WEST BAY HOTEL DETAILS OF JOB | IELTS LISTENING TEST WITH ANSWERS

Test four 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. All recordings will be played once. only the

test

consists of four sections at the end of the

test

you will be given 10 minutes to transfer your

answers

to an answer sheet now move on to section one section one you will hear a man calling on the phone to ask about a job in a

hotel

first Please take some time to review questions one through four.

You will see that there is an example that has been made for you on this occasion. Only the conversation related to this will be played first. Hello West Bay Hotel. Can I help you? Oh, good morning. I'm talking about your ad in the afternoon newsletter is that it is for temporary staff, that's right, the ad is for temporary staff, so temporary has been written in the space. Now we will begin, you must answer the questions while

listening

because you will not hear the recording a second time listen carefully and answer questions one to four hello

west

bay

hotel

can I help you? oh good morning, I'm calling to inform you of your announcement in the evening bulletin, it's the temporary staff one, that's right, yes, I'm afraid the person who deals with that is not here today, but I can give you the main

details

if want.

Yes, please, could you tell me what kind of things you are looking for? We are looking for waiters at the moment. There was a post for a cook but that's already taken ah right um what are the work hours? there are two different shifts there is a day shift from seven to two and a late shift from four to eleven and people can choose which one they want normally not because everyone would choose the day shift. I guess you alternate from week to week. Well, I'm just writing all this down. What about free time? You have a day off and I think you can negotiate which one you want.

It more or less depends on you. but it has to be the same every week. Do you know what the salaries are? Yes, I have them here. You get five pounds 50 an hour and that includes a break. Do I have to go home to eat or not? No need, you can get a meal at the hotel if you want and there's no charge for it, so you might as well, oh well yeah, so let's see, I get £221, no, £231 a week, you'd get tips too. Guests tend to be quite generous before

listening

to the rest of the conversation.

You have some time to look at questions 5 to 10. Now listen and answer questions 5 to 10. Is there a uniform? What about the clothes? Yes, I forgot to mention that you. I need to wear a white shirt, just a plain one and dark pants, you know, not green or anything, and we don't provide those, okay, I have pants, I just have to buy a couple of shirts, what about any other stuff? You need a vest or anything you have to bring a jacket but the hotel will lend you that I see uh one last thing I don't know what the start date is in just a minute I think it's at the end of June yes the 28th in time for summer, that is great I'm available from the 10th oh well if you can call back you should talk to the service manager her name is jane irwin that's your w i n and she'll probably set up an appointment with you ok when is the best time? to call could you call tomorrow?

She usually starts checking the rooms at noon, so earlier if you can so she has more time to chat, I'll give you her number because she has a direct line, thanks. It's eight, three, two, double. or nine eight two three double or nine eight three two oh okay yeah I will and by the way she's going to ask you for a reference so you might want to think about you know someone who knows you and can vouch for you yes no problem well thank you very much for your help you're welcome bye bye that's the end of section one you now have half a minute to check your

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now move on to section two two you will hear a man being interviewed on local radio about a plan to improve a suburb called Red Hill, first you have some time to read questions 11 to 13.

Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 13. Good morning and welcome back to your city. Today with me, today it's Graeme Campbell, councillor. of the city council will be telling us about the plan to improve the fast-growing suburb of red hill. good morning graeme and welcome to the program good morning carol now graeme I understand that there has been a lot of community consultation for the new plan yes we have tried to address some of the concerns that local groups have told us about people we have heard are mainly concerned about traffic in the area and in particular the increased speed of cars near schools, they feel it is only a matter of time before there is an accident as many children walk to school so we are trying to do something about it.

Another area of ​​concern is the overhead power lines, which are very old and many people we spoke to asked if anything could be done. It has been done well with them. I am pleased to report that the power company has agreed to move the power lines underground at a cost of eight hundred thousand dollars. I think that will really improve the look of the area as well as making it safer. Good to Know. But will that mean an increase in rates for local businesses in that area? Well, the power company agreed to cover the cost of this themselves after much discussion with the council.

