CHILDREN'S ENGINEERING WORKSHOP || Must try || IELTS LISTENING

May 14, 2024

test one, this is the IELTS

listening

test, 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 all your work. the recordings will be played only once the test consists of four parts at the end of the test you will be given ten minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet now move on to the first part you will hear a man call for more information some

workshop

engineering

for

children

first you have some time to look at questions one to three now listen carefully and answer questions one two three hello

engineering

workshop

s for

children

oh hello I wanted information about the workshops in the school holidays I'm sure I have two daughters who are interested younger ones lydia is four years old do you accept children that small?

Yes, our small engineering workshop is for children aged four to five. What type of activities do they do? For example, they work together to design a special shell that surrounds an egg. so that when it's inside they can drop it from a height and it doesn't break well, sometimes it breaks, but that's part of the fun, and Lydia loves building things. Is there any chance for her to do well? They have a competition to do it. See who can make the tallest tower, you would be surprised how high they can go, but they are learning all the time and having fun, for example one thing they do is design and build a car that is attached to a balloon and the force of the air that actually propels the car and makes it move, they go very fast too, well, oh, this sounds perfect, before you listen to the rest of the conversation, you have time to look at questions 4 to 10.

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Now listen and answer questions four to ten, now Carly, that's my oldest daughter who just turned seven, so presumably she would be in a different group. Yes, she would be in the junior engineering group, which is for six to eight year olds, and do they do the same thing? Some of the activities are the same but a little more advanced, so they learn how to build models of vehicles, like cars and trucks, but also how to build animals using the same type of material and technique, and then they learn how to program and make them. they move so that they learn a little bit of coding, they do it, they learn it very quickly, we are there to help them if they need it, but they also learn from each other and they also have competencies.

Yes, with junior engineers, it is to use recycled. materials like cardboard and wood to build a bridge and the longest one gets a prize, that sounds fun, I wouldn't mind doing it myself, so they have something a little different, which is coming up with an idea for a five minute movie and then filming . using special animation software you'll be amazed what they come up with and of course that's something they can put on their phone and take home to show all their friends exactly and then they also build a human shaped robot and Decorate him and program him so he can move his arms and legs perfectly.

So is it the same price as the small engineers? It only costs a little over £50 for the five weeks and there used to be Monday classes too, but we discovered that it didn't give our staff enough time to clean up after the first workshop, so we moved them to Wednesday classes. They take place in the morning, from 10 to 11. Well, that's better for me, actually, and what about where exactly they are? the workshops are held they are in building 10a there is a big sign on the door you can't miss it and that's on the fredstone industrial estate sorry fredston that's f r a d s t and that's in Grassford isn't it?

Yes, I will stop by the station and have If you have any parking problems, no, there is always plenty available. So, would you like to sign up Lydia and Carly now? Okay, so can I have your full name? This is the end of the first part. Now you have half a minute to check your answers to the first part. I will hear the CEO of a company called Stevenson's welcoming a group of students on work experience. First, you have some time to read questions 11 to 14. Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 14. Good morning everyone and welcome to Stevenson's, one of the leading metal goods manufacturers in the country, thank you for choosing us for your two weeks work experience my name is julia simmons and since the beginning of this year I have been managing director stevensons is quite an old company like me the founder ronald stevenson was in the steel industry when he left school, that was in 1923.

He created this company when he finished his apprenticeship in 1926, although he actually began making plans two years earlier, in 1924, he was a very determined young man. Stevenson's long-term plan was to make components for the machine tool industry, although that never actually happened and for the automotive industry, i.e. cars and trucks, however, there was a five-year delay before that happened. Because shortly before the company went into production, Stevenson was given the opportunity to manufacture products for hospitals and other players in the healthcare industry, so that's what we did for the first five years. Over the years, we have expanded the facilities considerably.

We were lucky that the site was big enough so it was never necessary to move to a new location. The layout is far from ideal for modern machinery and production methods, so we intend to carry out a major renovation of this site over the next five years. I better give you an idea of what he will do during his two weeks with us. You know what to expect most mornings: you'll have a presentation from one of the managers to learn about their department, starting this morning with research and development, and everyone will spend some time in each department observing what's happening and talking to people.

