IELTS LISTENING – THORNDYKE’S BUILDERS S17T1

 

IELTS Listening THORNDYKE’S BUILDERS listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Social Needs subject.

Customer: Good morning. Is that Mr. THORNDYKE

THORNDYKE: Speaking? How can I help?

Customer: I’ve got quite a few things which need painting and fixing in the flat. And I wondered whether you’d be able to do the work.

THORNDYKE: I’m sure I’ll be able to help, but let me take down a few details.

Customer: Yes, of course.

 

🎧Attempt Free Listening Test…

⬇️  Download Free PDF

THORNDYKE: Well, firstly, how did you hear about us?

Customer: It was my friend May Hampton.

THORNDYKE: Thorne Dykes.

Customer: Good morning. Is that Mr. THORNDYKE

THORNDYKE: Speaking? How can I help?

Customer: I’ve got quite a few things which need painting and fixing in the flat. And I wonder whether you’d be able to do the work.

THORNDYKE: I’m sure I’ll be able to help, but let me take down a few details.

Customer: Yes, of course.

THORNDYKE: Well, firstly, how did you hear about us?

Customer: It was my friend, May Hampton. You did some excellent work for her a couple of years ago. Do you remember?

THORNDYKE: Oh, yes. That was in West Park Flat’s lovely lady.

Customer: Yes, she is.

THORNDYKE: Andi, what’s your name, please?

Customer: It’s Edith. _Q1 Pargetter.

THORNDYKE: Can you spell your surname, please?

Customer: It’s P-A-R-G-E double T-E-R

THORNDYKE: Double T. Right on. Do you live in West Park Flats as well?

Customer: No, actually, it’s _Q2 east Park flat for

THORNDYKE: all right. That’s over the road. I seem to remember. Quite difficult to get to.

Customer: Yes, it’s at the back of the _Q3 library.

THORNDYKE: Right on O on, DA. What’s your phone number?

Customer: Eight, seven, five, nine, three, four. But I’m out a great deal in the afternoons and evenings.

THORNDYKE: So would the best time to ring you be in the _Q4 morning?

Customer: Yes.

THORNDYKE: Fine. I’ve made a note of that. Can I just ask? I’ll be in a van and I No, parking is rather difficult around your flat. Where would you recommend?

Customer: Well, I always tell people in larger vehicles to park by the _Q5 postbox on the other side of the road from the entrance.

THORNDYKE: Good. Thanks.

Customer: And will you be able to give me a full itemised quote?

THORNDYKE: Oh, yes. I’ll list all the jobs separately with individual _Q6 prices.

Customer: That would be a great help.

THORNDYKE: No problem. Now. Now, what would you like me to do?

Customer: Firstly and most urgently, is in the kitchen with all the weather damage, the _Q7 glass in the door has cracked. And I need that fixing,

THORNDYKE: I presume you mean replacing?

Customer: Oh, yes. And as soon as possible

THORNDYKE: we’ll do is come round tomorrow morning and do that immediately.

Customer: Thank you so much. The other things aren’t so urgent. But

THORNDYKE: now, Mike, a note of everything you want doing

Customer: well in the kitchen. I’d like some painting doing

THORNDYKE: all the kitchen walls,

Customer: just the area over the _Q8 cooker. It’s very greasy,

THORNDYKE: right? It does tend to get that way.

Customer: Yes,

THORNDYKE: well, if you want a proper job done. What needed though we stripped the old pain on plastering about a _Q9 week before I paint it,

Customer: Of course. Now May tells me you also do work in the garden.

THORNDYKE: That’s right.

Customer: Well, I’d like you to replace of _Q10 fence.

THORNDYKE : Just one.

Customer: Yes, at the far

THORNDYKE: Fine. Should be a problem.

Customer: And that’s the lot

THORNDYKE: Fine. Yeah. As I say, I can come round tomorrow morning to look over things with you.

Customer: But that’s great. Thank you.

THORNDYKE: So I look forward to seeing you tomorrow at.

🎧Attempt Free Listening Test…

---

Prepare for IELTS IELTS Test International Experienced Teacher Best Training By CELTA Trainer.

