Listening audioscript

Number 3, Page 257
[ mp3 107] 
Listen to two students as they discuss a professor’s announcement. 
(Man) 
Hey, Alice, did you read the announcement from Professor Thompson? 

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LPREP IBT 3 E AudioScript 
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(Woman) 
I looked it over. 
(Man) 
What’s up with this new assignment policy? No late assignments ever, 
even if you’re in the hospital? 
(Woman) 
It’s pretty severe. But you know what? I have to say I agree with him 
here. 
(Man) 
What? Why so heartless? 
(Woman) 
First of all, your lowest grade gets dropped, so if you’re sick and miss an 
assignment, you’re fine. Plus, he’s right about the fairness thing. 
(Man) 
It doesn’t seem fair to me. 
(Woman) 
Well, listen. I was a Teaching Assistant for a class like this, and the late 
submittals were out of control. 
(Man) 
You mean a lot of people handed things in late? 
(Woman) 
All the time. And not by just a few days. There were papers that were 
sometimes a week or two late. If you’re the T.A. grading a bunch of these 
assignments, you want to do it all at once, and not a little bit at a time. 
(Man) 
Oh, so even after you thought you’d finished marking them, you kept 
getting late ones. 
(Woman) 
Precisely. And I heard some of the students’ excuses, and I know for 
sure that some of them were making things up. It wasn’t really fair to the 
people who handed things in on time. Frankly I wish the professor had 
had this policy in place for that class. It would have been less stressful 
for us T.A.’s. 
Speaking Skill 8 
 
Sample Response, Example Question 3A, Page 262 
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(Woman)
The man doesn’t agree with the policy on pets. The policy states that no 
pets are allowed on campus, except for animals to help disabled people. 
The woman tells him that the president changed the policy because he 
found a pet snake in his office, but the man thinks that the president is 
reacting too strongly, and that it’s not fair to punish everyone. The man 
also says that people from the neighborhood walk their dogs on campus. 
According to the notice, animals aren’t going to be allowed on campus 
for safety reasons, but the man disagrees and says that the dogs are 
safe because people control them. Finally, the man believes that if 
people can’t walk their dogs, there will be less friendly interaction 
between students on campus and the people in the neighborhood.