Quiz! There are 10 questions. All of the questions are from pages 40, 41, 42, and 43. Work as a team to find the answers in your book. Then write the answers on the sheet.
1. Section 2 of the IELTS listening exam is a ___________________ ___________________ of a ___________________ ___________________ , usually a person giving a talk about an ___________________ ___________________ .
2. Some parts of a diagram may have complete ___________________ . Use these as markers to help you follow the ___________________ .
3. After you listen, check your ___________________ and the number of ___________________ you have used for each answer.
4. In flowchart completion, listen for ___________________ ___________________ indicating a move to the next stage.
5. For label completion, listen carefully for words ___________________ ___________________ .
6. Partially completed labels offer you ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ .
7. Remember to use the ___________________ ___________________ you hear in your answer. Anything else will be marked as incorrect.
8. In section 2 of the IELTS listening exam, many different question types may appear, including:
9. Flowchart completion: Listen for keywords and paraphrases. When you hear them, the answer will be ___________________ ___________________ .
10. Signpost words tell you when the speaker is ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ .
Answers:
1. Section 2 of the IELTS listening exam is a non-academic monologue of a social nature, usually a person giving a talk about an everyday subject.
2. Some parts of a diagram may have complete labels . Use these as markers to help you follow the explanation .
3. After you listen, check your spelling and the number of words you have used for each answer.
4. In flowchart completion, listen for signpost words indicating a move to the next stage.
5. For label completion, listen carefully for words describing position .
6. Partially completed labels offer you keywords to listen out for.
7. Remember to use the exact words you hear in your answer. Anything else will be marked as incorrect.
8. flowchart completion, labelling a diagram or maps, and multiple-choice questions
9. Flowchart completion: Listen for keywords and paraphrases. When you hear them, the answer will be close by.
10. Signpost words tell you when the speaker is moving on to a new idea or stage.
Flowchart completion
Listen to the CD and fill in the blanks. Use no more than 3 words for each answer.
How to book meeting rooms
Select type of room, time, and 1._____________________
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Complete booking form with your 2.____________________
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Receive confirmation by 3 ._____________________
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Flowchart completion
Listen to the CD and fill in the blanks. Use no more than 3 words for each answer.
How to book meeting rooms
Select type of room, time, and 1._____________________
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Complete booking form with your 2.____________________
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Receive confirmation by 3 ._____________________
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Flowchart completion
Listen to the CD and fill in the blanks. Use no more than 3 words for each answer.
How to book meeting rooms
Select type of room, time, and 1. date
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Complete booking form with your 2. contact details
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Receive confirmation by 3. email
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4.2 transcript
Hello. On behalf of myself and my colleagues at the buildings administration department, I’d like to welcome you all to the new company headquarters. Now, here in this brand new complex, we have a wealth of flexible facilities and space available for use. So, if you need a small meeting room for two people or a presentation suite for up to fifty, we at buildings admin can help. However, we would ask that you don’t just go into an empty room and start using it. We ask everybody to follow this simple room-booking procedure using the company intranet.
First, choose the sort of room you require and, most importantly, don’t forget to tell us the time and date you’ll be needing it. And you might also like to let us know if you have any special requirements—conference calling facilities, for example. Coffee and other refreshments are always available. But if you need sandwiches, a buffet, or a sit-down lunch, you need to contact the catering department. Next, fill in the booking form with your contact details. This is an internal billing requirement, so please don’t forget. Finally, you’ll get confirmation of your room booking via email. And that’s it! Simple!
transcript 4.3
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for letting me come and talk to you today. My name’s Bill Loman and, as most of you know, I represent Acme Office Supplies. It’s our job to bring you the very best in office supplies and we do everything we can to make your working day just that little bit more pleasant.
Now, do you have to move around from one part of the building to another? Do you ever wish you could take your desk with you, along with your laptop and other essential bits and pieces? Would be great, wouldn’t it? Well, now you can, with this—the Mobile Office! It’s ideal for any situation where the user sits, stands or moves about.
