Exercise 10.2A
This exercise relates to the listening passage on page 10.2. You can listen to the passage again here:
Summarise the information given in the message corresponding to each heading given below. In each case click on 'show answer' to see if your response is correct.
Who Inna Khomenko is and why she is calling
secretary to the Provost (Dean/Rector) of Kyiv University; wishes to update information regarding a group of academics coming to the conference
When the conference is taking place
4-6 May
The original arrangements
the group, consisting of five people, was supposed to arrive on Tuesday 3 May
The reason for and details of the amended arrangements
one of the group has fallen ill; four people will now arrive at Boryspil Airport on Wednesday 4 May, at 12.00, on an Austrian Airlines flight
The programme for the first day
morning – plenary session; afternoon – parallel sessions as in the programme; 12-2 – poster presentations; evening – trip to the opera to see “Taras Bulba”
The second day’s programme
sessions all day; in the break – an excursion to the historic part of the city; evening – concert of works by 19th century European composers at the Organ and Chamber Music Concert Hall
The conclusion of the conference
6 May, 12.30
Inna’s concluding request
move the meeting with representatives of the Provost’s office from 3 May to 6 p.m. on 6 May