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 Literature / Academic lecture 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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IELTS LISTENING – Enquiry About Booking hotel Room For Event S21T1

IELTS Listening Enquiry About Booking hotel Room For Event listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Services & Accommodation subject.

Andrew: Good morning, Claire House Hotel on Drew. Speaking on the events manager.

Samantha: Good morning, Andrew. My name’s Samantha. I’m arranging a party for my parents 50th wedding anniversary on bringing to ask about hiring a room sometime next September. Also, my parents and several of the guests will need accommodation.

Andrew: Okay, I’m sure we can help you with that. Will you be having a sit-down meal or a buffet?

Samantha: Probably sit down on DH.

 

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Andrew: Do you know how many people will be

Samantha: around 80? I think.

Andrew: Well, we have two rooms that can hold that Number one is the Adelphia Room, that conceit _Q1 85 or hold over 100. If people are standing for a buffet, right? If you have live music, there’s room for four or five musicians in the gallery overlooking the room. Our guests usually appreciate the fact that the music can be loud enough for dancing, but not too loud for conversation.

Samantha: Yes, I really don’t like it when you can’t talk

Andrew: exactly. Now the Adelphia Room is at the back of the hotel, and there are French windows leading out onto the terrace. This has a beautiful display of pots of _Q2 roses. At that time of the year,

Samantha: which direction does it face?

Andrew: Southwest, so that side of the hotel gets the sun in the afternoon and early evening. Very nice. From the terrace, you can see the area of _Q3 trees within the grounds of the hotel, or you can stroll through there to the river. That’s on the far side so it isn’t visible from the hotel. OK, then, another option is the Carlton Room. This is a bit bigger. It can hold up to 110 people on DIT has the advantage of a _Q4 stage which is useful if you have any entertainment or indeed, a small band, conf it onto it.

Samantha: Andi, can you go outside from the room?

Andrew: No, The Carlton room is on the first floor, but on one side the windows look out onto the lake.

Samantha: Lovely. I think either of those rooms would be suitable.

Andrew: Can I tell you about some of the options we offer? In addition,

Samantha: please do

Andrew: as well as a meal. You can have an M. C. A master of ceremonies who will be with you throughout the party.

Samantha: What exactly is Thie emcees function?

I suppose they make a _Q5 speech during the meal. If we need one, do they?

Andrew: That’s right. All our emcees, they’re trained as public speakers so they can easily get people’s attention. Many guests. They’re glad to have someone who can make themselves heard above the chatter, and they’re also your _Q6 support. If anything goes wrong, the emcee will deal with it so you can relax.

Samantha: Great. I’ll need to ask you about food. But something else that’s important is accommodation. You obviously have rooms in the hotel, but do you also have any other accommodations like _Q7 cabins, for example?

Andrew: Yes, there are five in the grounds, all self-contained. They each sleep 2 to 4 people and have their own living room, bathroom, and small kitchen.

Samantha: That sounds perfect for what we’ll need. Now you have various facilities, don’t you? Are they all included in the price of hiring the room, the pool, for instance?

Andrew: _Q8 Normally you’d be able to use it, but it will be closed throughout September for refurbishment. I’m afraid _Q9 the gym will be available, though at no extra charge. That’s open all day from six in the morning until midnight, right on _Q10 the tennis courts. But there is a small additional payment for those. We have four courts, and it’s worth booking in advance if you possibly can, as they can be quite a long waiting list for them right now

Samantha: Could we discuss the food? This would be dinner around seven o’clock.

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IELTS SIMULATOR – Concerts In University Arts Festival S20T4

IELTS Listening Concerts In University Arts Festival listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Arts / University Event subject.

Lecturer: As you will know, the university is planning an arts festival for later this year and here in the music department. We’ve planned three concerts. These will be public performances and the programme has just being finalised. The theme of the festival is linked between the UK and Australia, and this is reflected in the music. Each concert will feature both British and Australian composers.

 

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I’ll tell you briefly about Australian music, as you probably won’t be familiar with that. The first concert will include music by Liza Lim, who was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1966. As a child, Limb originally learned to play the piano like so many children, and also the _Q31 violin. But when she was 11 her teachers encouraged her to start composing. She found this was her real strength, and she studied and later taught composition both in Australia on DH in other countries as a composer, She has received commissions from numerous orchestras, other performers, and festivals in several countries. Liza Limbs’ compositions are vibrant and full of _Q32 energy, and she often explores Asian on Australian aboriginal cultural sources, including the native instrument, the Didgeridoo. This is featured in a work called The Compass. Her music is very expressive, so although it is _Q33 complex, it has the power of connecting with audiences and performers alike. In the festival, we’re going to give a semi-staged performance off the Oresteia. This is an _Q34 opera in seven parts, based on the trilogy of ancient Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. Lim composed this when she was in her mid-twenties, and he also wrote the text along with Barry Kaskey. It’s performed by six singers, a dancer, and an Orchestra that, as well a standard orchestral instruments, includes electric guitar, onda, and traditional Turkish stringed instruments. Lim wrote that because the stories in the tragedies are not easy to tell, the sound she creates are also _Q35 disturbing and they include breathing, solving, laughing on whistling. The work lasts around 75 minutes. On the rest of the concert will consist of orchestral works by the British composers Wraith, Vaughan Williams, on DH Frederick Delius, moving on now to our second concert. This will begin with instrumental music by British composers Benjamin Britain on Judith, where after the interval will go to Australia for a piece by Ross Edwards, the tower off Remoteness.

According to Edwards, the inspiration for this piece came from nature when he was sitting alone in the dry bed of a creek, overshadowed by the leaves of palm trees listening to the birds and insects, the tower of remoteness he’s scored for piano and _Q36 clarinet Edwards says he realised years after writing the piece that he had subconsciously modeled its opening phrase on a bird call. Ross Edwards was born in 1943 in Sydney, Australia, and studied at the Sydney Conservatory, um of music on the universities of Adelaide and Sydney. He’s well known in Australia, and in fact, he’s one of the country’s most performed composers. He’s written a wide range of music, from symphonies and concertos to some composed specifically for children. Edwards, his music has been described as being deeply connected to Australia, and it could be regarded as a celebration of the _Q37 diversity of cultures that Australia Khun B, proud off the last of the three Australian composers to be represented in our festival is called Vine, Born in 1950 for Vine like Liza, Limb comes from Perth, Western Australia.

He took up the cornet at the age of five, switching to the piano. Five years later, however, he went to university to study _Q38 physics before changing to composition. After graduating, he moved to Sydney and worked as a freelance pianist and composer. Before long, he had become prominent in Australia as a composer for _Q39 dance and in fact has written 25 scores of that type. In our third concert, Vine will be represented by his music for the flag handover ceremony of the _Q40 Olympics, held in 1996. This seven-minute orchestral piece was, of course, heard by millions of people worldwide, and we’ll hear it alongside works written by British composers Edward Elgar and more recently, Thomas Ad.

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