Cam 20 listening test 2

Recommendations about what to visit

giving advice to visitors

get everyone in the audience to the right place

help people find their seats

cooperation

help each other

Talk about how groups can help each other

encouraging cooperation between local organisations

Find out what people think of events

collect feedback on events

Some volunteers put on a show

providing entertainment

Make sure residents know about it

provide publicity about it

Her first novel was published last year with a lot of publicity

in a blaze of publicity

the most important requirement

What’s essential

interpersonal skills

Get on well with other people and to deal with someone who’s behaving badly

Timetable for duties

start working (sắp xếp lịch làm việc)

Recent year

now

Forthcoming

Next

Vague

(adj): not clear (mơ hồ)

Ex: The patient had complained of vague pains and backache.

Narrow the topic down

thu hẹp chủ đề

Straightforward to find on the Internet

easy to find facts

Fascinating

interesting

Be taken off the syllabus

be not relevant to their course

be too vague

Not get much out of that

Poverty

extremely poor

Ex: You have to be careful with some of the figures relating to poverty.

Manipulate

(v) = control sth or sb to your advantage (bị thao túng, bị lôi kéo)

Deliberate

(adj) = (often of sth bad) planed/ think or talk carefully

Ex: They're sometimes deliberately manipulated.

Reliable

(adj): sb or sth can be trusted or believed

Ex: Reliable information

Recent additions to the outskirts of their cities

new developments on the outskirt of cities

Conference centres

Conference centres

Have unexpected costs

not budgeted for

Sustainable energy

renewable energy

I’m not sure

uncertain about

how much of it has actually been built

How far they’ve got with it (xây dựng được bao nhiêu phần của dự án)

vegan food brands

Companies which sell vegan produce

vegan food

sản phẩm thuần chay

increase sales really quickly

grown rapidly

Its success

demand peaked

an increase in its price

the price soared