1.1 SPEED LISTENING: Note only the essential details of what you hear:
(Refer to the tapescript for confirmation.)
a. Edinburgh is
b. The city is
c. The annual
d. The centre
e. The New Town
f. The Old Town
g. The Festival
h
i
j

a. Edingburge is the capital city of Scottland.

b.The city is often regarded as the most cultured and cosmopolitan city north of London.
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c.The annual Edingburge international festival attracts millions of visitors from all around the world.

d.The center of the city is in two parts , the new town and the old town.

e.The new town was designed to improve upon the crams and crowds of the city conditions.

f.The old town, medieval in style, is amazed of narrow alley ways down which sewage once run freely.

g.The festial is actually concurrent series of seperate tour festivals last in for three weeks.

h. Now the lagest art festival on earth it was once dominated by opera.

i. Today festival performances ranging taste from the exotic controversial to the highly sophisticated.

j. This most romantic of cities bows a spectacular castle set on the high top of the extinct volcanic rock.

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