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(Time: 90 minutes)

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Section 1

Section 2

Script:

Now the presenter goes on to talk about the accommodation and registration and payment details.

I should say this is a camping adventure-that is we won’t be staying in hotels, motels or similar accommodation. We will supply all of the necessary camping equipment including sleeping bags, bed rolls and, of course, tents. Each tent sleeps four people although we do have a couple of two-person tents but you would need to let us know at the time of booking if you and a friend specifically want to reserve one of these.

The cost is $390 per person and includes all expenses-that is food, camping accommodation fees, entry fees to parks and other scheduled tourist spots and of course the bus hire costs.

Participants as a rule are responsible for setting up their own tents and dismantling them the following day as well as assisting with organising meals, cleaning up afterwards and keeping the camp grounds clean and tidy.

Finally, if you are interested you can register either this evening through me, or through the Student Services officer at your college.

Complete the summary. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER for each answer.

tents clean and tidy / tidy and clean 390 / 390.00 bus hire

Accommodation will be in with all camping equipment supplied. The cost is $ and includes all food, fees for camping, parks and tourist spots visited and . All participants are expected to assist with putting tents up, taking them down, preparing meals and generally keeping the camp grounds .

Section 3

Section 4

Script:

You will hear a psychology undergraduate describing the research she is currently doing on expertise in creative writing.

For my short presentation today, I’m going to summarise the work I’ve done so far on my research project: to explore expertise in creative writing. Essentially, I’ll share with you the process I underwent to gather my interim findings.

First of all, I should give a little relevant background information about myself - before I started my current degree course in cognitive psychology, I studied English literature and, as you can imagine, this meant I spent a great deal of time thinking about the notion of creativity and what makes people develop into successful writers. However, the idea for this research project came from a very specific source - I became fascinated with the idea of what makes an expert creative writer when I read a well-known twentieth century writer’s autobiography. I won’t say which one, at this stage, because I think that might prejudice your interpretation! Anyway, this got me thinking about the different routes to expertise. Specifically I wondered why some people become experts at things whilst others fail to do so, in spite of the fact that they may be equally gifted and work equally hard.

I started to read about how other researchers had explored similar questions in other fields. I began to see a pattern - that those studies which involved research in a lab were too controlled for my purposes and I decided to avoid reading them. I was quite surprised to find that the clearest guidance for my topic came from investigations into what I call ‘practical skills’ such as hairdressing or waiting tables. Most of these studies tended to use a similar set of procedures, which I eventually adopted for my own project.

I’ll now explain what these procedures were. I decided to compare what inexperienced writers do with what experienced writers do. In order to investigate this, I looked for four people whom I regarded as real novices in this field - which proved easy ... perhaps unsurprisingly. It proved much harder to locate people with suitably extensive experience who were willing to take part in my study. I asked the first four to do a set writing task and as they wrote, to talk into a tape-recorder . a technique known as ‘think aloud’ . this was in order to get experimental data. Whilst they were doing this, a research assistant recorded them using video - I thought it might be helpful for me in my transcriptions later on. I then asked four experienced writers to do exactly the same task. After this, I made a comparison between the two sets of data and this helped me to produce a framework for analysis. In particular, I identified five major stages which all creative writers seem to go through when generating this genre of text. I think it was fairly effective but still needs some work ... so I intend to tighten this up later for use with subsequent data sets.

I then wanted to see whether experienced writers were actually producing the better pieces of writing. So I asked an editor, an expert in reviewing creative writing, to decide which were the best pieces of writing. This person put the eight pieces of work in order of quality - in rank order - and, using his evaluations, I was then able to work out which sequence of the five stages seemed to lead to the best quality writing.

Now my findings are by no means conclusive as this point ... I still have a long way to go but if any of you have any questions, I’d be happy to answer them and ...

Complete the flow chart below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

EXPERTISE IN CREATIVE WRITING

autobiography lab/laboratory editor video English literature experimental practical skills sequence/order framework novices/beginners

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Passage 1

Passage 2

Brains Beat Beauty, Say Our Youth

Melissa Stevens

(A) Youth in WA rate intelligence above good looks, are more likely to see a film than watch sport and worry about drug and alcohol abuse, the environment and the future of the family.

They tend to turn to family and friends for advice or help and see themselves as well- educated, well-travelled and healthy.

But only 13 percent think the Government takes their views seriously and 79.5 percent believe they are portrayed inaccurately in the media.

(B) This is the picture of today's youth that has emerged as a result of the Youth Media Survey 2000, released yesterday.

The 50-question survey has brought together the opinions and attitudes of 11 013 WA people aged between 12 and 25 years.

Covering a wide range of topics from education to employment to self-image, it is being touted as the most comprehensive survey of its kind undertaken in Australia.

(C) The survey revealed young people were more influenced by friends and family than they were by pop stars, sports stars or politicians.

In recreation, while young people enjoyed sport, just 53.9 per cent had watched a live sporting event in the past year, compared with 89.1 per cent who had visited a cinema and 85.9 per cent who had been to a restaurant. More than 70 per cent considered art and culture to be very important and thought young people should learn about music, painting and drama.

The survey also showed young people were discerning about media, differentiating between entertainment and information.

But only 48 per cent of the generation considered to be information technology savvy had access to the Internet at home.

And young people seemed to flounder when it came to government, with a whopping 71.7 per cent not knowing in which electorate they lived and only 27.7 per cent able to name their local Member of Parliament.

