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IELTS Listening MEMBERSHIP OF SPORTS CENTRElistening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Services & Leisure subject..
TUTOR: So, I’ll hand over now to Julie Brooks.
JULIE BROOKS: Thank you. Welcome to the Sports Center. It’s good to see that there are so many people wanting to find out about our sports facilities. First of all, membership. All students at the college are entitled to become members of the Sports Centre, for an annual fee of Q119.50 pounds. To register with us and get your membership card, you need to come to Q13reception, between 2 and 6 pm, Monday to Thursday. I’m afraid we can’t register new members on Friday, so it’s Monday to Thursday, 2 to 6, at reception.
Now, there are three things that you must remember to bring with you when you come to register; they are: your Union card, a recent passport sized photograph of yourself, and the fee it doesn’t matter whether you bring cash or cheque. We can’t issue your card unless you bring all three; so, don’t forget: your Union card, passport photo and fee. Then once you’ve got your sports Q14card, you will need to bring it with you whenever you come to Q15book or use any Sports Center facilities.
Booking over the phone is not allowed, so you have to come here in person, with your card, when you want to book. Our opening hours seem to get longer every year. We are now open from 9 a.m to 10 p.m on Q16weekdays and from 10 a.m to 6 p.m on Saturdays. For those of you who are up and about early in the morning, we’re introducing a 50 percent ‘morning discount’ this year. This is because the facilities tended to be under-used in the mornings last year. It means that all the sessions will be half-price between 9 am and 12 noon on weekdays.
So, what exactly are the facilities? What sports can you play here? Well, this room we’re in at the moment is called the Main Hall, and it’s used mainly for team sports such as football, volleyball and basketball, but also for badminton and aerobics. On the other side of the Q17reception area there’s the Q18dance studio; this provides a smaller, more intimate space, which we use for ballet, modern dance and martial arts – not at the same time, of course. Then in a separate building, which you may have noticed on your way here it’s on the other side of the car park there are the Q19squash courts (six of them), and at the far end of the building a Q20fitness room. This is our newest facility, only completed in the Spring, but it’s already proving to be one of the most popular. As well as all these facilities available here on the campus, we also have an arrangement with the local tennis club, which is only two miles away, entitling our students to use their courts on weekday mornings in the Summer. So, I think that there should be something here for everybody, and I hope to see all of you at the Center, making use of the facilities. If, in the course of the year, you have any suggestions as to how the service we provide might be improved or its appeal widened, I’ll be interested to hear from you.
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PETER: No. I’ll do it, Joan. You’re really busy. Oh have you got the numbers?
JOAN: Not for the Rajdoot, but uh right Parkview Hotel: 777192 and London Arms: Q4208657.
PETER: Great. Before I ring, we’d better just make sure they’re within the price range.
JOAN: Up to 15 pounds a head?
PETER: I think you’ll find some people won’t be able to go that high.
JOAN: Well, you can’t get anything decent under 10 pounds.
PETER: Okay. We’ll say 12.
JOAN: Okay.
PETER: And we’d better make sure there’s good vegetarian food.
JOAN: And a Q5non-smoking section! You know what the boss is like.
PETER: Don’t remind me. I’ll let you know as soon as I get anything.
PETER: Good news. I found Rajdoot’s number straight away and they can fit us in. Their Christmas menu sounds great.
JOAN: What is it?
PETER: French onion soup or fruit juice.
JOAN: Uh-huh.
PETER: Roast dinner or Q6lentil curry sounds ordinary but my friend said it was really tasty.
JOAN: Umm lentil curry that’s unusual.
PETER: And then for dessert there’s traditional plum pudding or apple pie, a plus coffee.
JOAN: That sounds really good for 12 pounds did you book it?
PETER: Well, I said I’d check with the staff first. But they did say they’d hold the booking until next Wednesday anyway. Oh, and if we go ahead, they’d like a Q750 pound deposit.
JOAN: 50 is normal that’s fine.
PETER: And they want a letter.
JOAN: Right to confirm.
PETER: And they say with such large numbers we have to Q8choose the menu in advance.
JOAN: That won’t be a problem. I’ll put up a notice with details of the restaurant and the menu. When did you say they wanted confirmation by?
PETER: It was uh let’s see uh the Q94 November.
JOAN: Where do you think I should put up the notice? Where everyone’s guaranteed to see it.
PETER: On the cafe noticeboard I should think.
JOAN: Hardly anyone looks at that.
PETER: Well, Q10the Newsletter probably your best bet.
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NATASHA: Firstly, can I have your full name please?
MICHAEL: Michael Q1simmons, S-I-M-M-O-N-S. I don’t have a middle name.
NATASHA: Great. And your date of birth?
MICHAEL: It’s the 27th of the third 1988.
NATASHA: Right and I also need to know your previous address.
MICHAEL: I live at 12 wake street and that’s in…
NATASHA: We have that as your current address. What was the address you registered with us before you moved there?
MICHAEL: Oh, yeah. I used to live at 319 Q2ocean drive that’s in east providence.
NATASHA: I’ll just need your contact phone number as well.
MICHAEL: That’s 049 248 002.
NATASHA: And just a few questions about your account. Do you know what your current data allowance is?
