IELTS LISTENING – TALK TO NEW KITCHEN ASSISTANTS S22T2

IELTS listening Talk to new kitchen assistants  listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Leisure & Entertainment subject.

Good morning everyone. My name’s Jay Parkinds and I’m the restaurant manager. And I understand that none of you’ve had any previous experience as kitchen assistants. Well, you might be feeling a bit nervous now, but most of our kitchen assistants say they enjoy the work. OK. they might get shouted at sometimes, but it’s nothing personal, and Q₁₁ they’re pleased that they have so many different things to do. which means they never get bored. And I’ll tell you straight away that if you do well, we might think about moving you up and giving you some more responsibility.

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Right, well, you’ve all shown up on time, which is an excellent start. Now I’m glad to see none of you have unsuitable footwear, so that’s good – you need to be careful as the floors can get very wet and slippery. Those of you with long hair have got it well out of the way, Q₁₂ but some of you’ll need to remove your rings and bracelets – just put them somewhere safe for today, and remember to leave them at home tomorrow, as they can be a safety hazard.

Q₁₃ Now it’s going to be a busy day for you all today – we don’t have get tables free for this evening, and only a few for lunch. Fortunately, we’ve got our Head Chef back – he was away on holiday all last week which meant the other chefs had extra work. Now, I’ll tell you a bit more about the job in a minute but first, some general regulations. For all of you, whatever your age, there’s some equipment you mustn’t use until you’ve been properly trained, like the waste disposal system for example, for health and safety reasons. Q₁₄ Then I think there are two of you here who are under 18 – that’s Emma and Jake, isn’t it? Right. so for you two. the meat slicer is out of bounds. And of course, none of you are allowed to use the electric mixer until you’ve been shown how it works.

Now you may have heard that this can be a stressful job, and I have to say that can be true. You’ll be working an eight-hour day for the first week, though you’ll have the chance to do overtime after that as well if you want to. But however long the hours are, you’ll get a break in the middle. Q₁₅ Q₁₆ What you will find is that you’re on your feet all day long, lifting and carrying. so if you’re not fit now you soon will be! You’ll find you don’t have much chance to take it easy – when someone tells you to do something you need to do it straight away – but at least we do have a very efficient air conditioning system compared with some kitchens.

Now let me tell you about some of the people you need to know. So as I said. Q₁₇ I’m Joy Parkins and I decide who does what during the day and how long they work for. I’ll be trying to get you to work with as many different people in the kitchen as possible so that you learn while you’re on the job. Q₁₈ One person whose name you must remember is David Field. If you injure yourself at all. even if it’s really minor, you must report to him and he’ll make sure the incident is recorded and you get the appropriate treatment. He’s trained to give basic treatment to staff himself, or he’ll send you off somewhere else if necessary. Q₁₉ Then there’s Dexter Wills – he’s the person you need to see if you smash a plate or something like that. Don’t just leave it and hope no one will notice – it’s really important to get things noted and replaced or there could be problems later. Q₂₀ And finally. there’s Mike Smith. He’s the member of staff who takes care of all the stores of perishables, so if you notice we’re getting low in flour or sugar or something. make sure you let him know so he can put in an order.

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IELTS LISTENING – Family Excursions S22T1

IELTS listening FAMILY EXCURSIONS   listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Leisure & Entertainment subject.

TC EMPLOYEE: Hi. Can I help you?

VISITOR: I’d like to find out if you have any excursions suitable for families.

TC EMPLOYEE: Sure. How about taking your family for a cruise? Example We have a steamship that takes passengers out several times a day – it’s over 100 years old.

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VISITOR: That sounds interesting. How long is the trip?

TC EMPLOYEE: About an hour and a half. Q₁ And don’t forget to take pictures of the mountains. They’re all around you when you’re on the boat and they look fantastic.

VISITOR: OK. And I assume there’s a cafe or something on board?

TC EMPLOYEE: Sure. How old are your children?

