LISTEN C1

1. Education

• A university degree
• School report 
• Foundation courses
• Studying for exams

2. Administration  & Law

• Road regulations
• Divorce Lawyers
• Crime

3. Urban life: goods & services

• Edmund G Ross
• History of the underground railway

4.  Housing & Home Environment

• Four different speakers
• Home repairs
• Property development
• I’ll show you around
• Renting a room
• Ancient civilisation

5. Personal identification

• Personality traits
• University conversation
• Laughter
• Introverts: redressing the balance

6. Social and human relations

• Roommates
• People talking about people they know

7. Culture and traditions

8. Politics & Society

• Elections: campaing speech
• Help others, help yourself

9. Travelling

• Guidebooks
• Recent holidays or breaks
• Utah travel ad 
• Titanic letter
• Travelling experiences

10. Language & Literature

• Popularity of audiobooks
• The founder of a magazine
• Ways to learn a foreign language
• Crime novels
• Time working on a magazine

11. Science and Technology

• The invention of the microwave oven
•  Hologram technology
• The helix
•  Living online
• Charles Duke: a trip to the moon
• Technology controller
• Robots like termites
• Tech addiction

12. Geography,  Climate, Weather & Environment

• A visit to the Arctic Circle
• A green world
• Rubbish in Rio 
• A trip to the rainforest
• Tree-planting project
• The albatross
• Protecting the seas from pollution

13. Work

• Happiness at work
• Job hunting
• Things that have happened at work
• How to break into the music industry
• Giving up office jobs
• Handling work-related problems

14. Health & Wellbeing

• Social phobic disorder
• Personal health problems
• Quit Smoking 
• Laughter yoga 
• The fear factor
• War’s silver lining

15. Food & Nourishment

• Vanilla
• The importance of organic food
• The importance of eating breakfast
• Tupperware 
• Cherries
• Teens going veggie
• Working with chocolate

16. Daily Life Activities, Free Time and Entertainment

• Gardening
• A well-known celebrity
• World Cup Football
• Learning the sport  of surfing
• Four minute mile
• Recent experiences
• Climbing Mount Everest
• Joining health club 
• Skydiving
• Conversation: two sports psychologists

17. Information & Means of Communication, ITC

• News items
• A free cellphone
• How false information spreads
• Two journalists talk about their work
• Gender and advertising

18. Business & economics

• Business strategies

19. Art  & Culture

• Museum tour
• Lena Home: a singer 
• The history of hand gestures
• Drama classes
• Brian Conley: a comedian 
• Making mosaics
• Jourdan Kemp: art used on CD covers 
• Ballet lessons
• An interview with a choreographer
• Sophie Axel: an artist
• Visits to museums

20. Shopping & Trade

• Money matters
• Refinancing mortgage loans

21. Religion and Philosophy

• The Christmas gift