PART 2 Long monologue with sentence completion
Hot work!
1 The man talking to students in the photo is a fire protection and investigation engineer. Work in pairs to discuss these questions.
• What exactly do you think the man does in his job?
• What aspects of his job do you think he might talk about to the students?

2 Tick ((?) the actions that you think are part of the man's work. Use a dictionary to look up any of the underlined phrases you don't know.

The recordings in Part 2 are quite long, but the sentences are in the same order as the information given. There are also usually cues to indicate that information relevant to the next sentence is

3 Complete the sentences below with the underlined words from exercise 2.

a) John has decided to a new website for language students.
b) Fires in different conditions different levels of heat.
c) The police say they can Dave Harris from their investigations he was somewhere else when the fire started.
d) In her job as customer service advisor, Karen has to a lot of complaints.
e) A gust of cold wind suddenly _____________ all the candles in the restaurant.
f) If you use social media, it's very easy to with the news.
g) Jane and her colleagues experiments in a laboratory.
h) Could you the solution to that puzzle?

4 17 Look at sentences 1 and 2 from a Part 2 task and read about the cues next to each one. Then listen to the first part of the talk and complete the sentences.
Cormac refers to a fire that took place
in a (1) to explain what his work involves.

Cue: Cormac says I'm a fire prevention and investigation engineer. To give you an idea of what that means..., which is similar to 'to explain what his work involves'. So'you know the word(s) you need for sentence 1 will come soon.

Cormac's team discovered that a
problem with a (2) led to the fire he refers to.
Cue: Cormac says... my colleagues and I examined the scene of the fire and then carried out lab tests on items from the fire, which matches 'Cormac's team discovered that a problem with a .... So you know the word(s) you need for sentence 2 will be in this part of the talk.

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