Part 3 · Multiple matching

Narrator: You will hear five short extracts in which people are talking about moving to a new city. For questions 1 to 5, choose from the list A to H what each speaker says about the experience. Use the letters only once. There are three extra letters which you do not need to use.

Narrator: Speaker one.

Speaker 1: I'd lived in the same small town all my life, so moving to Manchester for university was a big step. Everyone had warned me that people in big cities keep to themselves, and to be fair, my neighbours hardly said a word to me. What saved me was the climbing wall near my flat. I went along one evening on my own, and within a month I had a whole group of friends who were just as obsessed with climbing as I was. We still go away together every summer.

Narrator: Speaker two.

Speaker 2: When I got a job in London, I knew it wouldn't be cheap, and I'd done my research, so the rents didn't come as a shock. What I wasn't prepared for was the sheer amount of traffic outside my window. For the first few weeks I barely slept. Every siren, every bus, every late-night conversation on the street seemed to be happening inside my bedroom. Eventually I stopped noticing it, and now I actually find it hard to sleep at my parents' house because it's too quiet.

Narrator: Speaker three.

Speaker 3: My company offered me a transfer to Edinburgh years ago, and I kept saying no. I'd built my whole life in Bristol, and I couldn't imagine starting again. When I finally agreed, the city won me over almost immediately. It's small enough to walk everywhere, and I've never once got lost, which for me is saying something. If anything, I'm annoyed with myself for resisting for so long. I could have been living here years earlier if I hadn't been so stubborn.

Narrator: Speaker four.

Speaker 4: I followed my girlfriend to Glasgow when she got a place on a course there. I'd have gone anywhere with her, to be honest. The city centre is laid out in a neat grid, so I never had any trouble finding my way around. People always say Glaswegians are friendly, so I wasn't surprised when strangers started chatting to me at bus stops. I'd expected that. The thing is, I'm not sure I'd have chosen the city myself.

Narrator: Speaker five.

Speaker 5: Moving from a village to Birmingham, I assumed I'd spend all my time longing for fields and fresh air, but honestly I hardly think about it. What did catch me out was money. My salary was higher than before, so I thought I'd be much better off, but between rent, transport and eating out, I ended up with less at the end of each month than I'd had at home. I've had to be a lot more careful since then.

Narrator: You will hear five short extracts in which people are talking about a teacher who influenced them. For questions 1 to 5, choose from the list A to H what each speaker says about the teacher. Use the letters only once. There are three extra letters which you do not need to use.

Narrator: Speaker one.

Speaker 1: Mr Price taught us chemistry, and to be honest, most of us thought he was incredibly boring. He never told jokes, and his lessons were all notes and experiments, week after week. It was only when I got to university and found I understood far more than my classmates that I realised how much he'd given me. I wish I'd been able to tell him, but he'd retired by then, and I never found out where he'd gone.

Narrator: Speaker two.

Speaker 2: I was hopeless at maths, and I'd decided I hated it. Then in my last year at school we got a new teacher, Ms Okafor. Her lessons weren't exactly entertaining, she was quite serious, but she explained everything using real-life examples, football scores, shopping, that kind of thing. Suddenly it made sense, and for the first time I felt I could actually do it. I didn't end up working with numbers, I'm a nurse, but I'm not scared of maths any more.

Narrator: Speaker three.

Speaker 3: When I was fifteen, my parents split up and I stopped caring about school. My English teacher, Mrs Hall, noticed before anyone else did. She never made a big deal of it, but she'd stay behind after class and just talk to me, about books, about anything. I honestly don't think I'd have finished school without her. I've often thought about writing to thank her, but I've never actually done it.

Narrator: Speaker four.

Speaker 4: My art teacher was the one who told me to apply to a fashion college in London. I'd never even considered it. Nobody from my town went to places like that, and I was sure I'd be rejected. She just kept saying, what's the worst that can happen? So I applied, and I got in. I don't actually work in fashion now, I ended up in advertising, but I'd never have left my town otherwise.

Narrator: Speaker five.

Speaker 5: Mr Daniels, our PE teacher, had a reputation for being tough, and he certainly was. If you forgot your kit, you ran extra laps, no excuses. But he treated everyone exactly the same, whether you were the best player in the school or the worst, and we respected that. I bumped into him in town a few years ago and hardly recognised him. He seemed so much smaller than I remembered.