8439000086
8439000087
7055710003
7055710004
IELTS Simulation 323 GMS Road, Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun, India

email: info at ieltsband7.com

 

IELTS LISTENING – Marine renewable energy (ocean energy) S16T4

IELTS LISTENING Marine renewable energy (ocean energy) listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Science & Environment subject.

Introduction: Producing enough energy to meet our needs has become a serious problem. Demand is rising rapidly because of the world’s increasing population on expanding _Q31 industry. Burning fossil fuels like gas, coal and oil seriously damage the environment and they’ll eventually run out.

For a number of years now, scientists have been working out how we can derive energy from renewable sources such as the sun and wind without causing pollution.

 

🎧Attempt Free Listening Test…

⬇️  Download Free PDF

 

Today, I’ll outline marine renewable energy. He also called Ocean Energy, which harnesses the movement of the oceans. Marine renewable energy can be divided into three main categories. Wave energy title energy and ocean thermal energy conversion, and I’ll say a few words about each one. First wave energy.

Numerous devices have been invented to harvest wave energy with names such as Wave Dragon, the Penguin on DH, mighty whale

This form of energy has plenty of potential as the source is _Q32 constant and there’s no danger of waves coming to a standstill.

Electricity can be generated using onshore systems using a reservoir or offshore systems.

But the problem with ocean waves is that they’re erratic with the winds, making them travel in every _Q33 direction. This adds to the difficulty of creating efficient technology.

Ideally, all the waves would travel smoothly and regularly along the same straight line.

Another drawback is that sand and other sediments on the ocean _Q34 floor might be stopped from flowing normally, which can lead to environmental problems.

The second category of marine energy that I’ll mention is tidal energy.

One major advantage of using the tide rather than waves as a source of energy is that it’s _Q35 predictable.

We know the exact times of high and low tides for years to come. For title energy to be effective, the difference between high and low tides needs to be at least five metres, and this occurs naturally in only about forty places on earth. But the right conditions can be created by constructing a tidal lagoon, an area of seawater separated from the sea.

One current plan is to create a tidal lagoon on the coast of Wales. This will be an area of water within _Q36 bay that Swansea, sheltered by a U-shaped breakwater or damn built out from the coast.

The breakwater will contain sixteen hydro turbines, and as the tide rises, water rushes through the breakwater, activating the turbines, which turn a generator to produce electricity. Then, for three hours, as the tide goes out, the water is held back within the breakwater, increasing the difference in water level until it’s several metres higher within the lagoon than in the open sea.

Then, in order to release the stored water, _Q37 gates in the breakwater are opened.

It pauses powerfully out of the lagoon, driving the turbines in the breakwater in the opposite direction and again generating thousands of megawatts of electricity.

As there are two high tides a day. This lagoon scheme would generate electricity four times a day every day for a total of around fourteen hours in every twenty-four and enough electricity for over one hundred fifty thousand homes.

This system has quite a lot in his favour. Unlike solar and wind energy, it doesn’t depend on the weather.

The turbines are operated without the need for _Q38 fuel, so it doesn’t create any greenhouse gas emissions, and very little maintenance is needed.

It’s estimated that electricity generated in this way will be relatively keep on that manufacturing. The components would create more than two thousand _Q39 jobs, a big boost to the local economy.

On the other hand, there are fears that lagoons might harm both fish and birds, for example, by disturbing _Q40 migration patterns and causing a build-up of silt affecting local ecosystems. There are other forms of title energy, but I’ll go on to the third category of marine energy ocean thermal energy conversion.

This depends on there being a big difference in temperature between surface water on the water a couple of kilometres below the surface, and this occurs in tropical coastal areas. The idea is to bring cold water up to the surface using a submerged pipe. The concept dates back to eighteen eighty.

🎧Attempt Free Listening Test…

 

---

Boost Your Score: Practice IELTS Online with IELTS Simulator.

8439000086
8439000087
7055710003
7055710004
IELTS Simulation 323 GMS Road, Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun, India

email: info at ieltsband7.com

 

IELTS LISTENING – Laura’s work placement S17T3

IELTS Listening Laura’s work placement listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Education & Training subject.

TIM: Hi, Laura – could you spare a few minutes to talk about the work placement you did last summer? I’m thinking of doing one myself …

LAURA: Hi, Tim. Sure.

TIM: Didn’t you do yours at an environmental services company?

LAURA: That’s right … It’s only a very small company and they needed someone to produce a company brochure, and I wanted to get some business experience because I’m interested in a career in occupational psychology in a business environment. It was good because I had overall responsibility for the project.

 

🎧Attempt Free Listening Test…

⬇️  Download Free PDF

TIM: What kind of skills do you think you developed on the placement? I mean, apart from the ones you already had … Did you have to do all the artwork for the brochure, the layout, and everything?

LAURA: We hired the services of a professional photographer for that. I did have to use my IT skills to a certain extent because I cut and pasted text from marketing leaflets, but that didn’t involve anything I hadn’t done before.

TIM: _Q21 Do you think you got any better at managing your time and prioritizing things? You always used to say you had trouble with that..

LAURA: Oh, definitely. There was so much pressure to meet the project deadline. _Q22 And I also got better at explaining things and asserting my opinions, because I had to have weekly consultations with the marketing manager and give him a progress report.

TIM: It sounds as if you got a lot out of it then.

LAURA: Absolutely. It was really worthwhile … But you know. the company benefited too …

TIM: Yes, they must have done. After all, if they’d used a professional advertising agency to produce their brochure instead of doing it in-house, presumably they’d have paid a lot more.

LAURA: Oh, yes. I worked it out – _Q23 it would have been 250 percent more. And I thought the end result was good. even though we did everything on-site. The company has quite a powerful computer and I managed to borrow some scanning software from the university. The new brochure looks really professional; _Q24 it enhances the image of the company straight away.

TIM: So in the long run it should help them to attract clients, and improve their sales figures?

LAURA: That’s the idea. Yeah.

TIM: Well. all in all, it sounds very positive – I think I will go ahead and apply for a placement myself. How do I go about it?

LAURA: It’s easy enough to do because there’s a government agency called STEP – S-T-E-P- that organizes placements for students. You should start by getting their booklet with all the details – I expect you can download one from their website.

TIM: Actually, they’ve got copies in the psychology _Q25 department – I’ve seen them there. I’ll just go to the office and pick one up.

LAURA: Right. And then if I were you after I’d looked at it I’d go over all the options with someone …

TIM: I suppose I should ask my tutor’s advice. He knows more about me than anyone.

LAURA: One of the _Q26 career officers would be better, they’ve got more knowledge about the jobs market than your personal tutor would have.

TIM: OK …

LAURA: And then when you know what you want you can register with STEP – you’ll find their address in the booklet. And once you’ve registered they assign you to a mentor who looks after your application.

TIM: And then I suppose you just sit back and wait till you hear something?

LAURA: They told me at the careers office that it’s best to be proactive, and get _Q27 updates yourself by checking the website for new placement alerts. Your mentor is supposed to keep you informed, but you can’t rely on that.

TIM: I don’t suppose it’s a good idea to get in touch with companies directly, is it?

LAURA: Not really … But it is the company who notifies you if they want you to go for an interview You get a letter of invitation or an email from _Q28 personnel departments.

TIM: And do I reply directly to them?

LAURA: Yes, you do. STEP only gets involved again once you’ve been made a job offer.

TIM: Right … So once you’ve had an interview you should let your _Q29 mentor know what the outcome is? I mean whether you’re offered a job, and whether you’ve decided to accept it?

LAURA: That’s right. They’ll inform the careers office once a placement has been agreed, so you don’t have to do that.

TIM: Is that all then?

LAURA: More or less. Only once you’ve accepted an offer you’ll probably have to supply a reference, because the placement will be conditional on that. And that’s something you should ask your _Q30 own tutor to provide. He knows about your academic ability and also about your qualities, like reliability.