This is wonderful news as the council now has some extra funding for us. To include in other things like tree planting and artwork, before you listen to the rest of the interview, you have some time to look at questions 14 to 20. Now listen and answer questions 14 to 20. Now we have also put together a map that we sent to all residents of the area and on the map we have marked the proposed changes. Firstly, we will plant mature pine trees to provide shelter and shade just to the right of the supermarket on Days Highway to solve traffic problems.

Sidewalks will be widened at the corner of Carbury and Thomas Street, this will help reduce the speed of vehicles entering Thomas Street. We believe it is very important to separate local residential streets on the main road so that the carriageway at the entrance to thomas street from Days the road will be painted red, this should mark it more clearly and act as a signal for traffic to slow down . One way to ensure pedestrians are safe is to increase signage at intersections. A keep your distance sign will be placed at the intersection of evelyn street and hill street to allow traffic to exit at all times.

One thing we are planning to do to help control the flow of traffic in the area is to install traffic lights in the middle of the street. Hill Street where it intersects with Day Road now not only thinking about cars and traffic, of course, there is also something for children. We're going to have area school kids research a local story, the life of a local sports hero, perhaps, and an artist will incorporate that story into paintings on the wall. of a building on the other side of Hill Street from the supermarket and we finally agreed to build a new playground that will be at the other end of Hill Street, near the intersection with Carbury Street.

Wonderful, what's the next step? final plan which is the end of section two now you have half a minute to check your answers now move on to section three section 3 you will hear two students named dan and jeannie discussing their studies at the university first you have some time to look at questions 21 -26 now listen carefully and answer questions 21-26 hello genius, how are you doing?, hello dan, very good, thank you, you managed to get the money for the course, yes, everything is already resolved, thank you, it took a long time, although it was practically a year.

I applied to my local council for a grant a while ago and it took them six months to reject me, that's very slow and I thought I was eligible for government funding but it seems I was wrong so I asked the boss of the company I used. to work if they would sponsor me and to my surprise he said they would make a contribution, but what about college grants and scholarships? There should be some you can request. Yes, there are, but they are all so small that I decided. I left them until I was desperate and didn't actually need to apply.

My parents had been saying that since I already had a job, I should support myself until college, but in the end they took pity on me, so now I just have enough, that's good, so now I can put some effort into meeting people. I haven't had time until now. Any suggestions? How about you join some college clubs? Oh, right, you joined several, didn't you? Yes, I'm in the drama club. our first performance next week, so we're rehearsing frantically and I'm behind on my work, but it's worth it. I hope to be in the spring production as well.

I have never liked acting. Are you doing anything else? I enjoyed singing when I was in school, so I joined a group when I got to university. I don't think the director is trying us hard enough, so I'll quit after the next concert and also joined the debating society. It's fun, but with all the rehearsals. I'm doing something that has to go away and I'm afraid that's the sport you play. Yes, I'm on one of the hockey teams. I'm not very good, but I would really miss it if I stopped doing it. I decided to try it. tennis when I came to university and I find it quite difficult I'm just not fit enough nor do I think I'll let it go.

I hope it will help me develop my stamina, but "It's probably a long road, good luck, thanks, how did you like the course? I wish we had more seminars. What I would have thought, we had more than enough, all those people saying smart things that never occurred to me. It's quite interesting, but I wonder if I'm smart enough to do this course. I find it useful to listen to other people. I like the way we explore the topic and work to understand it. Do you have your tutor? I don't think she's on the same wavelength as mine, so I feel like I'm not getting anything from the tutorials.

It would be more productive to read a book. Oh, mine is very demanding, she gives me a lot of feedback and. tips, so I've gotten a lot better at writing essays and she's helping me plan my revision for end-of-year exams Tell me I always struggle with revision Before you listen to the rest of the discussion, you have something. of time to review questions 27 to 30. Now listen and Answer questions 27 to 30. Well, the first thing is to find out exactly what is required in the exams. Would it be helpful to get some past jobs? Yes, they will help make it clear.