As long as you don't stop them from doing their job completely, in the past a teacher from his school came at the end of each week to find out how the group was doing, but his school can't organize it. One year 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. Okay, now I'll briefly help you get your bearings on the site, as you can see. We are in the reception area, which we try to make attractive and welcoming for visitors, there is a hallway that goes left from here and if you follow, the door facing the end is the entrance to the coffee room, which leads to the main street. one side and some trees on the other and that will be where you will meet each morning.

The factory is a very large room on the other side of the site. Next to it is the warehouse which can be accessed by trucks coming up the road towards the turning area at the end, you can get to the warehouse by crossing to the other side of the yard and then the gate is on your right, somewhere you will be interested in find is the staff canteen, this is right next to the reception, I can say with confidence that the food is very good but the view is not the windows on one side overlook a corridor and a patio which are not at all attractive and for the other to the access road which is not much better you will use the meeting room quite frequently and you will find it by walking down the corridor to the left of the patio and continuing along it until the end, the meeting room is the last one on the right and I'm afraid there is no natural light in the room, so you will need to know where some of the offices are.

The HR department is at the front of this building, so head left down the hallway from reception and it's the second room you come to, which opens onto the main room. path and finally the meeting room where they will meet sometimes, which has a quite nice view as it overlooks the trees, continue along the corridor, pass the patio to the end, the meeting room is on the left, next to the factory, well, now we are. are there any questions before we continue, that's the end of part two, now you have half a minute to check your answers to part two, part three you will hear two students named jess and tom discussing their art projects first, you have some time to see questions 21 to 24 now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 24.

How are you doing with your bow project? Tom, okay, we were given the theme of birds to base our project on and I'm not really that interested in wildlife, but I'm starting to get it. I was pretty much done with the introductory stage, just like when they gave us all those brochures with details of books and websites to look at, I really got discouraged, but the more I read, the more interested I became. I too discovered that I could investigate so many different aspects of birds in art, colour, movement, texture, so I was looking forward to visiting the bird park, what a disappointment it came with the rain and we barely saw a single bird, much less used than the trip to the natural history museum yes, I liked everything about evolution there.

The workshop sessions with Dr. Fletcher were also good, especially the brainstorming sessions. I missed them because he was sick. I wish we could have seen the projects the students did last year. I guess so. I want us to do our thing, not copy, have you already written your proposal? Yes, but I haven't delivered it. I need to modify some parts. I've realized that my research notes are almost all just descriptions that I haven't actually evaluated. anything, so I'll have to fix that. Oh, I didn't know we had to do that. I'll have to look at that too.

Did you make a timeline for the project? Yes, and a mind map. Yes me too. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but. It was hard having to explain the basis of my decisions in my action plan, what you know, give a justification, I didn't realize we had to do that, okay, I can add it now, I did the video diary presentation and I resolved what I want my result to be in the project. Someone told me that it's best not to be too precise about the actual outcome at this stage so that you have a better chance of exploring your ideas later, so I'll return to my suggestion to make.

It's a little bit vaguer, really okay, I'll change that too and before you listen to the rest of the discussion, you have some time to look at questions 25 to 30. Now listen and answer questions 25 to 30. A part of the project . I'm not sure where we pick some bird paintings and say what they mean to us. I chose a painting of a Lancia falcon. I like it because the birds are standing there with their heads turned to the side but they seem to be staring. but I can't just say it's a little scary. Can? Hmm, you could talk about the possible danger suggested by the birds.

Its claws and large black wings take up most of the image, so you could discuss it in relation to predators and food chains. In fact, I think I'll focus on the fast-moving impression it gives. You know that image of a Van Gogh's kingfisher is perched on a reed growing near a stream. Yes, he has these beautiful shades of blue, red and black. I actually chose it because I once saw a real kingfisher when I was little, he was walking with my grandfather and I. I've never forgotten it, so we can use a personal link. Okay, there's a portrait named William Wells.

