HILARY LODGE RETIREMENT HOME | THE NAME OF THE MANAGER IS CATHY | IELTS LISTENING WITH ANSWERS

Now move on to section one, you will hear a phone conversation between two people, Kathy and John. John hopes to volunteer at a

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. First, he has some time to look at questions one through ten. Hello Hillary Lodge,

retirement

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. Kathy speaks. Hello, my

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is John Shepherd. Can I ask you if you are the house

manager

? Oh well, hello Cathy, a friend of mine volunteers at Hillary Lodge and I'd like to help you out too if you need more people. I work part time, so I have We have quite a bit of free time.

We are always happy to receive more help. John. Can I tell you some of the activities that volunteers participate in? Please, on Monday evenings we organize computer courses. We have six portables and five or six residents come. to sessions regularly now everyone can write and send emails, but our trainer just moved and we need two or three volunteers who can help residents create documents, simple things, really, I would certainly be interested in doing that. Then on Tuesday afternoons we have an informal singing class that most residents attend. We have a keyboard and someone who plays, but if you want to join in singing you would be welcome.

I work on Tuesdays at the moment. although that could change, I'll have to let it go for now, I'm afraid ok then on Thursday mornings we usually have a session in our garden. Several of our residents enjoy learning about flowers, where they grow best, how to care for them, and So, is this something that interests you? I'm not an expert, but I enjoy gardening. So yes, I would like to participate. Do you have your own tools at home? We have some, but not many, that you could bring. some with me when I come. Thank you so much.

One very important thing for volunteers is that we hold a monthly meeting where everyone meets with the staff. It's an opportunity to make sure we're working well together and that everyone knows how it works. They are the residents and what is happening in the house now, obviously we would need to meet you before you become one of our volunteers, of course, could you come for an informal interview later this week? Maybe he'll be busy the next few days. but it would be possible on Saturday, without a doubt, come any time during the day. I won't be working then, so you'll see my assistant marade.

Sorry, how do you spell it? It is m a i r e a d marade. Okay, it's not a

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I'm familiar with. oh, it's an Irish name, it comes from Dublin, right, and the street that Hillary Lodge is on is called Bridge Road, isn't it, number 73. Well, oh, another thing that might interest you: let's hold a couple of open days. days and I still need some volunteers if you are available what are the dates there is one on April 9th ​​and one on May 14th both are Saturdays and all day events I can certainly handle on May 14th I have another commitment on April 9th, so that would be a great help.

We will have several guest artists, singers, a music band, etc. and we expect a lot of visitors, so one possibility is to help look after the artists or you could spend an hour or so organizing people as they arrive and then just be part of the team making sure everything goes well. Will I show people where they can park? Thank you. One of the reasons for holding open days is to get publicity for Hillary Lodge locally. Someone from a newspaper may want to interview you. Two or three people will want to know why you volunteer to help in a home.

We're trying to get a TV station to come too, but it doesn't seem like it. very interested, I don't mind being interviewed, well, if you come to chat, since we agreed, continue from there thank you very much for calling me, it's my pleasure, bye, that's the end of section one, now you have half a minute to check your

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now move on to section two. You will hear from the director of a center that offers evening classes for adults. She is explaining to him some recent changes that have been made at the center. First you will have some time to review questions 11 to 15.

Hello. Some of you know that I am elaine marriott, director of the university's learning resource center. We have invited everyone who takes evening classes and leisure activities to come and see the changes we have made to the center over the last month. An important change. What we have done here on the ground floor is by design, as you can see by looking around. I'm sure you'll recognize the desk that's still in the same spot, as it has to be right inside the door, but since we see that there are now periodicals on the corner shelves behind the desk, we've moved them closer to the entrance. because many people like to come in just to read magazines.

We now have a much wider range of periodicals than before so I have decided to separate them from the newspapers, this means that the newspapers are now just down the stairs near the study area. Now another thing is that we have brought the computers downstairs, people used to complain about having to go upstairs to use them, so now they are on the other side of the building on the right in the corner facing the parking lot. Now we have an extra copier, so in addition to the one upstairs, there's one down here. You can see it right in front of the entrance next to the wall on the other side, however, the biggest change and one that I'm sure many of you will appreciate is that we now finally have a coffee shop that we have been asking for years if you turn right so soon how they pass the desk.