Okay, I'll do that and then what? I can order your review priorities based on what is most likely to come up. I put them on a card and read them regularly, but that is not enough in itself. You also need a schedule to see how you can fit everything into the time available. then keep it in front of you while you study. I've done it before but it hasn't helped me. Maybe you need to do something different each day, so break your review into small tasks and assign them to specific days. there's more incentive to approach them with important topics, you're more likely to put off starting with a good idea, and as I go through each topic, I write a single paragraph about it and then I can read it quickly and it helps me sort things out in my mind.

That's brilliant. I also write answers to questions for exam practice. It's hard to force myself to do it, but hey, I'll try. Thank you very much genius. It's a great help. No problem. See you. Bye, this is the end of section three. Now you have half. one minute to check your answers now move on to section four section four you will listen to a teacher giving a talk on Australian rock art to a group of archeology students first you will have some time to analyze questions 31 to 40. now listen carefully and answer questions 31-40 good morning everyone.

I have been invited to speak about my research project on Australian Aboriginal rock paintings. Aboriginal Australians have carved both real and symbolic images of their time into rock walls for thousands of years throughout the long history of this tradition. New images have appeared and new styles of painting have been developed and these characteristics can be used to categorize different artistic styles. These include what we call dynamic yam and modern painting styles. One of the most significant features of the different styles is the way in which more recent paintings show people in static poses, but the earliest human images that dominated cave paintings more than eight thousand years ago were full of movement.

These paintings showed people hunting and cooking food, which is why they were called dynamics. Reflecting this energy is quite surprising considering that they were painted in such a simple shape as a stick, in the yam period there was a movement away from stick figures towards a more form.naturalist, however, did not go as far as the modern style that is known. as , which is similar to a sweet potato, the modern paintings are interesting because they include paintings from the time of first contact with European settlers. The Aborigines managed to convey the idea of ​​settler clothing simply by painting Europeans without hands, indicating the habit of standing with their hands. the size of their pockets is another feature, more recent images tend to be life size or even larger, but the dynamic figures are painted in miniature, Aboriginal rock art also records environmental changes that occurred over thousands of years duringFor example , we know from dynamic paintings that more than eight thousand years ago the aborigines rarely ate fish and that sea levels were much lower at that time; in fact, fish did not begin to appear in paintings until the yam period along with shells and other marine images.

The yam tradition paintings also suggest that during this time Aboriginal people moved away from animals as their main food source and began to include vegetables in their diet, as these prominently feature freshwater creatures that did not appear in the paintings to the modern four-year period. A thousand years ago, these paintings have already taught us a lot, but one image that has always intrigued us is the one known as the rainbow snake. The rainbow snake, which is the focus of my most recent project, is named for its snake-like or snake-like body and first appeared in the Yam period, between four and six thousand years ago.

Many believe it to be a curious mix of a kangaroo snake and a crocodile, but we decided to study paintings of the rainbow snake to see if we could locate the animal on which early painters based their image. The yam period coincided with the end of the last ice age, which caused a tremendous change in the environment, with sea levels rising and moving steadily inland, flooding many familiar land features and also caused a major disruption to traditional hunting patterns. In particular, new coastlines formed and totally different creatures would have arrived on the shores. We studied 107 paintings of the rainbow snake and discovered that the creature that most resembled it was the ribboned pipefish, which is a type of seahorse that this sea creature would have.

It would have been a totally unknown sight in the inland regions where the image is found and may have been the inspiration behind the first paintings, so at the end of the ice age there would have been enormous changes in animal and plant life, not It is surprising then that Aboriginal people linked this abundance to the new creatures they witnessed, even today Aboriginal people see the rainbow snake as a symbol of creation, which is understandable given the increase in vegetation and new life forms that they appeared when the image that is the end of section four first appeared. now you have half a minute to check your answers, that is, the end of the listening test in the IELTS exam, you will now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet that