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80 transcripts Practice Pack (audio) 25th symphony, but for Mozart’s 25th symphony conducted by Karajan, or played by the London Symphony Orchestra, and I didn’t really have a clue. But the other staff were very helpful, and after a while, I managed to find my way round and learned the names of the most important conductors or singers or soloists. I was good with handling the equipment, so they let me do this after a while. They showed me how to handle the records, of course, so that I didn’t scratch them when I took them out, and what to do with the record player, but as we had one at home, I was really quick to learn. And I remember, once I had two old ladies come in and ask me to play a particular piece of music, Schubert, I think it was, and when I started the music, one of them started to cry because she was so moved by it. We were all a bit embarrassed by this, she was crying and smiling at the same time because the music was wonderful. And I can’t say that I’ve ever seen anybody react so strongly to music since then. Announcer: Speaker 3 – Linda. Linda: Over the last holidays, I worked as a magician. I’ve always been interested in juggling and in performing magic tricks, and everybody told me that I was quite good at it, so I decided to contact this agency for artists to see if they had any work for me – and they did! They asked me to put together an act that would work for children’s birthday parties, and then show it to them. You can bet that I was really nervous when I performed it for the first time, but they liked it. So they took me on, and said I shouldn’t expect very much business, but from the start, I was kept quite busy performing especially at weekends, at children’s birthday parties. I think there was a certain amount of word-of-mouth advertising going on, because after the first two ‘performances’, I definitely got more phone calls, and I even had to tell some parents that I couldn’t do their parties. Actually, it was great fun. Children are a very critical audience, so if you don’t do your job well, I think they can be pretty nasty, but fortunately, that never happened to me. I think I’m quite a good actress, so I always managed to get their full attention, and once you have that, it’s very easy to manipulate them a bit and make them look at, I don’t know, your left hand while you’re hiding something up your sleeve with your right hand. the way and he drove his car into my living room. Well, I called the police and they arrested him for drunken driving. He escaped prison because he promised to pay for the damage but he’s lost his driving licence and he can’t drive, and so at least for now, my life is peaceful again. Practice Pack, Unit 11, exercise 5 ( À 41) Announcer: Listen to three people talking about their experiences with summer jobs. … Speaker 1 – Ruth. Ruth: I had quite a few summer jobs when I was younger, but for some reason I always ended up in the food processing industry. So there was one job I remember, in a bread factory down south, and I remember it mainly because there was another student who was a communist and who kind of only worked there because he wanted to sabotage the capitalist system. So he kept lecturing about the exploitation of workers, though we were actually quite well paid, even though it was unskilled work, so I didn’t quite get what he was saying. He bored us all stiff, and one of the foremen complained after a while, so he was transferred to loading vans until his 6 weeks of summer job were over. It wasn’t very pleasant work, we had to take the loaves that came straight out of the oven and put them onto the right conveyer belts so that, you know, if it was toast, it could go off to be sliced and packaged, and if it was brown loaves, they had to go – right, I think and white loaves had to go left. And it was very hot in the room, and the bread was very hot too, and we had to wear hygienic clothes, you know, so I was always completely soaked in sweat by 9 o’clock and just hoping to make it through to tea break at 11. So the next year I thought – nothing hot again, and I ended up in the frozen goods warehouse, where I had to supervise the machines packaging frozen peas and carrots, and it was so cold that I wore my winter clothes even though the sun was shining outside. And for a long time I wasn’t able to eat peas or carrots without shivering. Announcer: Speaker 2 – Gordon. Gordon: When I was a student, I worked in a record shop one summer. But I don’t think they exist anymore … We didn’t even sell CDs, back then records were all the craze. The shop sold mainly classical music, and for the first couple of weeks, I had a hard time. People would come in and wouldn’t just ask for, I don’t know, Mozart’s Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv