English Listening B1 Episode 08 - Track 09
Fill in the Blanks Exercise
Exercise (Track 9):
Luca
Well, I've always
sport and swimming. As a kid I used to spend
in the summer on the beach with my friends. We would swim or surf, or just
in the water. And there was always a lifeguard there on the beach, and I used to think,
job!' So, when I left school, I
a lifeguard. I really enjoyed the job
years. In the summer I would work on the beach, and then in the winter I would
. It was my dream job. I
. But after a while, I started to
. I was just on this boiling beach all day, watching all the beautiful people, but I couldn't really
, you know. I just had to stand there and watch. So I knew it was time to
else to do.
Nicola
I used to be
and for a while it was definitely my dream job. I mean can you imagine anything better than
delicious ice cream all day? I was in heaven. I was working for a
, with a team of food scientists, and our job was to
for ice cream flavours. So, I suppose that was the problem, because a lot of the time, we had to try
, like curry and lime ice cream, or cheese and sausage, and we would have to taste it, and usually it was
, really disgusting. Now most people would just say, 'Yuck, I'm not
'. But unfortunately, when it's your job, you have to keep tasting it to see if they have
better. Sometimes we would taste thirty different ice cream flavours
. So, it wasn't all good.
Amy
I was a
for a while. It was good fun
. The lady I worked for was a television presenter, and she needed outfits to wear on television, but she
to go shopping. So I would go out and buy clothes for her, then she would try them on at home, and I would
that was no good. It was a fascinating insight into
live. But as time went on I realised she was
. One time I had to buy her an outfit for a
going to, and I bought her a few different things to try on, but she
any of them, and she was really furious that I hadn't found her
. It wasn't really my fault, but I
soon after that.
