TEST
Scandinavian Studies
BETH:
Oh good morning. You must be James. I’m Beth Cartwright – please call be Beth.
JAMES:
Thank you.
BETH:
Now as this is your first tutorial since you started on the Scandinavian Studies course, I’d
like to find out something about you. Why did you decide to take this course?
JAMES:
Well, my mother is Danish, and although we always lived in England, she used to talk
about her home a lot, and that made me want to visit Denmark. We hardly ever did,
though – my mother usually went on her own. But whenever her relations or friends
were in England they always came to see us.
Q21
BETH:
I see. So I assume you already speak Danish, one of the languages you’ll be studying.
JAMES:
I can get by when I talk to people, though I’m not terribly accurate.
BETH:
Now you probably know that you’ll spend the third year of the course abroad. Have you had
any thoughts about that?
JAMES:
I’m really looking forward to it. And although Denmark seems the obvious place to go,
because of my family connections, I’d love to spend the time in Iceland.
BETH:
Oh, I’m sure it can be arranged. Do you have any plans for when you graduate? A lot of
students go on to take a master’s degree.
JAMES:
I think the four years of the undergraduate course will be enough for me.
