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Out of the Office

Grammar

Below you will find feedback forms from two delegates. These were given ii at the end of the conference that you heard about in the listening exercise on page 56 of the Studenfs Book.

Delegate A

	poor	satisfactory	good	very good
Stefania Volksmann		/
Rachel Tebbit			/
Tim Shi				/
Dr Dieter Pietsch			/
Alan Rolfe			/
Discussion panel	/
Location			/
Conference Staff				/

Comments:    AV Shis talk v use-ful, but not a good room - łoo smali.

Rachel Tebbit was also interesting.

Leasł interesting part was discussion panel - +oo long and boring

Gon-ference sta-f-f v. help-ful, unliKe last ^ear!

Delegate B

	poor	satisfactory	good	very good
Stefania Volksmann		/
Rachel Tebbit			/
Tim Shi			/
Dr Dieter Pietsch				/
Alan Rolfe			/
Discussion panel			/
Location
Conference staff			/

Comments:    Dr Piełschs session reall^ good, and great -fun! AV Rol-fe

also useful but a bit serious.

Hotel rather -far -from centre Wh^ not same hotel as last \jear?

j hours not enough -for discussion panel

Study the forms and complete the following sentences (1-8) with either a comparative or a superlative form. Use each adjective from the box once only.

duli

entertaining

1    Delegate A thinks that Rachel Tebbifs talk was roOTS..iyi+Sr££i.i.'O0. than Stefania Volksmann’s.

2    Delegate B thinks that Dr Pietsch’s talk was .±he..besi. .

useful 3 Delegate A thinks that Tim Shi’s session was....................of all.

helpful ⁴ Delegate A thinks that Tim Shi’s session needed a....................

intorooting    room.

large 5 Delegate A thinks that the discussion panel was....................

long    part.

6    Delegate B thinks that it is a pity that the discussion panel was

not.....................

7    Delegate A thinks that the conference Staff, were....................

than last year.

8    Delegate B thinks that Dr Pietsch was....................than Mr

Rolfe.

Vocabulary

1    Match the verbs in column A with objects in column B to make collocations about organising or attending a conference. Some verbs can go with morę than one object.

B

a presentation the venue a feedback form a badge a lecture

information packs signs

2    Who would normally do each of the actions in the list above? Record each collocation in the correct column below. One action would normally be done by all three types of people.

A delegate

ał+end a lec+ure

A speaker

An organiser

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