You will see the door in front of you. It became possible to have a café because the building was expanded and we now have a new office and warehouse area. What else should I tell you before we walk? Oh yes, we have. We had so many requests for sports books that we bought many more and they are all together immediately to the right of the entrance. Before you listen to the rest of the conversation, you'll have some time to look at questions 16-20. Now listen and answer questions 16-20. Okay, that's enough with the new layout, we'll get into that in a moment, but first to do something with the people who are here to help you, of course all the staff will do their best to respond. your questions, but now each of us will specialize in certain areas, so if you ask a member of staff about something and you think they can't help you enough, they will direct you to our specialist.

Jenny Reed is the person to see if there are movies she would like us to stock since she has taken on the responsibility of purchasing them. She'd better warn you that our budget is limited, so I'm afraid we can't promise to buy everything she requests. Phil Penshurst can help. To improve your writing, if you need to produce reports for your course, you can book a half-hour session with Phil to get started and then, if you want more help, he will arrange follow-up sessions with you. I must mention Tom Salisbury. Many people are interested in researching or just reading about this region, people's occupations change over the years etc.

Tom is a specialist in this particular field so if you need help he can point you in the right direction. correct address. We have a large collection of relevant documents, from old maps to wildlife studies. We have a new staff member, Syed, an actor. I'm sure you'll meet him soon and find him very useful if you're unemployed and want some advice on the practical aspects of searching. For a job, saeed is the person to talk to. He has also written a very useful book on the subject which, of course, we have on our shelves. Many of you will know Shilpa Desai, who has been working here for about five years.

Shilpa now has the added advantage. responsibility to provide information and advice about anything to do with housing, such as finding out what is available or whether you are eligible for financial help. Well, that's enough from me, so let's walk through the library which is the end of section two that she now has. Half a minute to check your

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. Now move on to section three. You will hear a tutor and a student discussing a project the student is working on. First you have some time to review questions 21 to 27. Okay, Stuart. Well, I have read your draft report.

At your job at the central museum association you seemed to have had a great time, so you ended up making a film for them. Yes, it was a film to train employees of different museums on the techniques they should use to label ancient objects without damaging them. Some of them are really fragile. Well, in your report you go over the main stages of making the film. Let's discuss in a little more detail that you had to find a location somewhere to film the movie, which took quite a few days because I had to see different museums all over the country, but I had given myself time for it and even though it was the middle of winter , there was no snow, so I didn't have any transportation problems, right?

Did you have to decide what equipment you would use? Would need for filming Yes, I think they were quite surprised at how well I managed it. It was just a matter of luck. I actually did that project with you last year. Oh, about recording technology, so you already knew a little about it. That's right, yes, what I found really difficult was writing the script. I had a deadline for that, but the association had to extend it. I couldn't have done it otherwise it would have helped if you had had some training there, I think so. You're right, I probably needed that.

Yeah, right now, based on your draft report, it sounds like you had one or two problems deciding who was going to appear in the video, the casting. Yes, I was hoping that the people who worked for the association were really interested in participating, but they weren't, the problem was that they were all very busy and that meant that some of them had to travel, but Janice King, who I was reporting for the project, oh she was great, she made arrangements for people to have time. and that she covered her work, so that was a big help to me, and it seems like the filming itself went well.

I assume you found a company that provided an online introduction to the techniques. Yes, it was very informative and very easy to use. I learned a lot from it and then during editing, the association put me in touch with someone who works for one of the big film companies and I went down to the studio and sat with him in front of his computer for a day learning how to cut and paste and deal with of the soundtrack and so on, that's how it was. No, I didn't include this in my draft report, but I had to design the DVD cover as well as the lyrics and everything, have you done anything like that? of design work before, but I made a draft and then I talked about it with a couple of my colleagues and they gave me some more ideas and when I finished it I showed it to the people who worked in the association and I really liked it excellent.

Now listen and answer questions 28 to 30. Now, in addition to your own draft report, I also received a written evaluation from the association about the work you did during your internship and how it was beneficial to them. I noticed that you haven't included anything about that in your report yet. How did my project benefit the association? You mean? So do I have to include that? Yeah, well, let's think, I guess if I hadn't made the movie for them, they would have had to do it. get an outside company to do it, but because I was actually working for the association, I had a much clearer idea of ​​what their goals are, things like their responsibility for the preservation of the exhibits, I don't think an outside company would have done it.

