IELTS Listening Actual Test 2024 with Answers | 24.02.2024

This is the IELTS

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. You will listen to several different recordings and have to answer questions about what you hear. There will be time for you to read the instructions and questions and you will have the opportunity to check your work on all recordings. It will be played only once The exam consists of four parts At the end of the exam You will be given 10 minutes to transfer your

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to the answer sheet Now move on to the first part You will hear a telephone conversation between a woman and a man who works for a company on vacation about a vacation you would like to go on first you have some time to look at questions 1 to 6 now we will begin you must answer the questions while

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because you will not listen to the recording a second time listen carefully and answer questions 1 to six vacation to ti Shan speaks, can I help you?

Hi, I've been looking at your website. I am interested in a cycling holiday in Austria in April. Oh, we have two trips in April, one lasts 14 days. days and the other 10 days H I think the 10 day trip is better so let's see. I have a calendar here what the dates are. Well, that trip is in the middle of the month, it starts on April 17th and ends on April 17th. The 27th, that suits me. I can't leave work before April 10. Hey, let me see if there are any spaces. Is it just for you and my sister?

So two of us. Yes, we have spaces. Is it a large group? There are currently 12 people booked for this trip and with the two of you it will be 14, the maximum number is 16, so it is almost full. We can't go over that because it's hard to keep a larger group together. I need to check that I'm fit enough for this, but the distances look good. The website says we will cover approximately 45 km per day. It's true, it's correct and I have the exact distances here. It really depends on what part of the trip it is just a few days. 35 kmet and some are more, but you will never have to cycle more than 50 km in a day.

Oh, okay, I can make it and we stay in hotels. Yes, they all have restaurants and the rooms have suite-type facilities and they have swimming pools. How do I relax after a long day? There are swimming pools in some hotels, but none of them have a gym. I don't think we need a gym after all that cycling. You'd better find out how much the vacation costs beforehand. I get so excited, including flights, it's £1,177 for one person, oh we'll book our own flights on the internet. Oh, that's only £103 then and we can book insurance for you if you want and what meals are included in that prize, well. breakfast, of course, and the hotels will provide you with a packed lunch every day.

We stop during the afternoon in a town somewhere to rest so any snacks you buy will be extra and dinner will be at the hotel every night and that is included in the price. holiday price before listening to the rest of the conversation you have some time to look at questions 7 to 10. Now listen and answer questions 7 to 10 and provide the bikes of course what else comes with a bike a padlock and a bell? In addition to lights, although you shouldn't need to ride your bike in the dark, there is a small bag or paper on the front of the bike where you can put things you want to take with you during the day, like water or fruit, but we won't .

We allow you to ride a bike unless you bring a helmet. We do not supply these locally because, like walking boots on a walking holiday, it is very important that they fit well. If you need any special equipment for your vacation, we recommend a particular website and you can get it. a discount when you quote your booking reference great what is it? www.b Valentine.com that's all one word and I'll spell it out for you www.b a a n t y n e.com well I've got it written down I've been looking at your website while we've been talking I see we're cycling along the Danu River yes it is one of the best known areas for cycling in Europe, it looks fascinating, there are many beautiful landscapes and things to see.

I must warn you that we reserve the right to make some modifications to the route if the weather is bad some of the tracks sometimes become very muddy, well I hope it doesn't rain too much. I know we stop in cities and towns but do we get a chance to look around because I'm really interested in the history oh yes you get opportunities to explore it is there anything in particular you want to see? There is a theater in a town called Grine. A friend of mine went there last year and said it was amazing, let's see.

Oh yes, there is a guide who will take you around the building. We do not have other organized tours, but you can visit several castles and museums during the holidays. Well, thanks for all that information. I would like to reserve it. So, well, I'll just say that. It's the end of the first part. Now you have a minute to check your

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to the first part. Second part. You will hear someone talking on the radio about food and restaurants in the local area. First you have some time to look at questions 11 to 14. Now listen. and answer questions 11-14 and now we have our know your city section where we look at what's on offer in our area today.

John Monroe will tell us about local food and how to eat out. John, well, most of us buy our food in supermarkets. days, but we are very lucky to have a wonderful market kit here. It was originally on the land in front of the cathedral, but in the early 20th century it was moved to a riverside site when the new shopping center was built. in the 1960s it found a home under the multi-storey car park where it still stands, but there are plans to move it back to its previous riverside home. The market is now open 6 days a week, Tuesday to Saturday.

You can buy fresh products. fruits and vegetables, meats and cheeses from the area as well as a whole range of imported products but if you come on a Sunday you will find a different market where artisans sell what they have made such as bags cards clothes during the week there are some stores that sell more everyday utensils such as sauces and cleaning products along with fruit and vegetables, as well as a new stall selling antique furniture which is proving very popular. People often ask what our local dish is since we are by the sea. They hope it's some kind of fish recipe.

