Podcast English - Luyện Nghe Tiếng Anh Mỗi Ngày - No.57 | Improve Your IELTS Listening Score

section one good morning oh good morning is this uh uh room number 26 yes that's right so is this the student job center it certainly is how can I help you well actually I'm looking for a job a part-time job do you have anything available at the moment uh yes are you a registered student I'm afraid this service is only available to full-time students yes I am I'm doing a degree in Business studies here's my student card which year are you in well I've been at Uni for four years but I'm in the third year

because I took last year off right well let's just have a look at what positions are available at the moment uh there's a job working at the reception desk at the sports center for three evenings a week that's Wednesdays Thursdays and Fridays oh that sounds like fun but unfortunately I have evening lectures so that's not possible I'm afraid is there anything during the day okay that's no good then um what about cleaning there's a position for a cleaner at the child care center right but you'd need to be there at 6:00 a.m. does that appeal

6:00 in the morning o it's far too early for me I'm afraid i' I'd never make it that early in the morning H well there was a position going in the computer lab for 3 days a week that might be okay ah here it is no it's in the library not the lab uh clerical assistant required I think it mostly involves putting the books back on the shelves oh no hang on it's for Wednesday and Friday evenings again no I can't manage that because of the lectures okay I'm getting the idea uh look I'll just

get a few details from you anyway and then we can check through the list and see what comes up we'll fill in the personal details on this application form first if that's okay yeah that's fine now what's your name again Anita Newman uh that's n e w m a an and your address Anita I'm in one of the halls of residence for postgraduate students you know international house okay that's easy uh what's your room number there room B 569 no sorry B 659 I always get that wrong haven't been living there very long do you

have any other skills typing languages that sort of thing well I I speak some Japanese right I'll make a note of that now let's see what else is available uh what do you think of administrative work there's a position for an office assistant at the English Language Center H that sounds inter interesting it's for 3 days a week Monday Friday and Saturday mornings interested I was hoping to have Saturdays free but I need the work so uh can you tell me what the job involves yep sure it says here that you'll be required to deal

with student inquiries and answer the phone oh I'm sure I can handle all that without a problem great well would you like me to arrange an interview for you say Friday morning around 10:00 oh uh could we make it a bit later unfortunately I've got something to do at 10:00 would that be okay not a problem how about 11:30 hope it works out for you Anita me too and thanks for all your [Music] help section two good morning I'm very pleased to have been invited along to your Club to talk about our charity sponsored walking

holiday for Education Aid I'll start by giving you a brief overview of what it entails first of all let me explain what we mean by sponsored here this is where people promise to donate money to the charity if you achieve your goal in this case to walk a certain number of miles basically we are organizing a 10-day Holiday from the 6th to the 16th of November with 8 Days actual walking trekking in the Samira mountains let's have a look at some of the details we require you to raise sponsorship money of at least at least

$3,200 paying $250 of it upfront as a deposit and the rest in stages throughout the year out of this about 35% will go on your expenses and that leaves 65% guaranteed to go to the charity which brings me to the most important part this Trek is being specifically organized to help education in the Samira region last year we helped train teachers for the disabled and this year we're focusing on the pupils each of the Walkers sponsorship money will go to help an individual special needs pupil in one of the mountain schools in the second part

of the talk I'll be giving you a lot more details but back to the basic information age limits this is the second time we've run this kind of holiday and um on the first we even had an 80-year-old but we found it was wise to establish limits this time you have to be at least 18 and the top limit is now 70 though you need to obtain a health certificate from your doctor if you are over 60 years old now the Samira mountains are among the highest in the world but you mustn't be too daunted

we will mainly be trekking in the Foothills only although there will be spectacular views even in the Foothills however you will need to be extremely fit if you aren't now and you're interested in coming with us you have plenty of time to get into shape you'll be sleeping intense so you must have quite a bit of equipment with you but you will be helped by local assistants your bedding and so forth will be carried by them we ask that you only walk with a small rucksack with needs for the day I don't think I've really

said enough about The Marvelous area you'll be walking in let's have a look at some of the SES you'll be seeing apart from these spectacular snow covered Peaks and valleys there are marvelous historic Villages the area has been famous for centuries for making beautiful carpets although recently there has been a trend to move into weaving blankets and wood carving the people are extremely friendly and welcoming we deliberately keep the party small in size to minimize disruption to people and Landscape I hope that there are still some people interested I will be Distributing leaflet at the

end where you can find out more information but just for the moment I'll outline the itinerary the main high points of the holiday obviously you'll start by flying out to kishar the capital city on day one after a couple of days to climatize yourself you'll start the Trek on day three walking through the enormous katiba Forest which will take the whole of the day day four takes us higher up going through the Foothills past a number of villages and visiting a school for the disabled in soan then you have a rest day that's day five

before going to the spectacular cumi temple with 12th century carvings set in a small Forest by a lake and that's day six the Highlight for many we stay near there for day seven because then comes the hardest day walking through very mountainous country but culminating in a swim in the pte Falls this is the highest waterfall in the region day nine is much easier with part of the day spent in a village where they make some of the gorgeous red blankets then back down to kishar and the journey home so you can see it's a

