IELTS Listening Actual Test 2024 with Answers | 18.01.2024

This is the IELTS

listening

comprehension

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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. will be played only once the

test

consists of four parts at the end of the test 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 from a man who runs a recruitment agency to a woman young man looking for a job 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 6 Hello uina, do you have a seat?

Oh yes, uina, thank you. I am looking for a job as a babysitter. I like to work with children. I talked to you yesterday, oh yeah, well. We covered most of the ground yesterday by phone. I have a form I need to fill out for my records, so are you Edua Riley and how should we contact you? Oh, by email. I review it periodically. What is the address? It's Edua. Me on worldnet Doc, yeah, well, and you're from Australia, I'm

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ly a New Zealander. Oh, sorry, I bet it's just as irritating to be told you're Australian, as it is to Canadians to be asked what part of the States they're from.

I'm used to it, it happens to us all the time H and now you said on the phone that you could bring me some references, one from someone who has known you professionally and another personal, oh yeah, here's one from John Keane. who was the manager of the play center in Wellington where I worked for three years after leaving school. He has all his contact details, thanks, so this was his last employer, yes, apart from having worked a bit as a waitress recently, but that was only temporary. I'm sure John will answer any questions if you contact him.

We carry out checks, yes, and a personal reference. Oh, you can contact my mothers friend who I'm staying with here in London. Ien Dorini, she is a teacher, she has known me all her life because she used to be our neighbor at home when she was a primary school teacher there now she works here at the Institute of Education oh well I have her contact details here for you thank you uh I think I have some jobs that suit you oh, right? By the way, I have some practical qualifications, life saving, music, whatever, I have an up to date first aid certificate.

I did a course when I was working, that's good, first aid, anything else, well, I have a driving license and like I told you on the phone, but that's not special, you said almost everyone needs that, I really have A sailing qualification is the certificate of competence, so you are a sailor. I love sailing. Well, I will note that you have an H certificate before you. Listen to the rest of the conversation. You have some time to look at questions 7 through 10. Now listen and answer questions 7 through 10. As I mentioned yesterday, there are three families and the job description is pretty much the same for all of them, as I explained there.

There are a few other things you need to know anyway the first family is here in London yes I took some notes London uh it's the Bentons with two children yes that's right a three year old girl and her eight year old brother the little boy has a pretty severe food allergy, did you learn about things like that in your course? Oh well, I know what to do if someone has an allergic reaction. Well, what they mainly want is someone with an interest in sports, that's the type of family they are. Well I'll enjoy it now, the next people are in the countryside near Oxford, oh yes, the Grangers, yes, so they have five year old twins who I suspect are a bit complicated, but it's a lovely place, quite a big house and the family is extremely welcoming.

They have horses. You ride? I did it when I was younger. I like animals in general. Well, the animal level was his special request, so you would be fine there. Hey, the last family. Yeah, I don't think I told you who they live in. Scotland really, what's Campbell's name? Oh yeah, and they have four girls under 10 years old. That's all. They have a beautiful apartment in the city and they own a small island. In reality, you may get along very well with them. They especially wanted someone who was prepared to cook. when they go camping on the island, camping would really suit me and I'm used to taking my turn making the food, but it's a long way from London, yeah, well you can think about it, so as soon as I've checked your references .

We can arrange for you to speak with all families. Thank you so much. I'll email you as soon as I can. That'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. Oh. Ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased to welcome you to City Scope, our beautiful, modern sports and leisure facilities. I've taken you to the rooftop cafe, at the top of the stadium, so you can enjoy the view while I explain briefly. what we have here and we'll tell you the main features of the site, then we'll walk around and take a look at ground level.

Oh, that would be interesting, we are extremely proud of this new facility, as seen when the project was first discussed. We were expecting a multinational company to give us half of our funding and the central government subsidy would cover most of the rest with a smaller contribution from local companies. Well, we were already quite far into the planning stage when the multinational pulled out and we both central companies and the local government decided they couldn't afford anything, so we ended up with a beautiful project, a small amount of sponsorship promised by local organizations and nothing more, we thought we would never build it, but at the last minute we received an incredible donation from several million pounds from a national transport company and that boosted us again and we managed to raise the rest of the local fundraising.

There is hardly a street in the city that hasn't made its contribution in one way or another, so there is a real sense of local belonging. property here so this is what we got, we wanted a new stadium because the 1950s football stadium is on the other side of town and will soon be torn down and built on this site where the old airport was with some soccer fields. game on one side of East and some buildings from the 1930s, when the airfield opened, we were able to plan a new stadium with plenty of space for everything people wanted.

The playing fields have been improved and fenced, so they are now a top quality complex. outdoor fields for amateur soccer, hockey, etc. Here we have sports and other entertainment. We want to encourage all types of people to visit the site in the evening and we hope that some of them will come to use the cinema or cafe and end up trying out the gym. These are all grouped together, the café is in the original 1930s passenger hall and the architects have managed to retain some of the elegant style of the building, the other buildings such as the control tower which would have been a great feature, and the airplane hangars we had.