MICHAEL: I upgraded to the gold account not long ago, so It’s Q3unlimited.
NATASHA: Yes, unlimited data. Right now can you just tell me about your payment plan? Which plan are you currently on? Do You know?
MICHAEL: Oh, hang on a minute well I think. Yes, I started off with a 12-month automatic renewal. But a few months ago I switched to the Q424 month plan.
NATASHA: That’s fine. Now when you first registered for webnet you selected two secret questions and provided us with the answers, In order to issue you with a new password I need you to answer those questions for me. Firstly what is your Mother’s Maiden name?
MICHAEL: My Mother’s name is Sarah, that’s Sarah with an h.
NATASHA: That sounds like her first name, we’re looking for her maiden name. That’s her family name before she was married.
MICHAEL: Oh sorry I misheard. It’s um, Q5white.
NATASHA: White as in the color?
MICHAEL: Yes, that’s right.
NATASHA: Now, the other question you chose to answer what was your first pet?
MICHAEL: The first pet I ever had?
NATASHA: Yes.
MICHAEL: It was actually a Q6goldfish.
NATASHA: That’s what it says on your file. Okay that’s all done for you Mr Simmons. I’ve sent you a generic password, which should arrive in your email box within a few minutes. I’ll just make a note of the date Q730th of june. When you log in, I suggest you go to the members details section on the website and change it to something you’re going to remember.
MICHAEL: Wonderful. Thanks.
NATASHA: Is there anything else, I can help you with today?
MICHAEL: Yeah there are a few things I’ve been having some connection issues recently. I think the problem is with the cable. That connects the modem to the computer. Do you supply those?
NATASHA: You need a new Q8cable, not a problem, I’ll arrange for that to be sent off tomorrow.
MICHAEL: Thanks. Also I’m currently signed up for three of your services home, phone mobile and broadband. I use the internet a lot on my computer and on my mobile. But to be honest I never use the home phone and I don’t see, why I should keep paying for that plan?
NATASHA: Would you like me to cancel that Q9home phone for you?
MICHAEL: Yes, please. If you wouldn’t mind.
NATASHA: Done. Is there anything else?
MICHAEL: Yes, just one last thing, do you offer any antivirus products?
NATASHA: Yes we have one, which offers full protection against viruses, spam and identity theft. Which is useful if you’re doing any online banking and that kind of thing? It’s called the Q10security pack.
MICHAEL: Sounds perfect. Sign me up for one of those please.
NATASHA: And we’ve got another one, it’s called the parenting pack. It prevents your children from accessing harmful websites and downloading things they shouldn’t.
MICHAEL: I’m not so worried about that anymore. Both my children and adults and have left home, so just the security pack. Thanks, that’s everything.
IELTS LISTENING -HAT-MAKING PROJECT listening practice test has 10 questions belong to the hat-making project.
TUTOR: Right. Are we all here? Okay. As you know, today Vivian is going to do a presentation on the hat-making project she did with her class during her last teaching practice. So, over to you, Vivian.
VIVIEN: Thanks. Um Mr Yardley has asked me to describe to you the project I did as a student teacher at a Q31secondary school in London. I was at this school for six weeks and I taught a variety of subjects to a class of Q3214 year old pupils. The project I chose to do was a hat making project and I think this project could easily be adapted to suit any age. So, to explain the project. After we’d done the research, we went back to the classroom to make two basic hat shapes using rolls of old wallpaper. We each made, first of all a conical hat by um well if I show you now cutting out a circle and then making one cut up to the center and then um Q33overlapping the cut like this a conical hat that sits on your head. The other hat we made was a little more complicated um first of all we cut out a circle again like this then you need a long piece with flaps on it I’ve already made that bit which I have here you bend the flaps over and stick them with glue or prittstick to the Q34underside of the circle like this. Again I’ve prepared this so that I don’t get glue everywhere the pupils do of course so you need plenty of covers for the table. And there you have a pillbox hat as in pill and box. Now variations and combinations of these two hat shapes form the basis of the pupils final designs.
The next stage of the project was the design phase and this involved first of all using their pages of research to draw a design of their hat Q35on paper. That’s the easy part. They then had to translate their two-dimensional design into a form to fit their head. I encouraged them to make a small scale Q36three dimensional hat first so that they could experiment with how to achieve the form they required and I impose certain constraints on them to keep things simple. For example they had to use paper not card. Paper is more pliable and easier to handle. They also had to limit their colors to Q37white, gray or brown shades of paper which reflected the colors of the buildings they were using as a model for their hats and they had to make sure their glue didn’t show! Well, it was very enjoyable and just to give you an idea of what they produced, I brought along three hats to show you. This one here is based on a circular stairway in an old building in London. It uses Q38three pillbox hats one on top of the other. This was designed by Theresa. Here’s another one that has a simple strip going round the base of the hat but has then gone on to add strips of paper that come out from the base and that meet at the top of the hat rather Q39like a crown making a fairly tall hat. This was made by Muriel. And lastly there’s a combination of the pill box or single strip around the base and then the Q40conical hat shape on top to form a castle turret. This was made by Febrice, and there are many more that i could have brought.
TUTOR: Thank you, Vivian. That was most interesting. Now what we can learn from this is that…
