A2Culture10 min
Welcome to the museum tour
Listen to a guide talk to a group of visitors at a city museum.
Before you listen
A group of visitors is standing in the hall of a city museum. Their guide is going to take them around the building. Before they start, she speaks to the group.
- guidenoun
- a person whose job is to show a place to visitorsOur guide told us about the old castle.
- skeletonnoun
- all the bones of a person or an animalThe children looked at the skeleton of a horse.
- whalenoun
- a very large animal that lives in the seaWe saw a whale from the boat.
- experimentnoun
- a test that you do to learn how something worksIn our science class, we did an experiment with water and ice.
- flashnoun
- a bright light on a camera for taking photos in dark placesPlease turn off the flash on your phone.
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Before the tour
Show the transcript (try the questions first)
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the City Museum. My name's Grace, and I'm your guide today. The tour takes about an hour and a half, and we'll visit three rooms.
First, we'll go to the Ocean Room on the ground floor. There, you can see the skeleton of a whale. It's fourteen metres long!
After that, we'll take the stairs to the first floor and look at old maps of the city. Some of them are more than three hundred years old.
Our last stop is the Science Room, where you can try some experiments yourself. Children usually love this part, but adults enjoy it too!
A few rules before we start. You can take photos, but please don't use a flash. And please don't touch anything in the glass cases.
If you need a break, the café is next to the main entrance, and the toilets are opposite the gift shop. Right, please stay together and follow me.
Exercise 1 of 2
Understand the talk
Listen to the guide. Choose the correct answer.
Exercise 2 of 2
Listen for details
Listen again. Type a word or number in each gap.
The Ocean Room is on the floor.
The group will visit rooms.
The animal in the first room is metres long.
Some of the maps are more than years old.
Visitors must not touch anything in the glass .
The toilets are opposite the .
Source
Original script by Joy English, read by open-source text-to-speech voices (Kokoro-82M, Apache-2.0).
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