If they had understood that, they would have been more indifferent and the association also said that because of your background, you had a good idea of ​​where to go to get the best deal for the equipment you needed. They said the cost savings made it even worth it. Although getting it took a long time, yes, that's true, the association also said that making the film had a very positive effect in getting staff to work more closely. Oh, I hadn't heard that was good and people certainly weren't afraid to say it. They gave me their thoughts as I made it, so I was able to get a lot of feedback at each stage which was helpful to me, but also meant the final product worked better for them.

Can you think of any other benefits? Well I do not know. I don't think they really thought about what they would do with the movie once it was made. I made some suggestions for the layout. Other people we could send it to, as well as museum staff. Yes, they mentioned that it's okay. Well, it sounds. like them, certainly, that's the end of section three. Now you have half a minute to check your answers. Now move on to section four. You will hear a lecture about a species of bird called the New Caledonian crow. First you will have some time to look at the questions. to 40. now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.

Today I am going totalk about the research of a particular species of bird, the New Caledonian crow, whose natural habitat is small islands in the Pacific Ocean and it seems that these crows are exceptionally The ingenious use of sticks or other tools to find food is not unknown among the birds and animals. Some chimpanzees, for example, are known to bang nuts against stones to crack the shell and get to the edible kernel inside. A New Caledonian crow named Betty turned a little straight. wire on a hook and used it to lift a small bucket of his favorite food from a vertical tube.

This experiment was the first time she was introduced to wire, which makes it very impressive. Another crow named Barney has demonstrated the ability of him using sticks to In a research project, scientists from New Zealand and Oxford foraged for food in a three-stage problem for captive New Caledonian crows. If they wanted to extract food from a hole, the crows first had to pull a rope to get a short stick and then use it. stick to get a long stick out of a toolbox and finally use the long stick to reach the food. Surprisingly, they figured out how to do this.

Other experiments carried out successfully at Oxford suggest that crows can also use sticks as tools to inspect all kinds of objects, possibly to assess whether they present danger or not. The idea for the experiment came from observing birds using tools to pick random objects, such as an image of a spider that was printed on a web. In this research, five pairs of crows, including Barney, were tested to see how they would react to a variety of objects that were carefully chosen so that the birds would not be tempted to view them as a possible food source as an additional precaution all the crows had been fed beforehand on eight occasions the first contact of a bird was through the use of a tool In all three tests Barney started out using a stick for inspection one involved a rubber snake first he approached it but didn't touch it, then he retreated to grab a stick, then he poked it with the stick, after investigating a little more, Discarding the stick and continuing to peck at the snake with more confidence, apparently convinced that it wouldn't move in further experiments, two different birds called.

Pierre and Corbeau also made a first approach with tools on three separate occasions, Pierre used a short piece of wood splinter to touch a flashing light and Corbeau was seen poking a metal toad with a stick, signifying that the crows They tended to use the sticks only to later make their first contact with the object, ignore the object or drop the tool and peck at the object, which is very different from using the tool to access food, so the conclusions we can be drawn from the research evidence they are accumulating from experiments. Like these, birds can plan their actions in advance, which is very interesting for understanding their cognition.

They do not seem to respond in a pre-programmed way. They may even be able to see. a problem and figuring out what the answer is, however, a major difficulty is assessing whether this tool-using behavior is a sign of intelligence, to some extent this is related to the ecological circumstances the animal is in, so that scientists want to know much more. about how crows behave in their native habitat and a team from the universities of Exeter and Oxford is carrying out research in New Caledonia. They are investigating whether the way birds forage for food gives them any possible evolutionary advantage.

Birds are difficult to observe. They live in a mountainous forest region, so researchers have placed small cameras on the tails of some birds as a method of investigating their behavior. Birds are experts at using sticks to find their food, particularly tree beta larvae. It is possible that birds can get so much energy from these worms that they only need to eat a few each day. This would mean that they would not have to spend most of their waking time searching for food, as most animals do. Beetle larvae have a different chemical composition. which can be traced through the feathers and blood of the birds that eat them.

Scientists have collected samples from crows to estimate the proportion of larvae in their diet. They should then be able to measure the extent to which individual birds rely on using sticks for feeding. We ourselves have learned a lot about the ability of New Caledonian crows to use tools and some very interesting research is being carried out on them. That's the end of section four. Now you have half a minute to check your answers. That is the end of the

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comprehension test in the IELTS exam now you will have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet