Narrator: Part Two. Listening Exercise 2.1 . Listen to the following sentences, pausing your machine aftereach sentence to write down the essential details of what you have heard:
a. Cardiff has been the official capital of Wales since only 1955.
b. This city of 270,000 people is prosperous, with a large university and an extraordinary castle.
c. Wales has some extremely beautiful scenery, but also some of the most depressing coal-mining towns.
d. More than 50% of the pits closed during the 1930s, and the last large coal mine in Wales closed in 1994.
e. Nuclear power stations now supply much of the energy that was once derived solely from coal.
f. The major industry in Wales these days is tourism, which accounts for over 10% of jobs in the region.
g. Cardiff was once the world's busiest coal port, producing one third of the world's coal.
h. The city was heavily bombed during the Second World War, because of its strategic importance.
i. Fortunately, since the '60s, much of the industrial damage to the Welsh environment has been reversed.
j . The Cardiff Bay Project, a 30 minute walk from the city centre, has rejuvenated the old dock area, andnearby mud flats have been turned into a freshwater lake. |