It was hoped that it could house Gym C. Unfortunately, they were not structurally sound enough to preserve, so everything else is newly built and opened in 2010. Before you listen to the rest of the talk, you have time to see questions 15 to 20. Now listen and answer questions 15 to 20 right now, if you want to get a little closer to the window, I will point out the different buildings. We are at the highest point of the stadium here in the rooftop cafe, on the opposite side of the main entrance doors. To our left you can see two buildings just after the end of the stadium, the nearest one is the business center used for meetings and conferences etc, which provides a good source of income for the maintenance of the sports facilities and next to the business .

In the centre, the largest building is the hotel which is rented to us by an independent company, as you can see, they are served by the perimeter road which runs around 34 of the site and which now reaches the front of the building, immediately opposite the entrance which circular. The open space at the end of the road is the transport hub, from here there are buses and a monal link to the free car park about 10 minutes from here, but you don't see that there is also a large secure cycle park and disabled parking . Of course, people find it very convenient and keep the site virtually car-free.

Well now if you look as far to the right as you can, past the buildings, you can see our outdoor plots that I mentioned earlier, between the plots and the entrance is kind of nice. from the pedestrian plaza, do you agree with me that the cinema is in the building furthest from us, next to the fields? Then there's the 10 Pin bowling alley between the cinema and the road near the far end of Perimeter Road and between the mini roundabout and the courts. There is our gym with all kinds of equipment and a small pool and locker rooms for the teams that use the fields that then join the stadium next to the entrance there are a series of small shops that specialize in sports equipment, clothing, shoes, they sell toys, etc.

Also, all that sort of stuff seems to be going well for them, as you see the service road turn around, but we keep the traffic and pedestrians well separated, so everything is very relaxed around the popular square with the families and right in front of the bowling alley is our lovely restaurant. You can see it from here. It's that building in the Plaza between us and the bowling alley. It is open all day and there is quite a queue at night on weekends. I'm pleased to say that now you have the layout we can go and take a closer look at everything which is the end of part two.

You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to the second part. Third part. First you will hear two people named Khloe and Ivan talking about a business studies course. some time to look at questions 21 to 25 now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 25 oh hi Ivan oh hi Chloe I'm glad I came across you because I've been looking at this prospectus about courses at the University, I'm thinking about doing a degree of business studies, isn't that what you're doing? Yes, I'm about to start my third year. I think you would like it. Is there anything in the course that you're not sure about?

Well, you know? I've been working for a publishing house for the last four years as a production assistant and it will be a really valuable experience because a lot of people go to university straight from school and don't have that kind of experience. Yes, I know and I'm used to it. dealing with numbers and percentages and things, but it's been a while since I sat down and put my ideas into an essay. I was never that good at it and I'm not sure I can do it now, but you did well in school, so I'm sure you'll get back to it soon.

When I started, I was worried about different things, like if I could use all the computer programs, but really you only need the basics, you have to do a lot of presentations and I thought it would be difficult, but

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ly we had had so much practice in school that it was okay. , but did you find it easy to write essays? Oh, it was good, but I had no hope of turning them in before the deadline and I was always late. lectures so I had to work hard at that and I tend to get there early now it's a good thing you got yourself sorted before you go looking for a job or you might not have it for long.

I think the course looks really interesting and it also gave me the opportunity to spend 6 months working in a local company last year, which is not that important for me unless I can go abroad to use my foreign languages, but that's not It seems to be on sale which is a shame, which really appeals to me. For me, however, the idea of ​​being tested throughout the year I think is a much more productive way to learn rather than everything being decided in an exam at the end. It's good for people like you, who work hard all year round. all the time you spend in the library, they've expanded it too, that's nice, well, yes and no, they've made the study area bigger, but that means they've taken away some magazines and newspapers, so I guess it was better as it was.

The university is expanding all the time and there will be many new courses next year. Well, that's great news, isn't it? It means the university will have a better reputation as more people will find out about it, so that's good for us. I agree, but I really need to add more conference rooms, since we often have conferences in small rooms. Well, you obviously think that overall it's a good place to get a degree. I should probably go and take a look. Now it's vacation and there's not much to do there. It's probably not worth going into now, but you could email my tutor.

I know you will be happy to answer any questions. I can give you his email address.I looked at many other universities and read many brochures, but I thought of this one. was the best before you listen to the rest of the conversation you have some time to look at questions 26 to 30 now listen and answer questions 26 to 30 I was a little unsure about all the different topics you can choose from in this course, well I can tell you. I will tell you a little about them, there are some subjects that you should study and others that you can choose.