To get their views heard, 27.6 per cent said they would use art, while 50.5 per cent said they would vote.

(D) Youth Minister Mike Board said the survey results would be used as the basis for a comprehensive youth strategy to be launched later this year.

'It's not the end of the process, it's the beginning,' he said.

He said the Government's willingness to respond to the survey showed it was listening to the State's young people.

'The reason we have had the most comprehensive survey in the country is because we genuinely want to hear from young people,' he said.

(E) 'I think the major concerns for young people when we started this process was that they feel they are getting a bit of a raw deal in terms of the community and the way young people have been portrayed.

'Only four percent of young people ever come into contact with the justice system.

'Ninety-six percent are getting on and doing very positive, constructive things with their life and yet the perception out there is they are off the rails.'

Answer the questions by choosing the appropriate number from the reading passage.

50 4% / 4

How many questions did the questionnaire have?

What percentage of young people are likely to have some contact with the justice system?

Passage 3

Canoes Around the World

Many cultures throughout the world have developed some form of canoe—a long, slender, open boat powered by handheld paddles. In each case, the technologies and materials used to construct the canoe reflect the resources available to that particular culture. There are three basic types of canoe: the frame-and bark canoe, the dugout, and the plank canoe. Developed by cultures on every continent since prehistoric times, canoes continue to be used today both for survival and for recreation.

The birch-bark canoe, an example of the frame-and-bark type of construction, was developed in the region that is now the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. Native Americans constructed birch-bark canoes by building a frame from spruce wood and then using roots to stitch pieces of birch bark over the frame. In areas where birch was not available, bark from elm or spruce trees was used instead. After the bark was sewn to the frame, the canoes were then sealed with a mixture of spruce gum and bear grease. These substances worked very well to make the boat watertight. Birch-bark canoes were lightweight and thus easily portaged around waterfalls or from lake to lake. Most were designed to hold no more than two or three people and were used for lake and river travel. When Europeans opened up the fur trade in North America in the seventeenth century, the French traders used larger versions (30 to 40 feet in length) to transport furs in large quantities across the Great Lakes for shipment back to Europe.

The dugout—a canoe created from a single tree trunk—has been used in many areas throughout the world. Simple versions of hollowed-out logs were used by native peoples throughout much of North America. Coastal groups such as the Haida and Tlinglit in the Pacific Northwest developed large dugout crafts 60 feet or longer that could carry large numbers of people on the ocean for trade, warfare, fishing, whaling, and travel to ceremonial gatherings. First, the outer and inner bark around the entire circumference of a tall, straight tree, often a cedar or redwood, was removed. This process, called girdling, cuts off the flow of sap, thus killing the tree and making it easier to chop down. Then the tree was felled and cut to the appropriate length. The opening of the dugout was created by repeatedly burning the wood, then carving it out with tools. In early times, stone tools were used, but later metal tools came into use. Once the canoe was carved out, the boat builders filled it with water and brought the water to a boil using stones heated on a fire. This softened the wood and the weight of the water caused the walls of the canoe to bow outward, giving it more width than the original girth of the tree.

The ocean-going Chumash people of what is now southern California developed the tomoL, or plank canoe. They created their canoes by cutting planks from redwood trees, carving and shaping them into a canoe without any frame. They lashed the planks together by drilling holes and tying them with cords. Pitch from pine trees and tar, also found locally, were used between the planks and over the entire hull for waterproofing.

The canoe played a major role in the spread of all the Pacific Island cultures. These cultures developed outrigger and double-hulled dugout canoes. Outriggers have one or more parallel floats attached to a dugout canoe with poles for increased stability in ocean waves. Double hulled canoes have a platform between two parallel dugouts. These highly stable designs, combined with sails, enabled the Polynesians to go on epic ocean journeys and to inhabit far flung islands. Several families (or as many as 200 people in the largest vessels), could sail in each of these double-hulled canoes with food, water, and domesticated plants and animals across huge expanses of ocean, and in this way the Polynesian people spread throughout the Pacific, establishing new communities on previously uninhabited islands.

In areas of dense rain forest throughout the world, including the Amazon basin, and parts of Africa and Asia, river travel with dugouts was, and in many cases still is, the primary means of transportation. In West Africa, large war canoes capable of transporting many fighters were carved from single trees.

Descendants of the ancient canoes are still widely used today. Traditional cultures around the world still use dugout canoes for fishing and transportation. Today’s modern recreational canoes, while now often constructed with aluminum¹, fiberglass², wood, and canvas, plastic, and other synthetic materials, still retain the shape and basic design of the birch-bark canoes developed in the distant past. The catamaran sailboat, widely used in racing, is a direct descendant of the double-hulled sailing canoe used thousands of years ago by the Polynesian cultures.

(1) British: aluminium

(2) British: fiberglass

Complete the summary below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text for each answer.

a platform birch-bark modern recreational/ recreational parallel floats many fighters huge expanses

Polynesians turned dugout canoes into outrigger canoes by attaching to them. Double-hulled canoes were made by connecting two outrigger canoes with . Because they could travel over of ocean in these canoes, Polynesians were able to inhabit islands all across the Pacific Ocean. In West Africa, large war canoes were used to carry . Today, canoes are made of modern materials such as aluminum, fiberglass, and plastic. These modern canoes are similar in form to canoes.

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