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Vocabulary Interviewer: So, do you think the festival will change in the future?
Describing festivals and celebrations Margaret: We’re the biggest youth poetry festival in the country, and
the event continues to grow. We’ve increased the number of
venues to include ive more cofee shops. We could include
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1 dress up, wear 2 celebrate, commemorate 3 march, gather round larger venues as well, but then we’d risk losing the personal
4 hold, let of 5 perform, play atmosphere that you get in a small setting. There’s been some
call to incorporate short stories and songwriting, but I think
Suixes we’ll leave that to other festivals. What would be really useful,
though, is to extend the duration of the festival – we’re starting
2 to struggle to it everyone into the schedule.
1 motorist, tourist, economist, refugee Interviewer: If listeners can’t get to the festival, is there anywhere they can
2 researcher, collector, survivor, investigator read the poems?
3 consultant, conductor, assistant, contestant Margaret: Each year we publish a book with all the poems from that year’s
4 salesman/woman, sportsman/woman, businessman/woman, manager festival, along with a short biography of each young poet. The
5 specialist, novelist, comedian, pharmacist tenth edition came out yesterday, and you can order it online.
6 waiter, sailor, farmer, miner Be quick, though, as copies usually run out quite quickly. But I
really think that people should come along to the performances
and hear them in person.
Listening Part 4 Interviewer: And what about your original poets from ten years ago?
Margaret: Some of them are involved in the organisation of this year’s
1 B 2 C 3 B 4 B 5 C 6 A 7 B festival. You have to be between 15 and 25 years old to enter,
so they can’t take part as they’re beyond the age limit. They
Track 15 all tell me they still write poetry. I’m not sure whether they still
meet to read it – I should ask. But if anyone’s interested, the
Narrator: You will hear an interview with Margaret Blake, a teacher who opening night is this Saturday. Just go to our website to check
organises a poetry festival for young people. For questions 1 to 7, the venues. It’s youngpoetsfestival.com.
choose the best answer (A, B or C). Interviewer: It all sounds very exciting. Thank you for coming in, Margaret.
Interviewer: Welcome, Margaret. This year’s Youth Poetry Festival starts next
week. Didn’t it all begin with a group of your students? Reading and Use of English Part 6
Margaret: Yes, it did. About ten years ago, I came across some poetry
online and recognised the names of a few of my secondary 1 B 2 E 3 G 4 D 5 A 6 C
school students, who seemed to have some sort of poetry club.
They weren’t doing it as classwork, so I had no idea that it was
going on. Apart from them putting the poems online, what really Reading and Use of English Part 3
amazed me was they were also reading poems to each other at
meetings they organised. There was really no other means for
them to do this. 1 competition 2 innovative 3 fashionable 4 responsibility PDF from sachtienganhhanoi.com
5 artistic 6 annually 7 achievements 8 exchange
Interviewer: Is this what made you come up with the idea for a poetry festival?
Margaret: That’s right, it got me thinking. I had a group of students who
were writing poetry because they wanted to! I wondered if there Writing Part 1 (An essay)
was a greater movement of teens writing poetry, hungry for an
audience. Perhaps we could set up some sort of writers’ festival? 1
I went online to where the young people’s poetry was being 1 D 2 B 3 A 4 C
uploaded and asked anyone who’d like to be involved in a festival
to contact me.
Interviewer: Did you get much response?
Margaret: I was completely overwhelmed with emails. I found out that
there was a huge community of young poets out there. I received
enquiries from all over the country but wasn’t expecting so
much interest from people in the local area. People were just so
thankful for the opportunity. I even had emails from a number of
poets ofering to promote the festival for me, although this wasn’t
necessary as a colleague had already promised to set up
a website.
Interviewer: So how did the irst year of the festival go?
Margaret: In our irst year, we had ity young poets performing and got a lot
of interest from the media. Most of the poets were from the UK,
but a few had come from all around the world. That’s when I knew
that we were really onto something big, knowing that so many
young poets were willing to come all that way to read their poems
in a café. It also turned out to be a wonderful opportunity for
them to meet and exchange ideas, so not only was it well received
by the audiences, but the poets really got something out of it, too.

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