The most interesting course I have taken is public relations, according to what I have read, it does not seem very demanding. Some things are really common. It makes sense, but it will be very useful if you want to get into marketing or advertising. That's true, but I need to know a little more about it first before I decide if it will really help me. It's hard to tell from the prospectus, but you're interested. in marketing, yes, well, you can choose a marketing course. I wasn't very impressed with that course, in fact the tutor didn't make it very interesting.

It's good to put on your CV that you have done a marketing course so that would be a definite for me and maybe I would get a different tutor. What other courses did you choose? I'm doing taxes because I was thinking about training to be an accountant, but now I'm not sure. Oh, that will be a good option for me because I enjoy working with figures, although I don't If I want to be an accountant, it will be good to have knowledge of taxes, especially if I ever run my own business. Then there is the most popular course, which is human resources, and a lot of people seem to get jobs in that field that my friend works in.

HR and she is very good at it, but I don't think she has the right personality, so she would give her a miss. I'm more interested in how companies actually work, the structure, which is a required course, the structure of business. oh, but information systems can be useful to you, it's those kinds of computer programs, some of them are, but also databases, project management and other things. oh, this sounds useful, but I'll have to look at some of the other possibilities first. You know, Ivan, this course sounds good. like it's right for me I'm going to apply cool if there's anything else you want to ask me do you have my number thank you this is the end of part three now you have 30 seconds to check your answers to part three part four you'll hear a talk by a meteorologist about weather forecasting first you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40 now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40 I work for the National Weather Service and as part of your course on weather patterns I' We have been asked Let's talk to you about how we predict the weather.

We are so used to turning on our televisions and getting an updated weather forecast at any time of the day or night that we probably forget that this level of sophistication has only just been achieved. in recent decades and weather forecasting is actually an ancient art, so I want to start by looking back in history, the first weather forecasts appeared in the year 1500 in Almanac, which were lists of information produced every year, their Predictions were largely based on establishing links between the weather and where the planets were in the sky on certain days, in addition, predictions were often based on information such as if the fourth night after the new moon was clear, it was expected good weather continued, but once basic meteorological instruments were invented, things slowly began to change.

In the mid-5th century, a man named Nicholas Ker, a German mathematician, designed a hygrometer that told people how much humidity was in the air. To do this, Kuer put some sheep's wool on a scale and then monitored the change in the weight of the wool. According to the air conditions, an equipment that we all know and use is the thermometer. Temperature changes couldn't really be measured until the Italian Galileo Galile invented the thermometer in 1593. It wasn't like a modern thermometer because it had water inside. Instead of mercury, in fact, it was not until 1714 that Gabrielle Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer.

In 1643, another Italian named Evangelista Toricelli invented the first barometer that measured atmospheric pressure. This was another big step forward in more accurate weather prediction as time went on. During the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, all these meteorological instruments were improved and developed and people in different countries began to record measurements related to the local climate; However, in those days it was very difficult to send records from one part of the world to another, so it was not possible for them to share their information until the electric telegraph became widespread. This meant that weather observations could be sent regularly to and from different countries in the 1860s, so weather forecasts were becoming more common and accurate because they were based on observations taken at the same time over a wide area in 1863. , France began publishing weather maps every day, this had not been done before and other nations soon followed, so that was the beginning of the national weather forecast and now I will tell you how.

We at the National Meteorological Center get the information we need to produce a forecast even today. One of the most important methods we use is observations, which tell us what the weather is doing right now. Observation reports are automatically sent from equipment at various weather stations. In different parts of the country, almost all of them are based in airports, although some are in urban centers. The equipment detects temperature, humidity, pressure and direction of wind speed. Meteorologists also depend heavily on satellites that send images to our computer screens. that we see on our screens These bright colors, orange represents dry air and bright blue shows humidity levels in the atmosphere.

The satellites are located 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface and it is surprising that despite that distance we are able to distinguish an individual cloud and follow it as it moves. As it moves across the landscape, in addition to collecting data from the ground, we need to know what is happening in the upper levels of the atmosphere, so a couple of times a day from many sites across the country we send radio sounds into the air. box containing a package of equipment and hanging from a balloon that is filled with gas, the data is transmitted back to the weather station, finally, radar was first used over 150 years ago and new advances are still being made all the time and is one method to detect and monitor the progress of hurricanes.

Crucial information is displayed using different colors representing speed and direction. Radar is also used by airplanes, of course, all this information from different sources is put into computer models that are like massive computer programs that are sometimes given to us all. Same story and sometimes we have to use our own experience to decide which shows the most accurate forecast, which we then pass on to you, so I hope that the next time you watch the weather forecast you will think about how we meteorologists spend our time and maybe there will be persuaded some of you to study meteorology in more depth.

This is the end of part four. You now have 1 minute to check your answers to the fourth part. This is the end of the listening comprehension test in the I Els test that they would now have. 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet