Good evening everyone and thank you for coming to the Soccer Club meeting. It's
good to see so many parents and children here tonight, and I know you are looking
forward to a great football season. Now I'd like to take a few minutes to
tell you about some changes to the Soccer Club for the coming season.
Now, this season we'll be playing all our matches for both the junior and
senior competitions at King's Park, instead of Royal Park, which was used
last season.
Now for meetings, we're going to use the clubhouse in King's Park, and
the next meeting will be held in the
clubhouse on the 2nd of July.
As usual, we hope to begin the season with a
picnic next Saturday at the
clubhouse. Please try and come to the picnic as it's always good fun. The
last week of the season we usually have a dinner and presentation of
prizes to the players, and
more information about this will be given to you later in the season.
This season we have more teams than ever. We hope to have ten teams, instead
of five, in the junior competition and they will play on Saturday mornings,
beginning at 8.30 a.m..
Training sessions will be held in King's Park on
Wednesday afternoons for the
juniors and they will be wearing red shirts again this year.
In the senior competition, there'll be four teams, the same as last year,
and their games will be played on Saturday afternoons starting at 2.30, no sorry,
it will be a 2 o'clock start, and the training session for seniors is planned
for Sunday afternoons.
Now I'd like to introduce you to the new committee for the Soccer Club for
this season. Firstly, let me welcome Robert Young, the new President, who will
manage the meetings for the next two years. Robert's son has been playing
football with the club for over five years now, and many thanks to Robert for
taking on the job of President.
Next we have Gina Costello, she's the treasurer, and she will
collect the fees from you for
the season. Please try and give Gina your fees as early as possible in the season,
as the club needs the money to buy some new equipment.
Then there's David West who has volunteered to be the club secretary, and
one of the many jobs he will have is to
send out newsletters to you
regularly. If you have any information that may be useful, please let David
know so that it can be included in these newsletters.
Also I'd like to introduce you to Jason Dokie who is the Head Coach. For
all the new members here tonight, this is the third year thet Jason has been
with us as Head Coach, and we are very lucky to have such an experienced coach
and former player at our club. He will continue to
supervise the teams, at training
sessions and on match days.
Now before we finish and have some refreshments, does anyone have any questions
they'd like to ask the new committee?
English Listening Tip
In the real test, you have time at the beginning of each section to look
at the task. Use this time well to read the questions and think about the
topics. The questions always follow the order of the recording. Dont panic
if you miss one question look ahead and think about the next one.
Questions 11-13
Complete the sentences below using
NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
Section 2:
You will hear a speech by an official at a meeting of a local football club at start
of a new football season. First you have some time to look at Questions
11-13.
Now Listen carefully and answer Questions 11 to 13:
11) The next meeting of the soccer club will be in the
.................... in King's Park on 2 July.
12) The first event is a .....................
13) At the final dinner, players receive
.....................