Take a closer look at it. This is a ruggedly constructed, highly adaptable unit. At the top is a flat work surface, where you can put your laptop computer and still have plenty of room for some files or documents. And you don’t need to worry about your laptop accidentally getting knocked off because the laptop area is covered with heavy-duty anti-slip rubber. There’s even an optional laptop cable lock available. What’s more, you can easily rotate the surface to cater for left and right-handed users. Now, chances are you may have to carry around all sorts of other bits and pieces—pens, erasers, a stapler, a hole punch, et cetera. Well, the Mobile Office can help you out there, too, with a storage option under the work surface. There are a range of options available, depending on the model, but they include a single utility drawer, a double utility drawer, or, as shown here, a pencil drawer.
Now, some of us are short, some of us are tall. Sometimes we need to stand, others prefer to sit.
So the desktop work surface is mounted on a fully adjustable stand. This means you can vary the height of the surface between 30.5 and 42.5 inches. The stand is mounted on top of a five-star castor base, making the whole unit fully mobile. And if you are worried about the unit moving during use you can also opt for locking castors, keeping the whole things as solid as a rock.
The next thing I’d like you to see is this. Now, if you’ve got a lot of confidential documents, you can’t just throw them away, because anyone…
4.4 Transcript
Part of my job as Human Resources Coordinator at the local Bob’s Brushes factory is to recruit or select new members of staff. Today I’d like to explain how our selection process works.
In the old days, if you went along for a job, you normally just got an interview. They asked you a few questions and that was it. But an interview does not give a true indication of a candidate’s behavior. For example, a candidate may say they are very good at doing presentations. But are they really? You need to see them in action. So, we like to put our candidates through what’s called a recruitment process. This usually takes a whole day and consists of a number of stages.
First of all, candidates are normally presented with a group exercise, because it’s important to see if they can work well in a team. Then, they are asked to deliver a brief presentation. Candidates are given advance notice of this so that they can prepare.
Next is a role play. In this exercise, candidates are put into a difficult situation they might find themselves in if they are appointed to the position. Following this, candidates are set a series of psychometric tests, which assess their mental processes to see if they have the right skills for the job.
After all this, candidates attend an interview alone with a panel of three to four members of personnel from different departments. At the end of the day, candidates are thanked and sent home with a bag of Bob’s Brushes goodies.
Then comes the tricky part—we have to choose someone for the position. We analyse all the data and information we now have for each candidate. Sometimes none of the candidates are right for the job and we have to go through the whole process again. However, usually we find the right person and the successful applicant is offered the position. Unsuccessful candidates are also sent feedback on their performance. They may not have been successful this time, but we may need them in the future.
The final stage is taking up references. Unless we discover from a referee that a candidate has lied on their CV, or has some kind of shady past, the candidate takes up their new position in a month or so. Job done. The post is filled. Now, any questions?
4.5 Transcript
Well, the next stop on our tour of Bob’s Brushes is the production department and I thought I’d just show you this. Each and every brush which leaves the factory has our logo on the handle. In the old days, applying them used to be a manual task but these days it’s all fully automated. It’s called a “logo machine” and at the moment it’s set up for fixing logos onto the handles of 1.5 inch paintbrushes.
Let me tell you how it works. The paintbrush handles are placed into a large metal container just to the left of the conveyor belt there, called the “input hopper”. This hopper vibrates, causing the handles to drop down a kind of funnel one by one onto a conveyer belt. This belt then carries the handles up into the main body of the machine. As they enter the machine, the handles move onto a rotating scroll. This rotating action realigns the handles and they are then carried along to the far end. At this point they are transferred to the handle wheel. This wheel carries the handles up in an anti-clockwise direction towards a metal roller, which is heated, and this is where the logo is applied.
Now, about these logos. The logos arrive from the suppliers on a long strip of special paper wound round a big drum. It works a bit like putting film into a camera. You see just to the right of the control station there? That’s the “logo strip payoff drum”. There are about 25,000 logos on that. From this, the logo strip is then fed round a series of what we call “dancers”, but what are technically referred to as “guiding pins”. These are a very important part of the machine as it’s crucial to maintain exactly the right tension in the logo strip. Anyway, the logo strip moves back towards the handle wheel and as it passes between the wheel and the roller, the logo is transferred to the handle. The waste strip, now empty of logos, carries on and is wound round the “logo strip take up drum” on the far right there. And the brush handles? Well, after the logo is applied by the roller, they continue round and are unloaded through a special cylinder at the top left-hand side of the wheel, which blows them down a pipe into a waiting box at the back of the machine. Clever stuff: fast, simple, efficient.
Ok, now have you ever wondered about how tooth brushes are made? Well, in the old days…
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