ESE I009

Level: Intermediate

Reading Evaluation:
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◦ Total words = 142 words

Answer Key
1. c. swimming
2. a. The National Marine Fisheries Service
3. b. Dolphins
4. d. legitimate
5. a. quality interaction

Listening Evaluation:

• Dialog 1
◦ Audio File: I008-1.mp3
Answer Key
Exercise 1.1 = B. at a department store
Exercise 1.2 = Marshall
Exercise 1.3 = check out
Exercise 1.4 = lost

Audio Transcript:
"Hello Shoppers. We have a lost boy named Marshall who was found in the sporting goods
section of our store, and he's looking for his mom. He's five years old, and he's wearing a blue
and white sweat shirt, tan pants, and a black and white baseball cap. You can find him at the
check-out counter at the main exit. Thank you."

• Dialog 2
◦ Audio File: I008-2.mp3
Answer Key
Exercise 2.1 = C. 80
Exercise 2.2 = 60
Exercise 2.3 = chocolate
Exercise 2.4 = is
Audio Transcript:
Cashier: Hi. Is this going to be for here or to go?
Customer: Uh, to go, and uh, yeah . . . I'd like 80 cheeseburgers . . .

Cashier: Oh, uh. Is that eighteen . . . one eight, or, uh, eight zero?
Customer: No, no, no . . . eighty, eighty.

Cashier: Okay, uh, eighty cheeseburgers. It sounds like you're feeding a whole football team.
Customer: Well, actually, the food's for a girl's soccer team, and the coaches, and some wild
fans.

Cashier: Okay. Uh, yeah. What else can I get for you today?
Customer: Yeah. I'd like 50 large fries, uh, no 60. Make that 60.

Cashier: Okay. Sixty like six zero.

Customer: Right, right, right. [ Okay. ] And then thirteen baked potatoes . . .

Cashier: Okay . . .
Customer: For. . . Let's see here. Forty chocolate shakes . . .

Cashier: Four zero, right?

Customer: Right. [ Okay. ] 15 large cokes, and uh, uh, let's see . . . a glass of water with no ice.

Cashier: No ice?
Customer: Right, right. It's for our team cat.

Cashier: Oh, yeah. The ice would be confusing (to the cat).
Customer: Okay. And uh, yeah. Yeah. I think that's all.

Cashier: Oh, okay. So, it looks like your total is two ninety, thirteen ($290.13).
Customer: Whew!

Cashier: And it's probably going to take about thirty to forty minutes 'cause that is a bit of
food.
Customer: Oh, that's fine. Alright, thanks.
Cashier: Alright.