ディクテーション初級①
以下の音源を聴いて、空欄部分に文字に書き起こしましょう：
| Customer: | Good morning. , please. |
| Travel Agent: | Certainly. Flying from Sydney? |
| Customer: | Yes. On Thursday, please. |
| Travel Agent: | Thursday the 16th? Right. … There are three flights that day. any particular airline? |
| Customer: | I’ve heard that Air Canada is good, but expensive. Is there ? I’ll be flying business class. |
| Travel Agent: | Yes, there is. Air Canada is the most expensive airline at $4,000 to $6,000 for business class . |
| Qantas is $3,000 to $6,000 and Pacific, the budget airline, . | |
| Customer: | Wow! That’s quite a difference in prices! , so could you check the return prices for me? |
| Travel Agent: | Sure. Let me just enter the return date into the computer… |
以下の音源を聴いて、空欄部分に文字に書き起こしましょう：
| Presenter: | Good afternoon, everyone. I’m here to give you a talk on |
| , or bedsit, you will have a ‘tenancy agreement’ or ‘lease’. | |
| This is a written legal agreement between you, the tenant, and the property owner, the landlord. | |
| Tenancy agreements should normally contain information about , the length of the tenancy, and . | |
| In most cases, you will have an ‘assured shorthold tenancy’ which means that a good reason during the first six months. | |
| Although these rights offer you some protection, it is still your responsibility to and make sure you agree with the terms. | |
| Do not sign the tenancy agreement if you do not know . | |
| If you do not fully understand your rights, show your tenancy agreement to an or at your university or college and ask for help. |
以下の音源を聴いて、空欄部分に文字に書き起こしましょう：
| Professor: | Good morning, Klara. Take a seat. Right, I’ve read your . Well done! |
| Klara: | Thank you. I know it’s only a first draft though, so I’m sure you have . I was very nervous at first, because it wasn’t my first choice of topic. I had wanted to do something on voting patterns, but getting information … well, the time frame. |
| Professor: | Don’t worry. I think . Yes, a comparison of the factors influencing housing prices. Very topical! |
| Klara: | Definitely! There seems to be something about housing prices in the newspapers every day. I just -you know, location, the proximity of facilities such as schools… |
| Professor: | As I said, a good choice of topic. Now, the first part is very well done. You clearly , why and how. |
| Klara: | Do you think ? |
| Professor: | I think so. |
以下の音源を聴いて、空欄部分に文字に書き起こしましょう：
| Presenter: | Welcome to this presentation . |
| If you are hoping for help with funding your studies in the UK, you need to – it is almost impossible to make arrangements for financial support . | |
| Start by enquiring with your own Ministry of Education or Department of Education. Your local British Council office can including those offered by UK institutions themselves. You’ll also find information and a scholarship database on their website. | |
| The main scholarship schemes available for international students include British Education Scholarships, Commonwealth Scholarships, , and Overseas Students Research Awards. | |
| British Education Scholarships are prestigious awards to study in the UK at postgraduate level. | |
| Only students studying for at least . About 2,000 new scholarships are currently awarded each year and there are plans to . |
以下の音源を聴いて、空欄部分に文字に書き起こしましょう：
| Man: | Hi, Sis. I just the DVDs you wanted, and . . . Hey, wow!? all of this stuff? |
| Woman: | I bought it. So, my new entertainment center? And the widescreen TV . . . |
| Man: | Bought it? |
| Woman: | … and my new DVD player. Here, let me show you my stereo. You can with this one. |
| Man: | But where did you get the dough to buy all this? from mom and dad again, did you? |
| Woman: | Of course not. I got it with this! |
| Man: | This? Let me see that… Dad’s credit card again? |
| Woman: | No, silly. It’s mine. It’s student credit card. |
| Man: | A student credit card? did you get one of these? |
| Woman: | I got an application in the mail. |
| Man: | Well, why did you ? |
| Woman: | Listen. Times are changing, and a credit rating, control spending, and even buy things that you can’t pay with cash . . . like the plane ticket I got recently. |
| Man: | What plane ticket? |
| Woman: | Oh yeah, my roommate and I are going to , and course, I needed some new clothes for that so . . . |
| Man: | I don’t want to hear it. How does having a student credit card control spending? It sounds like you’ve spent yourself in a hole. Anyway, student credit cards just lead to impulse spending . . . as I can see here. And of student credit cards are usually sky-high, and if you miss a payment, the rates, well, just jump! |
| Woman: | Ah. . . . |
| Man: | . . . of $20,000? |
| Woman: | No, no quite that high. Anyway, . . . |
| Man: | I’ve heard enough. |
| Woman: | Did I tell you we now get digital cable with over 100 channels? Oh, and here’s your birthday present. A new MP3 player . . . |
| Man: | Yeah. Oh, don’t tell me. Charged on the credit card. Listen. Hey, I don’t think having a student credit card is a bad idea, but this is ridiculous. And are you going to pay off your credit card bill? |
| Woman: | Um, with my birthday money? . |
| Man: | Hey, let’s sit down and talk about how you’re going to pay things back, and maybe we can come up with a budget . That’s the least I can do. |
以下の音源を聴いて、空欄部分に文字に書き起こしましょう：
| Carl: | Hey, Sis. for school? You can really save some money that way. |
| Ashley: | Well, what do you have? |
| Carl: | Well, let’s see. I have a science book called, “Today’s World”, and . |
| Ashley: | Thirty? That’s a little expensive for a beat-up book like that. |
| Carl: | Maybe so, but . Plus, I wrote a lot of notes in the book that should help you with the class… if you can read my writing. |
| Ashley: | What else are you selling? |
| Carl: | Okay, I have , a math book , and a novel for only seven bucks. |
| Ashley: | Uh, Hmmm. |
| Carl: | . You know, these things go fast. I mean you have to listen to my advice as your older brother. |
| Ashley: | I’ll take the English book and the novel. I need both of those for sure. I think buying other books for now. Teachers are always changing their minds about textbooks. And, what are those books? |
| Carl: | Which ones? Ah, ah, nothing. Never mind. |
| Ashley: | Wait, wait, wait. “Finding Your Perfect Someone”. You’re selling it for forty dollars? What’s, ? And the price? |
| Carl: | Well. You… It’s a… It’s just a marital relations class. You know about finding a partner. You know, mom’s always, you know, on me about that. anyway? |
| Ashley: | Forty dollars? That’s a little expensive. |
| Carl: | Well, they guarantee results. |
以下の音源を聴いて、空欄部分に文字に書き起こしましょう：
| Student: | Good morning. Is that Copewell well insurance ? I’d like to ask you |
| Salesman: | Certainly. ? |
| Student: | Well, I’m a student and I need comprehensive cover – you know, against theft, damage, legal problems… |
| Salesman: | I see. Students are unfortunately attractive targets for thieves. Student accommodation is a particular target because it often contains several highly items such as laptops. |
| We offer cover specially , covering students in several key areas. | |
| Student: | Oh, that . Please tell me more. |
| Salesman: | Well, the first area we cover is room contents . We provide on a ‘new for old’ basis, including desktop computers, against theft, burst pipes, fire, vandalism , storm and flood. |
| Student: | Does that also cover me if I live in university accommodation? |
| Salesman: | Yes, it does. It also covers in your accommodation and anything you leave in locked storage on campus at any time. |
| Student: | Is there a limit on claims of this nature? |
| Salesman: | Yes, there is. Individual items are pounds per claim and the following items are limited to per claim: valuables, musical instruments and any data storage devices apart from computers, such as CDs, DVDs, cassettes and computer games. |
以下の音源を聴いて、空欄部分に文字に書き起こしましょう：
| Professor: | Welcome to the university. We consider ourselves to be one of the UK’s most universities. We pride ourselves on making a difference to our students, our staff, and to the businesses we work with. Our research and business ideas, alongside our highly sought after graduates, contribute to the of both our region and to the UK as a whole. Our teaching methods and staff are first-rate and are supported by our world-class applied research. Our students are a and benefit from a tailored approach that helps them to get the most from their studies. |
| Currently, of all of our students are mature and 9% are from outside the UK. Both of these figures are significantly higher for postgraduate students. We offer top quality teaching and learning facilities and the ability to learn flexibly in a way . For example, we are one of the UK’s leading universities in e-learning and offer a range of distance learning and part-time courses as well as the more traditional full-time courses. | |
| Our partners in industry choose to cooperate with because of our flexible, business-led approach and our high-quality . Our partners include Sony, BP, the NHS, Network Rail, Cisco, SAP, and Microsoft. Our facilities are state-of-the-art and we have invested heavily in new technology in order to ensure that our technological capability matches the cutting-edge approach of our teaching. | |
| We are recognized as a Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning, e-learning, and employability. Our university plays a key role in the city and region in which it operates. We are located in both heart of Newtown and in its leafy suburbs and our students add to the vibrancy and diversity of the city. |
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| Cindy: | OK, everyone. We’ve been asked to think of the and those of good learners. Mike and myself volunteered to whilst Janet and Tim took on the latter. Mike, you’ve got our list. |
| Mike: | OK everyone. This is what Cindy and I came up with. First, the teacher needs to be . The teacher needs to be able to speak clearly and to explain what things mean. Taking this idea a bit further, the teacher should have an . schoolwork is often boring enough, without having a teacher with a boring voice. |
| Cindy: | Yes. The teacher should sound interested in the subject. This might help the students to be a bit . |
| Mike: | We also thought that a good teacher should get to know his or her students. We don’t mean that he or she should with the students-that’s generally considered a bad idea at primary and secondary schools. We mean that the teacher needs to know something of their . |