VISITOR: Er, my daughter’s fifteen, and my son’s seven.

TC EMPLOYEE: Right. Well, there are various things you can do once you’ve crossed the lake, to make a day of it. One thing that’s very popular is a visit to the Country Farm. You’re met off the boat by the farmer and he’ll take you to the holding pens, where the sheep are kept. Children love feeding them!

VISITOR: My son would love that. He really likes animals.

TC EMPLOYEE: Well, Q₂ there’s also a 40-minute trek round the farm on a horse, if he wants.

VISITOR: Do you think he’d manage it? He hasn’t done that before.

TC EMPLOYEE: Sure, It’s suitable for complete beginners.

VISITOR: Ah, good.

TC EMPLOYEE: And again, visitors are welcome to explore the farm on their own, as long as they take care to close dates and so on. Q₃ There are some very beautiful gardens along the side of the lake which also belong to the farm – they’ll be just at their best now. You could easily spend an hour or two there.

VISITOR: OK. Well that all sounds good. Q₄ And can we get lunch there?

TC EMPLOYEE: You can, and it’s very good. though it’s not included in the basic cost. You pay when you get there.

VISITOR: Right.

VISITOR: So is there anything else to do over on that side of the lake?

TC EMPLOYEE: Well, what you can do is take a bike over on the ship and then go on a cycling trip. There’s a trail there called the Back Road – you could easily spend three or four hours exploring it. and the scenery’s wonderful. Q₅ They’ll give you a map when you get your ticket for the cruise – there’s no extra charge.

VISITOR: What’s the trail like in terms of difficulty?

TC EMPLOYEE: Quite challenging in places. It wouldn’t be suitable for your seven-year-old. Q₆ It needs someone who’s got a bit more experience.

VISITOR: Hmm. Well, my daughter loves cycling and so do I, so maybe the two of us could go, and my wife and son could stay on the farm. That might work out quite well. But we don’t have bikes here… is there somewhere we could rent them?

TC EMPLOYEE: Yes, there’s a place here in the city. Q₇ It’s called Ratchesons.

VISITOR: I’ll just make a note of that – er, how do you spell it?

TC EMPLOYEE: R-A-T-C-H-E-S-O-N-S. It’s just by the cruise ship terminal.

VISITOR: OK.

TC EMPLOYEE: You’d also need to pick up a repair kit for the bike from there to take along with you, and you’d need to take along a snack and some water – it’d be best to get those in the city.

VISITOR: Fine. That shouldn’t be a problem. And Q₈ I assume I can rent a helmet from the bike place?

TC EMPLOYEE: Sure, you should definitely get that. It’s a great ride, but you want to be well prepared because Q₉ it’s very remote – you won’t see get shops round there, or anywhere to stay, so you need to get back in time for the last boat.

VISITOR: Yeah. So what sort of prices are we looking at here?

TC EMPLOYEE: Let’s see, that’d be one adult and one child for the cruise with farm tour, that’s $117, and an adult and a child for the cruise only so that’s $214 dollars altogether. Oh, wait a minute, how old did you say your daughter was?

VISITOR: Fifteen.

TC EMPLOYEE: Then I’m afraid Q₁₀ it’s $267 because she has to pay the adult fare, which is $75 instead of the child fare which is $22 – sorry about that.

VISITOR: That’s OK. Er, so how do …

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IELTS LISTENING – The hunt for sunken settlements and ancient shipwrecks S21T4

IELTS Listening The hunt for sunken settlements and ancient shipwrecks listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Leisure & Entertainment subject.

Archaeology: In today’s class, I’m going to talk about marine Archaeology, the branch of archaeology focusing on human interaction with sea lakes and rivers. It’s the study of ships, cargoes, and shipping facilities on other physical remains. I’ll give you an example. Then go on to show how this type of research is being transformed by the use of the latest technology.

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At least jam was a village on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean, which seems to have been thriving until around seven thousand BC. The residents kept cattle, caught fish and stored grain. They had wells for fresh water. Many of their houses were built around a courtyard and were constructed of stone. The village contained an impressive monument. Seven half-tonne stones standing in a semi-circle around the _Q31 spring that might have been used for ceremonial purposes at Lidiane may have been destroyed swiftly by a tsunami

or climate change may have caused glasses to melt on ancient sea levels to rise, flooding the village gradually. Whatever the cause, it now lies ten metres below the surface of the Mediterranean, buried under sand at the bottom of the sea. It’s being described as the largest and best-preserved prehistoric settlement ever found on the seabed. For marine archaeologists, Atlit Yam is a treasure trove.

Research on the building’s _Q32 tools and the human remains has revealed how the bustling village once functioned and even what diseases some of its residents suffered from. But of course, this is only one small village, one window into a lost world. For a fuller picture, researchers need more sunken settlements, but the hard part is finding them. Underwater research used to require divers to find shipwrecks or artefacts. But in the second half of the twentieth century, various types of underwater vehicles were developed, some ancient controlled from a ship on the surface and some of them autonomous, which means they don’t need to be operated by a person, autonomous underwater vehicles or AUVs. These are used in the oil industry, for instance, to create _Q33 maps of the sea bed before rigs and pipelines are installed

to navigate. They use senses such as compasses. And so no. Until relatively recently they were very expensive and so _Q34 heavy that they had to be launched from a large vessel with a winch. But the latest AUVs, are much easier to manoeuvre.

They could be launched from the shore or a small ship, and they’re much cheaper, which makes them more ancient and accessible to research teams. They’re also very sophisticated. They can communicate with each other on DH, for example, work out the most efficient way to survey a site or to find a particular object on the sea bed

field tests show the approach can work. For example, in a trial in twenty fifteen three, a UV has searched for Rex but Marty Mummy, off the coast of Sicily.

The site is the final resting place of an ancient Roman ship, which sank in the sixth century While ferrying prefabricated _Q35 marble elements for the construction of an early church, the AUVs mapped the area in detail, finding other ships carrying columns of the same material.

Creating an Internet in the sea for a U visa to communicate is no easy matter. Wi-fi networks on land use electromagnetic waves, but in water, these will only travel a few centimetres. Instead, a more complex mix of technologies is required for short distances. They share data using _Q36 light, while acoustic waves were used to communicate over long distances. But more creative solutions are also being developed, where an AUV working on the seabed offloads data to a second AUV, which then surfaces on beams the data home to the research team using a satellite.

There’s also a system that enables AUVs to share information from seabed scans and other data. So even a UV surveying the seabed finds an intriguing object. It can share the coordinates of the object that is, its position with a nearby, AUV that carries superior _Q37 cameras. And arrange for that a UV to make a closer inspection of the object.

Marine archaeologists are excited about the huge potential of these AUVs for their discipline. One site where they’re going to be deployed is the Gulf of Barati off the Italian coast in nineteen seventy for a two-thousand-year-old Roman vessel was discovered here in eighteen metres of water when it sank. It was carrying _Q38 medical goods in wooden or tin receptacles.

Its cargo gives us insight into the treatments available all those years ago, including tablets that are thought to have been dissolved to form a cleansing liquid for the _Q39 eyes Other Roman ships went down nearby by taking their cargoes with um, some held huge pots made of terra cotta. Some were used for transporting cargoes of olive oil. The others held _Q40 wine. In many cases, it’s only these containers that remain, while the wooden ships have been buried under silt on the seabed. 

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IELTS LISTENING – Purpose Of The Children’s Literature S21T3

IELTS Listening Purpose Of The Children’s Literature listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Leisure & Entertainment subject.

 

Stephanie: Hello.

Trevor: Hello, Stephanie. You said you wanted to talk about the course I’m taking on literature of her children.

Stephanie: That’s right. I’m thinking of doing it next year, but I’d like to find out more about it first.

