though it was only springboard diver called Max Hart,
briefly. One thing we regret is failing who is talking about his sport. For
to provide refreshments for them – we questions 1–7, choose the best
should have thought of that. Nobody answer (A, B or C). You now have
expressed any dissatisfaction with one minute to look at the questions.
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