Our fish is good, of course, but there is no particular dish that stands out. What we do have is an apple pie that isn't really made anywhere else. There's a new Cafe on High. Street Barton, who bakes them fresh every morning and serves them with delicious homemade ice cream in a variety of flavors. Now the port is obviously the place to buy fresh fish every morning. There is a stall where local fishermen sell a selection of the day's catch before the rest. goes to London or abroad, they've been doing it for as long as everyone can remember of course, but the port itself looks very different from a few years ago, most of the restaurants used to be at the other end, but that part It was remodeled and the restaurants had to move to the other end, many of them are just the old ones in new premises, but a couple of new ones have opened recently, so there is now a good variety both in the port and in the city same. my six best places to eat in different parts of the city before you listen to the rest of the talk you have some time to look at questions 15 to 20 now listen and answer questions 15 to 20 so number one for My name is Mery Veils, which is in one of the busiest parts of the city leading to the port.

She is on a side street so it doesn't face the water, but it is very close so you can take a walk after eating and find one of the cafes with live music. In Meriles you can enjoy delicious fresh fish and seafood. The friendly staff provide very attentive service and a truly enjoyable evening. The Lobster Pot is on the main road down to the harbour, so you also lose the sea view, but the food makes up for it. which serves a wide variety of fish and seafood as well as vegetarian and meat dishes, so there is something for all price ranges, from medium to quite expensive, so it's really just for a special occasion.

Elliots is in the center of town and is a very nice place. Market Restaurant at night, but during the day serves lunch and coffee. It's on the 20th floor, above some offices, and is a great place to sit for a while, as you can see most of the city from there, although it does get very crowded. and you may have to wait to be served not far from the city center. The center is the cabin that is on the bank of the Canal. You can't park your car there. It's a 50 minute walk from the nearest parking lot, but it's very quiet. place to relax away from traffic not cheap but ideal place for a long lunch The Olive Tree is a family run restaurant in the city center offering beautifully prepared Greek dishes, it is well known locally and the service is very popular can be Slow when busy as all the food is freshly made, there is plenty of space and on Friday and Saturday nights the wooden floors resonate with live music and dancing, which is definitely worth going to as the last place which I want to recommend has just opened in a renovated school building, the old one.

The school restaurant has been very cleverly renovated. The use of mirrored plants and wall colors make you feel like you are in a large garden instead of the city center. There are only a few dishes on the menu, but they change every day. Tanya, really, that's the end of part two. You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to the second part. Third, you will hear three students in a media studies course talking about a film they plan to make first. You have some time to see. questions 21 to 2 6 now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 26 hi Mike hi Razer I'm Helen hi we are very happy that you have agreed to join us on this film project yes your experience will be very useful I hope then that's the aspect technical, I know better lighting, sound and stuff, but you think the script is okay, yeah, I think it's great.

Have you decided where you are going to film? Well, there's the Watermill scene at the end and we've thought about a few things. locations in the city that we can use behind the mall and on a couple of residential streets and in an empty store on campus, it means we don't have to worry about getting permission from a store owner, so do you think we should go to all? locations with you would be a good idea, we need to talk about background noise levels so we know they will all be reasonable places to film, but traffic sounds will make it more natural.

I think passes means things like planes, trains, etc., that would mean we have to stop filming exactly and I'll also make notes on what lighting I'm going to need. I think the university department has a good range of equipment, but I'll need to make a list for each location for my own reference anyway, once we've had a look you can do the road works. Check what you mean. You need information about construction sites or road works because you might start filming one day and I come back in the morning and find that one of the roads has been dug up.

The local council needs to be informed about things like this so you can find out from them. Well then I think we have to work from the script and make a list of all the scenes and decide which ones we are going to shoot when we need to prepare the shooting schedule day by day you are right, so when you know how long the shoot is going to last you can tell it to everyone when necessary, okay. As soon as we can we will audition and then when we contact people to offer them roles we can send them the exact dates and make sure they are free because often the actors are all excited but then when you try to pin them down on whether they are really free at that time and you find out that they have exams or something or they are leaving for a festival right before and you have to rush to find replacements, so we need people who can take over the main parts if one of our stars gets sick or something so, yeah, I agree, so offer the lead roles to the people we really want and then look at other volunteers who were good.

Yes, we can select the lower studios once the main roles have been confirmed, so once we have it sorted and have helped all the rehearsals of the main scenes. We will be ready to start filming. If that sounds good. Anything else. Well, just housework. We don't

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ly need costumes because the actors will wear their own clothes. The family agreed to lend us some furniture we need, so we'll go pick it up the weekend before we start. We'll be providing food and drink during filming, so I'm going to borrow some cold boxes, yeah, and uh. I have a small van, most locations are within walking distance of residences anyway, the only one further away is Watermill, ah yes,can you tell me about that?