| Cindy: | The third thing is that a good teacher must know his or her subject level. It would be a disaster if the students knew more than the teacher! This means that the teacher must be well trained and the curriculum not only at the current level he or she is teaching but also at the previous levels, so that he or she knows what the students already know. |
以下の音源を聴いて、空欄部分に文字に書き起こしましょう：
| Presenter: | Welcome to this first presentation on . A university essay can be thought of as an extended answer to a quite specific question that has been posed by your lecturer. |
| A key consideration for lecturers with when they mark students’ work is whether the that is whether it does in fact provide an answer to the question being posed. | |
| For this reason it is important when you prepare to work on an essay that you spend a reading and mulling over the essay topic so that you understand precisely . | |
| This about key words in the topic, among other things. This tutorial on essay writing is based on the following topic: | |
| “In the last 20 years, have risen significantly in Western countries. Critically analyze some of the this phenomenon . In your discussion you should consider what implications these explanations might have for social policy.” |
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| Customer: | Good morning. (1) I’d like to book a flight to Toronto, please. |
| Travel Agent: | Certainly. Flying from Sydney? |
| Customer: | Yes. On Thursday, please. |
| Travel Agent: | Thursday the 16th? Right. … There are three flights that day. (2) Do you prefer flying with any particular airline? |
| Customer: | I’ve heard that Air Canada is good, but expensive. Is there (3) a big difference in prices between the airlines? I’ll be flying business class. |
| Travel Agent: | Yes, there is. Air Canada is the most expensive airline at $4,000 to $6,000 for business class (4) depending on the date of return. Qantas is $3,000 to $6,000 and Pacific, the budget airline, (5) charges between $2,000 and $3,500. |
| Customer: | Wow! That’s quite a difference in prices! (6) I’m returning on from Wednesday 22nd, so could you check the return prices for me? |
| Travel Agent: | Sure. Let me just enter the return date into the computer |
| Presenter: | Good afternoon, everyone. I’m here to give you a talk on (1)tenancy agreements and other legalities. |
| (2)If you rent a flat or a house, or bedsit, you will have a ‘tenancy agreement’ or ‘lease’. | |
| This is a written legal agreement between you, the tenant, and the property owner, the landlord. | |
| Tenancy agreements should normally contain information about (3)the amount of rent, the length of the tenancy, and what rights you and (4)your landlord will have under the law. | |
| In most cases, you will have an ‘assured shorthold tenancy’ which means that (5)your landlord cannot ask you to leave without a good reason during the first six months. | |
| Although these rights offer you some protection, it is still your responsibility to (6)check the tenancy agreement thoroughly and make sure you agree with the terms. | |
| Do not sign the tenancy agreement if you do not know (7)what all of it means. | |
| If you do not fully understand your rights, show your tenancy agreement to (8)an adviser in the accommodation office or (9)student welfare office at your university or college and ask for help. |
| Professor: | Good morning, Klara. Take a seat. Right, I’ve read your (1)first draft of your project on housing. Well done! |
| Klara: | Thank you. I know it’s only a first draft though, so I’m sure you have (2)some suggestions on how it can be improved. I was very nervous at first, because it wasn’t my first choice of topic. I had wanted to do something on voting patterns, but getting information … well, (3)it didn’t look possible within the time frame. |
| Professor: | Don’t worry. I think (4)that you have made a good choice. Yes, a comparison of the factors influencing housing prices. Very topical! |
| Klara: | Definitely! There seems to be something about housing prices in the newspapers every day. I just (5)wanted to compare the different factors -you know, location, the proximity of facilities such as schools… |
| Professor: | As I said, a good choice of topic. Now, the first part is very well done. You clearly (6)introduce what you are going to look at, why and how. |
| Klara: | Do you think (7)that I have covered enough points there? |
| Professor: | I think so. |
| Presenter: | Welcome to this presentation (1)on scholarships and funding. |
| If you are hoping for help with funding your studies in the UK, you need to (2)get working on this as soon as you can – it is almost impossible to make arrangements for financial support (3)once you have left your own country. | |
| Start by enquiring with your own Ministry of Education or Department of Education. Your local British Council office can (4)provide details of awards available including those offered by UK institutions themselves. You’ll also find information and a scholarship database on their website. | |
| The main scholarship schemes available for international students include British Education Scholarships, Commonwealth Scholarships, (5)Foreign Office Scholarships, and Overseas Students Research Awards. | |
| British Education Scholarships are prestigious awards (6)enabling talented international students to study in the UK at postgraduate level. |
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| Only students studying for at least (7)one academic year are eligible. About 2,000 new scholarships are currently awarded each year and there are plans to (7)expand the programme farther. |
| Man: | Hi, Sis. I just (1)came over to drop off the DVDs you wanted, and… Hey, wow!? (2)Where did you get all of this stuff? |
| Woman: | I bought it. So, (3)what do you think of my new entertainment center? And the widescreen TV… |
| Man: | Bought it? |
| Woman: | … and my new DVD player. Here, let me show you my stereo. You can (4)really rock the house with this one. |
| Man: | But where did you get the dough to buy all this? (5)You didn’t borrow money from mom and dad again, did you? |
| Woman: | Of course not. I got it with this! |
| Man: | This? Let me see that… (6)Have you been using Dad’s credit card again? |
| Woman: | No, silly. It’s mine. It’s student credit card. |
| Man: | A student credit card? (7)How in the world did you get one of these? |
| Woman: | I got an application in the mail. |
| Man: | Well, why did you (8)get one in the first place? |
| Woman: | Listen. Times are changing, and (9)having a credit card helps you build a credit rating, control spending, and even buy things that you can’t pay with cash… like the plane ticket I got recently. |
| Man: | What plane ticket? |
| Woman: | Oh yeah, my roommate and I are going to (10)Hawaii over the school break, and course, I needed some new clothes for that so… |
| Man: | I don’t want to hear it. How does having a student credit card control spending? It sounds like you’ve spent yourself in a hole. Anyway, student credit cards just lead to impulse spending … as I can see here. And (11)the interest rates of student credit cards are usually sky-high, and if you miss a payment, the rates, well, just jump! |
| Woman: | Ah. (12)The credit card has a credit limit… |
| Man: | … of $20,000? |
| Woman: | No, no quite that high. Anyway, … |
| Man: | I’ve heard enough. |
| Woman: | Did I tell you we now get digital cable with over 100 channels? Oh, and here’s your birthday present. A new MP3 player… |
| Man: | Yeah. Oh, don’t tell me. Charged on the credit card. Listen. Hey, I don’t think having a student credit card is a bad idea, but this is ridiculous. And (13)how in the world are you going to pay off your credit card bill? |
| Woman: | Um, with my birthday money? (14)It’s coming up in a week. |
| Man: | Hey, let’s sit down and talk about how you’re going to pay things back, and maybe we can come up with a budget (15)that will help you get out of this mess. That’s the least I can do. |
| Carl: | Hey, Sis. (1)Are you interested in buying some used books for school? You can really save some money that way. |
| Ashley: | Well, what do you have? |
| Carl: | Well, let’s see. I have a science book called, “Today’s World”, and (2)I’m selling it for thirty dollars. |
| Ashley: | Thirty? That’s a little expensive for a beat-up book like that. |
| Carl: | Maybe so, but (3)I bought it for sixty. Plus, I wrote a lot of notes in the book that should help you with the class… if you can read my writing. |
| Ashley: | What else are you selling? |
| Carl: | Okay, I have (4)English writing textbook for fourteen dollars, a math book (5)for twenty-three, and a novel for only seven bucks. |
| Ashley: | Uh, Hmmm. |
| Carl: | (6)It’s up to you. You know, these things go fast. I mean you have to listen to my advice as your older brother. |
| Ashley: | I’ll take the English book and the novel. I need both of those for sure. I think (7)I’ll hold off on buying other books for now. Teachers are always changing their minds about textbooks. And, what are those books? |
| Carl: | Which ones? Ah, ah, nothing. Never mind. |
| Ashley: | Wait, wait, wait. “Finding Your Perfect Someone”. You’re selling it for forty dollars? What’s, (8)what’s this all about? And the price? |
| Carl: | Well. You . . It’s a . . . It’s just a marital relations class. You know about finding a partner. You know, mom’s always, you know, on me about that. (9)What does it matter to you anyway? |
| Ashley: | Forty dollars? That’s a little expensive. |
| Carl: | Well, they guarantee results. |
| Student: | Good morning. Is that Copewell well insurance ? I’d like to ask you (1)a few questions about getting insurance. |
| Salesman: | Certainly. (2)What kind of insurance are you looking for? |
| Student: | Well, I’m a student and I need comprehensive cover-you know, against theft, damage, legal problems … |
| Salesman: | I see. Students are unfortunately attractive targets for thieves. Student accommodation is a particular target because it often contains several highly (3)portable and valuable items such as laptops. |
| We offer cover specially (4)designed for the needs of students, covering students in several key areas. | |
| Student: | Oh, that (5)sounds like it’s exactly what I need. Please tell me more. |
| Salesman: | Well, the first area we cover is room contents . We provide (6)insurance cover for your belongings on a ‘new for old’ basis, including desktop computers, against theft, burst pipes, fire, vandalism , storm and flood. |
| Student: | Does that also cover me if I live in university accommodation? |
| Salesman: | Yes, it does. It also covers (7)any shared areas in your accommodation and anything you leave in locked storage on campus at any time. |
| Student: | Is there a limit on claims of this nature? |
| Salesman: | Yes, there is. Individual items are (8)limited to two thousand pounds per claim and the following items are limited to (9)600 pounds per group per claim: valuables, musical instruments and any data storage devices apart from computers, such as CDs, DVDs, cassettes and computer games. |
| Professor: | Welcome to the university. We consider ourselves to be one of the UK’s most (1)progressive and innovative universities. We pride ourselves on making a difference to our students, our staff, and to the businesses we work with. Our research and business ideas, alongside our highly sought after graduates, contribute to (2)the economic and social development of both our region and to the UK as a whole. Our teaching methods and staff are first- rate and are supported by our world-class applied research. Our students are a (3)diverse group and benefit from a tailored approach that helps them to get the most from their studies. |
| Currently, (4)13% of all of our students are mature and 9% are from outside the UK. Both of these figures are significantly higher for postgraduate students. We offer top-quality teaching and learning facilities and the ability to learn flexibly in a way (5)that best suits their needs. For example, we are one of the UK’s leading universities in e-learning and offer a range of distance learning and part-time courses as well as the more traditional full-time courses. | |
| Our partners in industry choose to cooperate with because of our flexible, business-led approach and our high-quality (6)research, facilities, and students. Our partners include Sony, BP, the NHS, Network Rail, Cisco, SAP, and Microsoft. Our facilities are state-of-the-art and we have invested heavily in new technology (7)over the last 15 years in order to ensure that our technological capability matches the cutting-edge approach of our teaching. | |
| We are recognized as a Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning, e-learning, and employability. Our university plays a key role in the city and region in which it operates. We are located in both heart of Newtown and in its leafy suburbs and our (8)28,000 students add to the vibrancy and diversity of the city. |
| Cindy: | OK, everyone. We’ve been asked to think of the (1)characteristics of good teachers and those of good learners. Mike and myself volunteered to (2)look at the former whilst Janet and Tim took on the latter. Mike, you’ve got our list. |
| Mike: | OK everyone. This is what Cindy and I came up with. First, the teacher needs to be (3)a good communicator. The teacher needs to be able to speak clearly and to explain what things mean. Taking this idea a bit further, the teacher should have an (5)interesting voice. schoolwork is often boring enough, without having a teacher with a boring voice. |
| Cindy: | Yes. The teacher should sound interested in the subject. This might help the students to be a bit more lively and interested. |
| Mike: | We also thought that a good teacher should get to know his or her students. We don’t mean that he or she should (6)try to make friends with the students-that’s generally considered a bad idea at primary and secondary schools. We mean that the teacher needs to know something of their (7)backgrounds and their interests. |
| Cindy: | The third thing is that a good teacher must know his or her subject (8)inside out at the required level. It would be a disaster if the students knew more than the teacher! This means that the teacher must be well trained and (9)fully familiar with the curriculum not only at the current level he or she is teaching but also at the previous levels , so that he or she knows what the students already know. |
| Presenter: | Welcome to this first presentation on (1)writing an academic essay. A university essay can be thought of as an extended answer to a quite specific question that has been posed by your lecturer. |
| A key consideration for lecturers with when they mark students’ work is whether the (2)essay before them is relevant that is whether it does in fact provide an answer to the question being posed. | |
| For this reason it is important when you prepare to work on an essay that you spend a (3)reasonable amount of time reading and mulling over the essay topic so that you understand precisely (4)what is being asked. | |
| This (5)involves identifying and thinking about key words in the topic, among other things. This tutorial on essay writing is based on the following topic: | |
| “In the last 20 years, (6)rates of divorce have risen significantly in Western countries. Critically analyze some of the (7)different explanations given for this phenomenon . In your discussion you should consider what implications these explanations might have for social policy.” |