Trevor: Okay, well, as you probably know, it’s a one-year course. It’s divided into six modules, and you have to take all of them. One of the most interesting ones, for me at least, was about the purpose of children’s literature.

Stephanie: You mean whether it should just entertain children or should be educational as well,

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Trevor: right on DH, whether _Q21 the teaching should be factual, giving them information about the world or ethical teaching them values. That’s fascinating is that the writer isn’t necessarily conscious of the message they’re conveying. For instance, a story might show a child who has a problem as a result of not doing what an adult has told them to do, implying that children should always obey adults.

Stephanie: I see what you mean.

Trevor: That module made me realise how important stories are. _Q22 They can have a significant effect on children as they grow up. Actually, it inspired me to have a go at it myself just for my own interest. I know I can’t compete with the really popular stories like the Harry Potter books. They’re very good, and even young kids like my seven-year-old niece love reading them.

Stephanie: _Q23 I’m very interested in illustrations in stories. Is that covered in the course?

Trevor: Yes, there’s a module on pictures on how they’re sometimes central to the story.

Stephanie: That’s good. I remember some frightening ones I saw as a child, and I can still see them vividly in my mind. Two years later, peaches can be so powerful, just as powerful as words. I’ve always enjoyed drawing, so that’s the field I want to go into when I finish the course. I bet that module will be really helpful.

Trevor: I’m sure it will. We also studied comics in that module, but I’m not convinced of their value not compared with books One of the great things about words is that you use your imagination, but with a comic, you don’t have to.

Stephanie: But children are so used to visual input on TV, video games, and so on. There are plenty of kids. You wouldn’t even try to read a book, so _Q24 I think comics conserve a really useful purpose.

Trevor: You mean it’s better to read a comic than not to read at all? Yes, I suppose you’re right. I just think it’s sad when children don’t read books.

Stephanie: What about books for girls on books for boys? Does the course go into that?

Trevor: Yes, there’s a module on it. For years, lots of stories in English at least assumed that boys went out and did adventurous things, and girls stayed at home and played with dolls. _Q25 I was amazed how many books were targeted at just one sex or the other. Of course, this reflects society as it is when the books are written.

Stephanie: That’s true. So it sounds as though you think it’s a good course.

Trevor: Have you been reading lots of children’s stories to help you decide whether to take the course?

Stephanie: Yeah, have gone as far back in the late 17th century, though I know there were earlier children’s stories.

Trevor: So does that mean you read Perrault’s fairy tales, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and so on?

Stephanie: Yes, they must be important because _Q26 no stories of that type had been written before. These were the first. And then there’s the Swiss Family Robinson.

Trevor: I haven’t read that

Stephanie: the English name makes it sound, So Robinson is the family surname. But a more accurate translation would be the Swiss Robinsons because it’s about a _Q27 Swiss family who was shipwrecked like Robinson Crusoe in the novel of a century earlier. Well,

Trevor: I never

Stephanie: knew that. _Q28 Have you read Hoffman’s The Nutcracker in The Mouse King?

Trevor: Wasn’t that the basis for Tchaikovsky’s ballet than that?

Stephanie: That’s right. It has been quite a bizarre element.

Trevor: I hope you’ve read Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince. It’s probably my favourite children’s story of all time.

Stephanie: Ah, mine, too, on it so surprising because World is best known for his place on most of them are very witty, but the Happy Prince is really moving. I struggled with Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, three long books, and I gave up after one. It’s extremely

Trevor: popular, though.

Stephanie: Yeah, but where is something like the Happy Prince just carried me along with it? _Q29 The Lord of the Rings took more effort than I was prepared to give it. I didn’t find

Trevor: that. I love it.

Stephanie: Mmm. Another one I’ve read is War Horse.

Trevor: Oh, yes. _Q30 It’s about the first World War, isn’t it? Hardly what you’d expect for a children’s story.

Stephanie: Exactly, But it’s

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