Okay, wait a minute, I'll take my notes. Plan them before listening to the rest of the conversation. You have some time to look at questions 27 to 30. Now listen and answer questions 27 to 30. Here is the windmill you see. Basically, it has a vertical water wheel that was used to drive the grinding. Stones M, sounds really interesting, will we film inside? Yes, that's where the final scene between the girl and the man takes place. Our plan is to fix a camera outside by the window next to the door to film through the window and then have another portable camera. camera inside the mill, that means we can get two views of the same scene.

We were going to do something using a mirror but decided it would be too complicated, yes doing it that way all we will need are lights on the inside next to the wall behind the steering wheel that can illuminate the opposite wall H, will that give enough light? I think so, because the scene is at night, there should not be too much light, the actors will also carry torches and we will have an old screen made of wood just inside the door because it is a new door and it will look bad, the lights will not shine directly on him, so it will be fine, so you won't

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ly show the door open.

No, there is a huge box on the floor against the wall farthest from the wheel. We will see the A girl approaching the mill on her bike, then we see through the window and the man is inside looking at it, then the next shot is the girl in the room with him opening the box, so it will be a mystery ending, yeah, Well, I think it's going to happen. It's a great project. Thank you so much. This is the end of the third part. You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to part three. Part Four will first hear part of a lecture on exotic pests as an introduction to a course on ecology and the environment.

You have some time to look at questions 31 to 40 now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40 good afternoon. I want this afternoon as an introduction to our ecology module to offer examples of exotic pests, non-native animals or plants that are or may be causing problems that could prove a fruitful topic for seminar presentations later in the semester, people and products They are traveling the world like never before and on these new global highways, plants and animals travel too exotic, plants and animals are appearing in Antarctica and in the most remote places. Islands on Earth, for example, the Australian red bed spider, came to countries quite close to home, such as New Zealand and Japan, as some of you will know well, it was also found on Tristan Duna, which is a remote island a thousands of miles from anywhere. in the middle of the Atlantic now another famous animal Invader in the other direction so to speak from England to Australia in the southern hemisphere is the rabbit this was in 1830 and it might seem like a minor threat but it became an extraordinarily destructive pest the fact that the rabbits increasing so rapidly is perhaps more understandable when we remember that they had originally been introduced to England from continental Europe eight centuries earlier, this was because they were considered a luxury food source and, despite having warm fur, were probably They originated in the hot, dry plains of Spain, which of course explains why they thrive in Australia's climate.

A much less cute example of a pest introduced to Australia this time from America are fire ants, which are increasing and spreading very rapidly. Their huge nests can now be found in gardens in the city of Brisbane and are costing the Australian government a lot of money in control measures. These were an accidental rather than a deliberate introduction to Australia, probably in horticultural imports or in mud on second-hand machinery as a biologist and conservationist. have become increasingly concerned about these issues: exotic invasions are irreversible and deserve to be taken more seriously even when they are not particularly harmful, for example something that is not necessarily a major disaster compared to other ecological experiments in 1975 an Australian species of Earthworms were deliberately introduced to the northern hemisphere in Scotland because they were larger than the native ones, the aim was for them to be more effective than the native species, but in fact they do no more for the soil condition than the smaller local species they target. they displace, although they do not do so.

From what we know so far, this will probably turn out to be a mistake. A much more serious case also in Scotland and other countries, along with the la

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victim, Iceland is the New Zealand flatworm. The most unpleasant newcomer to these regions of northwestern Europe basically this flatworm came to these countries by accident. It has now been discovered that it was actually carried in pots containing exotic ornamental shrubs, etc., and as it feeds on local earthworms and does not benefit the population. local ecology in any way is a real plague. Also, this time there is another case in the water and it comes from Japan.

It is a delicious but very fast-spreading algae and is one of many exotic species, large and small, in the seas that cover the rocks around. Unfortunately, Australia is replacing native algae and permanently altering the ecosystem. However, if we look at the situation from a commercial point of view, they are now harvested and exported dried to Japan, their original home, where they are particularly popular, so we can sometimes find accidental benefits. seemingly harmful arrivals, well, you could say that global ecology is now going the same way as popular culture. Global music and fashion. Food and drink are replacing local ones in every country and in ecosystems we find vigorous exotic invaders overwhelming native species and natural habitats, but can we find any examples of invaders that appear to be a problem and then discover that in Maybe they really aren't such a big problem after all?

We could take as an example a native of Australia, the bajigar, the most common pet parrot in the world. Of course, because there have been many escapes over the years, it can now be found flying in wild flocks where the weather favors it, so these flocks of GS parakeets have become very numerous in the southeastern United States. United States, particularly in residential areas. There has been quite a bit of concern about this, but it has been noted that flock sizes have decreased somewhat recently; It is believed that the fact that they are smaller is due to the fact that new competitors have arrived for their habitat from other places, that is the latest example.

For now what I would like you to consider is that this is planet Earth moving towards a global ecosystem to what extent would that be a bad development. This is the end of part four. You now have one minute to check your answers to part four. That's the end of the listening comprehension test in the I Els test. You will now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.