Directions: For this task, you will listen to a dialogue. You will hear a question about it. You will then have 20 seconds to prepare your response and 60 seconds to speak.
Narrator: Listen to a conversation between two students.
Student 1(female): Hi, Ted. What’s up?
Student 2(male): Oh, hi, June. I’m just studying as usual. I haven’t had time for anything else recently, and the near future is looking about the same.
Student 1: Is something the matter?
Student 2: It’s all this homework and test s that are coming up. I have five tests within two days of each other, and I also have several presentations and research papers to write, and they are all due within a couple of days of each other.
Student 1: Wow, that explains why I haven’t seen you around lately. Don’t you also have to work?
Student 2: Yeah, every night this week. I really don’t know what I’m going
to do. I don’t think there are enough hours in the week to finish all this stuff.
Student 1: Well, maybe you could talk to some of your professors about this. I know, sometimes professors give extensions on papers. And some will even let you reschedule a test. Maybe if you tell them your situation they will be more lenient with you.
Student 2: That sounds like a pretty good idea. But, it also might be embarrassing for me to ask just to have my teacher say to me, “Why should I give you special treatment and not the other students?” You know?
Student 1: Hmmm, maybe talk to your boss at work and ask for a few days off or something. Or maybe just call in sick. Ha-ha
Student 2: I don’t know if my boss will give me time off. We’ve been pretty busy lately and he d oesn’t like me too much...
Narrator: Now get ready to answer the question.
Narrator: The students discuss two possible solutions to the man’s problem. Describe the problem. Then state which of the two solutions you prefer and explain why.
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