IELTS LISTENING PRACTICE TEST 2024 WITH ANSWERS | 20.04.2024

Listen to the conversation between the woman and the man and answer the questions first. You have some time to look at questions 1 to 7. 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 7 hello Paragliders Paradise how can I help you oh hello I am interested in doing a paragliding course which course are you interested in well I am not sure what is available well we have the introductory course which lasts for 2 days okay , or there's the 4-day beginner course, which is what most people do first.

I would recommend that and there is also the elementary pilot course, which lasts 5 to 6 days, depending on conditions. We could try the beginner course. kind of PR, we're looking at the introductory course which is $190, the beginner course, which is probably what you'd be looking at, is $320, no sorry, 330, it just went up and the pilot course is $430, right , and you also have to become a member of our club so that you are insured that will cost you $12 a day everyone has to take out insurance you see does that cover me if I break my leg no, I'm afraid it's not just third parties and you Does it cover damage to other people? or your belongings but not theft or injuries you would need to take out your own personal accident insurance I see and what is the best way to get home by public transport or we could come by bicycle we are quite enthusiastic cyclists it is difficult on public transport, although there is a bus from Newcastle, most people get here by car because we're a bit off the beaten path, but you can travel here, ok I'll send you a map, just let me jot down a few details, what's your name?

Maria kind and your address Maria well, I am a student staying with a family in Newcastle, so it is taken care of by Mr and Mrs McDonald like the burgers. Yes, exactly McDonald. The PO Box address is probably the best. It is p box 676 Newcastle. Is there a fact number there because I could fax the information to you. Yes, actually it's 0249 which is for Newcastle and then 75431. Well now if you decide to do one of our courses you will have to book in advance and pay when you book. How would you do it? pay uh Buy a credit card if it's okay, it accepts Visa.

Yes, it's okay, we accept all major cards including Visa. Okay, thank you very much. The girl is telling her friend about the course. Look at questions 8 to 10. Now listen to her conversation and answer the questions. 8 to 10 Hello Pauline Hello Maria What is that? You are only reading information from a paragliding school. Looks like lots of fun. Do you feel like paragliding? You sure have to buy a lot of equipment and stuff. The school doesn't actually provide you with the equipment, but we would have to bring some things, as it also says here clothing, wear Stout boots, so no sneakers or sandals I guess, and clothing suitable for an active day in the hills, preferably a long sleeve t-shirt, which is probably in case you land in the nettles.

He also says we should bring a packed lunch. We do not recommend soda or dental floss for coffee. Water is really the best thing to drink. We need to bring suntan lotion and something to protect your head from the sun. Alright. Sounds reasonable and where would we stay? Look, it looks like they also operate a campground because it says here that it costs only $10 a day to set up a tent, that would be nice right? And that way you would save quite a bit because even a cheap hotel would cost money, or maybe we could stay at a nearby bed and breakfast.

Give a couple names here. We could call. I think I'd prefer the hotels and youth hosts to be all miles away from the farm and I don't feel like it. Not a caravan, I agree, but let's take a turn and pray for good weather, okay, let's do it, what about next weekend? No I can't, I'm going on a geography field trip and then it's the weekend before exams and I really need it. to study, okay, then let's do it after the exams. Well, we need a break then. Can you call me and let me know if you can find out anything?

That's the end of the first part. Now you have half a minute to check your

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. move on to part two, part two, you will hear from Dr. Joanna Robinson, course director of a language learning center. Arts, listen to the questions from the student newspaper reporters first, you will have some time to look at questions 11 to 16, now listen carefully and answer the questions. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Welcome to the language learning center. I'm Joanne Robinson, this must be The Examiner reporters. Please come in and sit down. Hello Dr. Robinson. Yes, we are from The Examiner.

I'm Cheryl Perkins and this is Don Clim. He can ask. Start with a question: Did this university really start with Brazilian students? Yes. The language learning center was founded in 1985 to care for a group of students from Brazil who wanted to study here. Those 20 students soon grew to 60 and as you can imagine we had serious accommodation problems someone said you were in the old services block near the engineering school they have a good memory yes we were there because the university had not believed they would let us we would expand so quickly the problem was not solved until we moved to these new premises in bankof house in 1987 when they started receiving students from other countries around 1990 now we have students from 13 different countries enrolled and we are expecting a large group from Turkey next month yes, we have noticed many more advertisements for Turkish restaurants in our Advertising section Well, 40% of our students come from Turkey, by far the largest national group and I think there has been an influx to the rest of the University.

There are many Turkish students studying Hospitality. Do you offer anything special to students? If we. There are several things that differentiate us from other language schools. English is certainly not limited to English for academic purposes. Here we sometimes have extra classes for students who have specific courses in mind and we just said goodbye to a group of 30 Indonesians. Students who are preparing for a university course in agriculture came to us to learn English about agriculture and they were with us for a long time. We miss them. How long do students usually stay at the language learning center?

It varies, so I will talk about the On average, most of our courses are 5 weeks long, but to make real progress, a student must be here for at least three terms, so 15 weeks. Students do better if they have a little time to adjust to the beginning of the course and us. We offer a week-long orientation course, most students take it, it helps them calm down and gives us plenty of time to assess them and place them at the right level. How many people are there in each class? Sometimes we go up to 18, but our average class size is 14 students and some classes have as few as seven participants.

It depends on the needs of the group. You said that you miss your students when they leave. How do you attract students? I mean, how do they find out about language learning? center, first of all, we are included in the advertising and marketing of the University and we have our own website, what works best for us is word of mouth. Students who leave us often send us their friends, in fact one student who arrived today was carrying a photo for me of a former student and his baby, sounds like a good place to be, many of our students make lasting friendships while they're here before you listen to the rest of the talk, you have some time to watch. questions 17 to 20 now listen and answer questions 17 to 20 making friends with other students sounds quite special I would like to emphasize that at the student newspaper we try to make our students part of the University in general, how do you do it?

Does that encourage them to join the sports center, for example? In fact, we do. The sports center is always looking for active participants, especially in football. Oh, and something else you'd like to mention: we don't just teach English here. I mean, we are. As a language center, not an English center, you can learn Spanish, Mandarin and Russian here and we can sometimes offer other languages. This means that we can have some students who are native speakers of those languages ​​as conversation partners for English-speaking students who can take these courses. At this stage, any native English speaker, what about people who are learning English?

Can you take another language course at this time only if you have almost finished your English course? You see, we try very hard to involve native English speaking students as conversation leaders and we encourage our students to join groups on campus, for example, if you like music, there is an active jazz group available to everyone and that's a lot of fun, on the other hand, primary school students can't go to The theater group is simply not prepared for that kind of activity in English, but the university choir welcomes all the singers it can find . They often make large productions that require many voices.

I imagine the special conversation groups are open to all students. I wish they were. I'm sorry to say that they are a special service that we provide for primary school students only. Is there anything else I can tell you? I would love it if you could write about the courses we offer in foreign languages, I think. Our readers will be very interested thank you for your time Dr. Robinson, yes, thank you very much, bye, thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about the center. It is always good for the rest of the University students to know what is happening.

In our classrooms and beyond, after all, many of our students leave us and then study for degrees in various disciplines on this campus. That's the end of the second part. Now you have half a minute to check your

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. Now move on to the third part. You will hear two students called Jane and Mark talking to their tutor about project tasks for their final year thesis. First, you have some time to look at questions 21 to 23. Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 23 so that you both receive your assignments. for your senior thesis today, yes, and we already have to submit our topics next week, but how could they give us a grade so soon?

No, next week's June date will not be counted towards your final grade, the professors will simply read your topic and give you feedback, oh I see, so first we must come up with our topics and then once you know what you want to study, you must think about how you will study it, you must decide your research methods, the methods will be. the main part of your article, what about the results section? Well, I can give you feedback on that, but you will be the one conducting an experiment and therefore you will have to produce the results on your own.

What I would like to do today is Practice writing research papers before you even start your report. I will give you samples of old data from past experiences and you can

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writing results and drawing conclusions. I think that would be very helpful. Yes, it seems like a lot of extra work, but. I'm sure it would make a real project easier. You are absolutely right, so let's start first. Let's try this simple experiment with fruit flies. Read the information and then take 25 minutes to summarize a really important results and conclusions section. Pay attention to time. limit okay, it still has to be 6000 words no, don't worry about that, what if we get off topic?

I wouldn't worry too much. You'll have so much information to write about that it should be easy to stay on topic sooner. you listen to the rest of the talk you have some time to look at questions 24 to 30 now listen carefully and answer questions 24 to 30 but what about other sources? For this task you can use the one from your textbook in your real work. find old experiments that support your topic, so do we need to find different types of sources? Get Started I'm still a little confused about how we should format our work. Don't worry for now, but in your final work be sure to pay attention to the format.