TIM: Well, thanks very much for the information – I’m starting to look forward …

🎧Attempt Free Listening Test…

---

Boost Your Score: Practice IELTS Online with IELTS Simulator.

8439000086
8439000087
7055710003
7055710004
IELTS Simulation 323 GMS Road, Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun, India

email: info at ieltsband7.com

 

IELTS LISTENING – Nanotechnology: technology on a Small Scale S17T4

IELTS Listening Nanotechnology: technology on a small scale listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Academic / Science & Technology subject.

Today we’re going to look at an important area of science, namely nanotechnology. So what is it? Nano means tiny, so it’s science and engineering on the scale of atoms and molecules. The idea is that by controlling and rearranging atoms, you can literally create anything. However, as we’ll see,

the science of the small has some big implications affecting us in many ways.

 

🎧Attempt Free Listening Test…

⬇️  Download Free PDF

There’s no doubt that nanotechnology promises so much for civilization. However, all new technologies have their teething problems. And with nanotechnology, _Q31 society often gets the wrong idea about its capabilities. Numerous science-fiction books and movies have raised people’s fears about nanotechnology – with scenarios such as inserting little nano-robots into your body that monitor everything you do without you realizing it, or self-replicating nano-robots that eventually take over the world.

So how do we safeguard such a potentially powerful technology? _Q32 Some scientists recommend that nano-particles be treated as new chemicals with separate safety tests and clear labelling. They believe that greater care should also be taken with nano-particles in laboratories and factories. Others have called for a withdrawal of new nano products such as cosmetics and a temporary halt to many kinds of nanotechnology research.

_Q33 But as far as I’m concerned there’s a need to plough ahead with the discoveries and applications of nanotechnology. I really believe that most scientists would welcome a way to guard against unethical uses of such technology. We can’t go around thinking that all innovation is bad, all advancement is bad. As with the debate about any new technology, it is how you use it that’s important. So let’s look at some of its possible uses.

Thanks to nanotechnology, there could be a major breakthrough in the field of transportation with the production of more durable _Q34 metals. These could be virtually unbreakable, lighter and much more pliable leading to planes that are 50 times lighter than at present. Those same improved capabilities will dramatically reduce the cost of travelling into _Q35 space making it more accessible to ordinary people and opening up a totally new holiday destination.

In terms of technology, the computer industry will be able to shrink computer parts down to minute sizes. We need nanotechnology in order to create a new generation of computers that will work even faster and will have a million times more _Q36 memory but will be about the size of a sugar cube. Nanotechnology could also revolutionize the way that we generate power. The cost of _Q37 solar cells will be drastically reduced so harnessing this energy will be far more economical than at present.

But nanotechnology has much wider applications than this and could have an enormous impact on our environment. For instance, tiny airborne nano-robots could be programmed to actually rebuild the ozone layer, which could lessen the impact of global warming on our planet. That’s a pretty amazing thought, isn’t it? On a more local scale, this new technology could help with the clean-up of environmental disasters as nanotechnology will allow us to remove _Q38 oil and other contaminants from the water far more effectively. And, if nanotechnology progresses as expected – as a sort of building block set of about 90 atoms – then you could build anything you wanted from the bottom up. In terms of production, this means that you only use what you need and so there wouldn’t be any _Q39 waste.

The notion that you could create anything at all has major implications for our health. It means that we’ll eventually be able to replicate anything. This would have a phenomenal effect on our society. In time it could even lead to the eradication of famine through the introduction of machines that produce food to feed the hungry.

But it’s in the area of medicine that nanotechnology may have its biggest impact. How we detect disease will change as tiny biosensors are developed to analyse _Q40 tests in minutes rather than days. There’s even speculation nano-robots could be used to slow the ageing process, lengthening life expectancy.

As you can see, I’m very excited by the implications that could be available to us in the next few decades. Just how long it’ll take, I honestly don’t know.

🎧Attempt Free Listening Test…

---

Prepare for IELTS IELTS Test International Experienced Teacher Best Training By CELTA Trainer.

8439000086
8439000087
7055710003
7055710004
IELTS Simulation 323 GMS Road, Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun, India

email: info at ieltsband7.com