I don't remember the artist, but he is a middle-aged man who just shot a bird and the expression on him and the way he holds the bird. in his hand suggests he's not sure what he's done to me it's about how ambiguous people are in the way they exploit the natural world interesting there's a photo by gogan via matty he did it in tahiti it's a woman with a bird white behind her that is eating a lizard and what interests me is what idea this bird is referring to, apparently it is a reference to the endless cycle of existence.

Wow, I chose a portrait of a little boy, giovanni de medici, holding a little bird in one fist, I like it. the way he holds it carefully so as not to hurt it is not true, that is the end of part three now you have half a minute to check your answers to part three part 4 you will hear a philosophy professor giving a talk on ancient philosophy of stoicism first you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40. now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40. ancient philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long dense books, in fact, it is something that people have used throughout the world. history to solve its problems and achieve its greatest triumphs specifically I am referring to Stoicism which in my opinion is the most practical of all philosophies and therefore the most attractive Stoicism was founded in ancient Greece by Zeno of Citio at the beginning of the 3rd century B.C. but It was practiced by people like Epictetus, Cato Seneca and Marcus Aurelius.

Surprisingly, we still have access to these ideas even though the most famous Stoics never wrote anything for publication. Cato definitely not Marcus Aurelius never intended his meditations to be anything other than personal. Seneca's lettersThey were letters and Epictetus' thoughts reach us through a note that the students took. Stoic principles were based on the idea that his followers could have unbreakable happiness in this life and the key to achieving it was virtue, the path to virtue in turn. lies in understanding that destructive emotions such as anger and jealousy are under our conscious control, they do not have to control us because we can learn to control them in the words of Epictetus.

External events I can't control, but the decisions I make regarding them, I can. Controls Modern philosopher and writer Nasim Nicholas Taleb defines a Stoic as someone who has a different perspective on experiences that most of us would see as sacredly negative. A Stoic transforms fear into caution, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation and desire into undertake using this definition as a model we can see that over the centuries stoicism has been practiced in more recent history by kings presidents artists writers and businessmen the founding fathers of the united states were inspired by the philosophy george washington was introduced to stoicism by his neighbors at age 17 and then put on a play based on the life of cato to inspire his men thomas jefferson kept a copy of seneca next to his bed writers and artists have also been inspired by the stoics eugene delaqua the renowned romantic artist French best known for his Liberty Leader painting The People was an ardent Stoic who referred to it as his comforting religion Economist Adam Smith's theories on capitalism were significantly influenced by the Stoicism he studied as a schoolboy under a teacher who He had translated the works of Marcus Aurelius Today's political leaders are no different and many find their inspiration in ancient texts Former US President Bill Clinton rereads Marcus Aurelius every year and many have compared former President Obama's calm leadership style to by cato wen zhaobao the former prime minister of china states that meditations is one of the two books that travels with him and he has read it more than 100 times throughout his life.

Stoicism had a profound influence on Albert Ellis, who invented cognitive behavioral therapy used to help people manage their problems by changing the way they think and behave. The idea most commonly used to treat depression is that we can take control of our lives by challenging the irrational beliefs that create our symptoms and erroneous thinking behaviors through the use of logic. Instead of stoicism, stoicism has also become popular in the business world. Stoic principles can build resilience. and the state of mind necessary to overcome setbacks because the Stoics teach how to turn obstacles into opportunities, a lesson that every business entrepreneur

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I would argue that studying Stoicism is as relevant today as it was 2000 years ago thanks to its brilliant ideas on how to lead a good life At the very root of thinking there is a very simple way to live control what you can and accept what you can't This is not as easy as it seems and will require considerable practice. It may take a lifetime to master the Stoics. He also believed that the most important basis for a good and happy life is not money, fame, power or pleasure, but having a disciplined and principled character, something that seems to resonate with many people today.

This is the end of part four. You now have one minute to check your answers to the fourth part, which is the end of the