pretty packed [Music] timetable section three thanks to all of you for coming along today to hear about how the robotic float project is helping with ocean research well first of all we'll look at what a robotic float does and its use so let's start with the device itself it looks a bit like a cigar and it's about 1 and 1/2 M long more importantly it's full of equipment that's designed to collect data so it can help us in building up a profile of different factors which work together within the world's oceans sounds like a big

project isn't it too big for one country to undertake that's quite true but this project is a really good example of international cooperation Over The Last 5 Years scientists from 13 countries countes have been taking part in the project and launching floats in their area of ocean control and next year this number will rise to 14 when Indonesia joins the project that's impressive but let's move on to how floats work the operational cycle goes like this each of the floats is dropped in the ocean from a boat at a set point and activated from a

satellite then the float immediately sinks about 2,000 M that's two whole kilomet down in the water it stays at this depth for about 10 days and is carried around by the currents which operate in the ocean at this level during this time it's possible for it to cover quite large distances but the average is 50 km so what is it actually recording well at this stage nothing but as it rises to the surface it collects all sorts of data most importantly variations in salinity that's salt levels and the changes in temperature a bit like underwater

weather balloons then when it gets back to the surface all the data is collected is beamed up to the satellite after about 5 hours on the surface the float automatically sinks beginning the whole process again what happens to the data well the information is transferred direct to onshore meteorological stations like our one in Hobart and within 4 hours the findings can be on computers and they can be mapped and analyzed you say you're building models of the world's ocean systems but how are they going to be used and more importantly when some of the data

has already helped in completing projects for example our understanding of the underlying causes of El Nino events is being confirmed by float data another way we're using float data is to help us to understand the mechanics of climate change like global warming and ozone depletion that's part of an ongoing variability study but the results are still a long way off however this is not the case with our ocean weather forecasting because we know from the floats what the prevailing weather conditions will be in certain parts of the ocean we can advise the Navy on search

and rescue missions that's happening right now and many yachtsmen owe their lives to the success of this project in addition the flow data can help us to look at the biological implications of ocean processes would that help with preserving fish stocks yes and Advising governments on Fisheries legislation we're well on the way to completing a project on this we hope it will help to bring about more sustainable fishing practices we'll be seeing the results of that quite soon it sounds like the data from floats has lots of applications yes it does it's also a powerful

agricultural tool if we were aware of what the weather would be like say next year we could make sure that the f Farmers planted appropriate grain varieties to produce the best yield from the available rainfall that sounds a bit like science fiction especially when now we can't even tell them when a drought will break I agree that this concept is still a long way in the future but it will come eventually and the float data will have made a contribution section four good morning everyone today's lecture forms part of the hospitality and tourism module last

week I looked at the economy end of the hotel business this week I'm going to discuss the luxury end of the market let's consider the following scenario you wake up in the middle of the night in a strange Hotel miles away from home disoriented most probably from jet lag when even the most expensive surroundings can seem empty and dispiriting you have paid a great deal of money to to stay in this first class hotel with its contemporary technology but according to recent research carried out by an international travel and public relations company all is not

well the research suggests that even the most opulent luxurious hotels seem to have underestimated the most basic needs of their customers be they traveling for work or pleasure the need to feel at home in Sur surroundings which are both familiar and inviting do these findings however apply only to hotels situated in particular areas is it possible that the external environment can affect a guest's well-being the company's research covered a whole range of different Hotel types both independent hotels and those which are part of large chains they investigated Chic so-called Boutique Hotel in the heart of

downtown business districts stately Mansions located in the depths of beautiful countryside and plush hotels built at the edge of tropical beaches surrounded by palm trees and idilic blue ocean and the research concluded that what was outside the hotel building simply didn't matter this is a fascinating Revelation and those of you hoping to move into careers in the travel and Leisure industry would be well advised to look at the findings in more detail but back to the main point of this lecture the need to feel at home what can the hotel industry do about it and

is the very idea so subjective that it's impossible to do anything about it on a global basis however nothing stands still in the this world one company has come up with a slogan take your home with you and aims to provide clients with luxury service departments those in the business travel industry maintain that these service departments dispense with all the unwanted and expensive hotel services that business Travelers don't want while maximizing the facilities they do want for example not only sleeping and living accommodation but also a sleek modern kitchen that allows guests to cook and

entertain if they wish at no additional cost the attractions of such facilities are obvious and it'll be interesting to see whether the company manages to establish a trend all over the world and make a lasting impact on the luxury accommodation market now finally I want to consider the psychology underpinning the traditional Holiday Hotel industry as a hotelier how do you go about attracting people to give up the security of their own home and entrust themselves to staying in a completely strange place and sleeping in an unfamiliar bed firstly hotels exploit people's need to escape the

predictability of their everyday lives for a few days people can pretend they are free of responsibilities and can indulge themselves secondly there is something very powerful in our need to be pampered and looked after it's almost as if we returned to being a baby when everything was done for us and we felt safe and secure and not far removed from this is the pleasure in being spoiled and given little treats like the minuscule bottles of shampoo and Tiny bars of soap the chocolate on your pillow at night and we actually forget that we are paying

for it all next week I'm going to look at Eco hotels a fairly new phenomenon but increasingly popular particular [Music]