You must follow the guidelines exactly. Oh man, I'm just getting started. To understand why they give us the entire semester to do this, are there any other little details like that that we should know? It's not much, be sure to provide two copies, one for your teacher of course, but one for yourself too, of course. you know the due date right uh it's April 11th right what's not it's May 11th right yeah the due date is May 11th write it down oh wow yeah I need to write it down too I'm having trouble finding information on my topic what's up If I can't find enough good sources, it's okay to change your topic, just make sure you do it before the beginning of April, oh really, wow, I'm definitely going to change it, then just make sure you write a note to your teacher letting them know, it'sokay, so let's rewrite this sample document, where do we start?

Should I explain the experiment and what happened? Well, you should start with your hypothesis, what you think will happen and then describe your procedure, then you can write down the results and your conclusions oh boy, I don't know if I can stand any more instructions. This is the end of the third part. Now you have half a minute to check your answers. Now move on to the fourth part. The fourth part you will hear from Rebecca. Bramwell, an artist and illustrator who gives you advice on how to get your first job or get engaged. Mission as an artist first you have some time to look at questions 31 to 35 now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 35.

I would like to introduce you to Rebecca Bramwell, an Artist and illustrator who has come today to talk to you about getting your first commission of work as an artist. Rebecca, thanks for having me. I remember when I graduated in 1983. I was very excited to receive my first commission. My degree was in Fine Arts and I worked long and hard to achieve it. I was an enthusiastic student and never found it difficult to find the incentive to paint. I think, as a student, you are motivated. Together with your fellow students and tutors and the driving force is there, however, when you leave university you find yourself saying things like "I'll have one more cup of coffee and then sit down to work." I hate to admit it, but I say it.

For me, suddenly the problem is not finding inspiration or getting the right role, it's you, in my opinion, there are several reasons why this happens, it's a real challenge, making a decent living as a new artist, you have to Finding a Market for Your Work You are often self-employed and need to take samples or portfolios of your work from one place to another. These experiences are common to many professionals, but artists also have to bring their souls to the world in a way that wants praise more than anything. If people don't like what you create, then it can be a very emotional and disturbing experience to hear them say this.

I began to realize that these problems were preventing me from having a career in art and so I decided to experiment. I was a painter, but I began to dabble in illustration, drawing for book cards and this offered me the opportunity to detach myself more emotionally from my work. I was no longer producing images from the heart but rather developing images for a specific theme taking a more practical approach. I started developing a collection of my illustrations that I put in a portfolio and started carrying around with me to show to potential clients and employers, but it was still complicated because editors, for example, want to know that their drawings will reproduce well in a book, but without having had any published work, it's hard to prove that having a wonderful portfolio or collection of original artwork is of course a first step, but what most potential clients would like to see are artwork printed and without this evidence they tend to hold back when it comes to offering a contract look at questions 36 to 40 now answer questions 36 to 40 well, I overcame this problem in two ways and I guess this is my advice to you on how to prepare your portfolio of your best work.

The first way was to submit my work to a con

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. and the one I chose was for a horoscope design and was sponsored by a major women's magazine. There are a few of these competitions each year and they offer new illustrators the opportunity to showcase their work. The other approach I took was to design and print some mockups. pages of a book, in other words I placed some of my illustrations next to some text to demonstrate what my work would look like when printed, maybe I was lucky because I had obtained a degree that gave me all the creative skills, so I could vary my style and I wasn't limited to a certain technique now I think that's important, the art world and many other creative fields try to pigeonhole people into comfortable boxes with a label attached now I think you should try to resist.

This, if you feel it is happening to you, if you don't, you will find it difficult to get accepted for a new job if you try to develop your style at a later stage in your career, however, when you start and especially when you are going. For an interview it is important not to confuse people by having many different examples in your portfolio. One remedy for this is to separate your work into different categories. In my case, I did it by dividing my illustrations inspired by the design of my paintings, so it is easier to analyze the appropriate market for each portfolio, such as magazines, book covers, CD covers, etc., working under two names is also useful as it clarifies the different approaches and offers a distinction between them.

I think it's been difficult for artists to be recognized in something other than the pigeon. holes they have been placed in, but fortunately these barriers are slowly being demolished, so I really hope this is the end of part four. Now you have half a minute to check your answers.