IELTS Hörförståelse – övningsfrågor för avsnitt 2

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Pemberton Engineering, one of the country's leading manufacturers of precision metal components. Thank you for choosing Pemberton's for your two week work experience placement. My name's Daniel Holloway, and I've been managing director here since the beginning of this year. Pemberton's is one of the older firms in this part of the country.

The founder, Walter Pemberton, joined the local steel works straight out of school in 1925, and he spent four years there learning the trade. He set up his own firm in this very building in 1929, although interestingly he'd actually started getting things ready as early as 1927, he was a determined young man right from the start. Walter had always hoped to supply parts to the railway industry, which was thriving at the time, and that did eventually become a major line of work for us. But the great depression hit just as Pemberton's went into production, the railway market dried up overnight, and so for the first three years we ended up making tools and fittings for the local mining industry instead.

Railway work eventually came back onto our books in 1932, although these days most of our orders are for the automotive sector. Over the years, the site has been extended several times. We were lucky that the original plot was large, and so although there have been rumours over the years that we'd move, that's never been seriously considered. The site stays where it is.

What is happening, though, is a major refurbishment of the workshop layout, that begins next year and runs for about eighteen months. A few words about your placement. Each Monday morning you'll have a session with one of the department heads, starting today with our research and development team. After that you'll spend the rest of the week alongside the staff in that department, watching the day to day work, provided you don't slow them down too much.

In previous years a teacher from your school has visited at the end of each week to check on progress, but unfortunately your school can't make those trips this term, so you'll be on your own from Friday onwards.

Right, let me give you a quick tour of the site so you don't get lost. We're standing in the main reception now, by the front entrance from Mill Road. If you take the corridor to the left from here and keep going, you'll see the training room directly ahead at the end. That's where you'll all meet on Monday mornings.

You can get to the tool store by crossing to the far side of the courtyard; the door is on your right. It's next to the factory, though of course you shouldn't go onto the factory floor unless a supervisor takes you there.

For the staff canteen, go from reception into the open courtyard and take the passage running along the left hand side of it. The canteen is the middle room on that side, before you reach the top corner. The food's pretty good, but the noise isn't. The windows on one side look onto Moffatt Road, which is currently under construction.

You'll be using the project office for short placement briefings from time to time. It's just on the opposite side of the courtyard from the staff canteen.

The meeting room is at the front of the building. From reception, take the left hand corridor along the front, and it's the second room you come to. It has windows looking directly out onto Mill Road, so it gets plenty of natural daylight.

The accounts office is where invoices and payroll records are dealt with. To find it, To find it, go along the corridor past the courtyard, right to the end. The accounts office is on the left, next to the factory, and it has views out over the trees on the eastern side.

That just leaves a few rooms not assigned to anything yet, a couple along the corridors and one or two odd corners, but those aren't on your tour today.